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of heavenly light would pour upon the soul. He who spake as never
man spake was an Educator upon earth. After His resurrection He was
an Educator to the lonely, disappointed disciples traveling to Emmaus,
and to those assembled in the upper chamber. He opened to them the
Scriptures concerning Himself and caused their hearts to bound with a
holy, new, and sacred hope and joy....
Our Redeemer liveth to make intercessions for us, and now if we
will daily learn in the school of Christ, if we will cherish the lessons
He will teach us in meekness and lowliness of heart, we shall have so
large a measure of the Spirit of Jesus that self will not be interwoven
into anything that we may do or say. The eye will be single to the
glory of God. We need to make special efforts to answer the prayer of
Christ that we may be one as He is one with the Father....
Articles on Redemption—The wonders of redemption are dwelt
upon altogether too lightly. We need these matters presented more
fully and continuously in our discourses and in our papers. We need
our own hearts to be deeply stirred with these deep and saving truths.
There is danger of keeping the discourses and the articles in the paper
like Cain’s offering, Christless.
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Baptized with the Spirit of Jesus, there will be a love, a harmony,
a meekness, a hiding of the self in Jesus that the wisdom of Christ will
be given, the understanding enlightened; that which seems dark will
be made clear. The faculties will be enlarged and sanctified. He can
lead those He is fitting for translation to heaven to loftier heights of
knowledge and broader views of truth. The reason that the Lord can do
so little for those who are handling weighty truths is that so many hold
these truths apart from their life. They hold them in unrighteousness.
Their hands are not clean, their hearts are defiled with sin, and should
the Lord work for them in the power of His Spirit corresponding with
the magnitude of the truth which He has opened to the understanding,
it would be as though the Lord sanctioned sin.
That which our people must have interwoven with their life and
character is the unfolding of the plan of redemption and more ele-
vated conceptions of God and His holiness, brought into the life. The
washing of the robes of character in the blood of the Lamb is a work
that we must attend to earnestly while every defect of character is to
be put away. Thus are we working out our own salvation with fear
and trembling. The Lord is working in us to will and to do of His