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language he will present lofty sentiments. Good words will be spoken
by him, and good deeds performed. Christ will be personified, but on
one point there will be a marked distinction. Satan will turn the people
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from the law of God. Notwithstanding this, so well will he counterfeit
righteousness, that if it were possible, he would deceive the very elect.
Crowned heads, presidents, rulers in high places, will bow to his false
theories. Instead of giving place to criticism, division, jealousy, and
rivalry, those in our schools should be one in Christ. Only thus can
they resist the temptations of the arch-deceiver.
Time is passing, and God calls for every watchman to be in his
place. He has been pleased to lead us to a crisis greater than any
since our Saviour’s first advent. What shall we do? God’s Holy Spirit
has told us what to do; but, as the Jews in Christ’s day rejected light
and chose darkness, so will the religious world reject the message for
today. Men professing godliness have despised Christ in the person of
His messengers. Like the Jews, they reject God’s message. The Jews
asked regarding Christ, “Who is this? Is not this Joseph’s son?” He
was not the Christ that the Jews looked for. So today the agencies that
God sends are not what men have looked for. But the Lord will not
ask any man by whom to send. He will send by whom he will. Men
may not be able to understand why God sends this one or that one. His
work may be a matter of curiosity. God will not satisfy this curiosity;
and His word will not return unto Him void.
Let the work of preparing a people to stand in the day of God’s
preparation be entered upon by all who believe the word. During the
last few years serious work has been done. Serious questions have
agitated the minds of those who believe present truth. The light of the
Son of Righteousness has been shining in every place, and by some it
has been received, and perseveringly held. The work has been carried
forward in Christ’s lines.
Every soul that names the name of Christ should be under service.
All should say, “Here I am; send me.” The lips that are willing to speak,
though unclean, will be touched with the living coal, and purified. They
will be enabled to speak words that will burn their way to the soul.
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The time will come when men will be called to give an account for the
souls to whom they should have communicated light, but who have
not received it. Those who have thus failed in their duty, who have
been given light, but who have not cherished it, so that they have none