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learning His meekness and lowliness, cuts short many a conflict; for
when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a
standard against him.
I address those who in accepting positions of trust in the publishing
house have taken upon themselves the responsibility of seeing that the
workers receive the right education. Seek to realize the importance
of your work. Those who show by their actions that they make no
effort to distinguish between the sacred and the common may know
that, unless they repent, God’s judgments will fall upon them. These
judgments may be delayed, but they will come. If, because your own
minds are not clear and elevated, you give the wrong bias to other
minds, God will call you to account. He will ask: “Why did you do
the devil’s work when you were supposed to be doing a good work for
the Master?”
In the great day of final accounts the unfaithful servant will meet
the result of his unfaithfulness.
I send you this because I am afraid for you. Your continually
increasing force of workers might better be sent into the work in other
places. In the night season I have been talking earnestly to you in your
meetings, presenting the truth as it is in Jesus. But by some it was
rejected. They had passed beyond conviction. They had sinned against
great light and knowledge, stifling conscience until it could no longer
penetrate the callous heart.
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Some have so long sacrificed principle that they cannot see the
difference between the sacred and the common. Those who refuse to
give heed to the Lord’s instruction will go steadily downward in the
path of ruin. The day of test and trial is just before us. Let every man
put on his true colors. Do you choose loyalty or rebellion? Show your
colors to men and an angels. We are safe only when we are committed
to the right. Then the world knows where we shall be found in the day
of trial and trouble.
If the work begun at the General Conference had been carried
forward to perfection, I should not be called upon to write these words.
There was opportunity to confess or deny wrong, and in many cases
the denial came to avoid the consequences of confession.
Unless there is a reformation, calamity will overtake the publishing
house, and the world will know the reason. I have been shown that
there has not been a turning to God with full purpose of heart. The