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The Publishing Ministry
workers while in the institution. They are responsible for the character
of the matter that goes forth from our presses. They will be called to
account for the influence exerted by the introduction of matter that
would defile the institution, contaminate the workers, or mislead the
world.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:164-167
.
When Employees Should Refuse to Work—A responsibility
rests not only upon the managers, but upon the employees. I have
a word to say to the workers in every publishing house established
among us: As you love and fear God, refuse to have anything to do
with the knowledge against which God warned Adam. Let typesetters
refuse to set a sentence of such matter. Let proofreaders refuse to read,
pressmen to print, and binders to bind it. If asked to handle such matter,
call for a meeting of the workers in the institution, that there may be
an understanding as to what such things mean. Those in charge of the
institution may urge that you are not responsible, that the managers
must arrange these matters. But you are responsible—responsible for
the use of your eyes, your hands, your mind. These are entrusted to
you by God to be used for Him, not for the service of Satan.
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When matters containing errors that counteract the work of God
are printed in our houses of publication, God holds accountable not
only those who allow Satan to lay a trap for souls, but those who in
any way cooperate in the work of temptation.
My brethren in responsible positions, beware that you do not
harness your workers to the car of superstition and heresy. Let not the
institutions ordained by God to send out life-giving truth be made an
agency for the dissemination of soul-destroying error.
Let our publishing houses, from the least to the greatest, refuse to
print a line of such pernicious matter. Let it be understood by all with
whom we have to do that from all our institutions literature containing
the science of Satan is excluded.
We are brought into connection with the world, not that we may
be leavened with the world’s falsehood, but that as God’s agencies
we may leaven the world with His truth.—
Testimonies for the Church
7:167, 168
. (See also
Testimonies for the Church 8:91-93
.)
Calamity Predicted—I feel a terror of soul as I see to what a pass
our publishing house has come. The presses in the Lord’s institution
have been printing the soul-destroying theories of Romanism and other
mysteries of iniquity. The office must be purged of this objectionable