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up. At such a time we should remember that God has always had a
care for His institutions. We should look at the work He has done,
the reforms He has wrought. We should gather up the evidences of
Heaven’s blessings, the tokens for good, saying: Lord, we believe in
Thee, in Thy servants, and in Thy work. We will trust in Thee. The
publishing house is Thine own instrumentality, and we will not fail
or be discouraged. Thou hast honored us by connecting us with Thy
center. We will keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.
We will act our part by being true to the work of God.”
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If we lack faith where we are when difficulties present themselves
we would lack faith in any place.
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Our greatest need is faith in God. When we look on the dark side
we lose our hold on the Lord God of Israel. As the heart is opened to
fears and conjectures, the path of progress is hedged up by unbelief.
Let us never feel that God has forsaken His work.
There must be less talking unbelief, less imagining that this one
and that one is hedging up the way. Go forward in faith; trust the Lord
to prepare the way for His work. Then you will find rest in Christ. As
you cultivate faith and place yourselves in right relation to God and by
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earnest prayer brace yourselves to do your duty you will be worked
by the Holy Spirit. The many problems that are now mysterious you
may solve for yourselves by continued trust in God. You need not be
painfully indefinite because you are living under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit. You may walk and work in confidence.
We must have less faith in what we can do and more faith in what
the Lord can do for us, if we will have clean hands and pure hearts.
You are not engaged in your own work; you are doing the work of
God.
More love is needed, more frankness, less suspicion, less evil
thinking. We need to be less ready to blame and accuse. It is this that
is so offensive to God. The heart needs to be softened and subdued by
love. The strengthless condition of our people results from the fact