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Faithful, Earnest Warnings
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from the city, and separated from so large a colony of professed
Sabbathkeepers!
Deplorable Conviction Gaining Ground
The conviction is gaining ground in the world that Seventh-day
Adventists are giving the trumpet an uncertain sound, that they are
following in the path of worldlings
. Families in Battle Creek are
departing from God, in planning contracts of marriage with those
who have no love for God, with those who have lived a frivolous life,
who have never practiced self-denial, and know not from experience
what it means to be laborers together with God. Strange things are
being transacted. False phases of Christianity are being received
and taught, which bind souls in deception and delusion. Men are
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walking in the light of the sparks of their own kindling. Those who
love and fear God will not descend to the world’s level in choosing
the society of the vain and trifling. They will not become charmed
with men or women who are not converted. They are to stand up for
Jesus, and then Jesus will stand up for them.
Dishonest Dealings in Business
Some of those who know the truth, but do not practice it, are
trampling upon the law of God in their business transactions. We
should have no intimate association with them, lest we catch their
spirit, and share their doom. The patriarch Jacob, when speaking
of certain deeds of his sons, which he contemplated with horror,
exclaimed, “O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
assembly, mine honor, be not thou united.” He felt that his own
honor would be compromised if he associated with sinners in their
doings. He lifts the danger signal to warn us away from such as-
sociations, lest we become partakers of their evil deeds. The Holy
Spirit, through the apostle Paul, utters a similar warning, “Have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them.”
True Attitude of the Christian
The eternal God has drawn the line of distinction between the
saints and the sinners, the converted and the unconverted. The two