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his is an excerpt of an address given by Charles H. Watson, General Conference president, at the Autumn Council, Louisville, Kentucky, October 29, 1935. The full address was published in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, November 21, 1935. This excerpt has been edited for space. Editors.
The Bible is the story of a great eternal purpose; of the efforts made to defeat that purpose; and the means ordained, employed, and available to fulfill that purpose.
The foundation laid at the beginning has stood. Man, by his own choice, took himself off that foundation. But man’s moving off did not move the foundation. That foundation is the will of God, which is the essence of all truth. In order to build on that foundation, man must live and labor within the will of God. Life lived and service rendered outside of that divine will are not established upon that foundation.
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his is an excerpt from an opening address given at the Autumn Council in Fort Worth, Texas, by James L. McElhany, president of the General Conference. The full address was published in the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald,
December 3, 1936. This excerpt has been edited for space. Editors.
When I was a boy, the city where I lived hired a large company for a street paving job. The firm employed hundreds of men, and they worked for a long time, spending thousands of dollars to complete the project. When they finally finished the work and asked the city to accept it, the authorities rejected the whole job and refused to pay a cent. They gave just one reason: “Not according to specifications.” The contracting firm had failed to do the job according to the specified plan.