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Category: Testimonies, Vol. 6
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Wherever a church is established, all the members
should engage actively in missionary work. They should
visit every family in the neighbourhood and know their
spiritual condition. If professed Christians had engaged
in this work from the time when their names were first
placed on the church books, there would not now be such
widespread unbelief, such depths of iniquity, such
unparallelled wickedness, as is seen in the world at the
present time. If every church member had sought to enlighten
others, thousands upon thousands would today
stand with God's commandment-keeping people.
And not only in the world do we see the result of the
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church's neglect to work in Christ's lines. By this neglect
a condition of things has been brought into the church
that has eclipsed the high and holy interests of the work
of God. A spirit of criticism and bitterness has come into
the church, and the spiritual discernment of many has
been dimmed. Because of this the cause of Christ has
suffered great loss. Heavenly intelligences have been
waiting to co-operate with human agencies, but we have
not discerned their presence.
