ng? Have they counseled with those who have had a
deep experience in the things of God? Why were these men, so full of
zeal for the cause, not present at the General Conference held at Battle
Creek, as were the devout men at Jerusalem at the time of the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit? At the great heart of the work, men opened their
treasures of light; and while the Lord was pouring out His Spirit upon
the people, did these men receive of the heavenly anointing? While
the deep movings of the Spirit of God were made manifest among the
people, and souls were being converted, and hard hearts broken, there
were those who were listening to the suggestions of Satan, and they
were inspired with zeal from beneath to go forth and proclaim that the
very people receiving of the Holy Spirit, who are to receive the latter
rain and the glory that is to lighten the whole earth, were Babylon. Did
the Lord give these messengers their message? No, for it was not a
message of truth.
The Church the Light of the World
Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the
end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the
world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled
and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the
only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.
The world is a workshop in which, through the cooperation of human
and divine agencies, Jesus is making experiments by His grace and
divine mercy upon human
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hearts. Angels are amazed as they behold the transformation of
character brought about in those who yield themselves to God, and they
express their joy in songs of rapturous praise to God and to the Lamb.
They see those who are by nature the children of wrath, converted
and becoming laborers together with Christ in drawing souls to God.
They see those who were in darkness becoming lights to shine amid
the moral night of this wicked and perverse generation. They see them
becoming prepared by a Christlike experience to suffer with their Lord,
and afterward to be partakers with Him in His glory in heaven above.
God has a church on earth who are lifting up the downtrodden law,
and presenting to the world the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins
of the world. The church is the depositary of the wealth of the riches
of the grace of Christ, and through the church eventually will be made
manifest the final and full display of the love of God to the world that is
to be lightened with its glory. The prayer of Christ that His church may
be one as He was one with His Father will finally be answered. The rich
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dowry of the Holy Spirit will be given, and through its constant supply
to the people of God they will become witnesses in the world of the
power of God unto salvation.
There is but one church in the world who are at the present time
standing in the breach, and making up the hedge, building up the old
waste places; and for any man to call the attention of the world and other
churches to this churc