ss. There will be messages of accusation against the people of
God, similar to the work done by Satan in accusing God’s people, and
these messages will be sounding at the very time when God is saying
to His people, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and
His glory shall be seen upon thee.”
A Work of Deception
It will be found that those who bear false messages will not have
a high sense of honor and integrity. They will deceive the people, and
mix up with their error the Testimonies of Sister White, and use her
name to give influence to their work. They make such selections from
the Testimonies as they think they can twist to support their positions,
and place them in a setting of falsehood, so that their error may have
weight and be accepted by the people. They misinterpret and misapply
that which God has given to the church to warn, counsel, reprove,
comfort, and encourage those who shall make up the remnant people
of God. Those who receive the Testimonies as the message of God will
be helped and blessed thereby; but those who take them in parts, simply
to support some theory or idea of their own, to vindicate themselves
in a course of error, will not be blessed and benefited by what they
teach. To claim that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon,
is to make the same claim as does Satan, who is an accuser of the
brethren, who accuses them before God night and day. By this misusing
of the Testimonies, souls are placed in perplexity, because they cannot
understand the relation of the
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Testimonies to such a position as is taken by those in error; for God
intended that the Testimonies should always have a setting in the
framework of truth.
Those who advocate error will say, “The Lord saith,” “when the
Lord hath not spoken.” They testify to falsehood, and not to truth.
If those who have been proclaiming the message that the church is
Babylon had used the money expended in publishing and circulating
this error, in building up, instead of tearing down, they would have made
it evident that they were the people whom God is leading.
There is a great work to be done in the world, a great work to be
done in foreign lands. Schools must be established in order that youth,
children, and those of more mature age may be educated as rapidly
as possible to enter the missionary field. There is need not only of
ministers for foreign fields, but of wise, judicious laborers of all kinds.
The Macedonian cry is sounding from all parts of the world, “Come
over, ... and help us.” With all the responsibility upon us to go and
preach the gospel to every creature, there is great need of men and
means, and Satan is at work in every conceivable way to tie up means,
and to hinder men from engaging in the very work that they should
be doing. The money that should be used in doing the good work of
building houses of worship, of establishing schools for the purpose of
educating laborers for the missionary field, of drilling young men and
women so that they may go forth and labor patiently, intelligently, and
with all perseverance that they may be agents through whom a people
may be prepared to stand in the great day of God, is diverted from a
channel of usefulness and blessing into a channel of evil and cursing.
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The great day of God is upon us, and hasteth greatly, and there is a
great work to be done, and it must be done speedily. But we find that
amid the work that is to be done, there are those professing to believe
the present truth who know not how to expend the means entrusted to
them, and because of a lack of meekness and lowliness of heart they
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do not see how great is the work to be done. All those who learn of
Jesus will be laborers together with God. But those who go forth to
proclaim error, expending time and money in
