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To God’s Workmen
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and opportunity to work for the poor sinners that are out of Christ;
but they are dumb. If our churches would only practice the truth, and
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show that they believe that Christ came to our world to save sinners,
the power of God would attend their labors. But they must keep in
touch with the Source of all light and efficiency, and in touch with
the world, not to imbibe the spirit of the world, but that they may do
the work God has appointed them to do....
Ministerial Institutes
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature”
is Christ’s command to His workers.
But this plain declaration has been disregarded. Even though
the light has been given again and again, men are called from the
fields, where they should have continued working in the love and
fear of God, seeking to save the lost, to spend weeks in attending
a ministerial institute. There was a time when this work was made
necessary, because our own people opposed the work of God by
refusing the light of truth on the righteousness of Christ by faith.
This they should have received and reechoed with heart and voice
and pen, for it is their only efficiency. They should have labored
under the Holy Spirit’s dictation to give the light to others.
By devoting year after year to ministerial institutes, [
See ap-
pendix.
] fields have been neglected that are white already to harvest.
Even the workers have been weakened instead of being strengthened.
This has been a mistake. God calls upon His servants to communi-
cate, not to be ever learning and never able to come to a knowledge
of the truth.
The Work of the Holy Spirit
The great object of the advent of the Holy Spirit is distinctly
specified by Christ. “When He is come,” He said, “He will reprove
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the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” This light
has been kept before our people for years. The power of the Holy
Spirit has been largely manifested at Battle Creek, the great heart of
the work, to be communicated to those in the highways and hedges,
that the mass of human beings under Satan’s sway of sin and death
might be reformed and renovated by the Spirit’s power. But when