Counsels to Editors
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the ordinary publications of the day. “What is the chaff to the wheat?”
Jeremiah 23:28
. We want pure wheat, thoroughly winnowed.
“The Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me
that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A
confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the Lord of hosts
Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.... Bind
up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.... To the law and
to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because
there is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:11-20
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I call the attention of all our workers to the sixth chapter of Isaiah.
Read the experience of God’s prophet when he saw the Lord “sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple....
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for
mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the
seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with the tongs from off the altar; and he laid it upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away,
and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”
Isaiah 6:1-8
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This is the experience needed by those who labor in all our in-
stitutions. There is danger that they will fail of maintaining a vital
connection with God, of being sanctified through the truth. It is thus
that they lose a sense of the power of the truth, lose the ability to
discriminate between the sacred and the common.
Meat in Due Season—My brethren in responsible positions, may
the Lord not only anoint your eyes that they may see, but pour into
your hearts the holy oil that from the two olive branches flows through
the golden pipes into the golden bowl which feeds the lamps of the
sanctuary. May He “give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of Him; the eyes of your understanding being en-
lightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling,... and
what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe.”
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Ephesians 1:17-19
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As faithful householders, give meat in due season to the household
of God. Present truth to the people. Work as if in full view of the