Chapter 72—Counsel to Teachers
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Mrs. E. G. White and her party on their way to the General Confer-
ence, spent five days in College View. Friday morning she spoke to
five hundred students in the college chapel, and Sabbath and sunday
she spoke to large congregations in the church. Monday morning, by
request, she met with the college faculty. The following is a portion of
her address to the thirty teachers assembled.—W. C. White.
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I will read 2 corinthians, the sixth chapter:
“We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that
ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For He saith, I have heard
thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored
thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation.) Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not
blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes,
in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; by
pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy
Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God,
by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by
honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and
yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we
live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing
all things....
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what com-
munion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and 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
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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
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