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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
and our labors, and moving independently of our brethren. “Counsel
together” have been the words repeated by the angels again and
again.
Satan may move through one man’s mind to warp things out
of their proper channel; he may succeed with two who view things
in a similar light; but with several minds enlisted there is greater
safety against his wiles. Every plan will be more liable to be viewed
from all sides, every advance will be more carefully studied, so that
no enterprise will be so likely to be entered upon which will bring
confusion and perplexity and defeat to the work in which we are
engaged. In union there is strength; in division there is weakness
and defeat.
God is leading out a people and fitting them for translation. Are
we who are acting a part in this work standing as sentinels for God?
Are we uniting our forces: Are we willing to become servants of
all? Are we imitating the great Pattern?
Proper Methods in Labor
The truth cannot be introduced in any haphazard way among the
colored people, neither can advice be given to the believers and to
those who teach the truth, to be presumptuous. When the period
comes in the Southern States to do as did the three worthies who
refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar’s image, that time will present
decisions for or against the commandments of God. There is no need
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of closing up our own way wholly. It will be made more difficult
to work the many fields that have not yet been touched. Our policy
is, Do not make prominent the objectionable features of our faith,
which strike most decidedly against the practices and customs of the
people, until the Lord shall give the people a fair chance to know that
we are believers in Christ, that we do believe in the divinity of Christ
and in His preexistence. Let the testimony of the world’s Redeemer
be dwelt upon. “I Jesus have sent Mine angel to testify unto you
these things in the churches.” There is need of strictly guarding the
word that the pen traces upon paper. The Lord help us to learn in
the school of Christ His meekness and lowliness.