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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
and which will decide them to be unfit to enter the mansions above.
They have refused to let go the filthy garments; they have clung to
them as if they were of precious value. They will lose heaven and
an eternity of bliss on account of them.
Be Converted Men
I call upon you who minister in sacred things to be converted
men before you go forth to act any part in the cause of my Master.
Now is your time to seek a preparation and readiness for the fearful
test which is before us—that holiness without which no man shall
see God. Let none say, My way is hid from the Lord; God taketh no
knowledge of my ways. Now it may be it is not too late. Now it may
be you can repent. But even if pardon is written against your names,
you will sustain terrible loss; for the scars you have made upon your
souls will remain.
Oh, how can any who have the light of truth, the great light
given them of God, defy the wrath and judgments of God by sinning
against Him and doing the very things God has told them in His
word not to do? How can they be so blinded by Satan as to dishonor
God to His face, and defile their souls by sinning knowingly? Says
the apostle, “We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels,
and to men.” Will these sinners—shall I call them hypocrites?—
in Zion inquire, In what manner am I a spectacle to the world, to
angels, and to men? Answer for yourselves, By my abuse of the light
and privileges and mercies God has given me, by unseemly actions
which corrupt and defile the soul. Professing to know God, do I put
Him out of my thoughts, and substitute an idol? Do I lead other
minds to regard sin lightly by my example? Am I a spectacle to the
world of moral looseness? Am I a spectacle to angels in indecent
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actions and moral defilement of the body? The apostle exhorts us:
“I beseech you, ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” “Having
therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves