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they mocked at the smallness of our numbers, and taunted us with
words calculated to cut deep. They charged us with taking an inde-
pendent position from all the rest of the world. They had cut off our
resources so that we could not buy nor sell, and referred to our abject
poverty and stricken condition. They could not see how we could live
without the world; we were dependent upon the world, and we must
concede to the customs, practices, and laws of the world, or go out of
it. If we were the only people in the world whom the Lord favored,
the appearances were awfully against us.
They declared that they had the truth, that miracles were among
them, that angels from heaven talked with them and walked with them,
that great power, and signs and wonders were performed among them,
and this was the Temporal Millennium, which they had been expecting
so long. The whole world was converted and in harmony with the
Sunday law, and this little feeble people stood out in defiance of the
laws of the land and the laws of God, and claimed to be the only ones
right on the earth.—
Maranatha, 209
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Angels Will Do the Work Men Neglected
When divine power is combined with human effort, the work will
spread like fire in the stubble. God will employ agencies whose origin
man will not be able to discern; angels will do a work which men
might have had the blessing of accomplishing, had they not neglected
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the claims of God.—
The Review and Herald, December 15, 1885
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Angels Will Supply the Needs of God’s People
I saw the saints leaving the cities and villages, and associating
together in companies, and living in the most solitary places. Angels
provided them food and water, while the wicked were suffering from
hunger and thirst.—
Early Writings, 282
.
In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous
will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there
will be no security for the transgressor of God’s law. Angels cannot
then protect those who are disregarding one of the divine precepts.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 256
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