Testimony Treasures, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

servants may be kept among unconsecrated Sabbathkeepers and their
precious time be occupied in settling little differences when it should be
spent in proclaiming the truth to unbelievers.
Time to Act
I was shown God's people waiting for some change to take place--a
compelling power to take hold of them. But they will be disappointed, for
they are wrong. They must act, they must take hold of the work themselves
and earnestly cry to God for a true knowledge of themselves. The scenes
which are passing before us are of sufficient magnitude to cause us to arouse
and urge the truth home to the hearts of all who will listen. The harvest of the
earth is nearly ripe.
I was shown how important it is that the ministers who engage in the
solemn, responsible work of proclaiming the third angel's message be right.
The Lord is not straitened for means or instruments with which to do His
own work. He can speak at any time, by whom He will, and His word is
powerful and will accomplish the thing whereunto it is sent. But if the truth
has not sanctified, made pure and clean, the hands and heart of him who
ministers in holy things, he is liable to speak according to his own imperfect
experience; and when he speaks of himself, according to the decisions of his
own unsanctified judgment, his counsel is not then of God, but of himself.
As he that is called of God is called to be holy, so he that is approved and set
apart of men must give evidence of his holy calling and show forth in his
heavenly conversation and conduct that he is faithful to Him who hath called
him.
There are fearful woes for those who preach the truth, but are not
sanctified by it, and also for those who consent to receive and maintain the
unsanctified to minister to them in word and doctrine. I am alarmed for the
people of God who profess to believe solemn, important truth, for I know
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