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“Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” The Lord
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seeth not as man seeth. His thoughts and ways are not what blind,
selfish men believe they are or wish them to be. The Lord looks on the
heart and works in and with His creatures to will and to do whatever
He commands or requires of them, unless they reject His counsel and
refuse to be obedient to His commandments.
The greater part of your life has been employed in presenting
doctrines which, during the last part of your life, you will repudiate
and condemn. Which is the genuine work? which is the false? Can
we trust to your judgment? can we rely upon your interpretation of
the Scriptures? We cannot. We would be in danger of being misled.
You cannot now or at any future period of your life feel that your feet
are standing on solid rock. I have been unable to keep from thinking
of your future. The truth to me is a living reality. I know it to be
truth. The word of God is sure. “To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.” Will your light go out in darkness?
I am writing out more fully the volume of Great Controversy
containing the history of the fall of Satan and the introduction of
sin into our world; and I can have a more vivid sense of this great
controversy between Christ, the Prince of light, and Satan, the prince
of darkness, than I have ever had before. As I see the various devices
of Satan to compass the ruin of erring man, and make him like himself,
a transgressor of God’s holy law, I would that angels of God could
come to earth and present this matter in its great importance. Then
I feel so intensely for souls who are willfully departing from light
and knowledge and obedience to God’s holy law. As Adam and Eve
believed the lie of Satan, “Ye shall be as gods,” so these souls hope
through disobedience to rise to greater heights, to gain some flattering
position. I am so anxious that, while others are sleeping, I spend
hours in prayer that God will work in mighty power to break the fatal
deception upon human minds and lead them in simplicity to the cross
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of Calvary. Then I quiet myself with the thought that all these souls
are purchased by the blood of the Lord Jesus. We may have love for
these souls, but Calvary testifies how God loves them. This work is
not ours, but the Lord’s. We are only the instruments in His hands
to do His will, not our own. We look at those who are doing despite
to the Spirit of grace, and tremble for them. We feel sorry, and are