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2981 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 17, 1894, page 306 paragraph 7
… calling to stand forth as an object lesson, in this life’s span of ours, to show to principalities and powers the glory of the Lord, who hath called us …
2982 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 31, 1894, page 342 paragraph 5
… wicked to be called human, it is called Divine. The Divine purpose is said to have decreed that the white race should rule the black, etc., etc. The Divine destiny …
2983 The Present Truth, vol. 10 June 7, 1894, page 368 paragraph 9
… where service is voluntary. Preparation and training to take the lives of others must surely lead men to place little value upon life. The fact that this evil …
2984 The Present Truth, vol. 10 July 19, 1894, page 464 paragraph 18
… was called to preach Christ. Still God is calling, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah 6:8. The call is not limited. “Whosoever will, may come;” but let everyone …
2985 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 16, 1894, page 517 paragraph 12
… the service of his gods-as a round of ceremonials to be mechanically performed. In his recently published book on Bulgaria, Professor Dicey speaks of the …
2986 The Present Truth, vol. 10 December 13, 1894, page 786 paragraph 3
… that God gave us that readiness, in order that we might do the work to which He has called us. Instead of boasting, we have rather need to feel ashamed that our …
2987 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 10, 1895, page 21 paragraph 3
… to the flesh; who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the …
2988 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 18, 1895, page 256 paragraph 13
… say, “God is the true Baal,” nor was there any attempt to turn the rites of Baal and Astarte into the service of God. The message was clear, “If the Lord be God, follow …
2989 The Present Truth, vol. 11 July 25, 1895, page 470 paragraph 3
… tendency to make many believe that such indulgence may even glorify God. Not long since another minister, Mr. F. B. Meyer, started a week-day service for men, supplying …
2990 The Present Truth, vol. 11 September 26, 1895, page 614 paragraph 5
… high services. The Lord does not desire His Church to adopt the livery of Paganism in His service, and He calls, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith …
2991 The Present Truth, vol. 11 October 17, 1895, page 659 paragraph 11
… to the position to which they felt sure that God had called them. But then they were not chosen ones, according to God’s heart. If David had refused to perform …
2992 The Present Truth, vol. 11 December 5, 1895, page 770 paragraph 6
… ready to die for Him and for His commandments? I fear more to transgress God’s law than that of the Emperor, for if I sin knowingly, the result will be the second …
2993 The Present Truth, vol. 13 November 18, 1897, page 722 paragraph 4
… is to stay there until God makes it plain to him that he should leave. “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a servant …
2994 The Present Truth, vol. 14 May 19, 1898, page 308 paragraph 5
… life to the service of others. But His own burdens He carried to God. He did not ask others to carry them for Him. Even so it should be with us. If every one in the house …
2995 The Present Truth, vol. 14 July 21, 1898, page 454 paragraph 3
… God's power in the least things, then God can use him in the performance of what men call great things; and yet he may never be used in that kind of service. If …
2996 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 3, 1898, page 690 paragraph 1
… should call him, and he be not ready to serve. So in the service of God. To wait upon Him means to be constantly devoted to Him. He who waits on the Lord recognises …
2997 The Present Truth, vol. 14 December 29, 1898, page 821 paragraph 3
… , and God is no respecter of persons, we see in their call the call of all men. It rests with us, by humble acceptance of the will of God, to make our calling and election …
2998 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 19, 1899, page 38 paragraph 7
… meat to do His Father's will. God does not call men to exhaust themselves and His service, but to drink of the Fountain of life, and glorify Him by letting the …
2999 The Present Truth, vol. 15 January 26, 1899, page 67 paragraph 7
God saves men only for service. The object of our cleansing is not merely that we may escape destruction, but that we may be messengers of salvation. As soon …
3000 The Present Truth, vol. 15 April 6, 1899, page 212 paragraph 1
… honourable service as is preaching sermons or writing books. To guide a team of horses is in itself as dignified a calling as to guide a State; and the man who …