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be a blessing to humanity. The third angel’s message is not to be given
a second place in this work, but is to be one with it. There may be,
and there is, a danger of burying up the great principles of truth when
doing the work that is right to do. This work is to be to the message
what the hand is to the body. The spiritual necessities of the soul are
to be kept prominent.—
Letter 24, 1898
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Our God-appointed Work—I cannot too strongly urge all our
church members, all who are true missionaries, all who believe the
third angel’s message, all who turn away their feet from the Sabbath,
to consider the message of the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. The work
of beneficence enjoined in this chapter is the work that God requires
His people to do at this time. It is a work of His own appointment.
We are not left in doubt as to where the message applies, and the time
of its marked fulfillment, for we read: “They that shall be of thee
shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations
of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
Verse 12
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the seventh-day Sabbath, the sign of His work in creating the world,
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has been displaced by the man of sin. God’s people have a special
work to do in repairing the breach that has been made in His law; and
the nearer we approach the end, the more urgent this work becomes.
All who love God will show that they bear His sign by keeping His
commandments....
When the church accepts its God-given work, the promise is:
“Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the
glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.”—
Testimonies for the Church
6:265-267
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