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on by self-sacrifice, just as the foundation was laid.—
The General
Conference Daily Bulletin, March 20, 1891
, p. 184.
When this work is done as it should be, when we labor with divine
zeal to add converts to the truth, the world will see that a power attends
the message of truth. The unity of the believers bears testimony to the
power of the truth that can bring into perfect harmony men of different
dispositions, making their interests one.
The prayers and offerings of the believers are combined with
earnest, self-sacrificing efforts, and they are indeed a spectacle to
the world, to angels, and to men. Men are converted anew. The hand
that once grasped for recompense in higher wages has become the
helping hand of God. The believers are united by one interest—the
desire to make centers of truth where God shall be exalted. Christ
joins them together in holy bonds of union and love, bonds which have
irresistible power.
It was for this unity that Jesus prayed just before His trial, standing
but a step from the cross. “That they all may be one,” He said, “as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that
the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (
John 17:21
).—
Letter
32, 1903
.
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