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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” The Lord Jesus loves His
heritage; and if men will not think it their special prerogative to
prescribe rules for their fellow laborers, but will bring Christ’s rules
into their life and copy His lessons, then each will be an example,
and not a judge.
Paternal Character of God
Christ’s most favorite theme was the paternal character and abun-
dant love of God. The curse of every church today is that men do not
adopt Christ’s methods. They think they can improve on the rules
given in the gospel, and so are free to define them, hoping thus to
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reform the churches and the workmen. Let God be our one Master,
our one Lord, full of goodness, compassion, and love.
God gives knowledge to His workmen; and He has left on record
for us the rich, full promise: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him
ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and
it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind
and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything
of the Lord.” Is it not best to obtain wisdom individually by going
to God, and not to man? What saith the Great Teacher? “I have
manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of
the world.”
Criticizing Defects in Others
There is among us an evil that needs to be corrected. Brethren
feel free to look at, and speak of, the supposed defects of others,
when that very liberty reveals a decided defect in themselves. They
make it manifest that they are wise in their own conceits; and God
cannot give them His special blessing, for they would exalt them-
selves and hurt the precious cause of truth. When the world was
destitute of the knowledge of God, Jesus came to impart this in-
estimable blessing—a knowledge of the paternal character of our
heavenly Father. This was His own gift to our world; and this gift
He committed to His disciples, to be communicated by them to the
world.