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To God’s Workmen
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No Neutral Ground
Those who have any connection with God’s work in any of
our institutions must have a connection with God, and must be
committed to do right under all circumstances, that they may know
where they will be found in the day of trial. No one connected with
the sacred work of God can remain on neutral ground. If a man
is divided, undecided, unsettled, until he is sure that he will lose
nothing, he shows that he is a man God cannot use. But many are
working in this line. They have not been appointed by God, or else
they have decidedly failed to be worked by the mighty agency of the
Holy Spirit.
The Lord will use educated men if their supposed knowledge
does not lead them to desire to work the Holy Spirit, and to seek to
teach the Lord that human policy is better than divine plans, because
it accords better with popular opinion. Everyone in God’s service is
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under bonds to stand forth boldly and meet prejudice, opposition,
and human passion. They must ever remember that they are God’s
servants, and in His service.
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God’s Messengers
[Special Testimonies, Series A 11:2-13 (1898).]
The Lord would have His people divested of everything unscrip-
tural in regard to the ministry. The men called to the ministry should
not be made idols of; they should not be looked upon with supersti-
tious reverence; and because of the power vested in them through
their office, sin in them should not lose its offensiveness. Their very
office makes sin in them more exceedingly sinful, for in committing
sin they make themselves the ministers of sin, the agents of Satan,
through whom he can work with success to perpetuate sin.
All should bear in mind that Satan’s special efforts are directed
against the ministry. He knows that it is but a human instrumentality,
possessing no grace or holiness of its own. He knows that it is an
agent that God has ordained to be a powerful means for the salvation
of souls and is efficacious only as God, the eternal Spirit, makes it