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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
purchase of the Fernando school property and in the purchase of the
sanitarium properties at Paradise Valley, Glendale, and Loma Linda.
Go Forward
To make no move that calls for the investment of means unless
we have the money in hand to complete the contemplated work
should not always be considered the wisest plan. In the upbuilding
of His work the Lord does not always make everything plain before
His servants. He sometimes tries the confidence of His people by
having them move forward in faith. Often He brings them into strait
and trying places, bidding them go forward when their feet seem to
be touching the waters of the Red Sea. It is at such times, when the
prayers of His servants ascend to Him in earnest faith, that He opens
the way before them and brings them out into a large place.
The Lord wants His people in these days to believe that He will
do as great things for them as He did for the children of Israel in their
journey from Egypt to Canaan. We are to have an educated faith
that will not hesitate to follow His instructions in the most difficult
experiences. “Go forward” is the command of God to His people.
Faith and cheerful obedience are needed to bring the Lord’s
designs to pass. When He points out the necessity of establishing
the work in places where it will have influence, the people are to walk
and work by faith. By their godly conversation, their humility, their
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prayers and earnest efforts, they should strive to bring the people to
appreciate the good work that the Lord has established among them.
It was the Lord’s purpose that the Loma Linda Sanitarium should
become the property of our people, and He brought it about at a time
when the rivers of difficulty were full and overflowing their banks.
The working of private interests for the gaining of personal ends
is one thing. In this, men may follow their own judgment. But
the carrying forward of the Lord’s work in the earth is entirely
another matter. When He designates that a certain property should
be secured for the advancement of His cause and the building up of
His work, whether it be for sanitarium or school work, or for any
other branch, He will make the doing of that work possible if those
who have experience will show their faith and trust in His purposes,
and will move forward promptly to secure the advantages He points