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Ministers must first be converted to the truth themselves—I
attended the ministerial council and made some important remarks in
regard to the necessity of the ministerial school, and the importance
of ministers’ spending some time in obtaining a drill in Bible study,
which would qualify them to do better work. Thus they would place
themselves in the most favorable position to obtain a knowledge of
how to work. This is necessary because there has been so much
counterworking in our midst that the churches have received very
confusing theories in regard to the truth for this time. It is essential
that our ministers speak the same things in our churches, and give the
trumpet no uncertain sound. Our ministers need first to be converted
to the truth themselves. Then they can go forth everywhere, bearing
the message of truth for this time.—
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We are not to make less prominent the special truths that have
separated us from the world—The message we have to bear is not
a message that men need to cringe to declare. They are not to seek
to cover it, to conceal its origin and purpose. Its advocates must be
men who will not hold their peace day nor night. As those who have
made solemn vows to God, and who have been commissioned as the
messengers of Christ, as stewards of the mysteries of the grace of
God, we are under obligation to declare faithfully the whole counsel
of God. We are not to make less prominent the special truths that have
separated us from the world and made us what we are; for they are
fraught with eternal interests. God has given us light in regard to the
things that are now taking place in the last remnant of time, and with
pen and voice we are to proclaim the truth to the world, not in a tame,
spiritless way, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power of God.
The mightiest conflicts are involved in the furtherance of the message,
and the results of its promulgation are of moment to both heaven and
earth.—
Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 329
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Ministers must not stand by as our doctrines are eroded—In
a representation which passed before me, I saw a certain work being
done by medical missionary workers. Our ministering brethren were
looking on, watching what was being done, but they did not seem to
understand. The foundation of our faith, which was established by so
much prayer, such earnest searching of the Scriptures, was being taken
down, pillar by pillar. Our faith was to have nothing to rest upon—the