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time should be spent in prayer, that our garments of character may be
washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
Especially should we, with unwavering faith, seek God for grace
and power to be given to His people now. We do not believe that the
time has fully come when He would have our liberties restricted. The
prophet saw “four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on
the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” Another angel, ascending
from the east, cried to them, saying: “Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads.” This points out the work we have now to do. A vast
responsibility is devolving upon men and women of prayer throughout
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the land to petition that God will sweep back the cloud of evil and give
a few more years of grace in which to work for the Master. Let us cry
to God that the angels may hold the four winds until missionaries shall
be sent to all parts of the world and shall proclaim the warning against
disobeying the law of Jehovah.
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