Writing and Sending Out of the Testimonies to the Church
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words that have been given to me by the Lord will still have life and
will speak to the people. But my strength is yet spared, and I hope
to continue to do much useful work. I may live until the coming of
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the Lord; but if I should not, I trust it may be said of me, “Blessed are
the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,
that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them”
(
Revelation 14:13
)
I thank God for the assurance of His love, and that I have daily
His leading and guidance. I am very busy with my writing. Early and
late, I am writing out the matters that the Lord opens before me. The
burden of my work is to prepare a people to stand in the day of the
Lord. The promise of Christ is sure. The time is not long. We must
work and watch and wait for the Lord Jesus. We are called upon to be
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. All
our hopes have their foundation in Christ.
Are our people reviewing the past and the present and the future,
as it is unfolding before the world? Are they heeding the messages
of warning given them? Is it our greatest concern today that our lives
shall be refined and purified, and that we shall reflect the similitude of
the divine? This must be the experience of all who join that company
who are washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. They must
be arrayed in the righteousness of Christ. His name must be written
in their foreheads. They must rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Christ has engraved the names of His people on the palms of His hands.
He will never lose His interest in any dependent soul.
Say to the church members that there is need of thorough conse-
cration to God. Let all understand that they must make a covenant
with God by sacrifice. We need the blessings of the gospel every day
and every hour. Every proof of the Lord’s power, His presence, and
His love, is to be recognized with grateful thanks. Happiness is to be
achieved by the right action of the soul toward God. I thank the Lord
for this precious thought. Let Him be glorified by the sentiments ex-
pressed and by the actions performed.... Never have testimonies been
more clearly brought before the people than those that have recently
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been traced by my pen. God bids me urge upon the attention of our
people the importance of their study. Let this work begin now. Then,
whether I am permitted to labor or am laid away to rest until Jesus
comes, these messages are immortalized.