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more than one or two, who like you think they have new light, and
are all ready to present it to the people. But it would be pleasing to
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God for them to accept the light already given and walk in it, and base
their faith upon the Scriptures, which sustain the positions held by
the people of God for many years. The everlasting gospel is to be
proclaimed by human agents. We are to sound the messages of the
angels which are represented as flying in the midst of heaven, with the
last warning to a fallen world. If we are not called upon to prophesy,
we are called to believe the prophecies, and to cooperate with God in
giving light to other minds. This we are trying to do.
You can help us, my brother, in many ways. But I am commis-
sioned of the Lord to say to you that you are not to be self-centered.
Take heed how you hear, how you understand, and how you appropri-
ate the Word of God. The Lord will bless you in drawing in even lines
with your brethren. Those whom He has sent forth to proclaim the
third angel’s message have been working in unison with the heavenly
intelligences. The Lord does not lay upon you a burden to proclaim a
message that will bring discord into the ranks of believers. I repeat,
He is not leading anyone by His Holy Spirit to frame a theory that will
unsettle faith in the solemn messages He has given His people to bear
to our world.
I advise you not to regard your writings as precious truth. It would
not be advisable for you to immortalize by putting in print that which
has cost you so much anxiety. It is not the Lord’s will that this matter
should be brought before His people, for it will work to hinder the very
message of truth they are to believe and practice in these last days of
peril....
Theories will be continually agitated to divert the mind, to unsettle
the faith. Those who have had the actual experience in the unfolding
of the prophecies, have been made what they are today, Seventh-day
Adventists, by these prophecies. They are to stand with their loins girt
about with truth, and with the whole armor on. Those who have not
had this experience are privileged to hold the message of truth with
the same confidence. The light that God has been pleased to give His
people will not weaken their confidence in the path in which He has
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led them in the past, but will strengthen them to hold fast the faith. We
must hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end.