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shall make diligent effort to lay hold by faith upon Christ and His
righteousness.”
A messenger from heaven stood in our midst, and he spoke
words of warning and instruction. He made us clearly understand
that the gospel of the kingdom is the message for which the world
is perishing and that this message, as contained in our publications
already in print and those yet to be issued, should be circulated
among the people who are nigh and afar off.
Dangers in Speculative Study
The light of truth which God designs shall come to the people of
the world at this time is not that which the world’s men of learning
are seeking to impart, for these men in their research often arrive at
erroneous conclusions and in their study of many authors become
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enthused with theories that are of satanic origin. Satan, clothed in
the garb of an angel of light, presents for the study of the human
mind subjects which seem very interesting and which are full of
scientific mystery. In the investigation of these subjects, men are led
to accept erroneous conclusions and to unite with seducing spirits
in the work of propounding new theories which lead away from the
truth.
There is danger that the false sentiments expressed in the books
that they have been reading will sometimes be interwoven by our
ministers, teachers, and editors with their arguments, discourses, and
publications, under the belief that they are the same in principle as
the teachings of the Spirit of truth. The book
Living Temple
is an
illustration of this work, the writer of which declared in its support
that its teachings were the same as those found in the writings of
Mrs. White. Again and again we shall be called to meet the influence
of men who are studying sciences of satanic origin, through which
Satan is working to make a nonentity of God and of Christ.
The Father and the Son each have a personality. Christ declared:
“I and My Father are one.” Yet it was the Son of God who came to the
world in human form. Laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown,
He clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity through His
infinite sacrifice might become partakers of the divine nature and
escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.