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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
the Lord thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things, and all
that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were
come forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote
and hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when
thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.”
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Notwithstanding that the children of Israel had often grieved the
Lord by departing from His counsel, yet He still had a tender care
for them. The Lord Jesus Christ saw their enemies taking advantage
of their circumstances, to do them an injury; for that work was to
bring suffering against the weary, who were journeying under God’s
leading. Hear the judgments which God pronounced: “Therefore it
shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine
enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget
it.”
I pen these words of God that those who profess to be His
children may not receive the curse pronounced upon Amalek because
they have followed the practices of Amalek. If the heathen received
this denunciation of their course for overcoming the faint and weary,
what will the Lord express toward those who have had light, great
opportunities, and privileges, but have not manifested the spirit of
Christ toward their own brethren?
The Lord sees all the dealings of brother with brother, which
weaken faith, and which destroy their own confidence in themselves
as men dealing with justice and equity. In the most positive language
He expresses His displeasure at the iniquity practiced in trade. He
says, “Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with
the bag of deceitful weights?” The very wrong here mentioned may
not have been committed in our institutions, but acts which these
things represent have been, and are still being done.
Page after page might be written in regard to these things. Whole
conferences are becoming leavened with the same perverted prin-
ciples. “For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the in-
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habitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in
their mouth.” The Lord will work to purify His church. I tell you in