- Explanation
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- The Authority of the Church
- Power Delegated to the Church
- The Unity of the Church
- The United Effort of Believers
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- Thorough Organization Essential
- Organization Till the End
- Judgment of the General Conference
- The Dawn of a Glorious Day
- God Will Guide to the End
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- The Church As A Garden
- Cedars of the Vale
- A Harmonious Whole
- Exact Methods Not To Be Prescribed
- Safeguard Your Brother's Influence
- Independent Experiments
- Avoid Self-Confidence
- Danger of Elation Through Success
- Independent Judgment To Be Subservient
- None To Strike Out Alone
- Be Sure Of The Spirit's Guidance
- A Needful Discipline
- In Union There Is Strength
- Counsel Together And Seek Higher Counsel
- Self Restraint Necessary
- Union With Brethren Who Try Us
- Unity, With Diverse Dispositions
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- To Counsel, As Equals
- Give the Workers Freedom
- Unity and Freedom in Council Meetings
- Remembering One's Own Mistakes
- Acting in Christ's Stead
- Patience Under Condemnation
- Pointing Out Duty in a Compulsory Way
- Satan Fiercely Assails Responsible Men
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- Christ's Presence Means Advance
- Respect for Humble Workers
- Recognition of a Brother's Gift
- Every Work Brought Into Judgment
- Public Exposure of a Worker's Mistakes
- Unjust Charges
- Measuring Out Hard Judgment
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- God is Leading
- No Call for Despondency
- Words of Confidence and Encouragement
- In the Closing Work
- Many Will Be Stirred
- Workers From All Classes
- Hundreds of Workers
- When the Church is Awakened
- The Message Will Go With Power
- Final Success Dependent on Unity
- An Assurance That There Will Be Unity
- At the Eleventh Hour
- Thousands Will Acknowledge the Truth
- Harvest Proportional to Agencies Used
- Victory from Apparent Defeat
- An All-Absorbing Question
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Exact Methods Not To Be Prescribed
We fully believe in church organization, but this is not to prescribe the exact way in which we shall work; for all minds are not to be reached by the same methods. Nothing is to be allowed to keep the servant of God from his fellow-men. The individual believer is to labor for the individual sinner. Each person has his one lamp to keep burning, and if the heavenly oil is emptied into these lamps through the golden pipes, if the vessels are emptied of self and prepared to receive the holy oil, its light will be thrown on the sinner's path to some purpose. More light will shine on the pathway of the wanderer through one lamp than through a whole procession of torchlights got up for a show.—Letter 54, 1899.MR311 19.2