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Testimonies for the Church Volume 5
The days will come when the righteous will be stirred to zeal for
God because of the abounding iniquity. None but divine power can
stay the arrogance of Satan united with evil men; but in the hour of
the church’s greatest danger most fervent prayer will be offered in her
behalf by the faithful remnant, and God will hear and answer at the
very time when the guilt of the transgressor has reached its height. He
will “avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though
He bear long with them.” They will be jealous for the honor of God.
They will be zealous in prayer, and their faith will grow strong.
There is too little zeal among the students. They should make
more earnest efforts. It requires much study to know how to study.
Each student must cultivate the habit of industry. He should see that
no second-class work comes forth from his hand. He should take to
himself the words Paul addressed to Timothy: “Give attendance to
reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Neglect not the gift that is in thee,
which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands
of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to
them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and
unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both
save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
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The duty of old and young must be set forth in simple, positive
language because our lot is cast in perilous times when it seems that
truth must be overborne by falsehood and satanic delusions. In the time
of testing and trial the shield of Omnipotence will be spread over those
whom God has made the depositaries of His law. When legislators
shall abjure the principles of Protestantism, so as to give countenance
and the right hand of fellowship to Romanism, then God will interpose
in a special manner in behalf of His own honor and the salvation of
His people.
The principles necessary for our youth to cultivate must be kept
before them in their daily education, that when the decree shall go forth
requiring all to worship the beast and his image, they may make the
right decisions, and have strength to declare, without wavering, their
confidence in the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, even
at the very time when the law of God is made void by the religious
world. Those who waver now and are tempted to follow in the wake of
apostates who have departed from the faith, “giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils,” will surely be found on the side of