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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
and benefited by what they teach. To claim that the Seventh-day
Adventist Church is Babylon, is to make the same claim as does
Satan, who is an accuser of the brethren, who accuses them before
God night and day. By this misusing of the
Testimonies
, souls are
placed in perplexity, because they cannot understand the relation of
the
Testimonies
to such a position as is taken by those in error; for
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God intended that the
Testimonies
should always have a setting in
the framework of truth.
Those who advocate error will say, “The Lord saith,” “when the
Lord hath not spoken.” They testify to falsehood, and not to truth.
If those who have been proclaiming the message that the church is
Babylon had used the money expended in publishing and circulating
this error, in building up, instead of tearing down, they would have
made it evident that they were the people whom God is leading.
There is a great work to be done in the world, a great work to
be done in foreign lands. Schools must be established in order that
youth, children, and those of more mature age may be educated as
rapidly as possible to enter the missionary field. There is need not
only of ministers for foreign fields, but of wise, judicious laborers
of all kinds. The Macedonian cry is sounding from all parts of the
world, “Come over, ... and help us.” With all the responsibility upon
us to go and preach the gospel to every creature, there is great need
of men and means, and Satan is at work in every conceivable way to
tie up means, and to hinder men from engaging in the very work that
they should be doing. The money that should be used in doing the
good work of building houses of worship, of establishing schools
for the purpose of educating laborers for the missionary field, of
drilling young men and women so that they may go forth and labor
patiently, intelligently, and with all perseverance that they may be
agents through whom a people may be prepared to stand in the great
day of God, is diverted from a channel of usefulness and blessing
into a channel of evil and cursing.
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The great day of God is upon us, and hasteth greatly, and there
is a great work to be done, and it must be done speedily. But we find
that amid the work that is to be done, there are those professing to
believe the present truth who know not how to expend the means
entrusted to them, and because of a lack of meekness and lowliness
of heart they do not see how great is the work to be done. All those