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The Great Controversy: The Scriptures a Safeguard—Chapter 37, Part 2

Ignorance is no excuse for error or sin, when there is every opportunity to know the will of God.

The Great Controversy: The Impending Conflict—Chapter 36, Part 2

Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power.

The Great Controversy: Liberty of Conscience Threatened—Chapter 35, Part 3

The Roman Catholic Church, uniting the forms of paganism and Christianity, and, like paganism, misrepresenting the character of God, has resorted to practices no less cruel and revolting. In the days of Rome’s supremacy there were instruments of torture to compel assent to her doctrines. There was the stake for those who would not concedeContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Liberty of Conscience Threatened—Chapter 35, Part 3”

The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3

All who indulge sinful traits of character, or willfully cherish a known sin, are inviting the temptations of Satan. They separate themselves from God and from the watchcare of His angels; as the evil one presents his deceptions, they are without defense and fall an easy prey. Those who thus place themselves in his power littleContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3”

The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2

It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature that by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2”

The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1

The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darknessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1”