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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
the waste places of the earth, at home and in the regions beyond,
they will see the salvation of God revealed in a remarkable manner.
God’s faithful messengers are to seek to carry forward the Lord’s
work in His appointed way. They are to place themselves in close
connection with the Great Teacher, that they may be daily taught of
God. They are to wrestle with God in earnest prayer for a baptism
of the Holy Spirit that they may meet the needs of a world perishing
in sin. All power is promised those who go forth in faith to proclaim
the everlasting gospel. As the servants of God bear to the world a
living message fresh from the throne of glory, the light of truth will
shine forth as a lamp that burneth, reaching to all parts of the world.
Thus the darkness of error and unbelief will be dispelled from the
minds of the honest in heart in all lands, who are now seeking after
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God, “If haply they might feel after Him, and find Him.”
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Danger in Adopting Worldly Policy in the Work of God
[Reprint from A testimony published in tract form.]
November 3, 1890, while laboring at Salamanca, New York, [
See
appendix.
] as I was in communion with God in the night season, I
was taken out of and away from myself to assemblies in different
states, where I bore a decided testimony of reproof and warning. In
Battle Creek a council of ministers and responsible men from the
publishing house and other institutions was convened, and I heard
those assembled, in no gentle spirit, advance sentiments and urge
measures for adoption that filled me with apprehension and distress.
Years before, I had been called to pass through a similar ex-
perience, and the Lord then revealed to me many things of vital
importance, and gave me warnings that must be delivered to those
in peril. On the night of November 3, these warnings were brought
to my mind, and I was commanded to present them before those
in responsible offices of trust, and to fail not, nor be discouraged.
There were laid out before me some things which I could not com-
prehend; but the assurance was given me that the Lord would not
allow His people to be enshrouded in the fogs of worldly skepti-
cism and infidelity, bound up in bundles with the world; but if they