Appeal to the Brethren in Battle Creek
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The Lord has a special work for His people to do at this time. He
says: “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.”
This is the very work that the apostle Paul charges the churches to
do. “Lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,” he
says, “and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame
be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace
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with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root
of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”
Hebrews 12:12-15
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I pray that now as never before both ministers and church members
may come up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the
mighty powers of darkness. Study prayerfully the seventeenth chapter
of John. This chapter is not only to be read again and again; its truths
are to be eaten and assimilated. “For their sakes,” Christ prayed: “I
sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
Me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art
in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world
may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest
Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one: I in
them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that
the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as
Thou hast loved Me.”
John 17:19-23
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Are these words, of such wonderful import to us, to be always
neglected? God calls upon those who profess to be His children to
study these words, to eat them, to live them. He calls upon them to
seek for unity and love, else the candlestick will be moved out of its
place.
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