"We need to understand these Old Testament figures and representations.
Let us give them earnest consideration.
My brethren,
Let us give them earnest consideration.
My brethren,
I bid you seek counsel from God.
Seek Him with the whole heart,
and “whatsoever He saith unto you, do.”
[John 2:5]."
Australasian Union Conference Record, December 30, 1907; January 6, 1908, E.G.W.