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Appeal and Warning
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light bearers may seek and save that which is lost. He is now calling
upon His church on the earth to awake from the lethargy that Satan
has sought to bring upon them, and fulfill their heaven-appointed
work of enlightening the world. His message to His church at this
time is, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord
is risen upon thee.” To meet the conditions existing at the time when
darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people, the church
of God has been commissioned to cooperate with God in shedding
abroad the light of Bible truth. To those who seek to do their part
faithfully as bearers of precious light, is given the assurance: “The
Lord shall rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.”
The world today is in crying need of a revelation of Christ Jesus
in the person of His saints. God desires that His people shall stand
before the world a holy people. Why?—because there is a world to
be saved by the light of gospel truth; and as the message of truth that
is to call men out of darkness into God’s marvelous light is given by
the church, the lives of its members, sanctified by the Spirit of truth,
are to bear witness to the verity of the messages proclaimed.
God desires His people to place themselves in right relation to
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Him, that they may understand what He requires of them above all
things else. They are to reveal to every struggling soul in the world
what it means “to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly”
with their God. Wherever they are, at home or abroad, they are to be
His commandment-keeping people. They are to have the assurance
that their sins are forgiven, and that they are accepted as children of
the Most High
Success Assured
The world is in need of the saving truth that God has entrusted
to His people. The world will perish unless it be given a knowledge
of God through His chosen agencies. In the power of the Holy
Spirit, those who are laborers together with God are to labor with
unflagging zeal, and shed abroad in the world the light of precious
truth. As they enter the highways and the byways, as they labor in