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theories that they have no need to touch. Christ said, “I am the light of
the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life.”
The Lord, I fully believe, is leading you that you may keep the
principles of temperance clear and distinct, in all their purity in con-
nection with the truth for these last days. They that do His will shall
know of the doctrine. The Lord designs that women shall learn of
Him meekness and lowliness of heart, and cooperate with the greatest
Teacher the world has ever known. When this is done, there will be
no strife for the supremacy, no pride of opinion; for it will be realized
that mind, and voice, and every jot of ability, are only lent talents,
given by God to be used in His work, to accumulate for Him, and to
be returned to the Giver with all the increase. We are expected to grow
in capability, in influence, and in power, ever looking unto Jesus. And
by beholding, we shall be changed into His likeness.
The woman’s work is a power in our world, but it is lost when,
with the Word of God before her, she sees a “thus saith the Lord” and
refuses to obey. The great and difficult thing for the soul to do is to
part with its own supposed works of merit. It is not an easy matter
to understand what it means to refuse self the best place of honor in
the service of God. All unconsciously we act out the attributes of our
own character and the bias of our own mind in the very presence of
God, in our prayer and worship, in our service, and fail to see that we
are absolutely dependent upon the leading of the Holy Spirit. Self is
expected to do a work that is simply out of its power to do. This is the
great peril of women’s work in Christian temperance lines.
The Lord does not bid you separate from the Woman’s Christian
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Temperance Union. They need all the light you can give them. You
are not to learn of them but of Jesus Christ. Flash all the light possible
into their pathway. You can agree with them on the ground of the
pure, elevating principles that first brought into existence the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union. “Behold,” said Christ, “I send you forth
as lambs among wolves.” If He sends His disciples on such a mission,
will He not work through you to open the Scriptures to those who are
in error? Cherish the fragrance of that love that Christ has revealed for
fallen humanity, and by precept and example teach the truth as it is in
Jesus.