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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
Some have been cultivating hatred against the men whom God has
commissioned to bear a special message to the world. They began
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this satanic work at Minneapolis. Afterward, when they saw and felt
the demonstration of the Holy Spirit testifying that the message was
of God, they hated it the more, because it was a testimony against
them. They would not humble their hearts to repent, to give God
the glory, and vindicate the right. They went on in their own spirit,
filled with envy, jealousy, and evil surmisings, as did the Jews. They
opened their hearts to the enemy of God and man. Yet these men
have been holding positions of trust, and have been molding the
work after their own similitude, as far as they possibly could....
Exhortation to Repentance
Those who are now first, who have been untrue to the cause of
God, will soon be last, unless they repent. Unless they speedily fall
upon the Rock and be broken, and be born again, the spirit that has
been cherished will continue to be cherished. Mercy’s sweet voice
will not be recognized by them. Bible religion, in private and in
public, is with them a thing of the past. They have been zealously
declaiming against enthusiasm and fanaticism. Faith that calls upon
God to relieve human suffering, faith that God has enjoined upon
His people to exercise, is called fanaticism. But if there is anything
upon the earth that should inspire men with sanctified zeal, it is the
truth as it is in Jesus. It is the grand, great work of redemption. It is
Christ, made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption.
The Lord has often made manifest in His providence that nothing
less than revealed truth, the word of God, can reclaim man from sin
or keep him from transgression. That word which reveals the guilt
of sin has a power upon the human heart to make man right and keep
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him so. The Lord has said that His word is to be studied and obeyed;
it is to be brought into the practical life; that word is as inflexible as
the character of God—the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The True Inspiration to Enthusiasm
If there is anything in our world that should inspire enthusiasm,
it is the cross of Calvary. “Behold, what manner of love the Father