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same track as Jerusalem. The publishing house has been turned into
desecrated shrines, into a place of unholy merchandise and traffic. It
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has become a place where injustice and fraud have been carried on,
where selfishness, malice, envy, and passion have borne sway. Yet
the men who have been led into this working upon wrong principles
are seemingly unconscious of their wrong course of action. When
warnings and entreaties come to them, they say: “Doth she not speak
in parables?” Words of warning and reproof have been treated as idle
tales.
When Christ looked down from the crest of Olivet, He saw this
state of things existing in every church. The warnings come down to
all that are following in the tread of the people of Jerusalem, who had
such great light. This people is before us as a warning. By rejecting
God’s warnings in this our day, men are repeating the sin of Jerusalem.
The Lord sees what the human agent does not see and will not see—the
outcome of all the human devising in Battle Creek. He has done all
that a God could do. He has flashed light before the eyes of the people,
that their sins might not reach the boundary where repentance cannot
be felt. But by a long process of departure from just and righteous
principles, men have placed themselves where light and truth, justice
and mercy, are not discerned. This course has become part of their
very nature.
I call upon all who have united in a course of action that is wrong
in principle, to make a decided reformation and forever after walk
humbly with God....
These are no idle tales, but truth. Again I ask: On which side are
you standing? “If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then
follow him.”
1 Kings 18:21
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