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47:2

@@@^“When trees without fruit are cut down as cumberers of the ground, when multitudes of false brethren are distinguished from the true, then the hidden ones will be revealed to view, and with hosannas range under the banner of Christ. Those who have been timid and self-distrustful, will declare themselves openly for Christ and his truth. The most weak and hesitating in the church, will be as David — willing to do and dare....” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, pp. 80, 81.

49:3

@@@^“But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.

50:1

@@@^“No one should claim that he has all the light there is for God’s people. The Lord will not tolerate this. He has said, ‘I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.’ Even if all our leading men should refuse light and truth, that door will still remain open. The Lord will raise up men who will give the people the message for this time.” — @9Id.@7, pp. 106, 107.

51:2

@@@^Now that the eleventh-hour call is sounding, the Lord is at the outset calling into His vineyard all ministerial and Bible-work candidates who are graduates or undergraduates of Seventh-day Colleges, and who are standing idle, waiting to be “hired.” In addition He is calling up for this glorious final service, all still able-bodied sustentation workers. Will you not, Brethren, all of you, now respond to this last and most glorious call? You can start out for the vineyard immediately after successfully completing an intensive three-month seminar course of study on present Truth revelations which give power and force to the Third Angel’s Message (@9Early Writings@7, p. 277), and which unveil the judgment of the living, the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

53:2

@@@^The wise will not let the enemies of Truth fool them. Rather they will do their level best to disillusion these pretended friends and to encourage them to let the Recruiter anoint their eyes so they may see that “In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel [God’s denomination of today].

54:1

@@@^Now that “all things are ready.” Brethren, this is your Divine call at the eleventh hour. God forbid that you let slip away from you this never-so-precious opportunity “to make your calling and election sure.” 2 Pet. 1:10. Act decisively, for the newly unsealed prophecies reveal that the work of the judgment of the dead is about over — the very reason for this Divinely planned and urgent call to service now as this Heavenly @9Recruiter @7breaks through the iron-like barriers behind which the enemies of Truth hold God’s elect in darkness and Laodicean blindness.

55:1

@@@^It is devoutly to be hoped that God’s people will now see that it is of no importance whatsoever, as to whether Heaven’s eleventh-hour harbinger — the @9Recruiter @7— bears this, that, or any other human stamp of approval, but that it is all-important that It bear the Divine stamp, and that every “sheep” of the flock assert his God-given right to inspect It with his own eyes, and then, without the influence of any voice but that of the indwelling Spirit of Truth, to determine for himself the facts in the case.

55:3

@@@^“But beware of rejecting that which is truth. The great danger with our people has been that of depending upon men, and making flesh their arm. Those who have not been in the habit of searching the Bible for themselves, or weighing evidence, have confidence in the leading men, and accept the decisions they make; and thus many will reject the very messages God sends to His people, if these leading brethren do not accept them.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, pp. 106, 107.

56:3

@@@^Secure in the saddle, and unmindful of Inspiration’s counsel, these conscience-drivers herd the laity on like cattle, as if the Spirit of Truth led none but the herders. Through these far-reaching line of unlawful clerical domination, abristle with ever increasing misrepresentation, this Heavenly @9Recruiter @7must make its way to rescue all who will be rescued.

56:4

@@@^Similar persecutive clerical control in Nicodemus’ day caused him not to dare to be seen in company with Jesus, but to go stealthily by night to see Him. Since, though, it is not expedient for most of God’s elect now to come even by night to hear the Truth for the eleventh hour, this Heavenly @9Recruiter @7is under necessity going forth to them in an unfamiliar garb (as clothed with night) — the only way It can reach and rescue the willing.

57:1

@@@^Again, at Israel’s mighty trumpet blast, after their seventh silent encirclement of the impregnable walls of Jericho, the great iron gate suddenly fell as the walls mysteriously came crashing down, and Israel marched in — triumphant! So shall it be with the massive walls of opposition within which the Enemy is keeping the Laodiceans in lukewarmness — in the beguilement that they are “rich, and increased with goods,” and in need of nothing, while they are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Rev. 3:17. Consequently, ere long the tight-closed gates now bolted, barred, and barricaded against Heaven’s rescuers with provisions of Truth meat in due season, for the captive flock will suddenly fall open as the walls come tumbling down Jericho-like at the @9Recruiter’s@7 seventh round and trumpet blast. Then all God’s hidden ones shall be gloriously “disclosed to view”

58:2

@@@^And now, opposition such as compelled Gideon to employ a suitable stratagem through the medium of his 300 chosen ones, unavoidably compels Jezreel likewise to employ as suitable a stratagem through the medium of his three chosen divisions — (1) @9The Entering Wedge@7, (2) the 1950 @9General Conference Special@7, and (3) this @9White-House Recruiter@7. Silently ablaze with the light of life, these are making their way through the opposition and are reaching captive hearts. But what fearful obstructions, entanglements, and hazards of Devilism the Truth has to break through!

58:3

@@@^Always it has been so. And no one can realistically look for the obstacle today to be less than those which the incarnate Truth Himself, Jesus in person, encountered in his day. For example, when the “feast of tabernacles was at hand,” “His brethren...said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that Thy disciples also may see the works that Thou doest.... Then Jesus said unto them,... Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for My time is not yet full come.... But when His brethren were gone up, then went He also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.” John 7:2, 3, 6, 8, 10.

59:3

@@@^“Who can truthfully say, ‘Our gold is tried in the fire, our garments are unspotted by the world’? I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. Then He said to me: ‘Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and rottenness of character? “How is the faithful city become an harlot?” My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed! For this cause there is weakness and strength is lacking.’”–@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 8, p. 250.

61:1

@@@^It is a terrible tragedy that the vast majority of the shepherds in Laodicea, into whose hands God’s flock is fallen, are so beguiled by the Enemy as unwittingly to join with him in daring to oppose and trying to defeat even the all-powerful Deliverer. How, O, how can these errant shepherds and their captive flock be rescued from their peril? Herewith in latest effort to liberate not only their victims from them but also them from themselves, the Spirit of Truth is gone forth to recruit as many as will respond to the Call to come up “to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” Judges 5:23.

61:2

@@@^Now at the eleventh hour, therefore, the @9Recruiter@7 is marshalling forces the world around to the standard of the great Prince of Truth, in preparation for Heaven’s immanent D-day assault against the abominations that are carried on by the hypocrites — by the dragon’s flood (Rev. 12:15). Soon, though, the earth will open its mouth and swallow up “the flood.” Then those who are left, “the remnant,” the escaped of Israel” (Isa. 4:2), the first contingent of @9commandos for Christ@7, “will put such firmness and decision into their testimonies that they will make a break against the barriers of Satan.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 413. They will “bruise his head” when he goes to make war against them (Gen. 3:15; Rev. 12:16, 17).

67:1

@@@^Ever remember, also, that there are and will always be those who expect denominational theories of all sorts to harmonize with Heaven’s revealed Truth. The impossible. Those who would be faithful Seventh-day Adventists, will, therefore, lay well to heart the ensuing warning and counsel:

67:4

@@@^It is but to be expected, too, that there will also be those whom the Enemy will persuade neither to read nor to discuss unpopular doctrines. But as sure as God lives, the Devil has all such already in hell ever before fire is kindled in it! We do hope they will get out now while they can. Wise students do not judge, by any man’s theories, any claimant to Bible truth. They judge him by the Bible alone.

68:3

@@@^May it be fully realized now, Brethren, that to open one’s door to the Lord does not mean to open one’s ears to the so-called wise who never embrace unpopular truth, yet are ever fast on the run with theories of their own. The followers of Christ take time to examine for themselves what the Word Itself says, not what God’s enemies try to make it say. They know that “neither young nor old are excusable in trusting to another to have an experience for them. Said the angel, ‘Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.’ ...

70:2

@@@^“...As the student sacrifices the power to reason and judge for himself, he becomes incapable of discriminating between truth and error, and falls an easy prey to deception. He is easily led to follow tradition and custom.... The mind that depends upon the judgment of others is certain, sooner or later, to be misled.” — @9Education@7, pp. 230, 231.