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heathen in heathen lands. You left your friends and comfortable home
and came to teach me how to find Jesus, and believe in Him as the
only true God. I demolished my idols, and worshiped God, and now I
see Him face to face. I am saved, eternally saved, ever to behold Him
whom I love....”
Others will express their gratitude to those who fed the hungry
and clothed the naked. “When despair bound my soul in unbelief, the
Lord sent you to me,” they say, “to speak words of hope and comfort.
You brought me food for my physical necessities, and you opened
to me the Word of God, awakening me to my spiritual needs. You
treated me as a brother. You sympathized with me in my sorrows, and
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restored my bruised and wounded soul, so that I could grasp the hand
of Christ that was reached out to save me. In my ignorance you taught
me patiently that I had a Father in heaven who cared for me. You read
to me the precious promises of God’s Word. You inspired in me the
faith that He would save me. My heart was softened, subdued, broken,
as I contemplated the sacrifice which Christ had made for me.... I am
here, saved, eternally saved, ever to live in His presence, and to praise
Him who gave His life for me.”
What rejoicing there will be as these redeemed ones meet and greet
those who have had a burden in their behalf!—
The Review and Herald,
January 5, 1905
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If they [the youth] receive Christ and believe in Him, they will
be brought into close relationship with God. He gives them power
to become the sons of God, to associate with the highest dignitaries
in the kingdom of heaven, to unite with Gabriel, with cherubim and
seraphim, with angels and the archangel. “And he showed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of
God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either
side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse;
but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him. And they shall see His face, and His name shall be in
their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no
candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and
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they shall reign forever and ever.”—
Spalding and Magan Collection,
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