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thus confessing Him before men, and waiting with all patience for
Him to confess them before His Father and holy angels.
The Influence of Doubt
I do not ask an explanation of your course. Brother [C. W.] Stone
wished to read your letter to me. I refused to hear it. The breath of
doubt, of complaint and unbelief, is contagious; if I make my mind a
channel for the filthy stream, the turbid, defiling water proceeding from
Satan’s fountain, some suggestion may linger in my mind, polluting
it. If his suggestions have had such power on you as to lead you to
sell your birthright for a mess of pottage—the friendship of the Lord’s
enemies—I want not hear anything of your doubts, and I hope you will
be guarded, lest you contaminate other minds; for the very atmosphere
surrounding a man who dares to make the statements you have made
is as a poisonous miasma.
I beg of you to go entirely away from those who believe the truth;
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for if you have chosen the world and the friends of the world, go with
those of your own choice. Do not poison the minds of others and make
yourself Satan’s special agent to work the ruin of souls. If you have
not fully taken your stand, make haste to resist the devil before it shall
be forever too late. Do not take another step into darkness, but take
your position as a man of God.
If you would secure the grand aim and purpose of life without
mistake in your choice or fear of failure, you must make God first and
last and best in every plan and work and thought. If you want a path
that leads straight into darkness, you have only to cast the light of God
behind you, live without God. When God points out your path and
says, “This is your way of safety and peace,” You have only to set your
face in an opposite direction from the way of the Lord and your feet
will take hold on perdition. The voice of the Lamb of God is heard
speaking to us, “Follow Me, and ye shall not walk in darkness.”
A Commission From the King of Kings
God has chosen you for a great and solemn work. He has been
seeking to discipline, to test, to prove you, to refine and ennoble you,
that this sacred work may be done with a single eye to His glory which
belongs wholly to God. What a thought that God chooses a man