General Conference Bulletin, vol. 5

TO TAKE OUR STAND FOR TRUTH

I read here the other morning that the people who are to stand in the midst of burnings and all-devouring fire must be a people who walk uprightly, who speak the truth, who despise the gain of deceit, and who shake their hands from holding of bribes. There are many kinds of bribes in this world, and there are many ways for a man to be bribed. There is danger of every one of us standing in that position. There is danger of the president of a conference being untrue to his duty, untrue to his work, unfaithful in the delivery of his message, for fear it will offend others, and influence votes when it comes to a critical time. There is danger of men counting influences, and standing where they can step on one side or the other, whichever one wins. God calls for men to hate all that sort of thing. He calls upon men to see right, because it is right. He calls upon men to know what is the truth, and take their stand there, even if it means death to them as a result. No man can stand through the crisis upon which we have entered until he has counted the cost, and has laid himself upon the altar for exile or for death, whatever may come. The hour has come for us to value truth for truth’s sake. And when I speak of truth, I speak of God’s truth as revealed to this people in the third angel’s message, the whole truth that God has revealed to make this a peculiar people, to go to the world, to save a perishing world in the last hours of human history. GCB April 7, 1903, page 108.8

The hour has come for God to finish His work in the earth. There is one Sabbath-keeper in the United States for every 1,300 of the people who do not know and believe this truth. How long would it take this body of people to go to all the people of this country and give them a clear, full opportunity to know this message?—It could be done inside of twelve months, easily enough. If we had but a single year in which to live, we would do it inside of a year. GCB April 7, 1903, page 108.9

Let us rise up and do the work in the name of God. Let us pray for this heavenly endowment that Jesus longs to bestow upon us in large measure. “The Lord God of hosts will be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of His people, and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment. and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.” God grant that He may be that to this people indeed and in truth. GCB April 7, 1903, page 108.10

We must not absorb in a few places all the money in the treasury, but must labor to build up the work in many places.—Testimonies, vol. 7. GCB April 7, 1903, page 108.11