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with an infinite price. Your mind is His. What right has any person to
abuse a body that belongs not to himself, but to the Lord Jesus Christ?
What satisfaction can anyone take in gradually lessening the powers
of body and mind by selfish indulgence of any form?
God has given to every human being a brain. He desires that it
shall be used to His glory. By it, man is enabled to cooperate with
God in efforts to save perishing fellow mortals. We have none too
much brain power or reasoning faculties. We are to educate and train
every power of mind and body—the human mechanism that Christ has
bought—in order that we may put it to the best possible use. We are
to do all we can to strengthen these powers; for God is pleased to have
us become more and still more efficient colaborers with Him.
Of those who do their part faithfully, it is said, “We are labourers
together with God” (
1 Corinthians 3:9
). Apart from divine aid, man
can do very little; but the heavenly Father and His Son are ready to
work through everyone who consecrates himself wholly on the altar of
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service. Every soul before me may cooperate with God, and labor for
Him acceptably. The Lord desires us all to come into line. To every
man He has given an appointed work, according to their several ability
Personal Experience
At the age of seventeen, when all my friends thought I was an
invalid for life on account of a severe accident I had sustained in my
girlhood, a heavenly visitant came and spoke to me, saying, “I have a
message for you to bear.” “Why,” I thought, “there certainly must be
a great mistake somewhere.” Again were spoken the words: “I have
a message for you to bear. Write out for the people what I give you.”
Up to that time, my trembling hand had not been able to write a line. I
replied, “I cannot do it; I cannot do it.” “Write! write!” were the words
spoken once again. I took the pen and paper, and I began to write;
and how much I have written since, it is impossible to estimate. The
strength, the power, was of God.
Since that time, the books that I have written have been published
in many, many languages, and have gone to all parts of the earth. Just
a short time ago I received word that a copy of one of my books had
been graciously received by the queen of Germany, and that she had