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Christ’s Followers to Stand Firmly for the Right, July 24
For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, ... until the righteousness thereof
go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Isaiah 62:1
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God calls upon His workers, in this age of diseased piety and perverted princi-
ple, to reveal a healthy, influential spirituality.... This God requires of you. Every
jot of your influence is to be used on the side of Christ. You are now to call things
by the right name, and stand firm in defense of the truth as it is in Jesus.
It behooves every soul whose life is hid with Christ in God to come to the
front now, and to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. Truth must
be defended and the kingdom of God advanced as they would be were Christ in
person on this earth....
When the Holy Spirit controls the minds of our church members, there will be
seen in our churches a much higher standard in speech, in ministry, in spirituality,
than is now seen. The church members will be refreshed by the water of life, and
the laborers, working under one Head, even Christ, will reveal their Master in
spirit, in word, in deed, and will encourage one another to press forward in the
grand, closing work in which we are engaged. There will be a healthy increase
of unity and love, which will bear testimony to the world that God sent His Son
to die for the redemption of sinners. Divine truth will be exalted; and as it shines
forth as a lamp that burneth, we shall understand it more and still more clearly.
The testing truth for this time is not the fabrication of any human. It is from
God....
In every movement Christ’s followers are to reveal their regard for Christian
principles—loving God supremely, and their neighbor as themselves; reflecting
light and blessing on the pathway of those who are in darkness; comforting those
who are cast down; sweetening the bitter waters in the place of giving their fellow
pilgrims gall to drink.
Let us increase in a knowledge of the truth, giving all praise and glory to Him
who is one with the Father. Let us seek most earnestly for the heavenly anointing,
the Holy Spirit. Let us have a pure, growing Christianity, that in the heavenly
courts we may at last be pronounced complete in Christ.
“Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” Lose no time now
in rising and trimming your lamps. Lose no time in seeking perfect unity with one
another. We must expect difficulties. Trials will come. Christ, the captain of our
salvation, was made perfect through suffering. His followers will encounter the
enemy many times, and will be severely tried; but they need not despair. Christ
says to them, “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”—
Pacific Union
Recorder, December 17, 1903
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