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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
who chose John to be the channel through whom this light was
to shine forth to the world—with such wonderful, solemn truths
revealed, with such grand truths unfolded before us in the events to
transpire just prior to the second appearing of Christ in the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory, how can those who claim to
see wondrous things out of the law of God, be found in the list of
the impure, of the fornicators and adulterers, constantly evading the
truth, and secretly working out iniquity? Do you think that they can
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hide their ways from the Lord? that God seeth not? that God taketh
no knowledge?
Uninvited Guests
Belshazzar, while engaged in his sacrilegious feast, was not
aware that he had guests he had not invited. The God of heaven
heard the praises bestowed upon vessels of gold and silver. He saw
the desecration of that which had been dedicated to Him by holy
consecration applied to profane and licentious purposes. It is a truth
which should make every one of us weep, that those living in these
last days, upon whom the ends of the world are come, are far more
guilty than was Belshazzar. This is possible in many ways. When
men have taken upon themselves the vows of consecration, to devote
all their powers to the sacred service of God; when they occupy the
position of expositors of Bible truth, and have received the solemn
charge; when God and angels are summoned as witnesses to the
solemn dedication of soul, body, and spirit to God’s service—then
shall these men who minister in a most holy office desecrate their
God-given powers to unholy purposes? Shall the sacred vessel,
whom God is to use for a high and holy work, be dragged from
its lofty, controlling sphere to administer to debasing lust? Is not
this idol worship of the most degrading kind?—the lips uttering
praises and adoring a sinful human being, pouring forth expressions
of ravishing tenderness and adulation which belong alone to God—
the powers given to God in solemn consecration administering to a
harlot; for any woman who will allow the addresses of another man
than her husband, who will listen to his advances, and whose ears
will be pleased with the outpouring of lavish words of affection, of
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adoration, of endearment, is an adulteress and a harlot.