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Right Methods, Principles, and Motives
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means in a special sense marriage with unbelievers, but it covers
more ground than this: it means in our instrumentalities ordained of
God, in our institutions for health, in our colleges, in our publishing
houses.
The matter is placed before us in the correct light. The question
is asked, “And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
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for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.” What
does this mean—the suggestions, the evil workings in the children
of disobedience. You are not in any case to become contaminated
with the spirit or influence of unbelievers. Be afraid of uniting or
binding up in bundles with them. Be afraid of communicating the
works connected with the Lord’s cause to those who have no part
with God, or sympathy with those who love the truth of God. “And
I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
I raise my voice of warning against the mingling in our institu-
tions of the worldly element with those who believe; we have the
danger signal to sound. If in our institutions persons are placed in
positions of trust, they are educators. Others are taught to look to
these persons for instruction, and in this is a snare to the unwary;
their ideas become confused in regard to righteousness and truth.
They hear those persons who have no respect for the truth sneer and
speak disparagingly of the truth, which should be held firmly and
sacredly as truth.
When the day’s work on Friday should be planned with reference
to the Sabbath of the Lord, there is Satan working with those children
of disobedience to prolong the service into the sacred hours, and
give their orders that those under their direction shall do work on
the Sabbath, and then they exult and Satan triumphs.
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And when men in the highest responsible positions make no
difference between those who serve God and those who serve Him
not, they evidence that their eyes are not single to the glory of God;
therefore their whole body is full of darkness. When these men
in authority have so mingled with the spirit of worldlings that the
words of complaint from the lips of these unbelievers are gathered