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Lord through His servant says it is so: it must be so--three against one. As I sought
the Lord by fasting and prayer, I soon saw things in the true light. The testimony was
a photograph of my inner life, and I could see that it was. -Review and Herald, May
18, 1916.

Let us leave Willard Saxby for a little and consider another matter.

Picture a man walking down a street naked, blindly groping around, not knowing
where he is or where he is going---.a most pitiable wretch indeed.

But when he is approached by a concerned would-be benefactor, he says, "I am rich!
I am doing very well. I have everything I want."

We would hardly know what to make of such a person.

But suppose that, instead of one man, there were a hundred, a thousand, a million in
that miserable condition, all protesting, "I am rich. I have prospered. There is nothing
I need."

The idea is, of course, too preposterous to think about seriously. How could a single
normal person, to say nothing of scores, or thousands, or more, be wretched and not
know it? How could he be miserable and totally unaware of it? Poor, and think
himself prosperous? Blind and naked, fancying that he could see and that he was
clothed?

We say again, the idea is too preposterous to consider seriously.

Or is it?

We hesitate to make an application, but Inspiration does it for us.

To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ... You say, I am rich, I have
prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor,
blind, and naked" (Rev. 3:14-17, R.S.V.).

The Laodicean message applies to the people of God who profess to believe
present truth. The greater part are lukewarm professors, having a name but no zeal.
-Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 87.

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