28 April 1892, Volume 12, Number 18.
Yet Not Forsaken.
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Lonely, and yet not alone,
Troubled but not distressed,
Tempted but not overthrown,
Burdened and yet at rest;
Filled yet ever feeding,
Planting but never done,
Ever with sinners pleading,
The Christian race to run.
Scattering seeds by the wayside,
Watering the same with tears,
Expecting a golden harvest
To behold in sifter years.
Under the bloodstained banner,
In meekness bearing the cross,
Proving to those around us
That we count all else but dross;
Sitting in heavenly places,
Surrounded by hosts unseen,
Clothed with spotless garments
Made perfectly white and clean.
Filled with heavenly music,
In harmony with God,
Who from our sorrow frees us,
Though we feel the chastening rod.
While waiting for the Master
And passing through the flame,
Each cross our way makes brighter
As we triumph in His name,
He makes each passing sorrow
A blessing in disguise,
And points us to a mansion —
Our home beyond the skies.
Oh! Jesus, blessed Jesus,
To sink beneath the wave
Is only to rise higher,
And claim thy power to save.
Emma I. Coston.
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Sanctify them Through thy Truth.
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MUCH has been said and written on the subject of sanctification and many are the opinions of man on the subject. That it is clearly taught in the New Testament few deny; but there is a diversity of opinions, as to how, when and where we receive this great blessing. And in my experience I have never found a true child of God opposing sanctification; and again I have never found an opposer of sanctification living a holy life, but have always found those whose lives were wholly consecrated, endeavoring to lead others into that living way.
That at death is not the time we receive this grace, is clearly seen in the scriptures, for it is to be enjoyed in this life. Jude 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:2; Acts 20:32; 26:18. That we do not receive it in justification is also clearly proved by referring to Rom. 12:1; 2 Cor. 7:1; 1 Thess. 4:3.
When do we receive it? What a pity it is that so much precious time is wasted by man to reconcile the Bible to their standpoint of thinking, when the grace of God offers all an experience that will adjust them to the Bible! Cremer, in his Greek Lexicon, says, “The root word is HAGIOS, the primary idea of which is pure, clean, free from stain. The word HAGIOS, in its several forms occurs 285 times, and is translated sanctify 26 times, sanctification 5 times, saints 66 times, hallowed 2 times, and holy, holiness, holily 186 times. Young, in his concordance, defines sanctify, To separate, to set apart. But Webster, who is authority, gives the two definitions: 1st, “To set apart for a holy use; 2d, To free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to make fit for the service of God and the society and employment of heaven.” When the word sanctify is applied to God or Christ, the idea of purification or cleansing is utterly excluded. John 17:19. When applied to the sabbath, Gen. 2:3, or the tabernacle and its articles of furniture, it means that such was not to be used for a secular purpose. Ex. 40:10, 11. A sanctified people will always have a sanctified house. They will not forget that the mission of Christ was to save men. Just think of Paul standing up in the house of worship, at Ephesus, and auctioneering off their pews to the highest bidder, to pay him his salary! Think of Peter and John paying fines at a “mum social;” or Phoebe arranging for a mush and milk supper, to pay her expenses to Rome! One of the first and last public acts of Jesus was to cleanse the temple, Jno. 2:15; Luke 19:45, and if He should come to-day and find your house of worship, a place of merchandise, a den of thieves, would he not use as he did of old, the whip of small cords? Paul says, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” — 1 Cor 10:31.
An individual may be sanctified in the sense of being set apart, and not be sanctified in the sense of being holy and pure in heart. Paul refers to the Corinthians as them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus. 1 Cor. 1:2. But tells them they are carnal, not spiritual. 1 Cor. 3:14. And after enumerating the promises to the separate ones, he exhorts, “Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” He wrote to the Thessalonians, We give thanks to all, — remembering your faith — love — hope; — ye were ensamples, — for from you sounded out the word of the Lord; — in every place your faith to Godward is spread abroad, so that we need not to speak anything. 1 Thess. 1:1-8. They were justified and set apart to God’s service. Yet Paul longed exceedingly that he might see them; — that he might perfect what was lacking in their faith, 1 Thess. 3:10; and his prayer was, “The very God of peace, sanctify you wholly.” 1 Thess. 5:23. It is our privilege to be both separated and to live pure lives for Christ. And again he extols the faith of the Roman brethren, Rom. 1:8; and then longs to see them that he might impart to them some spiritual gift, to the end they might be established. Rom. 1:11. Then in Rom. 12:1 he tells them how to consecrate their bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable, which is your reasonable service. Then Paul says Christ also loved the church “that he might sanctify and cleanse it. “Not only is it our privilege but it is our duty to be sanctified; for there is no difference, and God is no respecter of persons. While he demands holiness of one he does of all, and we have often said that if such a thing be possible, believers are under more obligations to get sanctified than sinners are to be converted; for converted people claim to have a desire to do the will of God and live right before him, and they can have no excuse for delay, no not for an hour, after the will of God is made known to them. And all may know it in less time by searching the scripture prayerfully with that object in view.
Sanctification is obtained by faith; yet there is a preparatory work antecedent to faith, which must be done, else it is impossible to exercise faith for the experience of sanctification. The death of the old man must take place; nor does he die without a struggle. A justified man may possibly live some time in such a condition that the carnal mind will be kept in subjection, so that it will hardly be manifest; but it is there in his heart, and when he gets the light on sanctification there must be a consent of his will to be crucified with Christ that the body of sin may be destroyed; and there comes the test. Right here is where so many draw back. It is no pleasant thing to be crucified and die, and it is no use to try to believe before this takes place. Too many workers make a great mistake in instructing seekers to believe before they are on believing ground, and are where they can believe; and much harm comes in getting seekers to testify to a mere head belief, when it must be with the heart that man believeth unto righteousness. And if teachers would be more careful on this point there would not be so many backsliders in such a short time after a meeting. “Sanctify them through thy truth.” This is God’s way of sanctifying souls, through believing the truth. He has only one way and will never alter it, or we might be at a loss to know how to come. Jesus died for us, and did all of his Father’s work, and left us the simple way of believing.
“Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.” — John 17:17. Reader, have you ever carefully and prayerfully read this chapter? If so, how is it some of you are destitute of sanctification? How is it some of you are not living free from sin? Allow me to answer why it is. It is because you never definitely trusted God to take all sin out of your heart and fill you with the Holy Ghost. The word of God is so simple and plain. Let us be honest, for how can we presume in the face of this scripture to deny it to be our duty to be sanctified? In Jesus’ prayer to his Father, he prayed that you and I might be sanctified and live free from sin. We are sanctified by the truth, by the will of God, by the blood of Christ, by the Holy Ghost, and by faith. The truth is the conviction for our sanctification. John 17:17. The will of God is our source of sanctification; “By the which will we are sanctified.” Heb. 10:10. “This is the will of God even your sanctification.” — 1 Thess. 4:3. The blood of Christ is our foundation or ground of our sanctification. He suffered without the gate that he might sanctify the people. The Holy Ghost is the divine effective agent in our sanctification; being sanctified by’ the Holy Ghost, Rom. 15:16, which is also a witness. “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that arc sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness to us.” — Heb. 10:14, 15. Faith is the instrumental means whereby we obtain an inheritance. Acts 20:32. We yield ourselves to God, Rom. 6:13, and our members servants to righteousness. Rom. 6:19. We present our bodies a living sacrifice (not dead in sin and trespasses.) We lay ourselves wholly upon the altar and believe God sanctifies the gift, and God does the work.
Wm.Carvasso, speaking of his entire sanctification said: “ I began to exercise faith, and a heavenly influence filled the room, and the refining fire went through my heart, illuminated my soul, scattered its life through every part and sanctified me whole. I then received the full witness of the Spirit that the blood of Jesus had cleansed me from all sin. I was emptied of sin and self, and filled with God. I felt I was nothing and Christ was all in all.”
A poor girl in London gave her experience in the following parable: “After I was saved I found some things in my heart not just right. There seemed to be cobwebs forming in the corners. I used to sweep them out by prayer and watchfulness. Still they would come again; for sometime I continued to sweep them out, only to find that they would soon appear. But one day the Lord Jesus came and killed the spider and there have been no cobwebs in my heart since.”
This is the testimony of a poor ignorant child. But I wish all professed Christians understood the meaning of a pure heart as well as she did. Holiness is what we want, and anything that comes short of it, no matter how good or elevating, it is a failure. I speak in regard to winning heaven. Morality is good; honesty and temperance are to be esteemed. Religion is good; but all combined without sanctification are a final failure. For God says by Paul (New Version): “ Follow after peace with all men and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord.” — Heb. 12:14. Then anything that comes short of holiness fails to measure up to the standard and is weighed in the balance of God’s word and found wanting.
Sanctification is what we want, to fire up the preacher, awake sleeping professors, cause hypocrites and sinners to tremble and repent, and stop the tide of wickedness and infidelity that is blighting our land to day. It is the only thing that will stop worldly conformity, and welcome the poor equally with the rich in the congregation of the rich. Rich and poor, high and low then can meet as one common brotherhood. “For both He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” — Heb. 2:11. Sanctification will stop all fairs and festivals, stop the love of prosperity and the greed of gain. It is what we all need to fit us to work for God, and to seek out the lost, and then all our actions will flow forth from holy motives. Then we can have that love that embraces all mankind and our neighbor as ourself, and live too high to envy the proudest, and too meek to despise the humblest. It will enable us to be a transcript of Him who spent his life in doing good. Then we can be living epistles seen and read of all men. Praise God for the promise that we can be partakers of Christ’s nature! “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature.” — 2 Pet. 1:4.
Your brother saved and sanctified by a second definite work of grace,
S. G. Bryant.
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What are you Sowing?
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“BE not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” — Gal. 6:7, 8.
Whether we be Jew or Gentile, whether we be Christian or infidel, whether we be theist or deist, we must all meet at the bar of God, to be judged according to the deeds done in the body. Every act of our lives is a seed, every word is a seed, every deed is a seed, and we are not going about this country scattering these seeds in valleys or on the hillsides, but we are scattering them in human hearts, and they will come up and produce, and reproduce just like the seed you sow. No recalling the sowing. And then a fearful thought; — when once a seed drops from your hand it is gone forever.
Whatsoever we sow that shall we reap If you are a sinner you are sowing to the flesh. May God awaken your guilty conscience to cry out, “Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner.” Young lady, what are you sowing? If you have a sinner friend coming to see you, do not give him your hand till he gives God his heart. Pray for him; and if he loves you he will still come to you. Young man, let the question sink into your heart
now, What would the harvest be if God were to call you to reap this moment? What would you reap if he were to call you into judgement now? You know we are all hastening to a great prayer-meeting. A great many say they do not believe in prayer- meetings. There is a far more solemn prayer-meeting coming by and by. And some prayers are already recorded. There is a hand writing what we are sowing.
They will then call on rocks and hills to fall on them, to hide them from the wrath of the Lord. “And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” God says he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; he shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him. Ps. 24:4, 5, 6. God hath decreed that every knee shall bow; and if you will nor bow in love, the time shall come when you shall call on him in terror for mercy. But it will be too late then. You will be like the foolish virgins; will not have time to fill your lamps, for when the door of repentance is shut, neither angel nor man can open it. The Lord shuts and opens this door. “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” — Rev. 20:15. But thank God, there is hope for the vilest sinner. Jesus has suffered and died for you as well as me. His sweet gentle voice is still calling and waiting patiently. O sinner, come now, for God says his spirit does not always strive with man. If God were this moment to demand your soul you would have to go; if not prepared, sad, sad indeed to say, Too late. God says now — in the present time, now is the day of salvation. Confess your sins; ask God to blot them out. He will now this very moment give you a clean heart.
Whatsoever we sow that shall we also reap. We may deceive one another, but we can’t deceive God. A man may degrade his profession. He may do as Judas did; he may make a great profession and be an officer, and yet be false at heart. God knows us all. There is nothing we have ever said or done, but what is all in the mind of God. You may cover up your sins, but they will find you out. See the character of Ahab. He sold himself for a garden. Judas sold himself for thirty pieces of silver. Ahab sold himself for evil. Elijah was the best friend Ahab had; but he thought Elijah was his enemy. Ahab was a religious man, he thought. He had eight hundred and fifty prophets; and what king had more? what king did more for religion than he? so he would have said. There is many a poor soul blinded by the god of this world who is doing the same thing. There is a great difference between religion and having Christ. There are a great many people who have much religion, but have no Christ in it.
Every day of life is sweet,
If for heaven the soul is meet;
And forever you’ll rejoice,
If you make the Christian’s choice.
May that choice your portion be,
Here and through eternity.
Your saved sister,
Virginia H. Bozeman.
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CONTENTS.
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Part I. |
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| Divine Healing of The Soul. | Page. |
| The Darkness of sin | 9 |
| The Way Out | 10 |
| The Sinner’s Call | 11 |
| Conviction | 13 |
| Consecration | 15 |
| Faith | 17 |
| Conversion | 23 |
| Sanctification | 26 |
| The Two Works of Grace | 34 |
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Part II. |
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| Divine Healing of The Body. | |
| The Doctrine of Healing | 49 |
| Is The Day of Healing Past? | 53 |
| The Use of Divine Healing | 59 |
| Old Testament Witnesses | 67 |
| New Testament Witnesses | 76 |
| The Apostasy | 87 |
| The Evening Light | 95 |
| The Promise of His Power | 99 |
| The Gifts of Healing | 100 |
| Who are The Elders? | 105 |
| What Kind of Oil to Use | 107 |
| Anointing and Consecration | 107 |
| Can I Be Healed? | 109 |
| Sick For The Glory of God | 109 |
| The Use of Medicine | 112 |
| Means Which God Blesses | 113 |
| The Prayer of Faith | 116 |
| Walking out Upon His Promises | 118 |
| Resisting Temptation | 121 |
| Resisting The Truth | 122 |
| Hindrances to Healing | 123 |
| Casting Out Devils | 124 |
| Sending Anointed Handkerchiefs | 126 |
| Spiritualism | 128 |
| Christian Science | 130 |
| Witnesses Since The Apostles | 131 |
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| A Wonderful Deliverance | 135 |
| The Blind Eyes Opened | 142 |
| Nine Years an Invalid | 145 |
| Corroborating Testimony | 149 |
| Physicians Baffled for Eleven Years | 151 |
| Deliverance from Disobedience | 152 |
| Healed, Soul, Body and Eyes | 155 |
| Motherhood | 157 |
| He Healeth Our Diseases | 163 |
| Touched with Divine Power | 165 |
| A Trial of Faith | 170 |
| Marvelous Healing of The Soul | 175 |
| The Family Physician | 182 |
| Healed of Rheumatism and a Stiff Joint | 183 |
| A Crushed Arm Healed | 187 |
| Healed of Tumor | 189 |
| At Death’s Door | 190 |
| Heart Disease Cured | 191 |
| Healed of Catarrh | 192 |
| Healed of Cancer | 194 |
| Restoration of Eyesight | 196 |
| Nasal Catarrh Instantly Healed | 197 |
| A Wonderful Cure of Consumption | 199 |
| A Little Boy’s Prayer Answered | 202 |
| How God Delivered Me | 206 |
| A Warning Against Opium | 217 |
| Devils Cast Out | 219 |
| The Blind and Lame See and Walk | 221 |
| Broken Bone Healed | 223 |
| An Anointed Handkerchief Applied | 224 |
| The Chastening Rod | 226 |
| A Friend in Affliction | 230 |
| Crutches Thrown Away | 233 |
| Healing of Cancer and Consumption | 235 |
| The Lord is My Physician | 238 |
| A Wonderful Answer to Prayer | 239 |
| A Change of Physicians | 241 |
| Confirming Testimony | 242 |
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Bro. A. N. Shinn, of Leon, Ia. desires the saints to pray for his son, Eddie, who is very sick with La Grippe.
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Hedrick, Ia.
Pray for my husband, who has backslidden and is now afflicted with deafness.
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Peone, Wash.
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The Lord willing, Bro. W. J. Henry expects to begin a meeting at Montague, Muskegon Co., Mich., April 27, to continue as long as the Lord shall direct. Let those near by attend if possible.
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Bro. G. T. Clayton writes concerning the Floating Bethel: “The Lord willing, we want to get it and get started in time to reach Parkersburgh, W. Va. by winter, as there is a large open field there. The money is coming in very slow yet we believe that it will come, for we believe the Lord has put it into hearts to give. Let every one give as he purposes in his heart and there will be no lack. The workers have already volunteered to go. It will probably take six years or more to make the trip. It will not only carry the blessed light to the four or five hundred towns and cities along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, but we will have access to many towns back on both sides. The gospel is to be preached to every creature. The traveling expenses in two years would probably amount to more for two companies than would pay for the boat. Those giving small amounts can throw together or give to some of the brethren in the ministry to send.
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Welland, Ont.”
A SOLEMN DUTY.
God has placed us in a very responsible position. The price of immortal souls will be required of us, if we warn not the people against every danger to which we see them exposed. The imperative demand of the Lord upon us, is to lift up our voice like a trumpet and warn all souls of all the snares of Satan. Accordingly we must inform the saints this week that there is a Mr. C. Woodruff who assumes the character of a preacher, and endeavors to class himself with the saints and is at the same time a real enemy! to God’s holy remnant, and a foe to the truth. In Northern Mich, about Muskegon, and now in the vicinity of Covert, Van Buren Co. the fruits of his life and preaching have been confusion, division and spiritual death. He wants the support of the saints, and yet, to please sectarians and secure their friendship and support, he is in the frequent habit of railing on God’s saints. This we can prove by holy men of God in the above named places. At a school house a few miles south of Muskegon, he publicly Mowed out a slander against two or three of God’s ministers. For this and other things. I personally, and in all kindness admonished him both privately and in the presence of witnesses. He did not deny having uttered the odious falsehood, but was not man enough to confess and renounce the sin of his action. Others have admonished him. And yet we have long forborne in silence, but knowing that the downfall of souls result from his influence, we cannot keep silence, and be clear in the sight of God. If any wish a sectarian, and very carnal preacher, you are in order to invite him and support him. But if you take him for any thing better, you deceive your soul without our encouragement. We pledge him our love and prayers and shall gladly receive him as a brother when he shows the fruits of repentance.
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QUESTIONS.
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1st. Who organized the Missionary Baptist church?
2d. When was the beginning of the Apostasy?
3d. Why do you commune with sect Babylon?
4th. What is the difference between the doctrine of holiness, and the Missionary Baptist?
John C. Senne,
St. James, Mo.
ANSWER.
1 st Question: In order to properly answer this question we shall have to close our Bible, and open some ecclesiastical history which gives an account of Christianity after the beginning of the apostasy. We do not find anything in the Bible about the Missionary Baptist church, consequently we can rest assured that Christ did not organize it. He was the founder of the “Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” — Acts 20:28. And this is the only church we read about in the Bible. Christ was the founder, the head, the organizer, and builder of this church; it is his body, and “he sets the members in the body as it pleaseth him,” bestowing upon them such gifts as they need.
Christ is the door into this church, and the only way to join it. is to be born into it. Salvation is the mode of induction, and the very moment a sinner repents and meets the conditions of God’s word, which is, to make a covenant with God, to serve him forever, that very moment God speaks the pardoning word, at which instant a birth of the soul takes place, and instead of being a sinner any longer, that person is now a saint, a member of the body of Christ the church, a child of God. whose name is written in heaven. The one who is born into the church of the living God by a spiritual birth, does not have to stand out on the porch for six months according to some Methodist custom, but salvation at once gives a person full fellowship with the Lord and his children. The Bible is all the creed or discipline needed.
In the church of God there are no sinners, because the moment one loses salvation, he is no longer in the church. In the church of God there are no branches by the name of Missionary Baptist, Methodist, or anything of the kind. Christ says, “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” Ye who are born of the Spirit. And if you do not bear fruit, you will be cut off as a withered branch. Then as the church of God is the only one spoken of in the Bible, we will have to close the good old book and look elsewhere for the Missionary Baptist sect, and we find that it is not a branch of the true church, but is a branch of Roman Catholicism, or some faction of some of the creeds of the apostasy. This sect was organized by a few persons who had either departed from the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, or were honest in their efforts to serve God, and yet did not discern the body of Christ, which is his church, and thus in their blindness organized something that God never ordered, nor gave them permission to do. So it was with all creed makers.
2d. About the close of the first century some began to depart from the faith once delivered to the saints and this state of affairs continued to grow, until two or three centuries later it was plain to be seen that the majority of Christians had passed into a state of apostasy.
3d. We do not commune with them. The word of the Lord says “Come out from among them and be ye separate.” – 2 Cor. 6:17. “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” – Rev. 18:4. It is true that God has a people, some good honest souls, who are yet captives in the different creeds, or denominations of to day, but to such ones he says, “Come out of her my people,” etc. He means they are not only to come out, but are to stay out and be a separate people, a peculiar people. Some say. “God never told ME to come out.” That may all be true, for if you are not a child of God to be sure he did not mean you, he only meant that each one of his children should come out, and certainly he did not mean you if you are not his child.
4th. A person may be a Missionary Baptist, a member in good standing, and yet not be holy; not he a fit subject for heaven. But what about holiness? Listen to the inspired word: “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” — Heb. 12:14. The Missionary Baptist is a society or faction of sectism, taking unto themselves a name which God never gave to his people, and persons do not join that sect by being born into it, by a spiritual birth. So it is with all sects. Holiness doctrine teaches against all sectism, teaches of the one church of which Christ is the door; and nothing but salvation can enter her portals.
E. E. Byrum.
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Camp Meetings
CAMP MEETING IN CANADA.
The Lord willing, a camp meeting will be held at Candesville, Ont. June 3—13. Come over and help us. Where ten or more come together, railroads will usually give reduced rates. We will try and get that privilege.
Those wishing to see Niagara Falls, come the day before and stop off at Welland. Those coming on the Mich. Central, stop at Perry Station. Over the Grand Trunk, stop at Marshville. (Air line division.)
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We have twelve cloth tents that will range between $2.25 and $3.00 each rental for the season. Order at once.
There will be free conveyance from stations.
Parties coming address Bro. James Johnson, Candesville, Ont. Parties coming to Welland or wishing any information, address me at Welland, Ont.
G. T. Clayton.
NOTE.
The above notice contained the announcement that I should be there, the Lord willing. Should the meeting not be otherwise supplied, we will doubtless be there. But having done much of the preaching on the same ground last year, we think the Lord will send some new sharp threshing instrument this season. Doubtless Bro. Grover or Bro. Palmer can go. Amen!
D. S. W.
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GRAND JUNCTION CAMP MEETING.
The time of this glorious convocation of the saints of the Most High, unless hereafter changed, will be June 14th to the 22d, 1892. The dear Lord is sending more workers on the ground, and we trust by his blessing, nothing shall be wanting to thoroughly set the ground in order, and furnish all necessary buildings. A good pavillion 40×70 will be erected, filled with comfortable seats. Also boarding and sleeping buildings.
Any one wishing a board tent put up on the ground will please notify Bro. A. B. Palmer at Bangor, Mich. and it will be built as cheap as possible. If any wish to rent tents also let him know. A very large attendance is expected, and it seems to us that the fire of the living God in our soul assures us that it will be the most glorious place, and season of divine power, grace and glory ever witnessed in these last days. Come in the name of Jesus, in the love of God, and in the Spirit of earnest prayer, and so come expecting glorious things from the presence of the Lord. Amen.
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NEWS FROM THE FIELD.
Natier, Mo., April 22, 1892,
To the Saints, Greeting: May the rich blessings of God rest upon you all. I am happy to testify that I am enjoying a full hand complete salvation in Jesus Christ. I came to this place two weeks ago to day, and have been holding meeting in the name of Jesus when the weather was fit, but the weather has been very much against us, there being much rain, mud and water in this bottom land, so that our congregations have been rather small. But a good interest has been manifested, and the Lord has been with us. The church has been strengthened and sinners have been convicted of sin and would like to be saved, but have not courage yet to break loose from the world and make the start. We have two other calls a short distance from here, to where we expect to go when the Lord is through with us here. We would say that we have purchased a tabernacle at St. Joseph, Mo. and it will be ready for business by May 1, or as soon as the weather will do. We are asking God to send some Holy Ghost baptized man, or man and wife, to labor with us the coming summer. Any of the saints wishing a tabernacle meeting will please correspond with us.
Address M. M. Stover,
Table Rock, Neb.
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Watkinsville, Miss., Apr. 19, 1892.
Dear Saints: May God bless you. Amen. God has raised up some witnesses for himself in Miss. Since our last in the Trumpet, the dear Lord gave us a glorious meeting, near this place. The first day was a day of fasting and prayer, and at the first service, one sister received the New Testament glory; and as the fire burned, others began to catch the flame, until hands were lifted up, (Heb. 12:12.) in holy triumph and praise to God, without it being the custom here, or anything said on the subject, showing how easy and natural it is to obey God, when filled with his glory. Before meeting closed they wanted an ordinance meeting, which was one of great power and glory from God, and to him be all the glory forever. It was just glorious how the dear Lord owned and blessed the feet-washing and communion services, fulfilling his word, ‘‘If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Jno. 13:17. Some said that it was the best meeting they were ever in. At the close of the ordinance service, I enquired if all duties were done, and a glorious testimony meeting followed, in which one after another said, “This meeting has been a feast to my soul.” At different places where we have held meetings since, God has raised up witnesses to the glory that makes his people one. — Jno. 17:22.
I expect soon if the Lord will, to go to meet with the saints near Hartselle, Ala., which will be our P. O. address for the next month.
Your saved and free brother living in the New Testament glory,
J. Cole.
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Fern, Pa., April 20, 1892.
Dear Brethren: May great peace and grace ever abide with the holy family of God every where. Amen. We are all well and fully saved in him, out upon the sea of glass with precious victory in our souls. When we came here, the opposition of darkness and prejudice against this way was strong, yet the Lord held all things in perfect subjection, and we have had good order. The congregations have been very large. Souls are being saved and set free in Jesus. On Monday Bro. Gilger and I went to visit Bro. Clark Davis, about four miles from Fern, who is in the last stages of consumption. He was in the first grace but the Lord sanctified him gloriously and made him very joyful in his soul and ready for his departure. We next saw Sister Stover who was gloriously healed of God. Her niece was also sweetly and joyfully converted to God. Hallelujah! Others are still coming to Jesus. Meeting will last ten days longer or more. If the Lord wills, about May 4, we go to hold a meeting in the Unionville hall, about a mile from Fertigs or Centerville. Let all pray much for us and the work in Pa. Any of the saints or friends who expect to attend the Pa. C. M., wishing canvas tents, let us hear from you, stating the size tent you want and about what you can or will be able to pay for one. We can assist in getting good tents and very cheap and see to it that they will be shipped to and set up on the C. M. ground. If the Lord wills we expect to get a tabernacle which will cost at least one hundred dollars. Let all whose means are the Lord’s send in your freewill offerings to pay for the same and thereby help in the great and glorious work of the Lord; as a tabernacle is very much needed for grove meetings and for town and city work. This tabernacle will come very serviceable and acceptable in Pa. this summer and also at the C. M. Address us at St. Petersburg, Pa., in care of Bro. John Morgan, and the Lord will truly bless and reward all the willing hearted for your offerings sent in unto the Lord. Much love to all the holy ones in the truth, and friends abroad.
Yours in him, sanctified wholly and kept,
F. N. Jacobson & Co.
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TESTIMONIES.
Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.
Psa. 119:129.
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Cochran’s Mills, Pa.
Dearly Beloved Saints: It is three years since the evening light was preached here. I thought the saints were deceived, but the good Lord was not slow in showing me the evil in sectism. Still I was unwilling to leave it. When Bro. Schell held meeting here I saw I would have to get out of sectism or lose my salvation. So now it is good-by babylon, forever. I belong to the Lord. The Lord is restoring unto me the joys of salvation more and more. How glad I am for this great Savior, who suffered to save this dying world, and oh how my soul loves to drink down the word of God! Brothers and sisters, let us be true to God.
Your sister,
Mrs. Wm. Shelhamer.
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Weston, O.
Dear Readers: We feel led to write our testimony once more. We praise God to day for salvation in his Son Jesus Christ, also for our deliverance out of Sect Babylon. Much darkness exists in this place. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. — 1 Pet. 4:12-14.
Wm & N. E. Long.
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West, O.
Dear Saints: I was taken sick on the 7th of March with Black Erysipelas. I doctored four days and was given up to die. I then came to God for help. I was a sinner but by the grace of God through faith I was healed soul and body. Pray for me that I may gain a deeper work of grace.
Your sister in Christ,
Mattie Shoup.
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Dear Saints: I will say to the glory of God that I am saved and sanctified this afternoon. And love the true way better and better. Glory to God! Pray for me that I may keep victory in this place.
Your brother under the blood,
Hugh Caudel.
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Harlan, Ind.
Dear Saints: Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the omnipotent power in saving me and keeping me saved. Praise the Lord for his Spirit which leads us in the path of truth and righteousness! I have the hope of eternal life, and the well of living water springing up into everlasting life.
Your brother saved through the precious blood,
Geo. W. Myers.
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Harlan, Ind.
Dear Saints: I am saved and kept by the power of God each day. Praise the Lord for salvation and for the healing power which he gives to his children! He has promised to be with us even unto the end of the world. So if we do his will and keep his commandments, when we meet with temptations, though they be ever so great, if we go to him in secret prayer he will make a way of escape. Praise the Lord for ever!
Your sister saved by grace,
Emma Myers.
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South Chicago, Ill. Dear Saints: I want to say that I am saved and kept by the power of God amid all the sin and confusion and false teachings, standing on the sea of glass mingled with fire, praise his holy name! Jesus is all in all to me. O how my soul longs to see some of God’s messengers fly over this way and preach the whole counsel of God in this wicked place.
Your saved brother,
J. B. Pitts.
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Irvine, Ky.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I want to give my experience in full for the glory of my blessed Master. I was born and raised in a good home. My father and mother were moral people, both church members. I was early taught to pray. We never had family prayers but the children all gathered around Mother’s knee and said their prayers. I knew very little of the sins of the world; I lived at home; my life was given to books and study. When about sixteen years of age I joined what is called the M. E. church, the church of my parents. Was baptized and felt my sins were all pardoned. After this I attended church, took part in the prayer meetings and testified regularly. But soon came a sad day for me. When nearly nineteen I left home to attend college. There was one boy in the school whom I knew; I was soon led astray by him, and now commenced a life of shame and disgrace. I soon learned to play cards, smoke, drink, attend theaters, balls, etc. This was kept up for two years. At last, in June, 1890 I graduated and went home a disgrace to myself, a disgrace to my family, and a disgrace to society. But glory be to God for deliverance! About four months later the Lord saw fit to send a man of God into our neighborhood to hold a revival. I went, out of a desire to see what a “holiness crank” would do. The Lord awfully awakened me. I felt that I was a lost, ruined, hell-deserving wretch. After a day or two of such agony the Lord came one night and spoke peace to my soul, while we were kneeling at the family altar, which my mother established that night. Glory! Glory! Well it was sky blue. It put me at work for Jesus. For awhile I had joy and peace from God, but soon I began to lose ground, and backslid into a life of sinning and repenting. Five months after my conversion, I got the witness back again and one month after, the dear Lord sanctified me wholly; blessed be his holy name! Since the twenty-fourth of last April the omnipotent God has kept me from sin. He freed me from all unholy appetites, desires and lusts, and filled my soul with peace and glory. I have tried the pleasures of life, having been to every place of amusement. I have tried every pleasure money could buy, having carried my father’s check books and checked when I pleased. I have tried the friendship of the world, but none of them ever satisfied my soul. But glory to Jesus! this full salvation does. Since I have been on the King’s side I have seen my mother and father gloriously sanctified. I find this great salvation takes all fear out and makes us bold for our Father. It makes us love to tell the story of the cross. It enables us to bless them that curse us, to “rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing and in every thing give thanks.”
I would not give one day of the life I now live, for all my life of sin, nor for the whole world. I feel a deep sense of my unworthiness of the least of God’s blessings; but through the infinite merits of Jesus, my sins which were many are all forgiven. The blood of Jesus now cleanseth me from all sin, and the blessed Holy Spirit dwells in my soul richly by faith, and God is my father and Jesus Christ is my elder brother.
Your brother in Christ,
Horace G. Turner.
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Otto, Kan.
Dear Saints of the Most High: We are praising God for a full and free salvation that is able to save to the uttermost. We never heard the truth in its purity until a little over a year ago when the Lord sent brother Markwell, Brother and Sister Louck, and Brother and Sister Sartin into our neighborhood. Afterward we were permitted to attend meeting held by Brother and Sister Cole and also a tabernacle meeting by which we were greatly benefited. The Lord has saved my soul and healed my afflicted body; cleansed me of the use of tobacco, for which we give him all the glory. Father’s mercies are abounding in love which is extended unto all which believe and obey. We praise his holy name that we are free from Babylon. We are standing alone in this neighborhood leaning on nothing but Jesus. Any one filled with the Spirit that could come to this place to preach would find a welcome at our home. Pray for us.
Yours in Jesus, saved and washed in the blood,
W. F. & Annette Jones.
Cheshire, Mich.
Dear Saints: I thought I would like to give in my testimony of what the Lord has done for me. He saves my soul just now, and sanctifies me by the Holy Ghost as a second work of grace. O praise God for the mighty keeping power! He has brought me through so far and will until the end. I had been a member of the M. E. for twenty-five or thirty years. When the saints first came into our neighborhood I went down to see what they were doing and I found they were the true children of God. I soon humbled myself before God. In the night the Lord let down a lamp before me and the blaze was going upward. Some said to me, Take hold of the light. I have that light now and am determined to see the end of a Christian race. I desire the prayers of the saints.
Your saved sister,
A. E. Stiff.
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La Paz, Ind.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel like giving a little of my experience. I wandered along for about eight years in sectism and I would lie awake at night and would think, Am I saved or not; and I began to get my eyes open and think where I was. I heard of this glorious light and cannot praise God enough for leading me out in his holy way. O glory to God! how precious he is to my soul! I feel free in Jesus. He says they that are free are free indeed. I do thank God for the blessed sunshine that shines in my soul. It is glorious to trust Jesus. He has so wonderfully healed my body at different times. I cannot express the love that I have for my dear Savior. He has promised to be a father to the orphans, and widow’s God. May God ever bless his dear children and keep them obedient in all things.
Your sister, saved and kept by the blessed power of God, ready to do whatever God puts upon me,
Catharine Forsyth.
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OBITUARIES.
Oakland Mills, Iowa.
Died, Mary A. Faulkner, March 13, 1892. She was born July 29, 1853; was converted about eight years ago, and was sanctified on her death bed. A short time before she breathed her last, she closed her eyes and began to talk to the Lord. In a few moments she began to praise God with all her power. Those that were in another room she called, and exhorted them to get saved before it was too late.
Charlotte Faulkner.
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Died, near Beaver Dam, Ind., Sister Mary Ellen Harsh, wife of Bro. Adam Harsh; aged 40 years and 16 days. Bro. and Sister Harsh were united in marriage Dec. 5, 1875. Ever since they have spent a peaceful and happy life together, until death severed the earthly tie. The last two years of Sister Harsh’s life were spent in the service of the Master, and when the death summons came, it found her prepared, having her work done and well done. She fell asleep in Jesus Apr. 8, 1892, leaving an unmistakable evidence behind that she was going home to Father’s house “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” A little while before she passed away she said to those around her, “Listen! what beautiful music! I shall soon be done with the cares of this life.” Shortly after, she closed her eyes and the spirit took its flight. Oh! precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. The funeral services were held at Yellow Lake Bethel, where a large congregation of friends and neighbors gathered to pay their last respects to the departed. Bro. F. Bear discoursed from Rev. 14:13. After which the deceased was taken to Palestine cemetery and laid to rest. We pray God to abundantly bless our dear Bro. Harsh and comfort his heart in this sad earthly loss, and also keep him faithful until his change shall come, and then the meeting will be glorious. Amen.
W. B. Grover.
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HEALTH DEPARTAMENT.
Colds.
“GOLDS are caused by, and even consist in SUPPRESSED PERSPIRATION; nor in anything else. They are occasioned thus: cold always contracts. This is an established law of things. Hence, a sudden change of the temperature of the skin from heat to cold, causes its pores to contract; many of them it closes. This shows why we perspire so little in colds, and also in fevers — especially obdurate colds. Nor do they consist in anything else than this closing of these pores. And the injury they inflict arises mainly from their shutting up this waste matter in the system. And the reason why, during colds, the lungs, nose, etc., discharge copiously a thick, yellow phlegm, is, that this corruption, shut in by the closing of these pores, yet being hostile to life, is carried to the lungs, and converted into phlegm, to the kidneys, bowels, and even to the brain, and discharged through the nose, and all the other outlets; and hence that increase of all these secretions as mentioned by Combe.
“Many of us know by experience, that these cold customers are exceedingly troublesome — know how dull, feverish, restless, and miserable they render us, and how full of aches, and pains they fill us. Colds are the principal cause of teeth-aches. If you have a bad tooth, it rarely troubles you except after you have taken cold, and the way to cure this painful malady, is to cure that cold which is its exciting cause.
Fevers too, are mainly the results of colds. That sand-bar of health, the fever and ague, makes its attack in company with colds. Avoid them, and you escape it. And those neighborhood distempers or epidemics which sweep over city and country, affecting nearly all, prostrating many, and cutting off more or less in the midst of life, are generally only colds and are thus prevalent because certain states of the atmosphere have conspired to occasion colds, and these the choleras, influenzas, or other prevailing diseases. Avoid these colds, and these plagues will pass you by as those of Egypt did the Israelites. Nor can you have a cold without having a fever. Hence the fallacy of that proverb, “stuff a cold and starve a fever,” for colds cause fevers. Though fevers may be caused by other violations of the laws of health, yet colds always induce fevers. Hence the adage “stuff a cold and starve a fever,” is erroneous. Bilious, and kindred attacks will be found almost always to have supervened on very severe colds, they generally commencing with chills, just as colds do; and though the stomach is also disabled, yet, but for the cold, the stomach would not have been broken down. It may have been previously foul, and have thus generated by means of imperfect digestion, a great amount of corruption, which, however, open pores would have continued to carry off; whereas, this outlet closed, it is retained, accumulates, obstructs, poisons, and at length prostrates, perhaps destroys life. I do not hesitate to reiterate what I have long and widely declared, in lectures and works, that I regard colds as the cause of more than half the diseases of our climate — of nearly all except those created by impaired digestion. Indeed, even when the latter breeds disease perpetually, open pores carry it off as continually, so that little damage is done. But shut these pores, and besides the waste matter retained, all that corruption engendered by imperfection in any of the vital organs, is also shut in to poison and destroy. In short, keep clear of colds, and you will escape disease; because other causes will rarely be sufficient to induce them. As five-eighths of the waste matter of the vital process escapes through the skin, why should not the closing of this avenue occasion that proportion of the diseases prevalent? Many will think I attribute more disease to colds than really belongs to them; but let such look at the universal fact, that they always precede and induce consumption, that great mower of human life. Did you ever know a consumptive patient whose attack did not set in after a terrible cold? — or rather, was not that cold protracted and aggravated? Colds induce coughs, as just explained by Combe, and that pulmonary irritation, cough, and final consumption of the lungs, which constitutes this mortal enemy to life, consist in nothing more nor less than an obstinate cold. I care not how predisposed, hereditarily or practically, persons may be to consumption, they will never have it till they take a “heavy cold.” Keep clear of these precursors and ushers of this disease, and I will insure your life against the disease itself. And those thus predisposed, should, in a special manner, guard against contracting colds, and when taken, break them up as QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE; for their LIFE depends upon the issue.
“Children still farther illustrate this principle. They rarely if ever sicken till they7 get COLD. Of the correctness of this assertion, let observation be the test. All colds do not make them down sick, yet they very rarely become sick till they have taken cold. Keep them from the latter, and I will guarantee them against sickness. Even when their disease appears to be seated in the stomach or other organs, its origin will generally be found in suppressed perspiration, as shown in the extract from Combe. All cramps and lung difficulties, are of course the direct products of colds. So are all brain fevers. So are ail influenzas, and almost all complaints incident to childhood. Keep the young from taking colds or break up all colds as soon as contracted, and they will never be sick, nor die except of old age.”
Physiology. Animal and Mental.
The above extract certainly is truth. Much has been written on different subjects pertaining to health, but that of the avoiding and treatment of colds has never received any too much attention. When we consider the real danger of colds, we cannot take too great pains in avoiding them. And when we learn that so many diseases have their beginnings in colds, and that so many people, who, despite their experience with them, are ignorant as to their causes and effects, the thought becomes appalling. J. Dorman Steele, a reliable scientist, says, “Where one person has been killed in battle, thousands have died of colds.” I suppose the reason that people are somewhat slow to believe this is that the fatal diseases, after being brought on by colds, take different names, and therefore the results are not attributed to colds. However, such is undoubtedly the case, that these are the general causes of disease and death. Were it not for the fact that the human consitution is capable of much endurance, and that it possesses much latent power of restoration to health, the amount of deaths would be increased by thousands. But the human body has wonderful mechanism, possessing its laws of action and being, like everything else. When the body becomes diseased. Nature tends to restore it to health. Nature would always have us healthy. So we know that when her laws of health are violated, and we become sick, she also applies similar laws of health to our recovery. But it is an alarming fact that the modern practice of medicine as it is generally carried on, is really but little in favor of Nature’s laws of recovery. For where we find a patient who is under the doctor’s care, we know that very little has been said about matters of ventilation, proper food, cleanliness, etc., which are some of Nature’s great remedies. What the consumptive patient wants, first of all, is pure air and pure, simple food. How few of them get it!
Now, to apply these universal laws of health to our subject, we have only; to say that if they are observed, we will be safely guarded against colds. Carefully avoid taking cold, or if you have taken one, break it up. The general rule for this is, “Keep the blood to the surface.” A cold contracts, and it chills the surface of the body and drives the blood inward. Perspiration ceases and the action of the skin in its important work is stopped, and we have a cold. To simply allow ourselves to get chilly is to take cold to a certain degree, and very often to no small degree. We have taken cold, perhaps oftener than we think we have; and since a cold does not leave us as it found us, we may not wonder that these causes, slight as may seem, often develop some lingering and fatal disease.
I feel that more should be written in the future concerning the prevention of colds, which will also require more about bathing, diet, clothing, etc.; and so we will close with this. Let all who read carefully take the pains to preserve your health, and if you are saved from a life of sin, you will greatly enhance the calm enjoyment of the Holy Spirit — the Comforter, of which your bodies are the temples.
A. L. Byers.
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The Devil’s Flying Roll.
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SOME years ago one James Jezreel, of England, wrote and compiled from some other authors, books called the “FLYING ROLL.” These, it was claimed, were the only true key to unlock the Old and New Testaments. We examined the books several years ago, and found them full of the kingdom of darkness. Jezreel claimed to be the instrument of God in founding on earth the true worship. If we mistake not, we read a claim that he should never die. But however that may be it came to pass that the great Jezreel also died, and went to his place. His sect was called the “New and Latter House of David,” and “Disciples of the Flying Roll.” After the death of Jezreel, his family was without a head. So it came to pass that one Michael X. Mills, a native of Elgin, Ont., an illiterate mechanic, who had embraced the Mormon, or “Latter Day Saint” abomination, changed over from that to the “Plying Roll.” and soon announced himself as Prince Michael, spoken of in Daniel 12:1, and elsewhere, and placed himself at the head of the Roll. Of course we have only the reports of newspapers to draw our information from, and no sensible man will implicitly credit all that they say; for we know that they often use all the license that the devil gives them to lie. However, an institution so manifestly of Satan himself, there is no reasonable grounds to expect the slanderous reports looked for when they apply their black ink in shading the true and holy work of God. Nevertheless we will not vouch for anything said in newspapers, even about the works of the devil; we only give it as their reports. In the main, however, there must be facts in what the papers have been so frequently reporting for some months past. Reporters of various papers have visited the scene, and concur in these statements. Michael the great Prince has announced that some great calamity or destruction is soon to befall all men, but these attached to the Flying Roll. He went to England to assume the headship of the Jezreelites but there they rejected him. So he has located in Detroit, and announces that as the city of deliverance, the place to which all their followers must assemble, who shall reach the number 144,000 spoken of in Revelations. And thither they are fleeing from every direction. The papers give the names of several families that have gone there from Richmond, Ind. Their place, and appearance is given as follows:
“The headquarters of the sect in Detroit are at No. 47, Hamlin Ave. This is their meeting-house, and adjacent to it are a score or more of pretty two-story houses, The inmates are well known by appearance in Detroit. Both men and women wear their hair! long and untrammeled by knots or ribbons.”
“Prince Michael declares that the spiritual meaning of Detroit is, ‘Do it right,’ and therefore God has sent for Ills people to gather there. And Michigan means, ‘Where Michael be- began.’
We quote the following letter written by the Prince to converts of the Roll yet in Richmond, Ind.
“ ‘The Israelites of the Lost Tribe’ in Richmond:
‘Dear ones, one and all, I send unlove to ye. I am more than thankful that it has pleased my Heavenly Father and Mother to clothe me with their holy spirit of love, truth, and power. I have proved the Flying Roll to be true and that I am the first one of the 144,000. I am Michael the Prince, that was to stand up for the people of God to deliver Israel. If you will search your Bible and roll you will know without a doubt that I am he, only a cleansed body for Christ to blow through, as I of myself can do nothing.”
The paper states. “They do not believe in marriage.”
We read in different papers the description of Michael’s spiritual household as follows; Namely, himself and nine “angels.” i. e.. women who were respectively named “Pity.” “Mercy,” “Charity,” “Love,” “Truth,” etc. These angels are what are doubtless denominated his “god head” in the following extract, which we will let speak for itself, and all may judge whether true or not.
THE PRINCE IN TROUBLE.
A FALSE CHRIST CAUGHT BY THE LAW.
A few months aw there settled in Detroit a religious sect known as the Flying Roll. The leader, who claimed to be a savior, was known as Prince Michael. The badge of the sect was their long flowing hair and beard, it being considered a sin to cat ..ither, and it was always worn flowing loosely. The colony numbered between 200 and 230 members and attracted considerable attention. Among the claims made by Prince Michael was that Detroit was to become the New Jerusalem when the select 144.000 had been gathered into the fold. Another feature of their belief is spiritual marriage and this has created much comment.
A few weeks ago a man named Richardson went to law to recover possession of his child who had been converted to the strange religion. Several others tried to get their sons and daughters, wives or husbands to forsake the colony. All this disturbance has had its effect upon the citizens of Detroit, but they were scarcely prepared for the latest and most revolting revelation.
Prince Michael had told his followers that he had a message from the Lord to take a spiritual wife and form a “god head” which should be composed of a number of women; he should also put away his own wife of the flesh. The “Prince” accordingly furnished up a house in sumptuous style and installed therein a woman known as Eliza Courts, two of her sisters and a number of other women, two of whom had been married “in the flesh.” Michael was the only male member of of the flock who resided with them. This went along very well for some time until the “Prince’s” wife grew weary of her desertion and asked her husband — whose name is Michael Mills — to allow her to enter his household; this was refused and she was warned not to repeat the request. Her feelings were deeply wounded and she resolved to have her lord punished. She therefore told her story to a lady friend who informed the authorities. She weakened, however, and returned to the colony where she was placed in a straight jacket, her feet tied, and in this helpless condition she was placed in one corner of a room in standing position for 12 hours and pointed out to the members of the “god head” as an example of the punishment all might expect if they rebelled.
When Mrs. Mills was released from her bonds she fully resolved to have revenge. She told a sad story which wrought up the feelings of the citizens and the result was that Prince Michael and his “god head” were arrested, charged with adultery and lascivious cohabitation. The testimony of the female members of the “god head” wits given unblushingly. They one and all acknowledged that they had been detailed by the Courts woman to occupy a certain room on certain nights and that they were joined by the “Prince” who remained with, them during the night and had always accomplished his purpose. A young girl 15 years of age said that the “Prince” had come to the room to which she had been assigned and had accomplished her ruin. The girl was so young and innocent that her testimony made a deep impression. Public feeling runs very high in Detroit.
The above looks pretty black on the ungodly head of a deluded sect. Previous Detroit and other papers, gave an account of the Richardson suit, for the recovery of his daughter and how an excited mob threatened the Prince. Hence it is evident there must be something of these things. Different reports state that all persons joining the sect are required to turn over all their property to the Prince, and one paper announced that some had come to realize that they had been humbugged, but were not able to recover their property.
When men claim the peculiar experience of the utter death of natural passions, they very generally turn out in the light of the above scene in the Detroit court. We have known several such instances. The ungodly Prince seeks to cover his lust, and avoid suspicion by giving the following experience:
“Michael, the Prince of this ingathering in Israel declares that he has already been freed from the uncleanness of Adam.” He writes, “I thought I was being torn to pieces; I was thrown to the ground and balls of fire flew from all parts of my body. I suppose I said. ’Praise God’ ten thousand times. I am freed from all bodily infirmity, and all food that before was agreeable, disagrees with me.”
To be delivered from the sin ward bent inherited from Adam, is scriptural salvation, but to claim an elimination of the natural. God-created appetites and passions, is a delusion of the devil.
Is it not strange that the most abominable creed that can be invented finds followers, who become the willing dupes of men. Whereas, to receive God’s free and complete salvation and follow Jesus only, in the beauty and glory of holiness, but few comparatively are willing?
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TESTIMONIES.
Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.
Psa. 119:129.
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Rev. Miss.
Dear Readers: I feel led to write my testimony. Twenty years ago I was justified; a little over two years ago the Lord sanctified me by a second work of grace. Praise the Lord! And he still keeps me saved by his mighty power. Bless his holy name! It is so blessed to have salvation. I am dead to the world and its pleasures, praise the Lord!
There is no preaching here but sect preaching. Pray the Lord to send some of his holy ministers here to preach the blessed evening light. I ask the dear saints to pray for me that I may be kept low and humble at the feet of Jesus. Amen.
Mrs. M. A. McLemore.
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P..enin, Arizona.
Dear Saints of the Living God: I believe the Lord wants me to write a few lines to the Gospel Trumpet, once more. I praise the Lord for saving me so wonderfully in this wicked country, surrounded as we are by wicked people. But the Lord has just lately raised up three of the members of another family to go with us and we have blessed fellowship together, and other dear souls inquiring the way. The F. M’s have organized their sect in Phoenix and have gathered quite a number into their net, and some have just become awakened and are seeking light from all sources. Oh that God may stir some dear consecrated souls to come to Arizona to teach this people the plain Bible truth! The sects are jealous of one another and are striving to see which will get the greatest number of souls into their sect. Dear saints, you that are enjoying the full blaze of gospel light, cannot some of you come to this western country? It is not so far away from you as California, and some go there. Dear ones, take it to the Lord in prayer and see if he does not send some of you here. How often people ask me. Why do none of your preachers come to Arizona? Dear Bro. Bunch that was just recently sanctified often says,” O how I do wish some one would come and teach us, for I need teaching!” And he does need teaching, and we all do, even though we may have been in the experience for years. We get hungry for gospel preaching. Were it not for the light we get through the Trumpet, and the pleasure of reading the blessed testimonies of the saints, we would not want to stay so far away from where we could hear if taught. But I am determined by God’s grace to do all I can for others; and though some scoff at us there are a few that will hear, and praise the Lord it does us good to find them. The Lord sends them to us and gives us light and his spirit to help us teach them all we know. Now dear saints, when you are praying for other wicked countries, don’t forget to pray for Arizona, and the resolute few that are here.
From your sister in Christ, saved and sanctified,