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to be sure that their feet are planted on the platform of eternal truth.
Beware how you follow impulse, calling it the Holy Spirit. Some are
in danger of doing this. The word of God urges us to be sound in the
faith, able to give to every one who asks, a reason of the hope that is
in us.
Diverting Minds From Present Duty
The enemy is seeking to divert the minds of our brethren and
sisters from the work of preparing a people to stand in these last days.
His sophistries are designed to lead minds away from the perils and
duties of the hour. They estimate as of little value the light that Christ
came from heaven to give to John for His people. They teach that the
scenes just before us are not of sufficient importance to receive special
attention. They make of no effect the truth of heavenly origin, and rob
the people of God of their past experience, giving them instead a false
science. “Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask
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for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” [
Jeremiah
6:16
.]
Let none seek to tear away the foundations of our faith,—the foun-
dations that were laid at the beginning of our work, by prayerful study
of the Word and by revelation. Upon these foundations we have been
building for more than fifty years. Men may suppose that they have
found a new way, that they can lay a stronger foundation than that
which has been laid; but this is a great deception. “Other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid.” [
1 Corinthians 3:11
.] In the past,
many have undertaken to build a new faith, to establish new principles;
but how long did their building stand? It soon fell; for it was not
founded upon the Rock.
Did not the first disciples have to meet the sayings of men? did
they not have to listen to false theories; and then, having done all,
to stand firm, saying, “Other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid”? So we are to hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast
unto the end.
Words of power have been sent by God and by Christ to this people,
bringing them out from the world, point by point, into the clear light
of present truth. With lips touched by holy fire, God’s servants have