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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
clear, sharp discernment by cultivating home religion, are safe coun-
selors. Of such a one. the Searcher of hearts saith, “I know him,
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that he will command his children and his household after him, and
they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment.”
Counselors of the character that God chose for Moses are needed by
the president of the General Conference. It was his privilege at least
to express his preference as to the men who should be his counselors.
It was his privilege to discern between him that serveth God and him
that serveth Him not. But a strange blindness was upon him. There
has been a leavening influence upon human minds, and it has been
most painful. For years God has been dishonored....
I have the word of the Lord for presidents of conferences. They
should shoulder the responsibilities involved in the trusts reposed in
them. In your work, do not try to meet a human standard, but the
standard of God’s work. If you will not do this, if you will not seek
the Lord most earnestly, if you will not be burden bearers, but choose
to lay your whole weight of responsibilities upon the president of
the General Conference, then, week by week, month by month, you
are disqualifying yourselves for the work. You should leave it, and
engage in common business transactions, which do not so decidedly
involve eternal responsibilities.
Presidents of conferences, I appeal to you in the name of the
Lord Jesus: “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye
upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord,
and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will
abundantly pardon.” You are to be self-denying missionaries, men of
thought, men who will pray for divine enlightenment, and who will
be faithful and true to responsibilities. Sit at the feet of Jesus, and
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learn His will. There must be zealous activity on your part. Teach
not your ideas, your plans, your notions, your maxims, but teach the
word of the Lord.
Your weekly seasons of prayer will not qualify any one of you
for your great and solemn responsibilities, if, after these seasons,
you feel that your work is done, and, having looked into the great
moral looking glass, you go away and forget what manner of man
you were. It is not merely one day of service that will suffice for
the soul’s need. You must be constantly coming to the storehouse to