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keep the commandments of God. This is especially seen in the first-
day, no-day, and all-days-alike Adventists, who seem to be famous for
hating and slandering one another, when they can spare time from their
efforts to misrepresent, slander, and in every way abuse Seventh-day
Adventists.
“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
against them day and night, because of them.” We are in constant
danger of becoming self-sufficient, relying upon our own wisdom,
and not making God our strength. Nothing disturbs Satan so much
as our knowledge of his devices. If we feel our dangers we shall feel
the need of prayer, as did Nehemiah, and like him we shall obtain
that sure defense that will give us security in peril. If we are careless
and indifferent, we shall surely be overcome by Satan’s devices. We
must be vigilant. While, like Nehemiah, we resort to prayer, taking
all our perplexities and burdens to God, we should not feel that we
have nothing to do. We are to watch as well as pray. We should watch
the work of our adversaries, lest they gain advantage in deceiving
souls. We should, in the wisdom of Christ, make efforts to defeat their
purposes, while, at the same time, we do not suffer them to call us
from our great work. Truth is stronger than error. Righteousness will
prevail over wrong.
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The Lord’s people are seeking to heal the breach which has been
made in the law of God. “And they that shall be of thee shall build
the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the
Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath
a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not
doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with
the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken
it.”
This disturbs the enemies of our faith, and every means is employed
to hinder us in our work. And yet the broken-down wall is going
steadily up. The world is being warned, and many are turning away
from trampling under their feet the Sabbath of Jehovah. God is in this
work, and man cannot stop it. Angels of God are working with the