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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
without a question; and generally no voice has been lifted in an
opposite direction. There are men who sit in council who have not
the discernment that they should have. The comprehension is narrow
and egotistical. A change is needed. It will not be wise to carry out
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one half or one quarter of the enterprises which have been planned.
Let each one who sits in council and in committee meetings
write in his heart the words: I am working for time and for eternity. I
must give an account to God for all the motives which prompt me to
action. Let this be his motto. Let the prayer of the psalmist go up to
God, “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my
lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works
with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.”
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“Give Me Thine Heart”
[Special Testimonies, Series A 9:51-59 (1897).]
Adelaide, Australia,
October 12, 1896
Those who are in responsible positions are not to become con-
verted to the self-indulgent, extravagant principles of the world, for
they cannot afford it; and if they could, Christlike principles would
not allow it. Manifold teaching needs to be given. “Whom shall He
teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” Thus the word
of the Lord is patiently to be brought before the children and kept
before them, by parents who believe the word of God. “For with
stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people. To
whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary
to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. But the
word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
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precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;
that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared,
and taken.” Why?—because they did not heed the word of the Lord
that came unto them.