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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 8, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 7.

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Spiritual Gifts.

THE gifts of the Holy Spirit were placed in the church for its edification, and were designed to remain there till the work of the Spirit of God is accomplished. Some of these gifts are recognized in every church. But the most of them are not only absent from the different churches, but their presence is not even desired. All desire the gift of teachers, but most despise the gift of prophecy. Yet this gift is one of the most precious that God has ever given. No doubt one grand reason is found in the fact that this gift exposes the wrongs of the heart, and reveals that which is open to the eye of God only. Men had rather go on as they are, and risk the judgment, than to have such a reprover in their midst. So there are heaps of teachers who use words that tickle the ear, but the gift of prophecy is almost banished from the earth.