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@@@^Here you are plainly told that in the gathering time the servants of God are compelled first to fish His people, then to hunt them. Since our first contact with them has been through the literature, it, therefore, must be the fishing. Rightly so, too, because as it is scattered everywhere as the leaves of autumn, the fish come to examine it, find it good for food, take a bite and get hooked, so to speak. Now, however, we are in the hunting period, and we have already begun to hunt them, be they in the city or in the country, in places easy to get to, or in places hard to get to. Wherever they live, there they must be hunted, although it will not be a small easy task to catch at home something like 300,000 or more Adventists scattered throughout the United States alone, besides over 500,000 or more scattered throughout the foreign lands. This you see is mighty expensive work demanding many hunters with expensive chariots (cheaper ones could not stand the task), covering hundreds of thousands of miles and requiring as many barrels of gasoline and oil. This is not a small task, proportionately there has never been the like, and will therefore take the united strength of every present Truth believer to keep them going and get the work done so that we can soon go to Glory Land.

15:2

@@@^While plant life subsists on inorganic matter, animal life subsists on organic. Moreover, as plant life was created before animal life, the truth is that the plant kingdom can get along without the animal, but that the animal kingdom cannot get along without the plant. Thus it is that vegetation needs only Mother Earth, but man needs both the earth and plant. In other words, plant life is dependent on the soil for existence, while animal life is dependent on vegetation. Flesh diet is therefore, artificial, and thus deficient — incapable of maintaining life.

28:1

@@@^The truth that the substances in superior quality flesh are derived from grain and grass, approximately 20% of the former and 80% of the latter plainly demonstrates that flesh is adequately substituted only by the @9proportionate@7 use of both grain and leafy plants. Be not misled. Your body needs both grain and vegetable proteins @9in exactly these proportions@7. Indeed, they are all essential, and man’s constitution demands that for health and longevity there be neither a missing link nor a weak one in the chain of nutriments.

34:1

@@@^And, moreover, food that is adaptable to the consumer’s body needs in one climate may not be in another. This is discernible from the fact that in the days when people lived entirely on what they raised in their own localities, they did not have the trouble that the world is now having. The same truth is manifested in the fact that the Creator caused certain kinds of foodstuffs to grow in one locality and other kinds in another locality but at the time created no means for quick distant transportation.

49:1

@@@^So while the natural way of life demands longer working hours during the summer months, it demands shorter working hours during the winter months — a daily average year-round of 12 hours work and 12 hours rest. One who complies with all the requirements which Truth herein recommends, complies with the natural laws of his being, with the laws which promote good health and which bring happiness into the home. But if he disregards these laws, he cannot of course, expect to receive more than his investment permits. And, too, a person should clearly see that the full amount of work is just as essential to good health as is the full amount of rest, that one should balance the other; and that to the extent he violates these laws, just to that extent will he suffer the penalty they impose. “Because thou hast...eaten of the tree,” again warns the Creator,”...in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground.” Gen. 3:17-19.

58:2

@@@^The final touch of a perfect life, though, is faith: faith that you have proved and found your ways to be God’s ways, that what you are doing is doubtless the Divine best there is, that it is the very thing that will help you most, that it is already helping you, and that it will never fail you; faith that the One Who controls all things, small and great, is at the helm of the ship you are riding in, and that He is well able to land you on the shores of health, happiness, and peace, — yes, even on the everlasting shores of Gloryland. Of this you are sure because you are doing all to know the Truth and to comply with its requirements, even though against your natural desires, and your personal will.

75:3

@@@^Everything in God’s creation is either right or left, east or west, north or south, positive or negative. Some foods are acids, others are alkaline. And hence, because the one is practically worthless without the other, it is necessary that the health-seeker avail himself of both. The correct proportions of which the diet should consist, may be judged from the fact that the greater percentage of garden produce is alkalinizing. It is also enlightening to observe that the foods which should make up 80% of the diet are predominantly alkalinizing, whereas the foods which should make up 20% of the diet are predominantly acid-forming. The truth, then, is obvious: Alkalinizing foods should be used more freely than the acid-forming. (See lists on pp. 72-75.) This same principle governs the needed quantity of all minerals. For instance, in comparison with gold, steel is very cheap and plentiful, but what a predicament the world would be in if steel were as high-priced and as scarce as gold!

15:3

@@@^Finally, since in the very reason of things nothing can be the result of happenstance, or sheer fortuitous occurrence, but rather everything must necessarily be the result of either Providential design or Providential consent, it follows that the existence both of our constitutional Bill of Rights (which made our country the greatest among nations), and of the derivative consideration and classification which now accrues from it to the faithful “conscientious objector,” is solely in the providence of God. We believe, therefore, that the Lord has inspired the lawful provisions of such a classification so that His people may choose it in accordance with His Will; that He expects each God-trusting and Truth-following disciple of Christ to take his stand in fidelity to the dictates of his God-given and God-enlightened conscience.

4:1

@@@^“...We are not to think, as did the Jews, that our own ideas and opinions are infallible; not with the papists, that certain individuals are the sole guardians of truth and knowledge, that men have no right to search the Scriptures for themselves, but must accept the explanations given by the Fathers of the church....” — @9Id.@7, p. 105.

4:3

@@@^“We have paid dearly already,” they continued, “but if we do not now at this very moment, and at this late hour change our minds from feeling in need of nothing, and if we do not acknowledge that we are indeed ‘wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, in need of everything, as the Lord says we are, then as sure as God lives, our end shall be a thousand times worse than the end of any evildoers who have gone before us. @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7 is winning,” they said, “because of our ‘lukewarm’ (contented) attitude — of being rich in Truth and in need of nothing more. This we know, is still another abomination in God’s sight. It has broken our communication circuit with Heaven. It is a damper to God’s cause and a deprivation to our souls. To continue doing what we now do is indeed blasphemy, especially after having been told time and again:

7:4

@@@^By another group we were told: “The cry that we have all the Truth to carry us to the Kingdom, and our stubborn position that we have need of nothing more, notwithstanding the grim fact that we are unable to meet the pestering @9Rod@7, and that we run away from It even though we are the ones who carry a big stick on our shoulders, is the best admission that we are badly in need of something which we do not now possess; that if we do not get hold of that something, the @9Rod@7 will soon have us all bowing down to It while we hoodoo and boodoo at it day and night. In such an event if the @9Rod@7 is from the Devil, then the Devil will have us all in hell; and if the @9Rod@7 is from God, and if It takes us while we war against It, then It will condemn us and send us all to hell! From this irrefutable logic, it is positive that we are fighting a losing battle, be the @9Rod@7 right or be it wrong.”

9:2

@@@^“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.

14:3

@@@^“Can we honestly assume,” they asked, “that the Lord can possibly finish His work on earth with us Laodiceans as long as we stay blind? And who shall open our eyes if not the Lord by fresh ‘eyesalve’ (Rev. 3:18)? Has the Lord no fresh Truth — no ‘meat in due season’ — to meet the needs of His people at this particular time? Has He forsaken the earth? And how will He judge the living without a message declaring that their cases are now to appear before God? Since we have a message for the Judgment of the dead, is it not logical and even more essential that we should have a message for the Judgment of the living? Is not the latter more important than the former? And how will we know when it comes if we keep our eyes and ears closed? If we do not change our present state of mind, how shall we believe even if we should accidentally hear that the message is come?”

15:2

@@@^A large number of men expressed themselves thus: “If the Judgment of the dead is a work that separates in the books the good from the bad, — the sinner from the righteous, — and decrees that the sinner should not arise from the dead in the resurrection of the just (Rev. 20:5, 6, 12), and condemn him to suffer eternal death, then what do we suppose the Judgment of the living will do to the living? Is it not to separate them bodily one from the other — take the bad fish from among the good (Matt. 13:48), the tares from among the wheat (Matt. 13:40), the foolish virgins from among the wise (Matt. 25:1012), the goats from among the sheep (Matt. 25:33, 46)? What do these parables teach, if not the Judgment Truth, “the purification” of the church? The following Inspired statement, too,” they declared “shows that a pure church is to proclaim the message during the time of the Loud Cry.” For this they quoted from Review and Herald, Nov. 19, 1908:

17:2

@@@^“Brother,” they continued, “now is our opportunity to think deeper than ever before. We need to think, we need to get down to business. We need to awake lest we sleep forever. We should no longer deceive ourselves by holding to our lukewarm attitude that we ‘have need of nothing.’ The Lord is not lying nor is He mistaken in His warning that we have need of everything, and that if we do not get up right now and begin to search for something other than what we now possess, we will starve for Truth after the Judgment of the dead is over. And since He will have no dead horses in His ‘barn’ He will certainly ‘spue’ (throw) us out. And where will we then be!” This group concluded with, “O, what a sad commentary and what spiritual bankruptcy that would be!”

20:1

@@@^If it be true that there are to be only 144,000 living saints when Jesus comes, and if we double the membership by the end of 1953 or 1954 as the aim seems to be, then at that rate in 1955 there will be 9 saints and 91 devils out of every one hundred members. And if we double the membership several times before Jesus comes to receive His church, then there will a not be even one saint in a hundred members! Accordingly, whose church is the church? the Devil’s? or the Lord’s? and where shall He look for it when He comes? If, in spite of these sad facts, Brethren, you continue to say that we are not asleep, that our interpretation of the Word is unquestionable, that we have need of nothing more, that we have all the truth to take us through the Pearly Gates, then there is no hope; you are too far gone.

22:2

@@@^“Is this doctrine approved by the Denomination, or is it some one’s private opinion?” we asked. Then after long silence one with authority said: ‘None of these are denominational; these spurious doctrines are the opinions of a man here and of a man there. One saying one thing and another saying another thing. Hardly two give the same answer to questions on any of these heretofore unrevealed doctrines, yet they are all sure that what they say is the pure truth! These men of diverse and divided opinions are not only freely allowed to teach their hell-bound doctrines, but are even paid for doing so!” Yet these very men are shouting the loudest against error and advising all within their reach to look out for The Shepherd’s Rod, that it has error! What a paradox!

24:2

@@@^These heresy teachers should be helped by compelling them to prove their teachings by the Bible; for such strange, inconsistent and erroneous theology is heresy of the lowest type. Notwithstanding that it is downright blasphemy, yet it is permitted to be taught while fighting Truth to keep the people ignorant of It!

27:1

@@@^Moreover, every tirade waged against the @9Rod@7 that we personally witnessed was a boost for the @9Rod@7 and a knock-out blow for the Denomination. This was so because they falsely accused the @9Rod@7 of contradicting Sister White’s writings. The arguments and tactics used against the @9Rod @7were exactly of the same type and character as those which Sunday-keepers use against the Sabbath Truth. Our personal examination of the references that were presented showed no discrepancy between Sister White’s writings and the @9Rod@7. Besides, the arguments which these @9Rod@7 executioners use against the @9Rod @7actually put Sister White at odds with the Bible! Those who thus condemn the @9Rod@7 must be made to realize that no one but an automation would fail to note that their thus fighting the Rod by the use of Sister White’s writings is not doing harm to the @9Rod@7 but, in effect, is wresting and extirpating the Scriptures by the use of Sister White’s writings just as the Jews wrested Moses’ writings in an endeavor to contradict Christ’s teachings. These are even worse than un-Adventist activities — nothing less than blasphemies. Just as we must prove Sister White’s writings right or wrong by the Bible, not by something else, likewise we must by the Bible Itself prove what the Rod is or is not.

29:2

@@@^What we have presented in these pages are the faithful findings and the unanimous and final, prayerful decision of the entire committee, whose decision by extensive study and much prayer was based on world-wide investigation of both sides of the controversy, including a thorough study of @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7. As the members of the committee were composed of individuals from many of the states and foreign countries, and as their work was conducted by both personal contact and by correspondence, the ground which we covered, therefore, was practically the entire Adventist world. If you are convinced of the truth brought out in this work of investigation, and if you pray for forgiveness and for guidance, then happy shall you be, and your hope shall not be in vain. But if this report fails to open your eyes, then what hope is there for you but forever to abide in your self-deception and to spend eternity in company with those who crucified the Lord?