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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
we also shall appear with Him in glory.—
Special Testimonies to
Ministers and Workers, Series A 9:58 (1897)
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Words of Greeting
To Those Assembled in General Conference of Nineteen
Hundred Thirteen
[The General Conference Bulletin, 1913, 33, 34.]
My dear Brethren,
It is the privilege of our representative men in attendance at the
General Conference to cherish a spirit of hopefulness and courage.
My brethren, the Saviour has revealed Himself to you in manifold
ways; He has filled your heart with the sunlight of His presence
while you have labored in distant lands and in the homeland; He has
kept you through dangers seen and unseen; and now, as you meet
once more with your brethren in council, it is your privilege to be
glad in the Lord and to rejoice in the knowledge of His sustaining
grace.
Let His love take possession of mind and heart. Guard against
becoming overwearied, careworn, depressed. Bear an uplifting
testimony. Turn your eyes away from that which is dark and discour-
aging, and behold Jesus, our great Leader, under whose watchful
supervision the cause of present truth, to which we are giving our
lives and our all, is destined to triumph gloriously.
The attitude that our representative men maintain during the
conference will have a telling influence upon all throughout the field,
as well as upon the delegates themselves. Oh, let it be seen, my
brethren, that Jesus is abiding in the heart, sustaining, strengthening,
comforting. It is your privilege to be endowed, from day to day,
with a rich measure of His Holy Spirit, and to have broadened views
of the importance and scope of the message we are proclaiming to
the world. The Lord is willing to reveal to you wondrous things
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out of His law. Wait before Him with humility of heart. Pray most
earnestly for an understanding of the times in which we live, for a
fuller conception of His purpose, and for increased efficiency in soul
saving.