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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
must take up the missionary work next to us, we must work to heal,
not to ruin and to destroy. The hope we have in Christ is because we
are sinners. We have a right to claim a Saviour. Then when there
are those in any of our institutions associated together who err, let
not men act the part of denouncing, condemning, and destroying, as
though they were faultless.
It is the work of the Christian to mend, to restore, to heal. This
healing process saves many a soul and hides a multitude of sins.
God is love; God is, in Himself, in His essence, love. He makes the
very best of what appears an injury, and gives Satan no occasion for
triumph by making the worst appear and exposing our weakness to
our enemies. The world must not be introduced into the church, and
married to the church, forming a bond of unity. Through this means
the church will become indeed corrupt, and as stated in Revelation,
“a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
Influence of Union With Worldlings
Through association with the world our institutions will become
unsubstantial, unreliable; because these worldly elements, intro-
duced and placed in positions of trust, are looked up to as teachers to
be respected in their educating, directing, and official position, and
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they are sure to be worked upon by the spirit and power of darkness;
so that the demarcation becomes not distinguished between him that
serveth God and him that serveth Him not. The parable is given by
Jesus Christ in regard to the field in which it was supposed had been
sown pure wheat, but the entrusted ones look upon the field with
disappointment, and inquire, “Didst not thou sow good seed in thy
field? from whence then hath it tares?” The master of the vineyard
answers, “An enemy hath done this.”
Accuser of The Brethren
Thus hath it been presented to me in regard to the Rural Health
Retreat. [
See appendix.
] I had a message of warning. I spoke with
earnestness, and I know the Lord put His Holy Spirit upon me while
I presented the danger of association with and love of the world.
The worldling is ever on the watch to criticize and accuse those
who serve God. This will reveal itself in the querulous complain-