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Here is the patience of the saints.— Theircrowning trial.[Here are they] that keep the commandmentsof God.— The commandments of God duringthe Harvest time are to proclaim, "Gather Mysaints together unto Me;" "Flee out of the midstof Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: benot cut off in her iniquity."— Psa. 50:5; Jer.51:6.And the faith of Jesus.— "He laid down His lifefor us; and we ought to lay down our lives forthe brethren." (1 John 3:16.) The Great Companyclass are our brethren and we ought to show asmuch interest in them as we do in the LittleFlock. The gathering of the full number of theVery Elect would give us no reason todiscontinue Harvest work.Revelation 14:13.And I heard a voice from Heaven.— TheHeavenly Father's Word.Saying [unto me], Write.— The message foundin chapter 9 of Volume III.Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.—"Each member of the Body of Christ must finishhis sacrifice in actual death. They are reckonedof God as being already dead, and they areexhorted so also to reckon themselves: ‘Reckonye yourselves dead indeed unto sin.' No otherdead men can be said to die but this class of deadones, who must finish their course of sacrifice inactual death."— C240; 1 Thess, 4:16.From henceforth.— From the spring of 1878.[Yea,] saith the Spirit.— The Word of God, inRev. 6:11. "Nowhere in the Scriptures is deathrepresented as in any sense a blessing, except inthis one instance; and here it is particularlylimited and made applicable to a certain specifictime."— C240.FM225That they may rest from their labors.— "Poor,bruised ‘feet,' now despised of men, none butyourselves fully appreciate your privileges. None