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position have been increasing with every year. We have been receiving
fresh assurance that we have the truth as revealed in the word of God,
that in accepting the third angel’s message we have not given heed to
fables, but to the “sure word of prophecy.” We are now living in the
full blaze of the light of Bible truth.
The Lord calls upon His people to arouse and to show their faith
by their works. In times past, when our numbers were few, when those
who were able felt it their duty to take stock in our publishing house,
their prayers and their alms, the fruit of persevering, self-denying
effort, came before God as a sweet savor. Our brethren and sisters
who have received the precious bread of life brought to them in our
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publications should be even more willing to give of their means to
support the cause than were those who loved the truth in former years.
Brethren, God would bless you in showing your interest in our
houses of publication by making them your property. Those who own
no stock in these institutions have the privilege of investing their means
in this good work. We need your sympathy, your prayers, and your
means. We need your hearty co-operation. We hope that all whose
hearts the Lord shall make willing will come forward with their means
to invest in these institutions. Is it indeed true that we have the last
message of mercy to be given to the world? Is it true that our work
will soon close? Thus saith the word of God. The end of all things is
at hand. Then the warning should be sent to all parts of the earth.
Our houses of publication have become a power in the world. A
great change has taken place. With our increased facilities to make the
clear light shine forth to those who are in darkness, it is not now so
hard as it once was to see and accept the truth. Those who first led out
in the work were objects of the combined assaults of evil men and evil
angels. The enmity of Satan, working through men as his instruments,
was strikingly developed. On the other hand, the believers, though few
in number, were earnest and zealous to vindicate the honor of God
in exalting His law which had been made void, and to press back the
workings of Satan revealed in every form of destructive error.
From the first, Satan has set himself against this work. He has
been determined to bring all his power to bear to silence and sweep
from the earth those who were laboring for the advancement of light
and truth. He has ever had a measure of success. Calumny and the
fiercest opposition have been brought to bear to crush out the precious