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God has given me a marked, solemn experience in connection with
His work; and you may be assured that so long as my life is spared, I
shall not cease to lift a warning voice as I am impressed by the Spirit
of God, whether men will hear or whether they will forbear. I have
no special wisdom in myself; I am only an instrument in the Lord’s
hands to do the work He has set for me to do. The instructions that I
have given by pen or voice have been an expression of the light that
God has given me. I have tried to place before you the principles that
the Spirit of God has for years been impressing upon my mind and
writing on my heart.
And now, brethren, I entreat you not to interpose between me and
the people, and turn away the light which God would have come to
them. Do not by your criticisms take out all the force, all the point
and power, from the Testimonies. Do not feel that you can dissect
them to suit your own ideas, claiming that God has given you ability to
discern what is light from heaven and what is the expression of mere
human wisdom. If the Testimonies speak not according to the word
of God, reject them. Christ and Belial cannot be united. For Christ’s
sake do not confuse the minds of the people with human sophistry and
skepticism, and make of none effect the work that the Lord would do.
Do not, by your lack of spiritual discernment, make of this agency of
God a rock of offense whereby many shall be caused to stumble and
fall, “and be snared, and be taken.”
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