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sanctifying influence of truth, and in sacrifices and labors to bless
others. In order to do this there must be an ever-growing Christian
experience. Faith must be strong, consecration complete; sympathy,
tenderness, and love must pervade the soul. They must be patient in
tribulation and Christlike in conversation, and even the thoughts [must
be] brought into captivity to Jesus Christ.
You have an experience before you to gain. You cannot be self-
centered and be prepared for whatever work or responsibility, however
difficult or dangerous, which is in Christ’s line. Your eye must be
single to the glory of God, and then your profiting [growth] will appear
unto all. You need to employ every means of grace [so] that your
love to God, and to all with whom you associate, may be pure and
Christlike. Then you will approve the things that are excellent and
be filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ
unto the glory and praise of God. Your Christian life must take on a
different mold, else you will never see the kingdom of heaven.
There are many represented to me in the church who seem just
like drowning men engaged in a desperate struggle to keep their heads
above water. They have not in their religious life ever died to self. Self
is their idol; they worship at its shrine. Weakness and a fluctuating
experience open the way for Satan’s temptations and they will be easily
overcome. A faithful waiting upon the Lord will renew their strength.
Trials of faith will come, but love, patience, and constancy will be
weighed by the golden scales of the heavenly sanctuary.
You must learn in the school of Christ meekness and lowliness of
heart, and be trained, disciplined, and educated for usefulness and for
immortality. May these words have the right effect upon your mind.
I have an interest in you. Let nothing attract or amuse or divert your
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mind from the earnest work before you. It is for your present and
eternal interest to see that this state of things does not continue. Let
it not be said of you in the future, as it was of the Hebrew Christians,
“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that
we teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of
God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong
meat” (
Hebrews 5:12
). You need good home religion. Bring all the
pleasantness and sunlight into your home life, in every word, in every
action. Use diligently all the gifts of heaven in precious light given of
God, and put this light to a practical use. Then the Lord will make a