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Counsels to Writers and Editors
out for larger knowledge and more advanced light.—
The Review and
Herald, March 25, 1890
.
Increased Light to Shine—A spirit of pharisaism has been com-
ing in upon the people who claim to believe the truth for these last
days. They are self-satisfied. They have said, “We have the truth.
There is no more light for the people of God.” But we are not safe
when we take a position that we will not accept anything else than that
upon which we have settled as truth. We should take the Bible, and
investigate it closely for ourselves. We should dig in the mine of God’s
word for truth. “Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.” Some have asked me if I thought there was any more
light for the people of God. Our minds have become so narrow that
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we do not seem to understand that the Lord has a mighty work to do
for us. Increasing light is to shine upon us; for “the path of the just
is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day.”—
The Review and Herald, June 18, 1889
.
Many Gems Yet to Be Discovered—New light will ever be re-
vealed on the word of God to him who is in living connection with
the Sun of Righteousness. Let no one come to the conclusion that
there is no more truth to be revealed. The diligent, prayerful seeker for
truth will find precious rays of light yet to shine forth from the word
of God. Many gems are yet scattered that are to be gathered together
to become the property of the remnant people of God.—
Counsels on
Sabbath School Work, 34
(1892).
Investigation of Doctrine—There is no excuse for anyone in tak-
ing the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all
our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain
doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not
a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth,
and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by
close investigation.
We are living in perilous times, and it does not become us to accept
everything claimed to be truth without examining it thoroughly; neither
can we afford to reject anything that bears the fruits of the Spirit of
God; but we should be teachable, meek and lowly of heart. There are
those who oppose everything that is not in accordance with their own
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ideas, and by so doing they endanger their eternal interest as verily as
did the Jewish nation in their rejection of Christ.