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proclaim this message, again and again, I have been shown that it
was not truth.
“I understand that you are also proclaiming that we should not
pay tithe. My brother, take ‘off thy shoes from off thy feet;’ for
the place whereon you are standing is holy ground. The Lord has
spoken in regard to paying tithes. He has said, ‘Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and
prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive it.’ But while He pronounces a
blessing upon those who bring in their tithes, He pronounces a curse
upon those who withhold them. Very recently I have had direct light
from the Lord upon this question, that many Seventh-day Adventists
were robbing God in tithes and offerings, and it was plainly revealed
to me that Malachi has stated the case as it really is. Then how
dare any man even think in his heart that a suggestion to withhold
tithes and offerings is from the Lord? Where, my brother, have you
stepped out of the path? Oh, get your feet back in the straight path
again.
“We are near the end, but if you or any other man shall be seduced
by the enemy, and led on to set the time for Christ’s coming, he will
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be doing the same evil work which has wrought the ruin of the souls
of those who have done it in the past.
“If you are wearing the yoke of Christ, if you are lifting His
burden, you will see that there is plenty to do in the same lines
wherein the servants of God are laboring—in preaching Christ and
Him crucified. But anyone who shall start up to proclaim a message
to announce the hour, day, or year of Christ’s appearing has taken up
a yoke and is proclaiming a message that the Lord has never given
him.
“God has a church upon the earth who are His chosen people,
who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots,
not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying
power; but the church militant is not the church triumphant. There
are tares among the wheat. ‘Wilt thou then that we ... gather them
up?’ was the question of the servant; but the master answered, ‘Nay;
lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with