Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

Consecration Beautifies Individuality.--A life consecrated to the service of God
will be developed and beautified in its individuality. No person can sink his individuality
in that of another, but we are all, as individuals, to be grafted into the one parent stock,
and there is to be unity in diversity. The great Master Artist has not made two leaves of
the same tree precisely alike; so His creative power does not give to all minds the same
likeness. They are created to live through ceaseless ages, and there is to be complete
unity, mind blending with mind; but no two are to be of the same mold.--MS 116, 1898.
{2MCP 426.2}
God Gives to Each an Individual Work.--Things in the natural world are to be
considered and their lesson applied to the spiritual life, the spiritual growth. To every
man God--not man--has given his work. This is an individual work--the formation of a
character after the divine similitude. The lily is not to strive to be like the rose. There are
distinctions in the formation of the flowers and in the fruits, but all derive their peculiar
variance from God. All are the Lord's. So it is God's design that even the best of men
shall not all be of the same character.--MS 116, 1898. {2MCP 426.3}
Respect Each Other.--We each have a work to do. We may be of different
nationalities, but we are to be one in Christ. If we allow peculiarities of character and
disposition to separate us here, how can we hope to live together in heaven? We are to
cherish love and respect for one another. There is to be among us the unity for which
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Christ prayed. We have been bought with a price, and we are to glorify God in our
bodies and in our spirits.--MS 20, 1905. {2MCP 426.4}
Utter Failure When Copying Others.--The man who seeks to pattern after any
man's character will make an utter failure. Each person is to look to God for himself, to
trade with conscientious fidelity upon the talents God has given him. "Work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:12, 13). It is in you, brother, in you; not in
another for you. You are to have an individual experience. Then you will have rejoicing
in yourself, and not in another.--MS 116, 1898. {2MCP 427.1}
Each Mind Has Its Peculiar Strength.--I am pained to see the little value placed
upon men whom the Lord has used and whom He will use. God forbid that every man's
mind shall follow in the channel of another man's mind. One man's mind may be, by
some, exalted as being in every degree superior, but every mind has its peculiar
weakness and its peculiar strength. One man's mind will supply another man's
deficiency. But if all work in the one harness and are given encouragement to look, not
to men to know their duty, but to God, they will develop under the Holy Spirit's
guidance, and will work in unity with their brethren. One will supply another's lack.--Lt
50, 1897. {2MCP 427.2}
Not to Shape Other Minds.--God has given to every man an individual
responsibility. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Man is not to work