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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
because his work far exceeds the work being done in the churches by
the General Conference. What is the matter? It is plain that the light
given by God has not been acted upon. Men have supplanted God’s
plans by their own plans. The prosperity of the medical missionary
work is in God’s order. This work must be done; the truth must be
carried to the highways and the hedges.
A Call to Reform
But the heart of the work, the great center, has been enfeebled
by the mismanagement of men who have not kept pace with their
Leader. [
See appendix.
] Satan has diverted their money and their
capabilities into wrong channels. Their precious time has been
passing into eternity. The earnest work that is now being done, the
aggressive warfare that is being carried on, might long ago have
been just as vigorously carried forward in obedience to the light
of God. The whole body is sick because of mismanagement and
miscalculation. The people to whom God has entrusted eternal
interests, the depositaries of truth pregnant with eternal results, the
keepers of light that is to illuminate the whole world, have lost
their bearings. Has God made a mistake? Are those at the heart of
the work chosen vessels that can receive the golden oil, which the
heavenly messengers, represented as two olive trees, empty into the
golden tubes to replenish the lamps? Are those in Battle Creek, the
men and women that God has appointed to do the most solemn work
ever given to mortals, in partnership with Jesus Christ in His great
firm? Are those whom He has bidden to communicate the light from
the burning lamps to others, that the regions of darkness may have
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opportunity to hear the saving message, doing their duty? ...
Results of Self-Serving
Oh, if those who profess to know the truth had the spirit of
Christ, the self-sacrificing Redeemer, who gave up His riches, His
splendor, His high command, and did all that a God could do to save
souls, they would deny self, lift the cross and follow Jesus. How
will you who love worldly treasure answer to God in the great day
of judgment for your feeble and sleepy efforts to send the truth to
regions beyond? The money expended in bicycles and dress and