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Chap. 19 - Light Through Darkness
The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking
similarity in every great reformation or religious movement. The
principles of God’s dealing with men are ever the same. The important
movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the
experience of the church in former ages has lessons of great value for
our own time.
No truth is more clearly taught in the Bible than that God by His Holy
Spirit especially directs His servants on earth in the great movements
for the carrying forward of the work of salvation. Men are instruments
in the hand of God, employed by Him to accomplish His purposes of
grace and mercy. Each has his part to act; to each is granted a measure
of light, adapted to the necessities of his time, and sufficient to enable
him to perform the work which God has given him to do. But no man,
however honored of Heaven, has ever attained to a full understanding
of the great plan of redemption, or even to a perfect appreciation of the
divine purpose in the work for his own time. Men do not fully understand
what God would accomplish by the work which He gives them to do;
they do not comprehend, in all its bearings, the message which they
utter in His name.
“Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection?” “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways My ways, saith the

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