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success. I saw their countenances brighten, and they began to work on
a policy plan to make the Sentinel a popular success.
This policy is the first step in a succession of wrong steps. The
principles which have been advocated in the American Sentinel are the
very sum and substance of the advocacy of the Sabbath, and when men
begin to talk of changing these principles, they are doing a work which
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it does not belong to them to do. Like Uzzah, they are attempting
to steady the ark which belongs to God, and is under His special
supervision. Said my Guide to those in these councils, “Who of the
men among you have felt the burden of the cause from the first, and
have accepted responsibilities under trying circumstances? Who has
carried the burden of the work during the years of its existence? Who
has practiced self-denial and self-sacrifice? The Lord made a place
for His stanch servants, whose voices have been heard in warning. He
carried forward His work before any of you put your hands to it, and
He can and will find a place for the truth you would suppress. In the
American Sentinel has been published the truth for this time. Take
heed what you do. “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain
that build it.”—
Manuscript 29, 1890
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To Meet the Sunday-Law Movement—I do hope that the trum-
pet will give a certain sound in regard to this Sunday-law movement. I
think that it would be best if in our papers the subject of the perpetuity
of the law of God were made a specialty. Should there not be a paper
or a pamphlet issued to take the place of the Sentinel? I have not been
able to think that it was the wise thing to do to let that paper drop. It
was a voice that was constantly speaking in defense of religious liberty.
The truth should be presented in short articles, in clear, distinct lines,
giving special points in regard to the Lord’s Sabbath, and showing that
those who frame laws to compel the observance of the first day of the
week, are disloyal to the Lord of heaven, who placed His sanctity upon
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the seventh day. Are we doing all we can to exalt the law of Jehovah?
We should now be doing our very best to defeat this Sunday law.
The best way to do this will be to lift up the law of God and make
it stand forth in all its sacredness. This must be done if the truth
triumphs.—
Letter 58, 1906
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Exalt Not Human Beings—In the night I was earnestly address-
ing those who are bearing responsibilities of editors and contributors
of our periodicals.... If those in charge of our periodicals have no more