Gospel Trumpet – 1 December 1888

1 December 1888, Volume 10, Number 18.

Two Contrasting Scenes.

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Along a winding path there came,
A band of saints in Jesus’ name,
Leading downward toward the flowing river;
The rock-paved Allegheny stream,
Whose oil-blotched waters flow between
Tow’ring hills that drop upon her mirror.

Adorned in His own holiness,
Who first “fulfilled all righteousness,”
True disciples of the Great Exemplar,
Come here to show their love to Him,
By burial in the crystal stream:
Resurrected in His life forever.

The trees that emulative rose,
From bank to summit’s high repose,
Waving in the sunlight’s golden glory,
Displayed to their enraptured eyes
A thousand tints of richest dyes,
Varied in sweet Autumn’s gorgeous beauty.

A hymn flowed o’er the water, still,
And echoed on from hill to hill;
Rising upward to the throne of Heaven.
This was the song that sweetly breathed,
Their praise to Him their hearts believed.
Even Christ, with whom their souls had risen.

Down into the flowing river,
Lo! the Lamb of God we see.
There He speaks in clear example,
Take the cross and follow me.

Cho. — Gently buried with my Savior,
Let me sink beneath the wave.
Crucified to earth forever.
Hence alone to God I live.

Now the sacred waters cover,
O’er the holy Son of God.
Thus He washed me in the fountain
Of His sin-atoning blood.

Crucified with my Redeemer,
Now I sink into the grave.
I am dead to sin forever,
By the life of God I live.

Here I witness a confession.
As I merge from human sight,
In the tomb of yielding water.
That the blood has washed me white.

O how sweet to follow Jesus,
In this ordinance to show,
That we’re cleansed in life’s pure river,
Even whiter than the snow.

To Him who said that every where.
He wills that men should offer prayer,
By this emblem of the tomb of Jesus,
His humble saints then meekly bowed,
Amid the awe decorumed crowd.
..ichly favored by His loving presence.

Then … by one were downward led,
And numbered with the sainted dead,
Pilgrims happy in the Lord’s approval.
Anew the Spirit of their God,
Bore witness to the cleansing blood,
Making lofty hills with praises vocal.

But some that stood beside that stream,
Recalled to mind another scene.
Thirty years had fled along unceasing,
As flows the water o’er that spot,
Where red intemp’rance left a blot,
..me and tide have passed, yet unerasing.

A husband, father, genial friend,
But demonized by liquor fiend,
..ceply by this maddening viper bitter,
Unto his home, near by this shore,
Then came rum-fired as oft before:
..riving thence his own in terror stricken.

Three daughters fled adown the ledge,
And spied the skiff at waters edge,
..oarding this they rowed into the river.
To utmost strength they plied the oar.
And hastened to the farther shore:
..raying God from wrath and waves deliver.

The frenzied came with angry mien,
To drown his children in the stream.
..reathing threatening, stagg’ring mid the billows,
The mad-man headless onward surged
Till in the depth at last submerged:
Crowning there, a warning to His fellows.

Behold the contrast ‘twixt the scenes!
The first in mem’ry sadly gleams,
..ver thirty years that flowed unceasing;
As flows the water o’er that spot.
Where dread intemp’rance left a blot,
..ine and tide have passed yet unerasing.

Baptized in spirits from the still,
Led captive, by the devil’s will,
..nto awful death, he plunged a victim.
From thence raised up a lifeless clay His
Spirit fled in wild dismay;
Heaving in that stream a doleful requiem.

But these immersed in Heaven’s light,
In garments pure and spotless white,
Follow joyful down into the river,
The steps of Him who died on earth,
To give their souls a Heav’nly birth;
Buried deep in Jesus’ love forever.

He, dead in sin and lost in woe,
They, dead to sin and white as snow,
Both were buried in this river’s bosom.
His name dishonored floats along,
They rise to sing redemption’s song.
Praising Him who gave their spirits freedom.

He builded there a monument,
Of liquors black and fiendish bent;
Casting on that tide a gloomy shadow.
They leave upon that sacred shore,
Foot prints of Him who went before,
And His blessing leaves a brilliant halo.

Behold two ways divide our race,
The road of sin, and path of grace.
Choosing this, or that to thee is given
Both these ways dip into deaths cold fide,
And judgment sits on yonder side,
Bending that to hell, and this to Heaven.

LAST WORDS OF JESUS.

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HIS first words on the cross, was a prayer for sinners. “Then said Jesus, Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” — Luke 23:34. How far-reaching was that wonderful prayer. The second words saved a sinner. “Jesus said unto Him, Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise,” The dying and helpless robber could do nothing, nor can any man, but cast himself upon the mercies of a Divine Redeemer, confessing his sins and believing that the coming King was on the cross. The murderer was not in the least fit to come, nor had he time to make himself better; but he was saved then and there in answer to his simple trust in one he owned as Lord. The third words were spoken to His mother, providing for her support and comfort, “When Jesus therefore, saw His mother and the disciples standing by, whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, woman, behold thy son. Then saith He to the disciples, Behold thy mother.” Thanks be to God! He set us the example of thinking of our mothers, even in a dying hour. How He trusted the tender care of the disciples whom He loved, and how we should trust in His unchanging love. The fourth words, “they hear Jesus crying with a loud voice, saying, My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me.” Oh think dear ones, for we know that all our sins were laid upon Him in that awful hour. And the fifth and sixth words, Jesus cried, saying, “I thirst.” “And when Jesus therefore received the vinegar, He said, It is finished.” When He raised that cry, He proclaimed to heaven, earth and hell that the transaction was done, and it is ours to believe and be saved. The seventh words He commended His Spirit to God. “When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father into thy hands I commend my spirit; and having said thus. He gave up the Ghost.”

There is a name I love to hear,
I love to speak its worth:
It sounds like music in mine ear,
The sweetest name on earth.

It tells me of a Savior’s love,
Who died to set me free.
It tells me of His precious blood,
The sinners perfect plea.

It tells of one whose loving heart
Can feel my deepest woe;
who in my sorrow hears a part,
That none can bear below.

Jesus the name I love so well;
The name I love to hear.
No saint on earth its worth can tell,
No heart conceive how dear.

This name shall shed its fragrance still,
Along this thorny road.
Shall sweetly smooth the rugged hill,
That leads me up to God.

And there with all the blood-bought
From sin and sorrow free, (saints,
I’ll sing the new eternal song,
Of Jesus’ love to me.

J. W. Chronister.

Newburg, Pa.

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GRACE FOR GRACE.

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MY DEAR FELLOW SAINTS: — Our most radical need is a stranger evangelical illumination. The legal spirit is so subtle, and men are such natural heirs to it, they must guard every avenue lest their corruption and sin overshadow the fulness of grace and truth in Christ, or our obedience to the Gospel intervene to attract from the perfect satisfaction made to the law in the finished work of Emanuel, and mar the one only condition that secures for us a solid and abiding peace and hope. True Christian peace is a transfer, and not a self-development as the natural result of obedience. It is the peace of God which passeth all understanding. It becomes personal by the operation of the Holy Spirit, who draws on the fulness of Jesus, “in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead bodily.” Our depravity is without any self generating or self sustaining. Nothing but God can be the Alpha and Omega of redemption. Again and again we are reminded that our righteousness must be the righteousness of God, and nothing less than His own eternal peace can give us rest, and that it is His joy that is to surge in our being here and forever. We furnish the soil, and a thin sterile we are at best; but God gives the seed charged with His own vitality. The life everlasting, the peace that is to flow as a river, and the righteousness that is to be like the waves of the sea, must have their source and termination in Jehovah.

There cannot be too much obedience, but there can easily be too much reliance on it. Self, if not yet crucified, is sure to come in for its claims of fealty to the Divine requirements, and create a false confidence out of our devotion to rituals and traditions and sacred observances. Nothing seems more plausible than assurance of salvation on the grounds of strenuous and persistent effort to walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. But we are not to shift our foundation from the God-man even to His own work within us. We may be largely right on the symbolic and self-endeavoring line of religion, and miserably fettered by this very fact, so as to miss the glorious liberty which comes from the immediate righteousness of Christ, by a direct and vital appropriation of His flood by faith. To come right up to God as manifested in Jesus, and by simple trust take Him as the supply of all our needs according to the riches of His glory, is the sum total of genuine Christian experience from beginning to end. Amen! This leaves out all ordinances as grounds of peace and hope to our salvation, and places them all as symbols of God’s love to us, and of ours to Him. Faith in the Divine institutions helps nobody, but faith in Christ rounds out all institutions with the life and beauty of holiness, the main channel of love both ways, front God manward, and from man Godward.

It is most remarkable and yet most natural, how hard it is to get clear of the law as a foundation of hope, and yet retain it as a constant guide to the righteousness of God by faith in Christ. There is only one righteousness, one fit enunciation of it, and only one perfect embodiment. The law was given through Moses, but not exemplified by him. A greater than Moses is here. The law was perfect enough to save the whole world, but was weak through the flesh, so that it necessarily failed of saving any one. When the Word was made flesh the law had its counterpart in humanity and all the claims of God were met, so that every obstacle is removed. Hallelujah to God! By faith in this law-fulfilling, sin-atoning God-man we get all the fulness of God represented in the law. “We are complete in Him.” “Accepted in the beloved.” Saved wholly on the merits and mediation of a substitute by faith that is in Him. “Not of works lest, any man should boast.” All sin past, and all works to come, are swallowed up in, and flow through and from the person and righteousness of Christ. “He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Cor. 5:2.

What God revealed to man on Sinai, He became in man, and for man. There is only one man who is the synonym of the law; Christ took the Law and by making it an actual life in every iota made it a Gospel and even raises us to a higher standard. The tablets of stone had no glory by reason of the excellent glory of Jesus. Christ manifest in the flesh, as also in the person of the Holy Ghost in us. But as an actual salvation the law had no glory at all; simply because the capacity for making it such was wanting in the holiest men. It always looked forward to the second man, who is the Lord from Heaven, as the only one who could meet its demands and transfer us from the rigorous school-master to peace, power and joy in the Holy Ghost, Hallelujah! Our works must appropriate the works of Christ, His faith, and the righteousness of God is ours by the faith of the Son of God in us. This excludes nothing in the line of commandments for obedience, but every tiling as a basis of acceptance with God, save God Himself humanized. We may work with zeal all through our whole life and never find it: but those who find Christ, as offered by faith in the promise of His Word, will do their utmost to walk in all His commandments and ordinances blameless. Hallelujah! For so has Christ required us to show our love to Him. Sin is radical, and can only be remitted by the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanseth from all sin. As an eminently pious man has written, “Sin cannot wear out God’s grace, but it can wear out the capacity of the Lord to apprehend Christ.” May the Lord help us to understand, it is in casting ourselves in absolute confidence upon Him, and His grace, that we may attain unto life. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. Amen!

J. D. Ashbaugh.

Litchfield, Ill.

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AN ECHO FROM THE WILDERNESS.

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Dear Saints Greeting: — May Heaven’s blessings rest upon you all and establish your hearts in righteousness and prepare you for every good word and work. Amen! I have long felt impressed to write my testimony for the TRUMPET. I can say to the glory of God that I am saved to the uttermost, spirit, soul, and body, and kept by the power of God unto salvation. Praise the Lord! Several times in my past life I tried to seek the Lord; but for the lack of proper teaching, I failed to obtain the seal of the promise, and consequently soon drifted back into sin. I used to look at the inconsistency of church professors, and hear them testify to their “many crooked paths, and doing many things they ought nor and leaving undone many things they ought to do, but hope finally to make leaven my home; pray for me that I may be faithful. What, pray that they may be faithful in making crooked paths? God forbid; but we will pray rather that they may see the straight gate and enter therein, and make straight paths for their feet. Isa. says: “The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.” Glory to God! I am glad that He has got a highway cast up for the redeemed of the Lord to walk upon: “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saving, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” — Isa. 30:21. But in sect babylon the highways lie waste; the voice of the Bridegroom is heard no more in her. I attended meeting in the various denominations for thirty-five years, and never heard the glorious doctrine of sanctification preached until two years ago. I always thought there ought to be a higher standard of christianity than I heard preached or lived up to; finally an F. M. preacher came along and showed us that there was higher attainment for us in this life; and I thought to myself, that is just what I have been looking for all these years; and I only heard two or three sermons before I was convicted, and when the invitation was given: “Is there any one here that will come to the altar and seek the grace of sanctification?” it seemed as if the power of God raised me to my feet, and I said I would go for one, and it seemed as if an unseen power carried me to the altar, and I no sooner opened my mouth in prayer to God to give me a clean heart, than it seemed that the burden rose right up and rolled off from me; there was no great blessing but such sweet peace; well I thought at first that I was sanctified, but the Lord soon showed me that I was only clearly justified; I had been carrying one or two pit-sins along with me. A few days after when I was exercising great faith for healing, the glory of the Lord came down and filled my soul; I knew then that the promise of the Father had come upon me. Glory to God! From that time on, the Bible was a new hook to me. I no longer saw as trees walking, but I had received the second touch; I could now see clearly and oh! what a passion I had for God’s Word, and have had ever since. I never tire reading His blessed Word. Well, out of the M. E. sect of sixty members, of which I was one at that time, there were only five honest souls ready to walk in the light; and after the sifting was done and the chaff blown away, of course the wheat must be put in a safe place; so they thought they must organize an F. M. pen, and by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple. Read Romans 16:17, 18. Well being yet unlearned we were deceived, got out of one trap and were caught in another; “For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set traps, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. — Jer. 6:26, 27.

I soon saw, by reading the Word, that it was the design of Christ that we should all he one, and be kept in the Father’s name, and that God’s whole family in leaven and earth is named after God our Father, how reasonable and natural that the children of God should all be named after God our Father; even marriage does not change our name, for Isa. tells us the Lord is our husband; and John tells us the church is the bride of Christ, and we know Christ is God; so our name is not changed; He also showed me in the second chapter of Eph. that when we become the children of God, we are already builded on the foundations of the apostles and prophets with Christ for the chief corner stone; and Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 3:11. that “other foundations can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” God showed me plainly that the sects were of earthly organization, a plant God never planted; and Christ tells us that “Every plant the Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Before I ever saw the TRUMPET, or saw or heard of a “comeouter,” as the sects are pleased to call us, the Lord showed me what the beast was, that is spoken of in Rev. 13. Glory to Jesus! the Lord said, come out of her; and I came out. It was not altogether pleasing to the F. M. beast, but I must obey God rather than man. Christ says: “If we abide in the truth, and His word abide in us, we shall know the truth, and the truth shall make us free.” Praise God for freedom!

I have been corresponding with dear Bro. Haner, although I had never seen him, I felt such a fellowship for him that I had a longing desire to meet him; and when he notified me of the meeting at Table Rock Neb., I determined to go, and so much the more as I felt called to the work of the Lord; the Lord also showed me by His Spirit, that it was His will that I should go; so I went and heard the straight Word preached for the first time. I felt well paid the first sermon I heard. But was somewhat disappointed not to find Bro. Haner there as I expected; but when I came to meet the other Elders and brethren, the cloud dispersed, for I found we were all one in Christ Jesus, and love was without dissimulation; for the first time I had got among a people that seemed to love one another as Christ commands. I shall never forget their kindness and hospitality to me. The Lord, reward them according to His riches in glory, and supply all their needs out of the treasure of His great store house. I took no very active part in the meeting, that was not God’s purpose in sending me there; but to look on and learn, that He might perfect that which was lacking in my experience, and make me better acquainted for the work He has for me to do. It was a real feast to my soul. I there had the blessed privilege, for the first time, of obeying the blessed Savior’s command to wash one another’s feet, and I realized the truth of the promise: “If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them.” Praise God! the melting power came down.

May the Lord bless all the dear saints, and keep them firmly settled on the Solid Rock, is my prayer. The Lord bless all the laborers whom He has sent into the field, and give them victory over all the powers of the devil in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

I am now declaring the everlasting Gospel every Sabbath at a school-house; the Lord helps and wonderfully blesses the work; unsaved people recognize the truth and seem quite interested; sectarians think me presumptious in raising up here and denouncing sectism; they would rather hear their hireling priests deliver their lectures and essays on arts and sciences, and the beauty of nature, and prophesy lies and teach we cannot live without sin and acknowlege that they sin themselves. “Verily my prophets have become wind and the word of the Lord is not in them.”

Pray for me brethren that I may keep low at Jesus’ feet.

A. M. Brown.

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REQUESTS FOR PRAYERS.

Dear Saints of God: — Simetha Daggette desires the prayers of all the dear saints of God, that she may be healed, both soul and body. Her disease is lung trouble. She is the mother of several little children. Dear saints pray earnestly to God for her, that she may be healed.

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CORRECTION.

In our last issue, in our article, What about the Millennium, page 1st, 3rd column; souls “under the earth,” should have read “under the altar.” In Column 5, 1270, should have been 1260.

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Payne, O.,

Dear Saints: — I am saved to the uttermost this morning. When I look back and see the pit God took me out of, it causes me to praise God for deliverance. I feel led to admonish the young saints with all love for them, not to join in with worldly company, but flee the wrath to come. But glory to God! I am saved from all sin, on a Bible line for Heaven, living up to all the light that God gives me. Praise His holy name forever and ever!

Last night we had a precious meeting in the name of King Jesus at dear Bro. Kilpatrick’s. We had perfect, victory and the devil had no show. Glory to God for victory over the devil and all his angels. Pray for me all ye saints. Your brother under the blood, sanctified to God.

Calvin Christy.

MARRIED.

On the 21 of November 1888, at the TRUMPET OFFICE. Bro. James W. W. Newkirk and sister Theresa Butler were legally joined in holy matrimony by the writer The Spirit of God descended upon our souls during the solemn service, and bore witness that the anion had been wrought by the Lord.

Sister Butler was saved among the first fruits of the Gospel at Williamston, Mich, several years ago. Bro. Newkirk was translated into the kingdom of God last Winter at Wayland, Neb., during, our labors there. May God bless them with a useful, peaceful and happy life. The following lines were written for, and read upon the occasion.

TO JAMES AND THERESA.

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Two hands on earth are joined,
Two hearts by Heaven’s flame
Into one jewel coined,
Are now no longer twain.

A thousand miles apart,
Two streams of life arose;
Each flowing toward a point,
Now meet in love’s repose.

The hand of providence
Marked out each channel well,
Approaching east and west,
Till twain one current swell.

Two tributaries meet,
And gently coalesce,
Both lost in one complete;
May God this union bless.

Great peace forever flow,
Within this channel deep,
And on its mirror show
Love’s angels pure and sweet.

Along your verdant banks
May flowers ever bloom,
And all your life be thanks,
An endless honeymoon.

The waters rippling move
Pour music in your ears,
And may the song be love,
Along your happy years.

May kindness be your star,
And hope stand high and clear,
And not one fam’ly jar
Wring out a bitter tear.

Dear James and Theresa nos ..
We wi.. j.. joy indeed,
Kind Heaven bless your vow,
And all your journey speed.

O may your wedded life
A tree of virtue prove:
A holy man and wife,
Will merit Heaven’s love.

O let no selfish aim
Intrude upon your bliss.
That life is only gain,
That seeks all men to bless.

D. S. Warner.

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A LETTER FROM THE WEST.

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Sherman, Wash. Ter.

Dear Gospel Trumpet: — I have received a copy of your excellent “Trumpet of God” and a feast to my soul it was; I know not who sent it to me, but may who ever did, receive my heart-felt thanks and the blessings of God, for the words of cheer which came to a lone brother on the frontier. Oh the Bible truths therein contained! may God bless the writers, publishers, and all concerned in sounding the Gospel call to a dying world. I am all on fire this morning with the love of God toward all mankind. Oh the whole world seems to me to lay in darkness, asleep to the salvation of God, that does save from sin now. Praise God! Oh that the world could read and hear with their hearts and understand the near approach to the last call as set forth in the Trumpet of Oct. 15th of the second coming of Christ. I am just from the Willamette Valley Ore. where at Oregon city, June the 9th, I was led into this marvelous light, and that big word sanctification was made so simple to my heart that I was really ashamed for having so little faith, when God says: “whatsoever toucheth the altar sanctifieth the gift.” I left several dear saints in Ore., and miss their dear fellowship daily; no Spirit here, and not much sect; only one service a week. Those dear saints I speak of, may some at least subscribe for the TRUMPET, so I will send you some of their names, also some sinner’s names and addresses, for that “Tower” Pub. “Millennial Dawn” of Pa. has reached this coast giving hope to sinners and sectism to continue in sin. I just saw the book and paper from “Zion’s Watch Tower,” just before I awoke out of self-righteousness and morality, and it came near spoiling me; but glory to God! I am saved and under the blood, saved from self, the world, morality, formal religion, stimulants, liquor and chewing and smoking. All the glory be to God! I tried to save myself from tobacco and a peevish temper many times, but failed. Oh the sinners that read “Zion’s Tower” (which cries peace! peace!) when the last days are upon us. The “Tower” did prove to me there was no hell, by the Bible, but praise God! I found they did wrest the Word. And now that I am saved from that “Tower Co.” I do so long to see other sinners who are known to me, to be deluded by that “Millennial Dawn.” Oh God send them a gleam across the wave, and may they “awake to righteousness and sin not.” God help us to be true to the dying and lost ones as in Ezekiel 33:2-7, our duly to the dead in sin. Amen! May God use me here to His glory. I do want to tell of this full and free salvation; and I do want to have “a zeal according to knowledge,” born of the Spirit. Pray for me. I am caring for an aged father and mother who are financially ruined; but praise God! father is coming into the light from being an infidel nearly all his life; but he still clings to his tobacco. Pray for him that God may save him from all unholy habits. Also pray for mother.

I am saved and sanctified to God’s use, walking in the light, and my way is growing brighter, though I am tempted on all sides severely. To God be all the glory, amen! Your Bro. in Jesus.

Rudolph Hesseltine.

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Anthony, Kan.

To the Dear Saints Scattered Abroad: May the Lord bless you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. “But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. To be discreet, chaste keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God ….t blasphemed. Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded. In an things showing a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing incorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not, hut committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.” Christ is our pattern, and “he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked; because as he is so are we in this world.” That is we are as free from sin in this world as He is, and we have the same love: “for love is of God.” Man by nature knows not the real love, but are only controlled by passion and lusts of the flesh, and these he calls love, “but love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God.” From the time that man arrives to the years of accountability, until they are born of a heavenly birth, they know not love. “He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love. In this was manifest the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins; and we have known and believed the love that God hath for us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends; ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.” Oh! the wondrous pattern, not that we love, but the love of God dwelling in our hearts. We are commanded to be a pattern in doctrine; but thank God, not in the doctrines of men. We find so many going abroad teaching false and corrupt doctrine; not knowing that we are commanded to be incorrupt in doctrine; and many of the saints are deluded by them. I find it a good plan not to accept any doctrine, (making no difference how plausible it may seem) unless by embracing it, I receive an experience right along with it. “For the entrance of thy words O Lord giveth light,” and “in thy light shall we see light.” Hallelujah to God! for His wonderful light. For “thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my pathway.” Every departure from the Word of God causes light to escape from our souls, and a great loss in experience. For we are saved by receiving with meekness the ingrafted Word. Justin Martyr said “it was the power of God entering the soul by the Word of God, that saves a soul.” and that is just in accordance with the written Word: see Jas. 1:22; 1 Pet. 1:23; Rom. 6:16-17.

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever.” “But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.” If a person professes salvation under persons that are teaching delusions, or doctrines that are not Bible, their salvation falls away short of Bible salvation hence the necessity of being sound in doctrine. In Luke 8:11; we see the seed of the Kingdom is the Word of God. “He answered and said unto them: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man. The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom (we are made the seed by receiving the engrafted word; the word being the seed.) but the tares are the children of the wicked one (by receiving the devils seed i. e., sin and false doctrine.) Matt. 13.

It is necessary for us as God’s sow-sacks to be completely emptied of all the devil’s seed, and filled with the seed of the Kingdom, so that nothing but pure seed may be sown; for Christ sows no other seed but the pure Word of God. “Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.” “But unto us they did minister the things which are non-reported unto you, by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.” “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, … ..tice for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” “But this I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” Amen and Amen!

Blessed be the Lord Jesus who gives us the victory again and again. We are still laboring for the Lord “sowing seed by the side of all waters,” and are ready to attend to any call to preach. All writing to us will address us at Harper Kansas.

G. H. Houghton.

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD.

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THE ASSEMBLY OF SAINTS.

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WE arrived home Nov. 12; the next day quite a number of saints arrived here, on their way to the assembly meeting. Teams called for us and took us to the Geneva chapel, where the meeting began that night. O how blessed it was to meet so many dear pilgrims. Only a few brethren in the ministry were present. Our much beloved brethren, Michels, Palmer, Wm. N. Smith and companion, and Bro. Wooden were there. Probably not far from two hundred saints attended; but not at any one time. The Lord favored us with good weather. When we first assembled we felt a great lack of liberty, power, and victory in the church there. All were in love and harmony, but somewhat depressed by the devil; but, praise God, they soon began to move out, and grasp their freedom in the Lord; and the glorious power of the Holy Spirit began to descend upon us. On Friday the glorious climax of power was reached. In the forenoon meeting the Word of God was preached over two hours in much joy of the Spirit, and was much relished by the dear saints. In the afternoon the clouds of glory seemed to break in mighty showers. O what floods of joy, pure holy joy, inspiring much praise, leaping and shouting. O how sweet and heavenly the precious love of God shed abroad in the hearts by the Holy Spirit given unto us. Glory! Glory!! O this blessed mountain of holiness is more and more enveloped in the inexpressible glory of God. The meeting continued from Tuesday night un-..

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Sabbath evening: three meetings each ..ay. The saints brought along their dinners and suppers, and many of them remained there all day. There were altar services in nearly every meeting; and from three to nine souls sought God, either for pardon, or entire sanctification at ..ch invitation. O how the mighty pow- .. of God came to many hearts in joyful ..liverance. Some poor disconsolate ..als that had wandered away from the ..rd, and become sick at heart for the ..ead of life in Father’s house, were joy- ..ly received back home. O how there ..untenances were changed. The Lord ..ave them beauty for ashes, and the oil of … for the spirit of heaviness.’ Why do dear ..ood bought souls allow the enemy to ..ft them away from God, little by little, ..til they find their souls backed up in ..an’s prison? How dare men that have ..en awakened to the curse of sin, and its ..ful fruits, so trifle with their souls, as to ..ow the slightest shade of doubt or sin. ..hang over them? O the peril of getting ..e inch out of the course of God’s holy ..ll. In the name of Jesus we, admon.. every soul to stay in God at the ..ss of all things else. You had better die … the spot than doubt the saving, prom- ..e of God, or sin against the Lord. Let … thank God that He is able to keep us ..om falling, and lake unto us the whole ..mor of God that we may stand in the ..il day. The Lord bless all the willing ..orkers in the field. Nov. 22, we go to ..nwick Ont. Bro. and sister Wm. N. ..aith, are at La Paz, Ind. and expect to … to Odon and other points in southern ..d. Bro. Grover is in Charlevoix Co. ..ich. Bro. C. Z. Lindley expects to be- ..n meeting at Bro. Byer’s in Ill. the 10, … December. Bro. W. J. Evans is at Dow ..huylkill Co. Pa. Bro. Jacob Byers, of …, and perhaps Bro. Samuel Speck, ex- ..ct to go to California ere long. Bro’s. David Leininger, and Bro. and sister ..ankie Smith, expect to labor with Bro. Michels. Bro. Palmer expects to hold a ..eeting at Yellow Lake Bethel, Ind. Sister Allie R. Fisher is going into the Vineyard of the Lord, and many are run- .. and fro. Amen!

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Table Rock, Neb.

In our last report we had commenced eeting at Thayer Neb. At this place ..e truth had never been preached before, therefore the Word of God seemed strange … them, for they (sectarians) in the past ..dy had sectism preached to them, and ..as instructed to be loyal to their sect, ..d to promote the “old kind religion” sectism.) If they had been taught to dear God, to be loyal to Him and to promote the common salvation of the Son of God, they would have been in good condition to receive Him when He came with … is Word to deliver them out of sect bondage. But because of their false education and want of the Spirit of God, they there in a real good condition (for the devil) to oppose the work of God. Both professor and non-professor were stimulate by the wine of babylon and the multitude of lies which they heard from the mouths of the ungodly professors. We ..nd them prophesied of in Jeremiah.

“I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; they strengthen also the hands of evil-doers, that none both return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophet: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. Thus saith the Lord of hosts Hearken not unto the words the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord and hath perceived and heard His Words? who hath marked His word and heard it? Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord hath gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the Lord shall not return, until He have executed, and till He have performed the thoughts of His heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.” — Jer. 23:14-21.

We found in that place a few who were not made drunk on the wine of babylon, and could see the lack in those institutions of men. God bless and save their souls from all sin. From there we went to Bro. L. Fox’s neighborhood, about 13 miles north-east, and commenced meeting in the name of the Lord. At this place there is a little company of saints who are hid away with Christ in God. The meeting was one of interest, and a degree of good was accomplished. God blessed His Word, and applied it to all hearts. At this place we could remain but a short time, as we had meetings appointed at other places. Bless the dear Lord! At this place we had the privilege of enduring an egging by the lewd fellows of the baser sort, hissed on by those who worship the beast. On the two last nights of the meeting, one who opposed us the most in the meeting at Thayer, came and foamed out his shame so much that one of the School board was compelled to order him to keep still. This same man told Bro. Kilpatrick and myself that he had a bad tongue, and it would get the start of him at times. It will ever lead him off into sin until he gels salvation.

“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongue they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose month is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes, Rom. 3:13-18.

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.” — James 1:26.

On our way to Kansas, we stopped off at this place to see how the Church was getting along in the Lord. We will have meeting to-night and on the morrow will leave for Stafford Kan.

From your Brethren in Christ.

S. L. Speck & A. J. Kilpartrick.

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Dow, Pa.,

Dearly, Beloved Saints: — In the name of Jesus we drop you a few lines. After laboring with dear Bro. Warner for a season in Camp and Grove-meetings, we started for new battle fields in Jesus’ name. The Lord is with us. Hallelujah! We visited a few places in Jefferson Co. and then came on to Clearfield Co. where Bro. Moore of Gratiot Co. has some relatives; here we tarried a week. One poor sinner came weeping to the altar and the Lord saved her, and she was baptized the next day.

After riding all night, we arrived at Bro. Berkiser’s a holy man of God, living in Schuylkill Co., which is east of the mountains. We have felt a desire to work up this eastern field for some time, and truly a wonderful field it is. By the grace of God we propose to reign in life with one Christ Jesus until everything that exalts itself above the knowledge of God shall be brought down under the feet of Jesus. The Lord has put in my soul a yearning to see the Kingdom of Christ established a praise in the earth, and to see His power manifested in the sanctuary, like I have seen it. There are a number of saints here. Keep rejoicing in the cleansing blood. The world, God, and the angels are watching this thing. Amen! Your saved Bro.

W. J. Evans.

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Sugar Ridge, O.

All glory to Jesus for the wonderful salvation we have in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Lord has been doing a glorious work here; sister Walter’s came here about two weeks ago to preach the blessed truth of God. The people are willing to hear the plain Word; there was perfect order all through the meeting, no disturbance whatever. We could not understand this at first, but the reason is because there are no steeple houses here, and the people are not poisoned by sectarian dross.

O praise God for deliverance from babylon. Yours in the love of Jesus.

Philip Spackey.

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Correspondence.

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Fair Haven, Ill.,

Beloved Saints of God: — Permit me to speak through the TRUMPET and tell what the Savior has done for me, and what He is doing every day and hour. O praise the name of the Lord!

When I was fifteen years old I was under great conviction; confessed my sins and found peace, and united with the Evangelical’s. I never heard but one sermon on sanctification and did not understand it, during the eight years I was a member. I thought I was living a christian life; I did things that was wrong, but would always ask God to forgive me; and He did. Sometimes I had power and grace sufficient not to yield when tempted, and other times I did not; for I had such a hateful temper that I would get out of humor before I would know it. I have cried many times about it, and thought I had it to fight as long as I lived. I have been afflicted ever since I was three years old, with a very troublesome cough; and other diseases I was afflicted with as I became older. I have doctored and doctored, but did not receive any lasting benefit. Some would say, after they had doctored me a long time, that they guessed I would out grow it; others would say: “she may cough as long as she lives;” some thought I had consumption; they could not understand my case. Glory to Jesus! I was directed to a great Physician who understood what I needed. Praise His holy name! This fall sister Shirk told me that the saints were going to hold meeting down near Union Grove; she told me they believed in the healing power, and asked me if I did not think the Lord could heal my body. I knew He could if it was His will; but supposed the days of miracles were past, as I had been taught. We went down to the meeting and they told me I must straighten up to the Word of God before any thing could be done for my body. When I heard the Word preached by men full of the Holy Ghost, I saw I had a death to die. I attended the meeting at father Byer’s, and become willing to die the death to the world, the flesh, and the devil. They anointed me with oil, and laid hands on me in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for the healing of my body, and sanctifying of my soul. Glory be to Jesus! He did heal my body and sanctify my soul.

“In the secret of His presence,
Jesus keeps I know not how;
In the shadow of the highest,
I am resting hiding now.”

Of some diseases I was healed instantly: my cough has not entirely left, but I claim the victory in spite of the devil. He took the carnal nature, ill temper, and all out of me. Praise the Lord! I ask the dear saints to pray for me that I may be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. Your sister saved and sanctified and kept by the mighty power of God.

Lydia E. Wressell.

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Sandy Lake, Pa.

Dear Saints of the Living God: — Grace and peace be multiplied unto you. For some weeks I have felt it my duty to write my testimony for the Lord. My soul says glory to God in the highest for what I enjoy just now. O Glory! Glory!! Glory!!! My soul exults in Christ her Saviour. O how sweetly Jesus saves my soul just now!

Forty years ago last March God for Christ’s sake spoke peace to my soul. I was then fifteen years and six months old. I united with the M. E. sect on probation: Some months after that (my parents being baptists, and believing that immersion was the only way to be baptized in water) I was baptized and joined the baptist sect. I remained a member of that sect a few years, and backslid. I got married, and lived without salvation until twenty-two years ago last winter. In a protracted meeting in Hendersonville, I was reclaimed, and God restored unto me the joy of His salvation. They then took me in on probation, but God did not take me in on probation. No, glory to His name forever! Sometime after that for convenience I went and joined the Wesleyan Methodists in full membership, and there remained until eight years ago last February. God by His Word and Spirit called me out of her. Blessed be His holy name, I gladly obeyed; When God showed me it was my duty to come out of babylon, I was all alone with Him, inquiring what He would have me do. I took up my bible and asked God to direct me to just what He would have me read. As I opened my bible, my eyes fell on the fourth verse of the eighteenth chapter of Revelation. — “And I heard another voice from Heaven saying come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” I then asked God the meaning of that Scripture: He clearly showed me its meaning, and I gladly obeyed. Blessed be the name of the Lord! I do bless God that I do not have to say that I had no salvation while I was in the sect, for I do know that I had real salvation in Jesus. But I am confident had I not obeyed the voice of God and come out of her, I would have lost all my salvation. O. glory to God! I am out of her and sweetly saved in Jesus. Glory! glory!! to His holy name forever.

I do bless God that He is not only table to save our souls, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, but is also able to heal all our diseases. Glory to His excellent name! A little over four years ago by the laying on of hands and the prayer of faith, I was healed of heart disease, with which I had been troubled for a number of years. Bless God, it was a permanent cure. Two years ago last winter I hurt my side very badly. The Lord showed me He would heal my side if I would go to a certain place where some of His saints were holding meeting. He showed me that some of them had the gift of healing; and by the laying on of their hands and the prayer of faith I should be healed. I did as directed, and, glory be to God, I was healed instantaneously. For nearly one year I have been troubled with the dropsy. In the past summer I was getting very bad. I attended the camp-meeting at Red Valley. The most of the nights I was obliged to retire to rest before the meeting closed. When sister Clayton invited me to go with them to camp-meeting and stay with them in their tent, I told her that if I did go I was not able to work. She said I did not need to do any work at all. I thought if I did go I would have hands laid on me for my healing, but I came away without having it done. After that I attended the grove meeting at Sutton’s grove one day and night. I told Mother Smith I thought of having hands laid on for my healing. She said that God was truly able to heal me. But the Lord showed me that I would be healed at Barkeyville. But I said I do not expect to be at Barkeyville. But unexpectedly on the evening of the tenth of September. I had the opportunity of attending the meeting at Bro. Charles Koonce’s, near Barkeyville, where Bro. Warner and band were, and on the morning of the eleventh by the laying on of the Elders’ hands, and prayer of faith, my body was entirely healed, glory be to God! And I am still healed, O glory be to God forever! A few days after returning home I took a cold. The enemy said to me “I thought you were healed.” I said to him “So I am, but not of this cough, for I did not have it then, but,” said I, “the hand of the Lord is on me just now, to heal me of this cough, and, glory be to God, I felt His hand on me just then to heal me of my cough. I was entirely healed, and am still healed, saved and sanctified, and kept by the mighty power of God. Pray for me that I may ever do the will of God. Your sister.

Mary E. Farrah.

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Kennerdell, Pa.

Dear Brethren: — I praise God for salvation, and for saving me from all sin. He has saved me from all filth and lust of this world. I was a slave to tobacco, but God has taken the appetite away, and He has also taken away the appetite for tea and coffee, and has washed my soul winter than snow through the blood of Jesus Christ our Savior. Praise His holy name forever and ever! God spoke peace to my soul at the Rockland camp-meeting. I cannot praise the Lord enough for what He has done for me. Praise His holy name! We ate but few in number, but we meet together and have glorious meetings; we meet every Sabbath at my house as the sect will not let us in their houses or school-houses, but God will meet with us at our homes. Glory be to His holy name!

Your Bro. in Christ.

W. A. Swartzlander.

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Bethel, Mo.

Dear Brethren: — I received the first copy of your “GOSPEL TRUMPET” one day last week from dear Bro. L. Myers near Hunnewell. He spoke very highly of the paper, and after reading it, I found it was the Truth. In this day of errors, shams, and deceptions, we should be very careful in selecting a religious paper; but the GOSPEL TRUMPET any one can safely recommend. The GOSPEL TRUMPET keeps straight on the Bible line, takes the Word of God as it reads, persuades its readers to obey it, and teaches Jesus to be the Door, (John 10: 7-0 ) and no sect church, through which we must enter into the King’s Highway of Holiness for Heaven. Hallelujah! this Trumpet blast is clear: — take heed to the found thereof. — Matt. 24:31-33. Please send me the paper, price enclosed. If you can send me a few copies sometimes, I will scatter them among the babylonians, — a little pepper and salt does no harm on their dry meat and mouldy bread.

Phillip P. Kilb.

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Fertigs, Pa.

Dear Saints: — I feel led of the Lord to write my testimony once more. O! I do praise God for salvation just now. I am saved and sanctified and kept by the power of God. O! how good it is to wait upon the Lord, and to least on the good things that our heavenly Father has prepared for those that, love Him. All honor and praise be unto Him who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. O! I will praise Him for His goodness unto me; I am free, the Lord has saved me, and I am built on the solid Rock Christ Jesus, where all the wind and storm and floods of the devil cannot uplift. Praise God! For he is my salvation, I will not fear what any person may say. I know they cannot harm me. O! I praise God for an honest heart. I Love to walk in all the light He sheds in my pathway. I was at the camp-meeting near Rockland station in Pa. I was healed of heart disease by faith and the laying on of hands, O! I am healed both soul and body; I have never felt the least of suffering since, for which I give God all the glory. O! how good it is to trust God for health as well as for salvation. We may suffer persecution but it only makes our crown brighter. O praise God! I rejoice in persecutions. I can rejoice in all things. “All things shall work together for good to them that love God.” I know that we are living in perilous times, for men are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of souls, and have a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof, walking after there own ungodly lusts. O I do pray God to open their poor blinded eyes. I am so glad that I have found a friend that will not forsake when all earthly friends forsake me. “0 what a friend I have in jesus who has suffered on the tree. Yes he died my soul to ransom. He redeemed and set me free;’’ pray for us at this place as there is but a few of us here and have much to contend with. May the dear Lord bless His ministers, and may the work go on all over the world to the salvation of souls. Yours in Christ.

Sarah L. Stover.

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OBITUARIES.

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Died; south side of Pittsburg Pa. Nov 14 1888. Bro. David George, in the 62nd year of his age. He has for many years stood aloof from all sects and man made organizations, taking the Word of God for the man of his counsel, and the Holy Spirit — the Comforter — for his guide and his portion, denouncing the man power of priestly ministry, and having great faith in God and His Word. During his life he enjoyed many striking relations and manifestations of the Spirit of Christ on the earth, leading him in things spiritual and temporal, and died in the faith.

A.B. Gildersleeve.

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By the request of sister H. L. Cuthbert we publish, these lines in memory of her daughter.

On beds of affliction I linger in pain,
Waiting for loved ones to be united again.
My faith in Jesus I lean on His breast,
He’ll carry me over on His bosom to rest.

My troubles and trials they soon will be o’er
I am going to live on that beautiful shore.
My Savior stands waiting to welcome me home,
Farewell sisters, brothers I want you to come.

My children have gone to that glorified land
Where they are now singing praises in that Heavenly land.
I now soon shall meet them with Christ evermore,
We no more will part on that beautiful shore.

Farewell dearest husband I bid you farewell;
I am going to Heaven with my Savior to dwell.
My feeble petition is offered in prayer,
Is for you dearest husband to meet me up there.

One kiss dearest mother, my sins are for given.
Farewell dearest mother I’ll meet you in Heaven;
When I enter the gates of that Heavenly land,
And sing songs of praises with the redeemed in that land.
When my Spirit soars through that region so fair,
I’ll be watching and waiting to welcome you there.

E. T. Underwood.

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“BE YE HOLY.”

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Dear Brethren: — May God bless you and fill you with all the fulness of God, and may your faith grow exceedingly; love and peace be multiplied unto you, and may your will be in the sweet communion of God; may you all be enabled to say amen to all the will of God, and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ; has made you free, and be not entangled again with the load and care of this world. Such questions ought to be made not only by converts, but also by old professors who are not in possession of entire sanctification. The first thing to be considered is how may I be cleansed from inward corruption, and made holy in heart and life? How may I make a full and entire consecration, so as to be wholly devoted to the Lord? how may I attain to that higher state in the christian life, in which I may be able to love the Lord with all my heart, soul, mind, might and strength, and my neighbor as myself? how may I become useful and exert a good and wholesome influence among my fellow men? If the proper efforts were made to obtain this higher blessing there would not be so much backsliding, nor so much worldly mindedness, nor indifference about religion, not so much fault-finding and criticism with regard to the subject of sanctification. There would be unity of Spirit and sentiment among us and discussions on the subject of holiness would cease, perfect love would rule and reign within us, and we would he wholly the Lord’s. In my estimation it is just as necessary for a believer to know and to feel his inward depravity, in order to be able to give himself wholly to the Lord and to have the blood of Christ applied by faith to the cleansing of his heart as it is for a sinner to know and to feel his sins in order to believe and find pardon.

I hope the good work will go on and continue to spread until the holy fire shall burn throughout the length and breadth of the entire land. In conclusion I would add that no minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can do the work fully which God has assigned him, unless he enjoys the blessing of entire sanctification. Nor can any professed christian live fully in accordance with the teachings of our blessed Savior and His apostles without it. Now since this is a fact which cannot be denied, let all obey the divine injunction. “Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, having the same mind as was in Christ; being knit together in love, walk in the light of God as God is in the light. Then you will be continually cleansed from all sin. A christian must grow stronger every day. To God be all the glory. I love to praise God for full salvation. Your Bro, saved and sanctified in Christ Jesus.

Jacob Troutman.

Pierce, Pa.,

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PERFECT IN THIS WORLD.

Again to the glory of God, and for the salvation of souls, I write how sad it makes my heart to see and hear precious souls light against holiness, or Christian Perfection. A short time ago, I wrote to a friend who had his limb broken, and was on a bed of pain, and asked him what the Lord was doing for his soul in his affliction. And in answer he said he was as strong a United Brethren as over, but if he had to endorse the doctrine of holiness or sanctification to get to heaven, he would not get there, and that he did not think the holiness people held the keys of Heaven. O, how my heart did yearn for the salvation of his soul, O that souls would look to Jesus to save them instead of sectism. Jesus said to Peter, “I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in Heaven.” — Matt. 16:19. The reference to that says, “And when He had said this, He breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit, whose so ever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, — St. John 20:22. Showing that God works through His holy people, and when they give the word of God by His Spirit to the unsaved, and they refuse to hear it, that it will stand against them in the day of judgement, and in that day will lock them out of Heaven. How sad that people will trifle with opinions, and reject God’s Word to the destruction of their souls! When God is calling them, Jesus is interceding for them, and God’s people are working for them in warnings and prayers. They profess to be Christians yet do not know what God’s Word teaches. — Heb. 12:14. “Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” “Be ye holy for I am holy. — 1 Peter 1:15. “But the God of all grace who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. — 1 Peter 5:10. “Having made peace through the blood in the body of His flesh, through death to present you holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in His sight.” O what a Saviour! praise His holy name! that I ever found such a Saviour to forgive sins, make us pure, then keep from falling. “That ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. — Phil. 1:10. Now if a person cannot be without sin in this world, how can he be filled with righteousness? if we are filled with righteousness, there is no room for sin. Praise God for the plain truth in His word! Paul says in 1 Thes. 3:13 that God wants to “stablish our hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all His saints.” “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness.” — 1 Thes. 5:22, 4:3. And yet people think they can get to Heaven without holiness or sanctification. “Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. — 1 Cor. 1:2. (Are sanctified, not will be at death, or in the next world.) To think that men will be so foolish as to think that they can get to Heaven in their own way, and contrary to the Word of God. Jesus says, “he that climbeth up any other way is a thief and a robber.” Yes surely God’s true children do hold the keys of Heaven; for the Bible is the key to Heaven. God’s children preach the Word, some receive it and get saved, and in the day of judgement will be judged by the Word and find an entrance into that eternal city, while others reject the Word, and in that awful and solemn day God’s truth which is now preached by the holy people, will lock them out of Heaven. Foolish men determined in their own mind that they will get to Heaven without holiness, when God’s Word plainly says, “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” Some expect to get it at death, or after, but the Bible says we should live “in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life.” — Luke 1:75. How many will be weighed in the balance and found wanting in the day of judgment, because they have listened to false teachers and presumed on opinions and chosen this way and that and every other way instead of taking the Bible, and getting an experience that they know is of God, and according to His Word; for the Spirit and the Word agree. There is no need of souls going to judgement in a life of opinions, when the Word is given to us to live by, and the Spirit to witness our salvation. Praise God for it! God in His Word says, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked? for what a man soweth that shall he reap:” O that every soul would be sure they are sowing to the Spirit, so they will reap life everlasting! May the God of all grace be with His saints everywhere Amen.

Sallie Rogers.

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BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH.

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Our Dear Bro. Warner: — Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God the Father and of Jesus our Lord. My soul saith this day “O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the Heavens; Thy glory, which is Thy Word. As it is written, saying “Thy Word hast thou set above all Thy name,” And how glad are we this day, that thy Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, that we now may behold His glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth as we are this day. It is so good to know God, whom to know is life and peace. We come unto the knowledge of Him because of the glorious appearing of the grace of God which bringeth salvation, even the Spirit of truth who taught us to eat of the flesh and to drink of the blood of the Son of God. And it was because of the knowledge which we thus obtained through the sanctification of our spirit unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, that we came to know you and the dear saints whom we saw at the Beaver Dam meeting. And because of having our fellowship with God and with His Son Jesus Christ, and the having His love shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us, we are made to love you all with the love wherewith Christ also loved us. And because of this love being in us we write to you this day.

It pleases God to reveal unto us great and terrible things in righteousness. We were seated in a small congregation when here was some speculation as touching the time of the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. They reckoned from the natural stand point as by figures; and so arrived at the common conclusion that it would be at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore there now remains one hundred and twelve years of time. While thus hearing the thought came home to my soul as saying: if these things be so, then from whence cometh the root and ground of the hope that is within me, which enables me to preach saying, Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him. And a sweet, small voice said unto me, it is written: “And except those days should be shorteded, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” And He said: “Blessed is that servant who when His Lord cometh shall find so doing.” Of a truth saith the Spirit: “I say unto you that He will make him ruler over all that He hath.” “But, and if that servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming, the Lord of that servant shall come when he looketh not for Him.”

And the voice said unto me: “it is done all things are now ready,” And He talked with me to shew unto me how far the multitude of the people have removed themselves from the good and the right way; and how they were yet crying, Lord Lord, boasting among themselves and by themselves; saying how excellent are their words and works and ways in my sight, saith the Lord; and yet I have never known them; they ran but I did not send them; they were estranged from me even from the womb. And now saith the Lord, “their sins have reached unto the heavens.” If they have made themselves to walk in my paths, and made them images like unto me, saith God; and they make them to speak like unto my servants. Therefore I will no more pity them, neither will I anymore have mercy on their unrighteous acts, but will cast them down to the ground at thy rebuke. O my people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy faith. All these things which I write unto you this day are faithful and are the true sayings of God: for I both saw and heard them, and the whole course of my nature is changed from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. And all the day to day the abomination of desolation was never made unto me so horrifying. Seeing the D. D’s. and L. L. H’s. Dumb Dogs, Loving to Lie Down, how they have spent all their strength to cast up a way whereby they may ignore the Holy Ghost and His office, by reducing spiritual things to common literary attainments. Also making merchandise, buying and selling to get again, building colleges, institutes and the making of many books; there is no end to the different ways of decoying and leading the people into their snares to cast them down to hell. God saith of them: “Cursed children having forsaken the good and the right way, for a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death.”

And now seeing all these things and hearing as I have heard, my soul is being exceedingly drawn out in love and prayer for the saints of the most high God in every place of His dominion. Let every one that names the name of the Lord, depart from iniquity and awake to rightoousness and sin not, for this is the day when the trumpet of God shall give the “certain sound.” When the solemn assembly which is written in the book, shall be called, for these heavens which men have been creating must be shaken, as of things that are made; that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. As it is written saying, “The meek shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” The little stone set shall become a great mountain and fill the whole earth. And the saints shall reign with Christ on the earth. Shall reign with Him forever. Hallelujah, Amen!

“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” I never saw a day likened unto this; it truly is as seeing the judge standing at the door, preparing to say unto the reapers, thrust in thy sickle and reap, and receive wages. To-day while reading the eighth psalm, the Lord lifted mine eyes to the Heavens to behold the order, steadfastness, harmony and power manifested in His creation. Then He showed me the going forth of His ministry. Those who go in the demonstration of the Spirit, and of power: called and anointed by God. And I saw their work; they lifted the sword of the Spirit to lay righteousness to the line and judgment to the plummet. And did bring forth the Word of the Lord like hail stones, to sweep away the refuge of lies. And this old world of lusts; the lusts of the flesh, and the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life began to be rolled up like a scroll, and the fire of the Gospel began to burn it, and the waters of salvation began to run, and the new heaven and the new earth began to come forth, and the saints began to sing and shout in glory, and all the angels joined in the chorus saying hallelujah, amen!

Now this is no myth but is God’s manner of saving men, even those who believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and is His prescribed manner of breaking, melting, and burning up this world.

Last night I was seated in a congregation of what is called Christian Jews, when it pleased the Lord to speak unto my soul, saying, “she shall be builded upon her own heap.” By this and some other words, as Isa. 6:32, and four first verses, also Malachi 3rd chapter. I was led to consider the future of the Jews. Their gathering and the woes which are to come upon the Gentile hyerarchy, as was typified in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem, by Titus. Only the Gentiles will receive her vengeance, by plagues, and calamities, more than by sword and blood-shed; but equally severe and more appalling.

And then came the glory which shall be revealed in His saints; “whereby they shall be admired, that all nations shall call them blessed;” as saith the prophet, “for ye shall be a delightsome land.” This glory was revealed to my soul by the hearing of this the words of the governor of the feast, at the marriage of Cana of Galilee, saying: “Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men had well drunk, that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now.” Truly thought I, the six water pots are filled, and the six days of man’s labor is done, and now God is about to perform that strange act of His which is written in His Word. Ah! I see the ears of the nations begin to tingle. But it is written, “greater works shall I do because I go unto the Father.” Always yes always the greater to follow. Praise the Lord! Yours in Him our living Head.

G. R. & C. Dowd.

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St. James, Mo.

To all the Dear Saints of God: — I am praising God this morning for full and complete salvation. I realize the cleansing foun..d flowing over my soul, that makes m.. ..ery whit whole. Glory to Jesus! I … rei..ning above this world of sin, with vic..r.. in my soul, praise the Lord! The blessed evening light is just illuminating every avenue of my soul, with flic eternal praises and glory of God; and sweeps away all the works of night, hallelujah! I have just been with Bro. Bolds and family in the work of the Lord in this section of country, for three weeks. I do bless God for sending them here. The Lord has wonderfully upheld them here, in preaching the straight word of God to the people, and helping the saints to get in good working order; and some souls were saved, others advanced; others shown their miserable crookedness, and eternal damnation if they did not get to God and get salvation; the works of darkness were exposed in many ways. Old satan has been using some of the saints here about as he pleased for some time, on account of pure ignorance, but bless God we have turned on him with the straight word of God, and the saints all seem to take a part in the battle, Christ being our Captain, and the old fellow has to surrender; glory to Jesus. For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joint and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. — Heb. 4:12. The saints are in better working order now at this place than ever before. Pray for us that we get stablished and settled on the solid rock, and thoroughly furnished unto every good work; that the Lord keep us from all delusive spirits and doctrines of devils, amen! I am your brother in Christ, saved and sanctified, walking in all the light.

Thomas Carter.

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Oakwood, Ohio.

Dear Brethren: — I was converted and joined the U. B. denomination twenty years ago. Last spring I attended a holiness prayer meeting, and was convinced of a higher Christian life than I had yet attained to. When the invitation was given for those seeking sanctification to come forward to the altar, I went and presented this body a living sacrifice to the Lord, and He sanctified me. Praise His holy name forever, for salvation from all sin! Some said I would soon go back as I had often done when in a regenerated state. But instead of that I am growing stronger each day. O praise the Lord for His mighty keeping power! I am trusting Him continually. I know He keeps me from sin and all the folly, foolishness, and pride of this world. Six weeks ago I was taken with a severe chill which resulted in a high fever. We sent for a doctor the next day. He came four times and I got no better; but when I obeyed the Word and called the elders of the Church and was anointed in the name of the Lord, I was healed by the power of God. I am ready to work for the Lord whenever He calls me. Your sister saved to the uttermost

Eliza Campbell.

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Berrien Springs, Mich.

Dear Readers of Gospel Trumpet: — The dear Lord keep you all in the bonds of perfect peace. I feel thankful to the Lord for leading me out into the glorious evening light. The Lord furnished the means in time so that I could go to the Beaver Dam camp-meeting, and it was a glorious meeting to my soul. I am wholly saved and sanctified, washed in the all cleansing blood of the Lamb. Glory to God! hallelujah! I thought previous to my going to that camp-meeting it would be terribly hard to die out to old babylon, of which I was a member over forty-five years, but when I was willing to lay all on the altar, it was a glorious death to die; for Jesus got the Father to accept the poor, mean sacrifice, and the gift was complely consumed by the holy fire. Glory to God! hallelujah! I am out of babylon, and babylon is out, of me forever, Amen! The devil is at work with the U, B. sect in this place: truly babylon is fallen to rise no more. We have no preaching of the saints in this place, but Bro. Reed and myself have prayer-meetings and the Lord blesses our souls with the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. Our prayer is that God will send some of His servants here to labor for the salvation of souls. Your sister under the blood.

H. L. Cuthbert.

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Augusta, Ga.

Dear Brethren: — I am happy to tell you all that the Lord is still my Shepherd, and I want for no good thing, for by faith I have all that is good for me. Though the devil is raging, I have perfect victory in my soul. Glory to God for complete salvation from all sin. I am driven out like a beggar for the testimony of Christ; But I am glad to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ. Praise God! pray for me dear ones. I am your sister saved and ready to do God’s whole will.

Jane Williams.

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Morrison, Ill.

Dear Saints: — I praise God, for what I feel in my soul; He has saved me from all sin. I praise Him for salvation that sets me free. This is the third time I have started to serve my Jesus; I was converted a year ago last Jan., but in a little while I joined the M. E. sect; and I thought then I was serving God with all my heart, but I found out different. When Bro. Warner came here I went to his meetings and found that the Bible did not uphold the sects, and I went to the altar to have my sins pardoned; but I soon backslid and then the devil had full control of me. When Bro. Speck came here I started again, and I am now saved through and through. Glory to God! Your sister saved and sanctified.

Mabel Wallup.