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    December 18, 1902

    “To the People of the California Seventh-day Adventist Conference” Pacific Union Recorder, 2, 8, p. 6.

    ATJ

    Dear Brethren and Sisters: Again the blessing of the week of prayer is at hand. Let us meet it as the blessing that it is. Let us enter upon it to receive and enjoy all the blessing that it can bring to us. Let us make it a week of sincere prayer and consecration.PUR December 18, 1902, page 6.1

    The readings that have been prepared, and that will be read from day to day, are upon consecration to service; this for the reason that we are now in the time when, as never before, with every soul that knows the Lord there must be a consecration to service, a time when each one is to offer himself a sacrifice to be consumed in grateful service.PUR December 18, 1902, page 6.2

    Only loving service to mankind is Christian liberty; for it is written: “Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” This Christian liberty is also the fulfilment of the law of liberty; ‘for all the law [the law of love, the law of liberty] is fulfilled in this one word, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”PUR December 18, 1902, page 6.3

    “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister; and to give His life a ransom for many.” And “as He is, so are we in this world.” He has left us “an example, that we should follow in His steps.” So, then, we also are here, “not to be ministered unto, but to minister,” and to give our lives in service to His great purpose of ransoming many. He was so earnest in the service of God in ministering to the people that some said that He was beside Himself. And of Him it was written, and in Him it was fulfilled: “The zeal of Thine house [“whose house are we”] hath eaten Me up”—hath consumed Me. Oh, there is room for more devotion before we shall be enough like Jesus to be ready to meet Him in peace and with joy! “And we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” But we must be like Him as He was, in order to be like Him as He is,—like Him as He was on earth, in order to be like Him as He is in heaven; like Him as He was in the flesh, in order to be like Him as He is in the Spirit.PUR December 18, 1902, page 6.4

    Then let the week of prayer be unto us indeed a week of prayer, of consecration, and of devotion, in preparation for faithful, true-hearted service,—service of God to mankind, yes, service of God in mankind; for it must never be forgotten that the only revelation of God to man since the fall is in mankind—the Word made flesh, God manifest in the flesh. This is the gospel, the everlasting gospel, which is now committed to us, to be sounded loudly to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,—the gospel of the kingdom, to be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations, that the end may come.PUR December 18, 1902, page 6.5

    Alonzo T. Jones.

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