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up opponents enough to keep their pens constantly employed, while
other branches of the work will be left to suffer.
We must have more of the spirit of those men who were engaged
in building the walls of Jerusalem. We are doing a great work, and we
cannot come down. If Satan sees that he can keep men answering the
objections of opponents, and thus keep their voices silent, and hinder
them from doing the most important work for the present time, his
object is accomplished.
The Sabbath History has been kept from the people too long. They
need this precious work, even if they do not have it in all its perfection.
It never can be prepared in a manner to fully silence unreasonable
opponents, who are unstable, and who wrest the Scriptures unto their
own destruction. This is a busy world. Men and women who engage
in the business of life have not time to meditate, or even to read the
word of God enough to understand all its important truths. Long,
labored arguments will interest but a few; for the people have to read
as they run. You can no more remove the objections to the Sabbath
commandment from the minds of first-day Adventists than could the
Saviour of the world, by His great power and miracles, convince the
Jews that He was the Messiah, after they had once set themselves to
reject Him. Like the obstinate, unbelieving Jews, they have chosen
darkness rather than light, and should an angel direct from the courts
of heaven speak to them, they would say it was Satan.
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The world needs labor now. Calls are coming in from every direc-
tion like the Macedonian cry: “Come over and help us.” Plain, pointed
arguments, standing our as mileposts, will do more toward convincing
minds generally than will a large array of arguments which cover a
great deal of ground, but which none but investigating minds will have
interest to follow. The Sabbath History should be given to the people.
While one edition is circulating, and the people are being benefited by
it, greater improvements may be made, until everything possible has
been done to bring it to perfection. Our success will be in reaching
common minds. Those who have talent and position are so exalted
above the simplicity of the work, and so well satisfied with themselves,
that they feel no need of the truth. They are exactly where the Jews
were, self-righteous, self-sufficient. They are whole and have no need
of a physician.