Looking Unto Jesus
[
The Spirit of Sacrifice, 29-31
(1902).]
Last night I had a wonderful experience. I was in an assembly
where questions were being asked and answered. I awoke at one
o’clock and arose. For a time I walked the room, praying most
earnestly for clearness of mind, for strength of eyesight, and for
strength to write the things that must be written. I entreated the Lord
to help me to bear a testimony that would awake His people before it
is forever too late....
My soul was drawn out in the consideration of matters relating
to the future carrying forward of God’s work. Those who have had
little experience in the beginning of the work often err in judgment
in regard to how it should be advanced. They are tempted on many
points. They think that it would be better if the talented workers had
higher wages, according to the importance of the work they do.
But one of authority stood among us in the assembly in which I
was present last night and spoke words that must decide the question.
He said: “Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith,
trace His work after He assumed humanity, and remember that He is
your pattern. In the work of soul saving, His divine-human life in our
world is to be your guide. He made the world, yet when He lived on
this earth He had not where to lay His head.”
Were the most talented workers given higher wages, those who do
the more laborious part of the work would desire larger wages also,
and would say that their work is just as essential as any work that is
done.
Work is to be carried forward in many lines. New territory is to be
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annexed. But no Jerusalem-centers are to be made. If such centers are
made, there will be a scattering of the people out of them, by the Lord
God of heaven.
The work of God is to be carried on without outward display. In
establishing institutions, we are never to compete with the institutions
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