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tolerated. A sense of the sacredness of the place should be encouraged
and cultivated.
Over this, His appointed instrumentality, the Lord has a constant,
watchful care. The machinery may be run by men who are skillful in
its management; but how easy it would be to leave one little screw,
one little part of the machinery, out of order, and how disastrous might
be the result! Who has prevented casualties? The angels of God have
supervision of the work. If the eyes of those who run the machinery
could be opened, they would discern the heavenly guardianship. In
every room in the publishing house where work is done, there is a
witness taking note of the spirit in which it is performed, and marking
the fidelity and unselfishness revealed.
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If I have failed of presenting the light in which God regards His
institutions,—as the centers through which He works in a special
manner,—may He portray these things to your minds by His Holy
Spirit, that you may understand the difference between common and
sacred service.
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Both the members of the church and the employees in the publish-
ing house should feel that as workers together with God they have a part
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to act in guarding His institution. They should be faithful guardians of
its interests in every line, seeking to shield it, not only from loss and
disaster, but from all that could profane or contaminate. Never through
act of theirs should its fair fame be tarnished, even by the breath of
careless criticism or censure. God’s institutions should be regarded by
them as a holy trust, to be guarded as jealously as the ark was guarded
by ancient Israel.
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When the workers in the publishing house are educated to think of
this great center as related to God and under His supervision; when
they realize that it is a channel through which light from heaven is to be
communicated to the world, they will regard it with great respect and