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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
dove, we might obtain advantage from them, for God would move
upon their minds to do many things in behalf of His people. If proper
persons would set before those who have means and influence the
needs of the work of God in a proper light, these men might do much
to advance the cause of God in our world. We have put away from
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us privileges and advantages that we might have had the benefit of,
because we chose to stand independent of the world. But we need
not sacrifice one principle of truth while taking advantage of every
opportunity to advance the cause of God.
The Lord would have His people in the world, but not of the
world. They should seek to bring the truth before the men in high
places, and give them a fair chance to receive and weigh evidence.
There are many who are unenlightened and uninformed, and as
individuals we have a serious, solemn, wise work to do. We are
to have travail of soul for those who are in high places, and go to
them with the gracious invitation to come to the marriage feast. Very
much more might have been done than has been done for those
in high places. The last message that Christ gave to His disciples
before He was parted from them and taken up into heaven was a
message to carry the gospel to all the world, and was accompanied
by the promise of the Holy Spirit. The Lord said, “Ye shall receive
power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall
be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” “The silver is
Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord of hosts.” “Every beast
of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know
all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are
Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine,
and the fullness thereof.”
The Burden for Souls
There is a great work to be done in the earth, and the Lord
Jesus has taken men into copartnership with Himself, in order that
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heavenly agencies may cooperate with human agencies. Christ was
in travail of soul for the redemption of the world, and those who are
laborers together with God are representatives of Christ to our world