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and Christ says, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all
men unto Me.” His gracious invitation is going forth to all mankind,
and those who respond to it will find life and salvation. Peter writes,
“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of
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God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as His divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.”
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Calmness and Consideration
[Special Testimonies, Series A 3:59-62 (1895).]
January 14, 1894.
The Lord is soon to work in greater power among us, but there
is danger of allowing our impulses to carry us where the Lord would
not want us to go. We must not make one step that we will have to
retrace. We must move solemnly, prudently, and not make use of ex-
travagant expressions or allow our feelings to become overwrought.
We must think calmly and work without excitement; for there will be
those who become easily wrought up, who will catch up unguarded
expressions and make use of extreme utterances to create excitement,
and thus counteract the very work that God would do. There is a
class of people who are always ready to go off on some tangent,
who want to catch up something strange and wonderful and new;
but God would have all move calmly, considerately, choosing our
words in harmony with the solid truth for this time, which requires
to be presented to the mind as free from that which is emotional
as possible, while still bearing the intensity and solemnity that it
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is proper it should bear. We must guard against creating extremes,
guard against encouraging those who would either be in the fire or
in the water.
I beseech you to weed out of your teachings every extravagant
expression, everything that unbalanced minds and those who are