Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 25 (1910 - 1915)
Ms 67, 1910
Errors and Dangers of Elders Prescott and Daniells
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1910
Portions of this manuscript are published in 20MR 17-22.
Errors and Dangers of Elders Prescott and Daniells; The Cities to be Worked; God’s Plan is “Two by Two”; No Theatrics in Preaching 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 1
At this stage of our experience we are not to have our minds drawn away from the special light given [us] to consider at the important gathering of our conference. And there was Brother Daniells, whose mind the enemy was working; and your mind and Elder Prescott’s mind were being worked by the angels that were expelled from heaven. Satan’s work was to divert your minds, that jots and tittles should be brought in which the Lord did not inspire you to bring in. They were not essential. But this meant much to the cause of truth. And the ideas of your minds, if you could be drawn away to jots or tittles, is a work of Satan’s devising. To correct little things in the books written you suppose would be doing a great work. But I am charged, Silence is eloquent. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 2
I am to say, Stop your picking flaws. If this purpose of the devil could only be carried out, then [it] appears to you [that] your work would be considered as most wonderful in conception. It was the enemy’s plan to get all the supposed objectionable features where all classes of minds did not agree. And what then? 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 3
The very work that pleases the devil would come to pass. There would be a representation given to the outsiders not of our faith just what would suit them that would develop traits of character which would cause great confusion and occupy the golden moments which should be used zealously to bring the great message before the people. The presentations upon any subject we have worked upon could not all harmonize, and the results would be to confuse the minds of believers and unbelievers. This is the very thing that Satan had planned that should take place—anything that could be magnified as a disagreement. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 4
Read Ezekiel, chapter 28. Now, here is a grand work, where strange spirits can figure. But the Lord has a work to [be] done to save perishing souls; and the places which Satan, disguised, could fill in, bringing confusion into our ranks, he will do to perfection, and all those little differences will become enlarged, prominent. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 5
And I was shown from the first that the Lord had given neither Elders Daniells nor Prescott the burden of this work. Should Satan’s wiles be brought in, should this “daily” be such a great matter as to be brought in to confuse minds and hinder the advancement of the work at this important period of time? It should not, whatever may be; this subject should not be introduced, for the spirit that would be brought in would be forbidding, and Lucifer is watching every movement. Satanic agencies would commence his work, and there would be confusion brought into our ranks. You have no call to hunt up the difference of opinion that is not a testing question; but your silence is eloquence. I have the matter all plainly before me. If the devil could involve any one of our own people on these subjects, as he has proposed to do, Satan’s cause would triumph. Now the work without delay is to be taken up and not a [difference] of opinion expressed. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 6
Satan would inspire those men who have gone out from us to unite with evil angels and retard our work on unimportant questions, and what rejoicing [there] would be in the camp of the enemy. Press together, press together. Let every difference be buried. Our work now is to devote all our physical and brain-nerve power to put these differences out of the way and all harmonize. If Satan could with his great unsanctified wisdom be permitted to get the least hold, [he would rejoice]. Now, when I saw how you were working, my mind took in the whole situation and the results if you should go forward and give the parties that have left us the least chance to bring confusion into our ranks. Your lack of wisdom would be just what Satan would have it. Your loud proclamation was not under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. I was instructed to say to you that your picking flaws in the writings of men that have been led of God is not inspired of God. And if this is the wisdom that Elder Daniells would give to the people, by no means give him an official position, for he cannot reason from cause to effect. Your silence on this subject is your wisdom. Now, everything like picking flaws in the publications of men who are not alive is not the work God has given any of you to do. For if these men—Elders Daniells and Prescott—had followed the directions given in working the cities, there would have been many, very many, convinced of the truth and converted, able men that [now] are in positions where they never will be reached. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 7
All the world is to be regarded as one great family. And when you have such a fountain of knowledge to draw from, why have you left the world to perish for years with the testimonies given by our Lord Jesus Christ? True religion teaches us to regard every man and woman as a person to whom we can do good. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 8
This has been in print many years: “A Balanced Mind,” testimony to Elder Andrews. The mind may be cultivated to become a power to know when to speak and what burdens to take up and to bear, for Christ is your teacher. And I feared greatly for you [when I saw you], exalting your wisdom and pursuing a course to bring in differences of opinion. The Lord calls for wise men who can hold their peace when it [is] wisdom for them to do so. If you would be a whole man, you need sanctification through Jesus Christ. Now there is a work just started, and let wisdom be seen in every minister, in every president of [a] conference. But here was a work for you to take hold of years ago where you were needed to lift your voice for this very work. Christ gave all His people special directions what they shall do and the things they shall not do. And there is a little time left us to work out the righteousness of the Lord. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 9
You can understand the way of the Lord. I saw your purpose of carrying things after your own devising after you were placed as president. You had thought you would do wonderful things, which would be a work God had not placed in your hands to do. Now, your work is not to oppress, but to release every necessity possible if the Lord has accepted you to serve. But you have very early given evidence that wisdom and sanctified judgment have not been manifested by you. You blazed out matters that would not be received unless the Lord should give light. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 10
I have been instructed that such hasty movements should not have [been] made [such] as selecting you as president of the conference even another year. But the Lord forbids any more such hasty transactions until the matter is brought before the Lord in prayer; and as you have had the message come to you, that the work of the Lord resting upon the president is a most solemn responsibility, you had no moral right to blaze out as you did upon the subject of the “daily” and suppose your influence would decide the question. There was Elder Haskell who has carried the heavy responsibilities, and there is Elder Irwin and several men I might mention who have the heavy responsibilities. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 11
Where was your respect for the men of age? What authority could you exercise without taking all the responsible men to weigh the matter? But let us now investigate the matter. We must now reconsider whether it is the Lord’s judgment, in the face of the work that has been neglected, of showing your zeal to carry the work even another year. If you should carry the work another year with the help that shall unite with you, there should be a change take place in you and Elder Prescott. And humble your own hearts before God. The Lord will have to see in you a showing of a different experience; for if ever men needed to be reconverted at this present [time], it [is] Elder Daniells and Elder Prescott. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 12
Seven men should be chosen that are men of wisdom and through the working of the grace of God [give] evidence [of] a reconversion. For any men who are so blinded that they cannot reason from cause to effect, that they would ignore the men who have borne the responsibilities of the work and these presidents of conferences, [that] men [who] carry the work for over two years should be disregarded and such an impulsive consequence take place, that men would neglect the very work kept before them for years—work the cities—and no, or but very little, attention [be] given to the old men for counsel, but proclaim the things they choose to give the people, bears its own testimony of the unsafety of the men to be entrusted with such a grand and wonderful work. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 13
Christ is not dead. He will never suffer His work to be carried on in this strange way. Let the books alone. If any change is essential, God will have the harmony in that change consistent; but when a message has been entrusted to men with the large responsibilities involved, [God] demands faithfulness that will work by love and purify the soul. Elders Daniells and Prescott both need reconversion. A strange work has come in, and it is not in harmony with the work Christ came to our world to do; and all who are truly converted will work the works of Christ. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 14
We are every one [to] work out the work which shall glorify the Father. We have come to the crisis—either to conform to the character of Jesus Christ right in this preparatory time or not attempt [it]. Elder Daniells, [you are not] to feel at liberty to let your voice be heard on high as you have done under similar circumstances. And understand, the president of a conference is not a ruler. He works in connection with the wise men who occupy the position as presidents whom God has accepted. He has not liberty to meddle with the writings in printed books from the pens that God has accepted. They are no longer to bear sway unless they show less of the ruling, dominating power. The crisis has come, for God will be dishonored. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 15
How does the Lord look upon the unworked cities? Christ is in heaven. Now its acknowledgment is to be, “There is no kingly rule. And now is the crisis of this world. Now I am the Power to save or to destroy. Now is the time when the destiny of all is in My hands. I have given My life to save the world. And ‘I, if I be lifted up,’ the saving grace I shall impart will prove that all who will be fashioned after the divine similitude and will be one with Me shall work as I work with My power of redeeming grace.” Whoever will, [let him] take hold with his brethren to do the work given them to do when in responsible places under the counsel the Lord gives, and seek most earnestly to work in complete harmony with Him who so loved the world He gave His life a full sacrifice for the saving of the world. I speak to our ministers, that as they enter upon the work in our cities, let there be a calm sacredness attending the ministry of the Word. We cannot make the proper impression upon the minds of the people if we ... 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 16
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I copy from my Diary. The truth as it is in Jesus—talk it, pray it, believe every word in its simplicity. What would you gain if mistakes are brought before the men who have departed from the faith and given heed to seducing spirits? Men who were not long ago with us in the faith, will you stand on the devil’s side? Give your attention to the unworked fields. A worldwide work is before us. I was given representations of John Kellogg. A very attractive personage was representing the ideas of the specious arguments that he was presenting, sentiments different from the genuine Bible truth. And those who are hungering and thirsting after something new were advancing ideas [so specious] that Elder Prescott was in great danger. Elder Daniells was in great danger [of] becoming wrapped in a delusion that if these sentiments could be spoken everywhere, it would be as a new world. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 17
Yes, it would; but while their minds were thus absorbed, I was shown that Brother Daniells and Brother Prescott were weaving into their experience sentiments of a spiritualistic appearance and drawing our people to beautiful sentiments that would deceive, if possible, the every elect. I have to trace with my pen [the fact] that these brethren would see defects in their delusive ideas that would place the truth in an uncertainty; and [yet] they [would] stand out as [if they had] great spiritual discernment. Now I am to tell them [that] when I was shown this matter, when Elder Daniells was lifting up his voice like a trumpet in advocating his ideas of the “daily,” the after results were presented. Our people were becoming confused. I saw the result, and then there were given me cautions that if Elder Daniells without respect to the outcome should thus be impressed and let himself believe he was under the inspiration of God, skepticism would be sown among our ranks everywhere, and we should be where Satan would carry his messages. Set unbelief and skepticism would be sown in human minds, and strange crops of evil would take the place of truth. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 18
If these men will now be able to discern [their errors, the Lord promises] “I will heal them.” But if they go on picking flaws in the messages God has given, [He declares], “I will remove My Spirit from them.” Then will (Acts 17:31) [be implemented]. Now I am charged to say, we have been as men and women asleep. And if the past experience is to be repeated, we cannot consent to have our people, as regards this faith, like people lost in the fog. Our work is not [to] be confined so largely to holding meetings among believers. We must work the cities. I am doubtful of Elder Daniells’ being entrusted [with the work] as president of the conference, because he cannot discern from cause to effect. His position carries a weight of assurance that will make him a man [whom the people will feel is] to be trusted, when I see spiritual blindness has come upon him. Were Elder Daniells genuinely converted at the General [Conference] and Elder Prescott, I could then feel some courage to confide in his judgment when to speak and how to deliver the messages the Lord has for His people. Our work in the future is not to be confined as in the past so largely to believers. There is a converting missionary Spirit to enthuse every mind that will come to search after the truth. There [are] many outposts. Important work must be done by men of sanctified discernment. No haphazard work must come in now. There are to be men of keen discernment under the influence of the Holy Spirit of God. Pastors are to [be] chosen under men of discernment to be directed to important outposts. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 19
Evangelistic and medical missionary work is to be done in many places. A special work is to be done in our cities, and it requires men and women to meet the necessities of the case because they are taught of God. I am heavily burdened because [of] the neglected fields. Why have our ministers hovered over the churches? Some will take the burden. It is skilful work now called for to meet unbelievers, infidels, [and] church members. A world is to be warned. We have large interests that must be handled. I have had presented to me [that] there must be meetings appointed to consider how the work is to be done in the many places. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 20
Now the outdoor work in camp-meetings should be well managed and every minister understand his commission as from Jesus Christ. And if the ministers are truly converted and copy the pattern Christ Jesus, your faith in the work to be accomplished will testify of the sanctification of the Holy Spirit upon human minds. No careless, reckless work is [to] be accepted. There need to be men that evidence they are born of God through the Holy Spirit. All who are daily under the influence of the Holy Spirit, as Seventh-day Adventists carrying the burden of the work, will be often in humble prayer. Why? Because Satan will try every effort to make them act as superiors. All who take hold of the work are to be under the Holy Spirit of Christ’s dictation, making the Saviour’s words a verity and bringing truth into their daily experience. They will reveal the virtues of Christ’s character, united in the bonds [of] solemn sanctification through the truth of the lessons Christ has taught His disciples. When the people are thus united to Christ and they [go] before a congregation, they will in words and in their manners reveal the virtues of Christ’s character. When in the pulpit or on the platform, they will not act like pugilists, traveling and talking from one end of the platform to the other, even in camp meetings. If they have the Word of God in their heart, there will be no rough presentations. We are to consider Paul’s words, “I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians.” [Romans 1:14.] “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” [Matthew 28:19, 20.] 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 21
Paul accepted the commission. He realized that upon him rested the obligation of laboring for all classes of men—for Jews, likewise for Gentiles; learned and unlearned Jews and Gentiles; for all those to whom he could find access; for those in high positions and for those in the most lowly walks of life, but who love God and keep His commandments. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 22
The seventy disciples sent out by Christ on their missionary tour returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name.” And Christ said unto them, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.” [Luke 10:17-19.] This Scripture refers to the opposition we shall realize from men, satanic agencies. Will our churches be converted and walk in the counsels of God? The Lord in this age of the world calls for men and women on whom we can depend, who will be laborers together with God, [who] are consecrated to do the will of our Father in heaven. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 23
I am now seeking to impress every soul to work intelligently as Christians, for we have no time to lose. And do not let any soul give himself up to theatrical performances, for that is not the power of God. The Lord calls for men and for women to come into line in His service. Let not one soul be self-sufficient. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 24
Now is your opportunity to pray, to believe, that the Lord Jesus will give divine enlightenment to every soul who will work in humble obedience. Nine years have passed into eternity, and our cities have not been worked. Every neglect has placed many souls beyond the reach of the workers. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 25
Lucifer is represented [in] Ezekiel 28. Read this description of the angel who came to suppose he should occupy the place of Christ. And it might be the place of God. Read and understand who left the royal courts and who consented to live the life of humanity, that He Himself might experience all the afflictions wherein humanity must be a partaker. Why cannot humanity humble itself as did the higher Being next to God? Who have been truly converted? There are churches that seem to have no idea of what true conversion, self-denial, and self-sacrifice mean. Many of those have a knowledge of the theory of the truth, but do not obey the words of God. Their influence the Lord does not accept. Pray that your own unconverted hearts may have the divine conviction of what conversion means. Will they ever find out that one movement in self in your own unconverted state may be the ruin of many souls? 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 26
Christ is the connecting link between God and man. And man need not continue in the self-absorbed element of self-indulgence. Christ came to our world to live the life we must every one live if we shall enter the kingdom of God. It is when man is claiming much knowledge that his danger becomes comparatively greater than himself can comprehend. And we need to learn what it means to be a child of God. [There is a] great and mysterious link between God and man. When the suppliant humbles himself, Christ promises His personal intercession. He places the whole virtue of His righteousness on the side of the suppliant. He pleads for fallen man Himself in the presence of God. Christ pleads, and the one who is the suppliant [pleads] in the name of the One who came to our world and died to make it possible for Him to save every fallen sinner, for He gave His life for the life of the world. And His blood was shed for the life of every soul that should be born into the world. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 27
Will men repent and be converted? Will they be induced to humble themselves? Will the presidents of our conferences closely examine their own lives in the light of the Word? I have a message to bear: Let every minister of the gospel humble himself and work, if need be, for the conversion of souls as Christ worked to make it possible for sinners to be renewed and transformed in character. And do you—anyone—flatter yourself that unconverted, unrenewed, unsanctified, you will have the welcome, “Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you” [Matthew 25:34] from the reception of the character of the meek and lowly Jesus? When I see ministers exalting themselves, I am ashamed of the contrast exhibited by their self-exalted position and the example given in the teachings and the life of Christ Jesus. I do not expect my life will be protracted long. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 28
Only consider, every minister of the gospel, Christ is the connecting link between God and man. If man will humble himself daily and become a channel through whom Christ can communicate the promise of the Lord God that Christ’s righteousness [may be imparted in response to] man’s penitence, then the divine help can be communicated through Christ and the virtue of His intercession prevail. Christ pleads for Himself in the presence of God, using His own influence as the advocate in behalf of man as one with the Father, who came to our world and who gave His life to a life of humiliation in behalf of man; and if man will repent and be converted, He then has permission to claim great things of the Father in behalf of man. Then as man acknowledges his own unworthiness and accepts the precious Saviour, Christ’s arm encircles the repentant [sinner]. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 29
Your prayers will become a virtue when by faith you confess your sins and with a broken heart confess; and sincere repentance brings us on the side of Jesus Christ. Then men and women [are accepted by God] after being truly converted, because One equal with the Father has made an appeal [on their behalf]. [Here there is an unclear sentence.] Angels of God will clear away the sin practice, because the appreciation of Christ’s merits is sufficient to cleanse away every sin fully repented of, and [to] place upon the repenting soul the garments of Christ’s righteousness. I have tried my best to express over and over again [the truth that] your only hope is in daily, humbly walking with God. Such a daily [walk] every soul needs presented to him in the simplicity of daily conversion to God. The unchristlike behavior of some needs to be seen, and they [need to] repent before it is too late. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 30
But I must charge that all theatrical performances be left [out] and not encouraged in our meetings. Ministers, do not travel in our meetings from one end of the platform to the other. It confuses the congregation and encourages acts of fanatical performances. Preserve your dignity, and work in a godly manner. There is a great and solemn work to be done, and let no theatrical performance come in, for it will give license to a phase of work which we do not need and which, if once entered, pleases Lucifer, but grieves the Lord Jesus Christ. Let all be done under the Holy Spirit’s influence. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 31
City Work. How Shall We Begin?
I was considering some points. How shall we reach the people? Begin in a way that will not be necessary to set too many at work, and [do not] get a large number at work who offer themselves, for they may have ways and methods that will be coarse and undesirable. Have your appointed meetings, and then do not send out questionable men and women, but select special ones. A great excitement started in any city needs to be started in a most earnest way and in different sections, and there will be men and women who are not adapted to the work. And let there be no such performance as of a theatrical characteristic. Let a few be attracted to the work, and hold meetings in our cities, pleading for the wisdom which God alone can give. The whole [population of the] cities are to be warned, but [we must follow God’s counsel in] the way this shall be done. There are some who have no experience. Do not send them out alone. But let there be no undue excitement. Having Scripture open before you, take the discourses one after another which Christ gave, and keep the special truths appropriate for the delivery of the truth in Christ’s own words. These are to be spoken and repeated. Be sure, many a devised plan will have to [be] treated in a sensible manner. And if you set too much in operation, confusion will be the result. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 32
There must be no fanciful and theatrical exercises, but the Word, Christ’s words, are to be your stronghold. You shall seek the Lord daily in humble prayer and that in different companies in different places. Simplicity of true godliness is to be put into the work, not a make-believe work which some may interpret against us. There is to be a general taking in of the places that are desirable; and let not superficial persons, who themselves need first to learn how to manage wisely, [be employed]. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” [Proverbs 9:10.] My brethren, ministers spread out over too much ground. Take time to give most convincing Bible readings. Calmly are these matters to be studied. But the Holy Spirit’s power will do that for the penitent souls that have first heard the reasons of our faith. Yourselves may be in need of training and the Spirit of Christ. Most precious Scriptures full of instruction are to be brought in. And the more calm, sensible reasoning from the convincing words of Scripture will be the most convincing Scripture evidence [needed] to settle the mind. Every true worker will place himself under the true theocracy, that the will of God may be done in himself and the teacher daily converted to the understanding of the work. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 33
(John 17:15-26) give in full. This is the great purpose for which Christ came into our world. He left the heavenly courts and came to convince the world of sin, that they may come into complete harmony with God in taking away their sin and become channels of light to a sinful world, through the Spirit which shall mold and fashion their souls after the divine similitude. What are the words of Christ? “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word: that they all may be one” [verses 20, 21], not independent atoms, doing as they please, but united in the great, grand principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that the power of the gospel may be demonstrated to the unbelieving world. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 34
“That they all may be one, as Thou Father art in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them: that they may be one, even as We are one: I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one: and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” [Verses 21-23.] What a work! Shall every believer work, interested for the souls that are perishing in their sins? When those who claim to be Christians begin to draw apart, they are discarding the divine theocracy. We need now the converting influence of the Holy Spirit of God. The Lord will work with all who will engage earnestly for the salvation of perishing souls. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 35
One thing I must advise our brethren, for light has been given me of the Lord that no encouragement should be given to one man to lead and carry on a series alone. This has plainly been set before me [that it] should not be. The Lord is not in the plan. As many [as] three should be selected to carry the religious interest in any place. And if the larger numbers are in any one place, then the gatherings demand more speakers. One man’s talent is not sufficient. Various subjects must come to the people, and therefore the family plan of conducting meetings that was entered into by Elder Franke must never be permitted again, because that family carried things in certain lines strongly. It is not wisdom, for the Lord’s plan is not followed. And the linking up of even four together in a large meeting would be better than less, because the Lord works different minds. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 36
But wherever it is possible, two and two to associate in the work is the Saviour’s plan. When He sent His disciples, two and two were connected together. And the Lord would not have one man’s mind and one man’s judgment take the responsibility, because it is not the Lord’s plan. Neither would He have a whole family go into any place and carry forward the responsibilities of the work, because there would need to be other talents. And it is the Lord’s plan to work with a variety of minds, and let the Lord’s name be glorified in the two or three or five not of the same family, but of the Lord’s family. Never consent to accept one man’s labor to bear the responsibilities of the series of meetings. The Lord’s plan is two and two, and He understands [that] a more healthful current would circulate through the congregation, and the wearied brain of one man is not wholesome or sanctifying when others can be obtained. Another evil is to be guarded—that the presentation of truth should be in a dignified manner; no theatrical gestures or expressions. Everything should be represented in correct manner. This is the great purpose for which Christ came to our world—to give to our world a pattern, and secure to Himself a people in the world who would work out His plans and His will in complete harmony as to become channels of light to the world which should fashion the human soul after the divine similitude. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 37
Christ’s prayer continues, “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word, that they all may” become not independent atoms, doing as they please, but become united; [and through them] the great, grand, elevated, sanctified principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ may [be] demonstrated to the unbelieving world; that they all may be sanctified through the power of the gospel and may be laborers together with God, that the unbelieving world may become one in heart and one in principle as Thou. “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me.” [Verses 20-23.] 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 38
There are some who wish to do all the preaching, but this is not the Lord’s plan. The Lord made the arrangement that two should carry the responsibility of the work and consult together, unite their prayers, and blend in unity in their work. This unity can be reached only as every believer can unite under the Lord’s theocracy. One man’s mind and one man’s judgment cannot be a perfect whole. It is a solemn work in which we are engaged, and perfect unity is to be expressed in labor; and these are to be sanctified through the truth. And all will be drawn by the cords of love and tender confidence of sympathy to the great center, Jesus Christ. The Lord calls for talent to be cultivated. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 39
I have much to say in the future, if the Lord gives me strength, upon unity in the work. All must be under the molding influence of Christ’s discipline through the eternal principles of truth and righteousness. The cities have [been] neglected. Now let there be work commenced in a right way. Do not launch out and accumulate so much work for our cities that confusion will be the result. Let methods be carried out and not bank up so many interests that there will [be] confusion. The work has been pointed out for the last twenty years, but neglected to be taken up in our cities. Let not now confusion come in. Let all things be worked intelligently. The Lord will instruct, and as the work moves on in our cities [we must keep] praying and believing. Order must be encouraged, and light continually shining will regulate the working forces. 25LtMs, Ms 67, 1910, par. 40