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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
Bear God’s Message
The message we have to bear is not a message that men need
cringe to declare. They are not to seek to cover it, to conceal its
origin and purpose. Its advocates must be men who will not hold
their peace day nor night. As those who have made solemn vows
to God, and who have been commissioned as the messengers of
Christ, as stewards of the mysteries of the grace of God, we are
under obligation to declare faithfully the whole counsel of God. We
are not to make less prominent the special truths that have separated
us from the world, and made us what we are; for they are fraught
with eternal interests. God has given us light in regard to the things
that are now taking place in the last remnant of time, and with
pen and voice we are to proclaim the truth to the world, not in a
tame, spiritless way, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power of
God. The mightiest conflicts are involved in the furtherance of the
message, and the results of its promulgation are of moment to both
heaven and earth.
The controversy between the two great powers of good and evil
is soon to be ended; but to the time of its close there will be continual
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and sharp contests. We should now purpose, as did Daniel and his
fellows in Babylon, that we will be true to principle, come what
may. The flaming fiery furnace heated seven times hotter than it was
wont to be heated did not cause these faithful servants of God to
turn aside from allegiance to the truth. They stood firm in the time
of trial and were cast into the furnace, and they were not forsaken
of God. The form of the fourth was seen walking with them in the
flames, and they came forth not having even the smell of fire upon
their garments....
Today the world is full of flatterers and dissemblers; but God
forbid that those who claim to be guardians of sacred trusts shall be-
tray the interests of God’s cause through the insinuating suggestions
and devices of the enemy of all righteousness.
There is no time now to range ourselves on the side of the
transgressors of God’s law, to see with their eyes, to hear with their
ears, and to understand with their perverted senses. We must press
together. We must labor to become a unit, to be holy in life and
pure in character. Let those who profess to be servants of the living