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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
is short. Let the message of warning be given clear and distinct.
The Lord is coming to execute judgment upon all who obey not the
gospel.
Enoch in his day sounded the proclamation of the coming of
Christ and the execution of judgment upon the unrighteous; and we
now see the fulfillment of Enoch’s prophecy concerning the great
wickedness that should abound. But these who have the light are
the very ones commissioned of God to make constantly aggressive
warfare. As the inquiry shall be made, “Watchman, what of the
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night?” the faithful message is to be heard in response, “The morning
cometh, and also the night.”
The influence of truth is too much restricted. Let men who know
the truth be urged to communicate truth to those who are in darkness.
Many are satisfied with a view of truth, but they have not yet stepped
into their place to communicate that which they have received. God
has let men feel the power of truth, but they are not all doing their
appointed work in seeking to save that which was lost. Everyone
is to have the armor on, prepared to win others to obedience to
the law of God. I see so much given to those who already have;
these wonderful meetings for those who wish to get more strength
are depriving the world of the very work that should be done. Our
ministers should now be working for the saving of the lost. The
weeks spent in gatherings to fit men for work might better, far better,
be spent in going to the highways and hedges with the proclamation,
“Come; for all things are now ready.”
More Light to Those Who Use It
To those who obey the light they have, illumination will come
from on high; for the heavenly messengers are waiting to cooperate
with men in warning a deceived, sinful world. When the people
of God engage in this work with real travail of soul there will be
manifest a decided change in cities and villages. This hovering about
churches to keep them propped up makes them more dependent on
human effort. They learn to lean on the experience of their fellow-
men and do not make God their dependence and their efficiency. It
is time that cities and villages everywhere were hearing the solemn
note of warning, “Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye
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