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What Hath God Wrought!
In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of
advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see what
God has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence
in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future except as we
shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past
history.
We are now a strong people, if we will put our trust in the Lord;
for we are handling the mighty truths of the word of God. We have
everything to be thankful for. If we walk in the light as it shines upon
us from the living oracles of God, we shall have large responsibilities,
corresponding to the great light given us of God. We have many duties
to perform because we have been made the depositaries of sacred truth
to be given to the world in all its beauty and glory. We are debtors to
God to use every advantage He has entrusted to us to beautify the truth
by holiness of character, and to send the messages of warning, and of
comfort, of hope and love, to those who are in the darkness of error and
sin.
Thank God for what has already been done in providing for our
youth facilities for religious and intellectual training. Many have been
educated to act a part in the various branches of the work, not only
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in America, but in foreign fields. The press has furnished literature that
has spread far and wide the knowledge of truth. Let all the gifts that
like rivulets have swelled the stream of benevolence be recognized as a
cause of thanksgiving to God.
We have an army of youth today who can do much if they are
properly directed and encouraged. We want our children to believe the
truth. We want them to be blessed of God. We want them to act a part
in well-organized plans for helping other youth. Let all be so trained
that they may rightly represent the truth, giving the reason of the hope
that is within them, and honoring God in any branch of the work where
they are qualified to labor....
As the disciples of Christ it is our duty to diffuse light which we
know the world has not. Let the people of God “be rich in good
works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store
for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they
may lay hold on eternal life.” 1 Timothy 6:18, 19.
The Remnant Church Not Babylon
[The Review and Herald, August 22 to September 12, 1893.] I have
been made very sad in reading the pamphlet that has been issued by
Brother S. [See appendix.] and by those associated with him in the
work he has been doing. Without my consent, they have made
selections from the Testimonies, and have inserted them in the
pamphlet they have published, to make it appear that my writings
sustain and approve the position they advocate. In doing this they have
done that which is not justice or righteousness.
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Through taking unwarrantable liberties they have presented to the
people a theory that is of character to deceive and destroy. In times
past many others have done this same thing, and have made it appear
that the Testimonies sustained positions that were untenable and false.
I have had light to the effect that the position taken by Brother S. and
his sympathizers is not true, but one of the “lo, heres,” and “lo, theres”
that will characterize the days in which we are living. As a sample of
the way in which Brother S. has compiled this pamphlet, I will give the
following incident: I wrote a private letter to one of our ministers, and
in kindness, thinking that it might be a help to Brother S., this brother
sent a copy of it to him; but instead of regarding it as a matter for his
personal help, he prints portions of it in the pamphlet as an unpublished
testimony, to sustain the position he had taken. Is this honorable? There
was nothing in the testimony to sustain the position Brother S. holds; but
he misapplied it, as many do the Scriptures, to the injury of his own soul
and the souls of others. God will judge those who take unwarrantable
liberties and make use of dishonorable means in order to give character
and influence to what they regard as truth. In the use of private letter
sent to another, Brother S. has abused the kindly efforts of one who
desired to help him. The parties publishing the pamphlet on the Loud
Cry, and the fall of all the churches, give evidence that the Holy Spirit
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of God is not working with them. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
Those who receive the pamphlets advocating these false positions,
will receive the impression that I sustain these posi
