Our Day of Opportunity
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Workers of this character are needed now. Those who are men in
the sight of God, and who are thus recorded on the books of heaven,
are those who, like Daniel, cultivate every faculty in such a way as
best to represent the kingdom of God in a world lying in wickedness.
Progress in knowledge is essential; for when employed in the cause of
God, knowledge is a power for good. The world needs men of thought,
men of principle, men who are constantly growing in understanding
and discernment. The press is in need of men to use it to the best
advantage, that the truth may be given wings to speed it to every
nation, and tongue, and people.
Our Source of Efficiency
We need to make use of the youth who will cultivate honest indus-
try, who are not afraid to put their powers to task. Such youth will find
a position anywhere, because they falter not by the way; in mind and
soul they bear the divine similitude. Their eye is single, and constantly
they press onward, and upward, crying, Victory. But there is no call
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for the indolent, the fearful and unbelieving, who by their lack of faith
and their unwillingness to deny self for Christ’s sake, keep the work
from advancing.... .
God calls for those who will be workers together with Him. Con-
nected with Christ, human nature becomes pure and true. Christ sup-
plies the efficiency, and man becomes a power for good. Truthfulness
and integrity are attributes of God, and he who possesses these at-
tributes possesses a power that is invincible.—
The Review and Herald,
March 10, 1903
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Righteousness Within
Righteousness within is testified to by righteousness without. He
who is righteous within is not hard-hearted and unsympathetic, but day
by day he grows into the image of Christ, going on from strength to
strength. He who is being sanctified by the truth will be self-controlled,
and will follow in the footsteps of Christ until grace is lost in glory. The
righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness
by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven,