The Acts of the Apostles (1911) — PDF Scan 604

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598 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of wliom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth."' The enemy of righteousness left nothing undone in his effort to stop the work committed to the Lord's builders. But God ''left not Himself without witness."' Workers were raised up who ably defended the faith once delivered to the saints. History bears record to the fortitude and heroism of these men. Like the apostles, many of them fell at their post, but the building of the temple went steadily forward. The workmen were slain, but the work advanced. The Waldenses, John Wycliffe, Huss and Jerome, Martin Luther and Zwingie, Cranmer, Latimer, and Knox, the Huguenots, John and Charles Wesley, and a host of others brought to the foundation material that will endure throughout eternity. And in later years those who have so nobly endeavored to promote the circulation of God's word, and those who by their service in heathen lands have prepared the way for the proclamation of the last great message, — these also have helped to rear the structure. Through the ages that have passed since the days of the apostles, the building of God's temple has never ceased. We may look back through the centuries, and see the living stones of which it is composed gleaming like jets of light through the darkness of error and superstition. Throughout eternity these precious jewels will shine with increasing luster, testifying to the power of the truth of God. «Heb. 11:36-38. ^ Acts 14:17.