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Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

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far better <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> progress and success of <strong>the</strong> third angel’s message if such personswould leave <strong>the</strong> truth.According to <strong>the</strong> light which God has given me, <strong>the</strong>re will yet be a large companyraised up in <strong>the</strong> East to consistently obey <strong>the</strong> truth. Those who follow in <strong>the</strong> distractedcourse <strong>the</strong>y have chosen will be left to embrace errors which will finally cause <strong>the</strong>iroverthrow; but <strong>the</strong>y will <strong>for</strong> a time be stumbling blocks to those who would receive<strong>the</strong> truth. Ministers who labor in word and doctrine should be thorough workmen, andshould present <strong>the</strong> truth in its purity, yet with simplicity. They should feed <strong>the</strong> flockwith clean provender, thoroughly winnowed. There are wandering stars professing tobe ministers sent of God who are preaching <strong>the</strong> Sabbath from place to place, but whohave truth mixed up with error and are throwing out <strong>the</strong>ir mass of discordant views to<strong>the</strong> people. Satan has pushed <strong>the</strong>m in to disgust intelligent and sensible unbelievers.Some of <strong>the</strong>se have much to say upon <strong>the</strong> gifts and are often especially exercised. Theygive <strong>the</strong>mselves up to wild, excitable feelings and make unintelligible sounds which<strong>the</strong>y call <strong>the</strong> gift of tongues, and a certain class seem to be charmed with <strong>the</strong>se strangemanifestations. A strange spirit rules with this class, which would bear down and runover anyone who would reprove <strong>the</strong>m. God’s Spirit is not in <strong>the</strong> work and does notattend such workmen. They have ano<strong>the</strong>r spirit. Still, such preachers have successamong a certain class. But this will greatly increase <strong>the</strong> labor of those servants whomGod shall send, who are qualified to present be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>the</strong> people <strong>the</strong> Sabbath and <strong>the</strong> giftsin <strong>the</strong>ir proper light, and whose influence and example are worthy of imitation.The truth should be presented in a manner which will make it attractive to <strong>the</strong>intelligent mind. We are not understood as a people, but are looked upon as poor,weak-minded, low, and degraded. Then how important <strong>for</strong> all who teach, and all whobelieve <strong>the</strong> truth, to be so affected by its sanctifying414

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