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Testimonies to Southern Africa
labourers together with God. Then all the little things which some are
ever harping upon, which are not authoritatively settled by the Word
of God, will not be magnified into important matters.
The great want in South Africa in religious lines is a clearer sense
of the presence of God in every agency and in every enterprise. The
purity and holiness of God is the great subject which must awaken the
senses to the necessity of true conversion. While on one hand danger
lurks in a narrow philosophy and a hard, cold rule of orthodoxy, on the
other hand, there is great danger in a careless, impure liberalism. The
great theme ever to be kept before people is the indwelling and co-
working of divinity, expressed by Christ in the words, “Be ye therefore
perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and
sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”
“Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children; and walk
in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But
fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once
named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish
talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of
thanks.”
Let this entire chapter be studied by those who claim to believe
the truth for this time. Open the heart to the grace of Christ. While
we lament deplorable errors, let us receive the precious lessons of
instruction the Lord Jesus has given us. God requires every heart
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to be filled with pure, clean, sanctified, Christlike love. The love of
Christ must not be lost out of our humanity. We are labourers together
with God. Ye are God’s husbandry; ye are God’s building. Christ
declares, “Without me ye can do nothing.” Then open the door of the
heart and let Jesus in. He is the great worker as well as the lawgiver.
The members of our churches need to awake to the realization that
they must have none of self and all of Jesus. We must co-operate with
the Lord Jesus. The soul is to be awakened to cry aloud with every
aspiration for the living God. Let your swelling, struggling heart break
for the longing it has for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Let every