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Saviour, through whom we are made necessary to one another and to
God. Christ trains His subjects to imitate His virtues, His meekness
and lowliness, His goodness, patience, and love. Thus He consecrates
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heart and hand to His service, making man a channel through which
the love of God can flow in rich currents to bless others. Then let there
be no shade of strife among Seventh-day Adventists. The Saviour
invites every soul, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn
of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” He who
approaches nearest to the perfection of Christ’s divine benevolence
causes joy among the heavenly angels. The Father rejoices over him
with singing; for is he not working in the spirit of the Master, one with
Christ as He is one with the Father?
In our periodicals we are not to exalt the work and characters of
men in positions of influence, constantly keeping human beings before
the people. But as much as you please you may uplift Christ our
Saviour. “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory [from
character to character], even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Those who
love and serve God are to be the light of the world, shining amid moral
darkness. But in the places which have been given the greatest light,
where the gospel has been preached the most, the people—fathers,
mothers, and children—have been moved by a power from beneath to
unite their interests with worldly projects and enterprises.
Great blindness is upon the churches, and the Lord says to His
people, “What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My
people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.”
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The condition of being received into the Lord’s family is coming
out from the world, separating from all its contaminating influences.
The people of God are to have no connection with idolatry in any of its
forms. They are to reach a higher standard. We are to be distinguished
from the world, and then God says, “I will receive you as members