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compliance with its requirements, walking before the Lord in purity,
in holiness, and a power will attend the proclamation of the truth that
will reflect light everywhere.
Grieving the Spirit of God
God never forsakes people or individuals until they forsake Him.
Outward opposition will not cause the faith of God’s people, who are
keeping His commandments, to become dim. The neglect to bring
purity and truth into practice will grieve the Spirit of God and weaken
them because God is not in their midst to bless. Internal corruption
will bring the denunciations of God upon this people as it did upon
Jerusalem. Oh, let pleading voices, let earnest prayer be heard, that
those who preach to others shall not themselves be castaways. My
brethren, we know not what is before us, and our only safety is in
following the Light of the world. God will work with us and for us
if the sins which brought His wrath upon the old world, upon Sodom
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and Gomorrah and upon ancient Jerusalem, do not become our crime.
The least transgression of God’s law brings guilt upon the trans-
gressor, and without earnest repentance and forsaking of sin he will
surely become an apostate Let us as a people, as far as possible, cleanse
the camp of moral defilement and aggravating sins. When sin is mak-
ing its march upon the people who claim to be elevating the moral
standard of righteousness, how can we expect God to turn His power
in our behalf and save us as a people that did righteousness? ... If as
a people we do not keep ourselves in the faith and not only advocate
with pen and voice the commandments of God, but keep them every
one, not violating a single precept knowingly, then weakness and ruin
will come upon us. It is a work that we must attend to in every one of
our churches. Each man must be a Christian.
Putting Away Sin
Let the sin of pride be put away, let all superfluities of dress be
overcome, and repentance toward God be exercised for the highhanded
robbery toward Him which has withheld money which should flow
into the treasury to sustain the work of God in its mission fields. Let
the work of reformation, of true conversion, be set before and urged
upon the people. Let our works, our deportment, correspond with the