94
(2)
This
is
the
root
of
bitterness
springing
up,
whereby
many
are
de-
filed.
Thus
Satan
works
to-day
through
his
evil
angels.
He
confederates
with
men
who
claim
to
be
in
the
faith
;
and
those
who
are
trying
to
carry
for-
ward
the
work
of
God
with
fidelity,
having
no
man’s
person
in
admira-
tion,
working
without
hypocrisy
and
partiality,
will
have
just
as
severe
trials
brought
against
them
as
Satan
can
bring
through
those
who
claim
to
love
God.
Proportionate
to
the
light
and
knowledge
these
opposers
have,
is
Satan’s
success.
The
root
of
bitter-
ness
strikes
deep,
and
is
communi-
cated
to
others.
plain.
Thus
many
are
de-
filed.
Their
statements
are
confused
and
untruthful,
their
principles
are
unscrupulous,
and
Satan
finds
in
them
the
very
helpers
he
needs.
The
only
remedy
for
our
churches,
for
our
families,
and
for
individuals,
is
entire
conformity
to
the
will
and
character
of
God.
Unless
God
shall
work
through
the
two
olive-trees,
his
witnesses,
causing
them
fo
empty
from
themselves
the
golden
oil
through
the
golden
tubes
into
bowl,
and
hence
to
the
burning
lamps,
representing
the
church,
no
one
will
be
safe
for
a
moment
from
the
machi-
nations
of
Satan,
He
will,
if
possi-
ble,
deprave
human
nature,
and
assim-
ilate
if
to
his
own
corrupt
principles.
But
this
golden
oil
will
revive
the
Spirit
of
God
in
the
heart
of
man.
A
Christhike
principle
will
be
intro-
duced
which
will
be
like
leaven.
Through
the
inspiration
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
satanic
agencies
will
be
over-
come,
Envy
and
jealousy
are
diseases
which
disorder
all
the
faculties
of
the
being.
They
originated
with
Satan
in
paradise.
He
started
on
the
track
of
apostasy,
and
his
jealous
spirit
caused
him
to
see
many
things
that
were
objectionable,
even
in
heaven.
After
he
fell,
he
envied
Adam
and
Eve
their
innocence.
He
tempted
“them
to
sin,
and
they
yielded,
and
the
golden.
ATLANTIC
UNION
GLEANER
became
like
himself,
disloyal
to
God
But
they
repented
of
their
sin,
re
ceived
Christ,
and
returned
to
their
loyalty.
So
the
enemy
tempts
men
and
women
to-day.
Those
who
listen
to
his
voice
will
demerit
others,
and
will
misrepresent
and
falsify
in
order
to
build
up
themselves.
But
nothing
that
defiles
can
enter
heaven,
and
un-
less
those
who
cherish
this
spirit
are
changed,
they
can
never
enter
there;
for
they
would
criticize
the
angels.
They
would
envy
another’s
crown.
They
would
not
know
what
to
talk
of
unless
they
could
bring
up
the
imper-
fections
and
errors
of
others.
O
that
such
would
become
changed
by
be-
holding
Christ!
O
that
they
would
become
meek
and
lowly
by
learning
of
him!
Then
they
would
go
forth,
not
as
missionaries
for
Satan,
to
cause
disunion
and
alienation,
to
bruise
and
mangle
character,
but
as
missionaries
for
Christ,
to
be
peacemakers
and
to
restore.
Let
the
Holy
Spirit
come
in
and
expel
this
unholy
passion,
which
can
not
survive
in
heaven.
Let
it
die;
let
it
be
crucified.
Open
the
heart
to
the
attributes
of
Christ,
who
was
holy,
harmless,
undefiled.
Jesus
said
to
his
disciples,
©
Take
heed
and
beware
of
the
leaven
of
the
Pharisees
and
of
the
Sadducees.”
His
voice
cones
sounding
down
the
line
to
our
time,
“
Beware
of
that
misrepresenting
tongue,
which
is
not
content
unless
leagued
with
the
dis-
affected,
those
who
are
tempted
to
think
they
have
been
misused.”
Self,
self,
self,
is
the
theme
of
all
such.
They
become
envious
and
jealous,
and
Satan
helps
them,
putting
his
magnifying-glass
before
their
eyes
until
a
mote
looks
to
them
like
a
mountain.
With
a
beam
in
their
own
eye,
they
are
very
anxious
to
pull
the
mote
out
of
their
brother's
eye.
But
the
word
of
God
exhorts;
©“
Love
as
brethren,
be
pitiful,
be
courteous.”
True
moral
worth
does
not
seek
to
make
a
place
for
itself
by
thinking
and
speaking
evil,
by
depreciating
others.
All
envy,
all
jealousy,
all
evil-speaking,
with
all
unbelief,
must
be
put
away
from
God’s
children.
Mrs.
E.
G.
WHITE.
EE
WASHINGTON,
D.
C.
Tre
highest
solid
monument
in
the
world
is
the
famous
Washington
Mon-
ument,
which
is
five
hundred
and
fifty-
five
feet
and
five
and
one
eighth
inches
high.
It
was
built
as
a
memorial
of
the
“father
of
his
country.”
The
names
of
forty
States
and
many
soci-
eties
that
supplied
a
share
of
the
money
to
pay
for
this
mighty
obelisk,
are
inscribed
on
special
stones
on
the
inside
of
the
marble
shaft—pure
white
marble
without
and
granite
within,
tipped
at
the
summit
with
a
pyramid
of
pure
aluminum
on
which
is
in-
scribed
the
Latin
words,
«
Laws
Deo,”
Praise
be
to
God.
Washington
himself
is
said
to
have
selected
the
site
afterward
adopted.
The
corner-stone
was
laid
in
184%.
In
1855
the
shaft
had
attained
a
height
of
one
hundred
and
fifty-two
feet.
Then
the
funds
being
ex-
hausted,
the
construction
was
sus-
pended
for
twenty-three
years,
and
was
resumed
in
1878,
and
the
monu-
ment
was
finished
and
dedicated
Feb.
2r,
1885.
The
total
cost
of
the
mon-
ument
has
been
$1,300,000,
As
1
have
looked
upon
this
highest
monument
in
the
whole
world
to
human
greatness,
this
towering
memo-
rial
of
the
master
workman
who
laid
the
foundation
of
the
last
great
nation
on
earth,
as
I
have
considered
the
as-
cription
of
«“
Praise
be
to
God
”
that
fit-
tingly
crowns
the
summit,
an
inscrip-
tion
invisible
from
below,
seen
only
from
heaven,
I
have
thought
that
a
vastly
higher
monument
must
be
erected
in
the
capital
city
on
whose
summit
the
same
motto
shall
be
in-
scribed-—a
monument
that
shall
stand
for
an
infinitely
greater
government
than
the
United
States,
for
a
Master
Builder,
a
Ruler
incomparably
wiser
and
greater
than
the
revered
father
of
his
country.
The
last
great,
terri-