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Faithful, Earnest Warnings
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influence goes forth from him that is contrary to truth and justice and
righteousness. This disposition is manifested in our institutions, not
only in the relation of the workers to one another, but in the desire
shown by one institution to control all others. [
See appendix.
] Men
who are entrusted with weighty responsibilities, but who have no
living connection with God, have been and are doing despite to His
Holy Spirit. They are indulging the very same spirit as did Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, and as did the Jews in the days of Christ. (See
Matthew 12:22-29, 31-37
.) Warnings have come from God again
and again for these men, but they have cast them aside and ventured
on in the same course.
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Read the words of Christ in
Matthew 23:23
: “Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise
and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to
leave the other undone.” These denunciations are given as a warning
to all who “outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within” “are
full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” They say, We are delivered to do
all these things. They also say, “If we had been in the days of
our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets. Wherefore,” said Jesus, “ye be witnesses
unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the
prophets.” What lessons are here; how fearful and decisive! Jesus
said, “Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some
of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them
from city to city.” This prophecy was literally fulfilled by the Jews
in their treatment of Christ and of the messengers whom God sent
to them. Will men in these last days follow the example of those
whom Christ condemned?
These terrible predictions they have not as yet carried out to
the full; but if God spares their lives, and they nourish the same
spirit that marked their course of action both before and after the
Minneapolis meeting, [
See appendix.
] they will fill up to the full
the deeds of those whom Christ condemned when He was upon the
earth.
The perils of the last days are upon us.
Satan takes the control of
every mind that is not decidedly under the control of the Spirit of God
.