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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
My beloved sister, cling to the truth. Obtain an experience for
yourself. You have an individuality. You are accountable only for
the manner in which you, independent of all others, use the light that
shines upon your pathway. The lack of consecration in others will be
no excuse for you. The fact that they pervert the truth by their wrong
course of action, because they are unsanctified by it, will not render
you less responsible. A solemn obligation rests upon you to exalt
the standard of truth, to bear it aloft. Even if the standard-bearer
faints and falls, do not leave the precious standard to trail in the dust.
Seize it, and bear it aloft, even at the peril of your good name, your
worldly honor, and your life, if required. My much-respected sister,
I entreat you to look up. Cling fast to your heavenly Father’s hand.
Jesus, our Advocate, lives to make intercession for us. Whoever may
deny the faith by their unholy lives, it does not change the truth into
a lie. “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this
seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His.” “Watch ye and pray, lest
ye enter into temptation.” At times I fear that your feet will slide,
that you will refuse to walk in the humble, straight, and narrow way
which leads to eternal life in the kingdom of glory.
I present before you the life of self-denial, humility, and sacrifice
of our divine Lord. The Majesty of heaven, the King of glory, left
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His riches, His splendor, His honor and glory, and, in order to save
sinful man, condescended to a life of humility, poverty, and shame;
“who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising
the shame.” Oh, why are we so sensitive to trial and reproach, to
shame and suffering, when our Lord has given us such an example?
Who would wish to enter into the joy of their Lord while they were
unwilling to partake of His sufferings? What! the servant unwilling
to bear the humility and shame and reproach which the Master bore
unselfishly for him! the servant shrinking from a life of humility and
sacrifice which is for his own eternal happiness, by which he may
finally obtain an exceedingly great, an eternal reward! The language
of my heart is: Let me be a partaker with Christ of His sufferings,
that I may finally share with Him the glory.
The truth of God has never been popular with the world. The
natural heart is ever averse to the truth. I thank God that we must
renounce the love of the world, and pride of heart, and everything
which tends to idolatry, in order to be followers of the Man of Cal-