Last Messages to the General Conference
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It will be well for us to consider what is soon to come upon the
earth. This is no time for trifling or self-seeking. If the times in which
we are living fail to impress our minds seriously, what can reach us?
Do not the Scriptures call for a more pure and holy work than we have
yet seen?
A Call to Reconsecration
Men of clear understanding are needed now. God calls upon those
who are willing to be controlled by the Holy Spirit to lead out in a
work of thorough reformation. I see a crisis before us, and the Lord
calls for His laborers to come into line. Every soul should now stand
in a position of deeper, truer consecration to God than during the years
that have passed.
During the General Conference of 1909 a work should have been
done in the hearts of those in attendance that was not done. Hours
should have been given up to heart searching, that would have led to
the breaking up of the fallow ground of the hearts of those who were
at the meeting. This would have given them insight to understand the
work so essential to be done by them in repentance and confession.
But, though opportunities were given for confession of sin, for heartfelt
repentance, and for a decided reformation, thorough work was not
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done. Some felt the influence of the Holy Spirit, and responded; but
all did not yield to this influence. The minds of some were running in
forbidden channels. Had there been on the part of all in the assembly
a humbling of heart, there would have been manifested a wonderful
blessing.
For a number of months after the close of that meeting I bore a
heavy burden, and urged upon the attention of the brethren in respon-
sibility those things which the Lord was instructing me to set before
them plainly. Finally some of those in positions of trust in connection
with the general work, after much prayer and careful study of the var-
ious messages given, ventured to undertake by faith the work called
for—a work they could not fully understand; and as they went forward
in the fear of God, they received rich blessing.
It has brought great rejoicing to my heart to see the marvelous
transformations that have been wrought in the lives of some who thus
chose to advance by faith in the way of the Lord, rather than to follow