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Unity in Christ Jesus
Loma Linda, California,
August 24, 1905
To Our Brethren Connected With the Publishing Work at Col-
lege View—
While attending the council meeting of the General Conference
Committee, held in September, 1904, my mind was deeply exercised
regarding the unity that should attend our work. I was not able to
attend all the meetings, but in the night season scene after scene
passed before me, and I felt that I had a message to bear to our
people in many places.
My heart is pained as I see that, with such wonderful incentives
to bring our powers and capabilities to the very highest state of
development, we are content to be dwarfs in the work of Christ.
God’s desire is that all His workers shall grow to the full stature of
men and women in Christ. Where there is vitality, there is growth;
the growth testifies to the vitality. The words and works bear living
testimony to the world of what Christianity does for the followers of
Christ.
When you do your appointed work without contention or crit-
icism of others, a freedom, a light, and a power will attend it that
will give character and influence to the institutions and enterprises
with which you are connected.
Remember that you are never on vantage ground when you are
ruffled and when you carry the burden of setting right every soul who
comes near you. If you yield to the temptation to criticize others, to
point out their faults, to tear down what they are doing, you may be
sure that you will fail to act your own part nobly and well.
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This is a time when every man in a responsible position, and
every member of the church, should bring every feature of his work
into close accord with the teachings of the word of God. By untiring
vigilance, by fervent prayer, by Christlike words and deeds, we are
to show the world what God desires His church to be.
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