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- Chapter 8—In Every Place
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- The Church the Light of the World
- A Work of Tearing Down
- A Divinely Appointed Ministry
- The Time of Celestial Glory
- Miracles Not the Sign
- Beware of False Teachers
- Walk in Unity
- Chosen Watchmen
- No New Organization
- What Constitutes Babylon
- Poisonous Doctrines
- Following Rome
- Call to Come Out
- The Sins of Babylon
- The Doctrine of Eternal Torment
- Alliance with the World
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- A Hypocritical Fast
- The Acceptable Fast
- The Reward
- What Are We Worth?
- Personal Experience
- Our Privilege
- In God Is Our Strength
- Helping Establish A School
- Opportunities for Service
- Is Sister White Getting Rich?
- A Gift to Our Schools
- Perseverance Under Affliction
- A Pioneer
- Earnest, Untiring Activity
- Simple Agencies Will Be Used
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- The Home A School
- Influence of the Home
- Companionship of Angels
- Miracle-Working Powers
- Not Allowed to Drift
- Politeness and Courtesy
- Faith to Be Exercised
- Lessons in Fellowship
- Children to be Shielded From Contaminating Influences
- Evils of Newspapers
- An Unmistakable Distinction
- A Lesson from Israel
- Bible Principles Diligently Taught
- A Reformation Necessary
- Regarding Children
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- Dwell on Essential Themes
- Differing Experiences in Conversion
- Leave Christ Room to Work
- Idolizing Fine-Drawn Theories
- Detached Sentences
- Truth Mingled with Supposition
- Straining for Originality
- Talk Not of Divisions
- Walk Day by Day with God
- Harmonize with Your Brethren
- Avoid Foolish Contentions
- God's Way of Winning Souls
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Chapter 22—Doubting the Testimonies*Extract from a sermon at the General Conference of 1883.
When you find men questioning the Testimonies, finding fault with them, and seeking to draw away the people from their influence, be assured that God is not at work through them. It is another spirit. Doubt and unbelief are cherished by those who do not walk circumspectly. They have a painful consciousness that their life will not abide the test of the Spirit of God, whether speaking through His Word or through the Testimonies of His Spirit that would bring them to His Word. Instead of beginning with their own hearts, and coming into harmony with the pure principles of the gospel, they find fault, and condemn the very means that God has chosen to fit up a people to stand in the day of the Lord.1NL 67.1
Let some skeptical one come along, who is not willing to square his life by the Bible rule, who is seeking to gain the favor of all, and how soon the class that are not in harmony with the work of God are called out. Those who are converted, and grounded in the truth, will find nothing pleasing or profitable in the influence or teaching of such a one. But those who are defective in character, whose hands are not pure, whose hearts are not holy, whose habits of life are loose, who are unkind at home, or untrustworthy in deal—all these will be sure to enjoy the new sentiments presented. All may see, if they will, the true measure of the man, the nature of his teaching, from the character of his followers.1NL 67.2
Those who have most to say against the Testimonies are generally those who have not read them, just as those who boast of their disbelief of the Bible are those who have little knowledge of its teachings. They know that it condemns them, and their rejection of it gives them a feeling of security in their sinful course.1NL 67.3