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continual hungering and thirsting after righteousness. By maintaining
a connection with God we shall be enabled to diffuse to others, through
our association with them, the light, the peace, the serenity, that rules
in our hearts, and set before them an example of unwavering fidelity
to the interests of the work in which we are engaged.
With many who are laboring in our offices there is an almost entire
absence of the love and fear of God. Self rules, self controls, and God
and heaven scarcely enter into the mind. If these persons could see
that they are upon the very borders of the eternal world and that their
future interests will be determined by their present action, there would
be a marked change in every hand employed in these offices.
But many who are engaged in the sacred work of God are paralyzed
by Satan’s deceptions. They are asleep on the enchanted ground. Days
and months are passing, while they remain careless and unconcerned,
as though there were no God, no future, no heaven, no punishment
for neglect of duty or for shunning responsibilities. But the day is fast
approaching when the case of every one will be decided according
to his works. Many have a fearfully spotted record in the Ledger of
Heaven.
When these workers shall arouse to their own accountability, when
they shall lay their polluted souls before God just as they are, and their
earnest cry shall take hold on His strength, they will then know for
themselves that God does hear and answer prayer. And when they
do awake, they will see what they have lost by their indifference and
unfaithfulness. They will then find that they have reached only a low
standard, when, had the mind and capabilities been cultivated and
improved for God, they might have had a rich experience and might
have been instrumental in saving their fellow men. And even should
they be saved at last, they will realize through all eternity the loss of
opportunities wasted in probationary time.
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Religious privileges have been too much neglected by those em-
ployed in the offices. None should engage in the work of God who
treat these privileges with indifference; for all such connect with evil
angels and are a cloud of darkness, a hindrance to others. In order
to make the work a success, every department in the offices must
have the presence of heavenly angels. When the Spirit of God shall
work upon the heart, cleansing the soul-temple of its defilement of
worldliness and pleasure-loving, all will be seen in the prayer meeting,