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the truth which has been shining in clear, distinct beams of light since
the Minneapolis meeting, would flood your soul. But from the letters
you have written, I know that you are not walking in the light....
Whatever position a man may fill in connection with the office
of publication, he is not to be paid an exorbitant sum, for God does
not work in this way. You lacked spiritual eyesight, and you needed
the heavenly anointing, that you might see that the work of God was
founded in a sacrifice, and only by a sacrifice can it be carried for-
ward....
There have been those connected with the publishing house who
know not and do not wish to know by experience what it cost their
predecessors to build up the work. When these later workers accepted
a part in it, they did not enter into a partnership with God. They do not
recognize the principles and conditions that must govern the human
agent in cooperation with the divine. “God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.” No man who is not a partaker
of this self-sacrificing love is prepared to labor for God. Many are
blundering along, clinging to their burden of selfishness, as if it were a
precious treasure, keeping diligently their own way. When they knock
at the gate of heaven, saying, “Lord, Lord, open unto us,” many a man
will hear the words, “No one enters here but those who can receive the
heavenly benediction, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’ But thou hast faithfully
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served thyself, worked for thine own selfish interest, been good to
thyself. Thou hast not laid up a treasure in heaven.”
We are not safe for one moment in cherishing indifference and
carelessness in regard to our soul’s salvation. Many will have to arouse
and change their course of action if they are saved. The perils of the
last days are upon us. Connection with divine influence through a
strong, living, working faith, can alone make us to be laborers together
with God. Those who would shun the self-denying, self-sacrificing
part of religion, will never be partakers with Christ in His glory. There
must be prayerful study and determined effort on the part of all who
shall win the crown of life.
Let none feel that they can claim any merits because of their ad-
vantages of birth or position or education. How did they obtain those