14 March 1895, Volume 15, Number 11.
TWO PICTURES.
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(THE SINNER.)
This life, to me, is empty and vain,
Naught else but sorrow, trouble and pain,
Terror so cold.
Storm clouds gather, the wind and the rain,
And wild surging torrents blow stream upon
Over my soul. [stream
There is no peace to the wicked. I’m told;
Rest is not purchased with silver or gold,—
Troubled so deep.
Whene’er I think of the world beyond this,
There appears just before me an awful abyss;
Dark is the leap.
My soul is in torments, dark waters submerge,
I have no song save a hideous dirge, —
Full octave.
Rome fiendish spirit holds me in bond,
No other will but to serve the wrong, —
Miserable slave.
Wretched, O God! so wretched and sad!
Earth has no charms to make my heart glad —
Sorrowful tale.
Hissings and burnings from regions below,
Kindle upon me, my soul filled with woe,
Flames of hell.
(THE SAINT.)
This life, to me, is hopeful and bright,
Around me shines a beauteous light
Mellow as gold.
Glory from a fountain pure and serene,
Flows so gently, stream upon stream
Over my soul.
So deeply shadowed from burning heat,
In a secret tower where rest is sweet, —
Blessed fane.
A refuge secure from storms that blow,
Safe hiding place from every foe, —
Jesus’ name.
Rocked in from Satan’s poisoned dart,
Lost, to every charm of art,
Happy and free.
Hid in my Savior, deep as ocean cave,
Streams of sweet music, wave upon wave,
Steal over me.
Happy, O Jesus! so happy and blest,
All heaven seems lodged in my poor breast;
Glory to God!
Caught upward in glory to heavenly seat,
Reigning triumphant in Jesus complete, —
Blissful abode.
— C.Orr.
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WHY I AM WHAT I AM.
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Mr. Ray of Missouri, once wrote a continued and lengthy article, in which he set forth the doctrines of the Missionary Baptist sect. And as those doctrines filled the measure of his highest conceptions of Christianity, he gave them as his reasons for being a Missionary Baptist.
I could not accept Mr. Ray’s reasons as stated in his article. I might understand those doctrines as thorough as Mr. R. and endorse them just as heartily as he, but that would not make me a Missionary Baptist. I must go through a certain process. I might obey every word taught by Jesus Christ from Matthew to Revelations, and still not be a Missionary Baptist. I might receive the spirit of sonship, and seek and obtain membership in any one of the now-existing sects found in the Baptist order of succession, and still miss the mark.
There is only oneway to become a Missionary Baptist; here is the secret. A Missionary Baptist preacher will ask those that wish to unite with them, “Please come forward and give us your hand.” The candidate follows the direction, then he or she is asked to take a front seat, is asked a few questions and is requested to make a confession, or profession of their acceptance with God. This done (sometimes the preacher makes the confession audible), the deacon moves that the candidate be received. Motion may be objected to and objections stated, or motion seconded. The congregation votes by uplifted hand. This done, candidate is then conducted to the water and is baptized by a Missionary Baptist preacher under Baptist authority. We give the TEXAS BAPTIST STANDARD on Baptist authority.
“In order to be a disciple we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be immersed in water by a properly constituted authority. The only properly constituted authority is a Baptist preacher, backed by a Baptist church.”
This being done, candidate appears a second time before the congregation and a fellowship hand-shake is extended by the preacher to the candidate, then by the congregation, and their name is written by the clerk. The communion and other equal privileges are granted. Thus they are conducted into the fellowship and membership of the Missionary Baptist sect, the process that makes Baptists. And then they can learn and fill up on Baptist doctrines and theology at leisure, and that is why they are what they are.
A Methodist preacher once said, “God made a Methodist of me;” and others have said, “I am a Methodist, or Presbyterian, etc., and hope by the grace of God to continue faithful.” This is all a sad mistake. God never put up manufacturing establishments to make Methodists. The salvation plan was completed over seventeen hundred years before a Methodist factory ever turned a wheel, and it was said in those days while the apostles were yet living, “Ye are complete in Him;” “perfect entire, wanting nothing.” If God’s grace would make Methodists and keep them faithful to Methodism in these days, it surely would when first given, for it came in all his fulness. See Jno. 1:16. Abundance of grace. Rom. 5:17. Methodists have a process to take their candidates through, and thereby make Methodists of them. Every sect has its own plan or method, in producing members after their kind. Preacher factories of every type can be analyzed in a similar manner, and it matters not who the candidate may be, nor which factory he runs through, he always comes through bearing the name or brand of his factory.
It is not necessary for me to analyze every sect factory, and their various processes, all of which differ widely from the word of God: you can do that at leisure. And I will now tell you
WHY I AM WHAT I AM.
For I am a member of the church of God, as named by the mouth of the Lord. See Isa. 62:2. Acts 20:28 1 Cor. 1:1; 10:30; 15:19. Gal. 1:13. 1 Tim. 3:5, 15. While from various phazes God’s church bears every Other appellation found in the New Testament. But what did I do to become a member of God’s church? may be the query in many minds. It was not what I did, but what God did for me that made me what I am. “But by the grace of God I am what I am.” 1 Cor. 15:10. Many good honest souls are led astray by thinking it is something they can do that will make them members in God’s church. Like one man that joined a sect; he said, “I have done my do,” and God had done nothing by way of saving his poor soul. Yes, many will wake up in eternity having followed the same course this poor man did; while the apostle said, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.” Titus 3:5. And this salvation is by grace, Eph. 2:8, and not by works. Rom. 4:1-8, 16; 11:6. But I am what I am by the grace of God. As I stated, I am a member of the church of God. God’s grace made me such. The whole family of God, Eph. 3:15 and 2:19-22, is his church, 1 Tim. 3:15, the body of Christ. Christ being the head, Eph. 1:20-23. God’s grace or salvation will make you a member of his church, and nothing else will. But it never has, and never can make a person a member of any sect. Sects are not thus formed. If grace constituted membership in a sect, or sects, then I would be a member in such a sect or sects, because I have that grace. But no, no; they would all quickly say, “You may have the grace of God, but you have not joined us; you are not one of our members; your name is not on our record; you have not submitted to our authority, etc., we cannot acknowledge you.”
THE METHODISTS.
A Methodist preacher once told me that the Methodists were orthodox, or Biblical in doctrine; their doctrine was taken from the Bible verbatim, or in essence, therefore could not be questioned. I replied. “If the Methodists were orthodox in doctrine, they had an orthodox method of receiving members into church fellowship. Please show me by the Bible how I may become a member of the Methodists.” He said, “You know every society has a process of taking in members, also expelling them.” “Yes.” “And so the Methodists have a process.” “Certainly, and if they are orthodox, there must be an orthodox way of induction. But as they do not have any orthodox way of entrance, they are not orthodox.” But I propose to obey the whole word of God, and if obeying it puts me into the Methodist sect, in I go; and if there is another sect on earth I can get into by obeying the whole word of God, in I shall go And I shall not stop till I belong to all the sects. This proposition holds good until the day of my death. But as yet I find no Bible way into sects, and no D. D’s to assist me. Therefore, by the grace of God, I am what Lam.
With ho addition to,
And no subtraction from
What grace alone can do,
And grace alone hath done.
But were I to unite with any religious body, I become a sectarian by that act, and I would be the responsible party. But if, on the other hand, I let the contract to the Lord, and he undertakes for me, and by his grace unites me to himself, and this union with God unites me with all that are united with him, God is the responsible party; I have escaped the sin of sectism, and God’s grace makes me what I am. Then as my will is absorbed in God’s will, I have no choice but his, and as it pleased God to make me a member of his church, it just suits me.
GOD’S CHURCH, WHAT IS IT?
It is the fullness of the divine author and founder, Eph. 1:23. as embodied in the atonement imparted by grace. It includes the conviction and forgiveness of sins, the crucifixion of the old man, the gift of the Holy Ghost, all the gifts and graces of the Spirit, with all their offices, powers, working authority and blessing, etc. And “it is the same God that worketh all in all.” “Having this treasure in earthen vessels.” Therefore, “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?”
A summary of these facts is this, The fullness of God’s salvation, by grace, in all the redeemed, under the law of God’s holiness, Christ being head, constitutes God’s church. Then by the grace of God his church is what it is, and I am what I am.
Yours, saved,
Geo. L. Cole.
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SO WHIG BESIDE ALL WATERS.
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BLESSED are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the ox and the ass.
Here we have a type of the minister compared to the humble creature spoken of by the prophet. And now he sends us forth, but he has his way of sending; and those who will be used and take part in the sending have the blessing upon them. Many to day who have accepted the truth, and enjoy the holiness of the Bible, see the great need of the truth going forth; they feel in their souls a burning desire to help, and some have no talent for the field work, yet they have a care for souls, and God seems to be demanding something of them. They do not know what, so they say, If I could talk or sing as such a one, then I would go. Perhaps God does not want you to go; he has something else for you to do. As we read, He sets the members in the body as it hath pleased him. And Peter tells us that we are lively stones, so then, surely there is something for each one to do. Perhaps God has so prospered and trusted you with this world’s goods not only much, or it may not be much, but something that will bring much. And since he has not called you to forsake home and loved ones, perhaps he requires you to sacrifice something on this line; and you have the privilege of sowing beside all waters, and doing far more than you could by going forth into the field.
God has heard the prayers and cries of the saints for the truth to be sent to every land, also has laid his hand on some to go, who are saying, “Yes, Lord, only open the way;” and now here is some money needed. You have said, “My money, my time, my all is thine.” Now, here is a chance for you to keep your covenant by giving. Remember not to give sparingly, but as God has prospered you. Those whom God has called are willing, and gladly go. You ought to feel the same in giving. Remember, they give all; and you say, “Must I give all?” I do not say how much you shall give, but the Lord will teach you, and when you obey God you will be happy in your soul. And when souls are saved through your means you remember you have a part. Praise the Lord! But let us see how we shall give.
Some may say, “We have given so much, and, in fact, more than Bro. so and so.” Well, perhaps you have more to give; and to whom much is given, much is required. Now, here is just how you ought to give. Every man according as he hath purposed in his heart so let him give, not grudgingly, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. But some may say, “Yes, I see so much is needed and I could give half, or all, only that would take all I have in the bank, or make my bank account so small, and then In case of sickness or some misfortune, I will need it. But God is able to make all grace abound to you, that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work. Amen. 2 Cor. 9:8.
O ye of little faith! As it is written, he hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth forever. Truly, we all have the privilege of taking part in this work.
I am made to think of the dear ones at the Office, who are busy day by day sending forth truth to perishing souls, and to push the battle, and my heart is made sad to think they should be hindered on account of means. Oh our heart crieth out to God to search every heart, and that you may say, “What can I do?” and then do it. As I was reading of the amount of money that was paid out for postage, I thought of the little things we could do. Most all could send a few stamps, ten or fifteen cents worth, who could not give a dollar. Some may say, “We do not like to see so much in the Trumpet about money.” Well, dear ones, if each one would keep fully consecrated so the Lord could speak to them it would not be so; but since they do not, God sees some drifting this way, and stirs some one to write before some have become fatally wounded, as Paul said to Timothy, “Charge them which are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. That they do good, that they be rich in every good work, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up for themselves a good foundation against that day, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” We see God has given us richly all things to enjoy, but how many to day are laying up treasures on this earth instead of using and enjoying them, which we are told will only be a witness against them in final judgment. “Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries which shall come upon you. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye heaped treasures together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries have entered into the Lord of sabaoth.”
And now, dear ones, truly one of great curses in the world to day is the rich oppressing the poor. Surely God will not always keep his anger, and methinks I hear him say, Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wanton. Ye have nourished your heart as in days of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist. Oh what a picture of things! Some one may say, “This does not mean me, for I have not robbed or cheated the poor.” “Will a man rob God? But you will say, How have we robbed? In tithes and offerings.” This is the reason that so many are lean in their souls. We read of the seed being received among thorns. It is he that heareth the Word, and the cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches hath choked the Word, and he becometh unfruitful. Then they will say, perhaps to some of God’s children, “Depart, be ye warmed and filled; we pray God to bless your labors, and supply your every need,” when God is talking in your soul, telling you what your duty is.
Oh, the Lord help such a one to wake up to the fact that you are hindering the work, and God will hold you responsible for souls; and fancy yourself standing at the bar of God in the great and final day, guilty of the blood of souls, and now awake to the fact that God’s wrath shall soon sweep over the earth. And when you pray for the Trumpet family, and those of God’s children who have left all to rescue souls, ask God to help you to do your duty, and then pray for others. You need not pray for God to send means for the work, when you are holding back that which the Spirit makes known you should do. Perhaps God is calling for a few pounds, or dollars. Now, if you do your duty, then ask God’s blessing on the same. He will hear. Amen. Do you know, dear ones, that the tracts and Trumpets find their way to many souls which we could not reach, and is such a messenger of truth that some have made their escape? Oh, who would not help with means and prayers in such a work! It seems some have failed
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Requests for Prayer.
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PLEASE pray for the healing of Mary Pinson, who is afflicted with heart disease.
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PRAY for the healing of Elizabeth Heightly.
Martin Myers.
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PRAY Mar. 15, for the healing of baby’s eye.
Hettie E. Heath.
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I AM very much afflicted in body, and have a severe cough.
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PLEASE pray for the healing of my eyes. Your sister,
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Barron, Wis.
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I AM very sick. Pray that the Lord may heal me.
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PRAY Mar. 23, at 11 o’clock for Lester Stevenson, a boy eleven years of age, who is blind and otherwise afflicted.
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DEAR SAINTS: Please pray for my sister’s little boy, ten years old, that he may be healed of kidney trouble. Pray with us Mar. 20, at 8 o’clock in the evening. Your sister in Christ,
Sarah A. Allen.
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PRAY that my little boy, Willie, and my husband may be healed of sore eyes. They have been afflicted some time. Your sister in Christ,
Augusta Klemme.
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PRAY Mar. 24, 11 a. m. for the healing of Martin Davis’ bodily affliction. He has been afflicted six years with fits. Doctors have failed to do him any good.
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Dear Saints of the Living God: I sent a request to the Trumpet office last fall for the saints to pray for the healing of my body. God heard your prayers and healed my body. And now I have contracted a bad cold, and I desire your prayers that I may be healed. I am so hoarse it is difficult for me to talk. Your brother, saved and sanctified,
Edwin Cobb,
Buchanan, Mich.
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Dear Saints of God: I am saved and sanctified. I am trusting in Jesus for the complete healing of my leg. By the grace of God I am going to serve God and do his will. My father is justified. Pray that he may be sanctified. I am fifteen years old. I requested prayers some time ago, and the Lord wonderfully answered your prayers. Your saved brother in Jesus,
John Leiby.
So. Chicago, Ill.
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ANY one traveling through this part of the country preaching the pure gospel, we would be glad to have them stop and visit us, as we have never heard the saints preach.
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Hollister, Cal.
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EDITORIAL.
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Grand Junction camp meeting, June 11-18.
Now is your time to get literature cheap.
Since our offer of 100 books of “Divine Healing” for $10.00, some have written and asked if we will sell them at the same rates in lots of fifty. From how until April 15, we will sell the twenty-five-cent edition for 10 cts. each, where fifty or more are ordered at one time.
UNTIL April 15, when cash to the amount of $3 00 or more is sent for books to be sent by freight, we will sell any books that we publish here for one-half the regular retail price. This offer brings some of them below cost price, and will not continue longer than the appointed time. So now is your time to buy books. But this offer does not include Bibles and other books not published here.
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We have 300,000 tracts for sale, English and German, from one to seventy pages, which we offer until April 15, to send by freight, at only 12 cts. a pound. This includes any of our tracts which have been selling for 5 cts each, or less. No orders sent at this price unless $2.0o worth or more are ordered, with cash. In these special offers, the purchaser is to pay freight charges. Get a box of tracts to distribute on your way to camp and grove meetings in cities, place in depots, etc., and God will bless your labors.
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At 12 cts. a pound, you get from 800 to 1600 pages for 12 cts. Can you not afford to get a supply of tracts for free distribution? This includes about twenty ($1.00 worth) of the Church tracts for 12 cts., and about the same amount of Ordinance tracts, if desired, over sixty of the “Secret Vice,” etc., etc. We will make an assortment of all kinds, or fill order according to your own selection.
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HARMONIZE.
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WE are requested to harmonize Jno 1:19-21 with Mat. 11:14 and 17:12. The first text reads as follows: “And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.”
The second: “And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”
“But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.”
In Mal. 4:5 it is written, “Behold, I send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” In the above passages from Matthew, Jesus clearly points to John, his fore-runner, as the fulfillment of this prophecy. Elijah and Elias are simply different forms of the same name.
In most all cases prophetic characters have been introduced in some way that described their peculiar character and work without the use of their name. Therefore we could not expect John the Baptist to have been pre-announced by his own name; but he was introduced as Elijah or Elias. The reason for this is given in Luke 1:17, “He shall go before him [Christ] in the spirit and power of Elias.” A similarity in the nature and manner of these two heralds of the Lord, distinguished the latter by the name of the former. But when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him who he was, “he confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.” There is nothing strange, nor yet contradictory to the words of Christ in these words of John. The denial was in reality, correct. He was not the identical prophet, Elijah. And as for confessing that he was the person predicted in that name in prophecy, it was more consistent with real humility and self-abasement that he should leave that for his Master to confess. “Art thou that prophet? No.” Alluding, no doubt, to the prophet spoken of by Moses in Deut. 18:15-18, which is Christ himself.
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News from the Field.
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Albany, Ore., Mar. 4. 1895.
Dear Saints: We are glad to report perfect victory. Souls are being saved and sanctified, and the Lord is confirming the Word with signs following, The Lord has brought Bro. Jas. Peterman to our assistance, who will labor with us this summer, the Lord willing. If any one wishes our labors between here and southern Oregon, please write us soon. Dear ones, pray much for us. Your brother sanctified wholly,
J. L. Green,
Woodburn, Ore.
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Cold water, Mich., Mar. 7, 1895.
Dear Saints of God: May the riches of heaven’s grace be yours. Last Sunday evening, closed a meeting held at Branch, near Coldwater, Mich., in which the Lord used dear Bro. Eldridge and Co. for nearly two weeks. Much gospel truth was presented to the people which was seemingly sown into good and honest hearts with but little prejudice, and we “trust the seed-sowing will result in a good harvest in the near future. There were a few consecrations, and some healing done. To God be all the glory. Dear Sister Moor is engaged in a good sabbath school work there in which she is laboring almost entirely alone. She feels that the Lord would have me come and take charge of a class of about eighteen young people, and help them in the evening meeting. Pray for me, that I may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Yours for God and precious souls,
Nina Smith.
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Bliss, Mich., Mar. 4. 1895.
Dear Ones in Christ: We have just closed a meeting at Cross Village. We had bitter opposition from the very first. But in spite of all hindering causes we had a good congregation most of the time, though a good many of them were dusky faces, as this is an Indian village. But the Indians are nearly all Catholics. We did not have much opposition from that direction. There were no consecrations at this place, but there has been a great deal of prejudice removed. The sinners were very kind to us here and did all they could to make it pleasant for us, and I think the time is not far distant when the Lord will reap a harvest from the seed sown. There were several under conviction and stayed away from meeting, thinking they could not serve the Lord amid so much opposition. We pray the Lord to bless and save their souls, also the dear ones who so kindly cared for our needs while we were there. We expect to go from here to Levering and then to Cheboygan Co., the Lord willing. Pray for us. Yours in the love of Jesus kept by the power of God,
Allie R. Fisher and Della Gardner.
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West Point, Pa., Mar. 4. 1895.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel to report that through the goodness of God we are rejoicing in a free, and full salvation. On January 10, we left Iron Bridge, Pa. and went to Limerick Pa., where we remained three weeks and then returned home for ten days, after which we went to Philadelphia Pa., for two weeks, when duty called us home again. At the two former places there were no consecrations, but the seed sown will, I think, bring forth fruit unto everlasting life. At the latter place there were three consecrations, and a few others interested in the truth. There are three or four doors open there for meeting, and I feel the Lord would have some one go there and continue the work. To whom is the Lord speaking and saying, Go! Whoever it may be arise and go immediately at the Master’s voice, for the harvest truly is ripe. There are many seeking the right way and cannot find it in Babylon. Pray for us as we need your prayers very much. The work is not opened much in the east of Pennsylvania, and I feel that the Lord would have some good consecrated company come and labor here and stay as long as the Lord wills, one filled with the holy fire of God. Yours and Christ’s,
B. F. Weikel and Co.
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Anlo, O., Feb. 27, 1895.
Dear Holy Brethren, Greeting: Not having written to the Trumpet for some time we feel it would be to the glory of God, and the encouragement of the brethren to do so. Since the assembly meeting at Holiness Chapel in Clark Co, O., we have held meetings as follows: at Millerstown, O., a two week’s meeting; at Antwerp, O. we held a meeting for a little over two weeks; at Burket, Ind., two weeks. We also attended a part of the assembly meeting at Payne, O. All the above meetings were very successful. At Millerstown, O. eleven souls were saved, The evening light was first held up in those parts at the tabernacle meeting we held a few miles east of Millerstown last September. God has now a little church in those parts, numbering nearly twenty-five. The hearts of many who have not given themselves to the Lord, are won to the truth. Quite a few souls were saved at Payne, and also at Antwerp, but we cannot give the exact number. The meeting at Burket was begun by the brethren of those parts, Feb. 1. We arrived there Feb. 5th, and remained until the 21st, when we returned home to our family from which we had been absent for two months. Twenty souls were saved during our stay with them. The brethren felt led to continue the meeting, after our departure, over the following Sabbath, and did so with grand success, for we learn through a letter from one of the brethren that ten more souls were saved: making thirty in all saved during the meeting. To God be all the glory. The Lord willing, we shall commence a meeting at Casstown, in Miami Co., O. March 2. Let us have an interest in your prayers, brethren. Yours and Christ’s,
Wm. G. Schell.
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Grand Junction, Mich., Mar. 4, 1895.
Dear Brethren and Sisters: We are rejoicing in the Rock of our salvation. We commenced meeting Dec. 25, near Jamestown Centre, which continued thirteen days. The Word went forth, and we trust that good was done. God bless the church there, and may they sink down deep into God, and see no man save Christ Jesus, and be a fruitful remnant, The Lord reward those that supplied our needs. Jan. 5, we joined Bro. Palmer in Cheshire, where God was backing his Wont with power. Several consecrations were made and witnessed by the Spirit. Large crowds filled the school house almost every evening, but we fear many hearts have become hard by refusing to obey the Spirit’s call. Meeting closed Jan. 20. We commenced meeting at Kendall Feb. 1, which continued twenty-four days, Bro. Palmer came Feb. 13. and remained with us one week. God used him in sending forth much of the Word, which was food to the hungry, but hail stones to the crooked, croaking spirits. God’s word drew the line (and not we ourselves), which exposed those dinging to other idols. Sectism is certainly dead; yes, twice dead; and many were honest to acknowledge of a truth we preached the pure Word. A number were reclaimed, and others consecrated for sanctification. They desire to be baptized soon; also the church there wish to have an ordinance meeting. God bless them for their kindness. We need your earnest prayers to be kept humble. Your brother and sister in search for the lost,
A. M. and K. L. Bixler.
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Doniphan, Mo., Mar, 5, 1895.
Dear Trumpet: God our Father is still blessing our labors. We had a standing call from this place for some time. The Lord led us to come and fill it. Arrived on Monday, Feb. 25. found a house ready and meeting appointed for Monday night. God has been with us in power. We held our first street meeting of the season here on Saturday at three oclock, in front of the court house. A large gathering collected while we sang, “He pardoned a rebel like me.” They listened with much interest while we talked to them about salvation. Brethren, I rejoice that the season is just here that we can begin our street and tent meetings again. We distributed about fifteen pounds of tracts, and you should have seen with what eagerness they received them after listening to the truth. Our manner of distributing tracts, we think the proper method. Upon the receipt of a box of them, we provide ourselves with a ball of wrapping cord, taking one of each kind and tying them in a bunch, thereby making a neat package for the pocket. In this way many thousand reach homes that they could not be gotten into any other way. Besides, these street meetings reach a large class of people who never enter a house where our meetings are held. There was a scope of country represented here on last Saturday of a radius of twenty miles around this place. And those tracts have gone into every adjacent neighborhood. We hold these street meetings constantly all
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through the spring, summer, and fall, need an abundance of holiness literature for this purpose, tracts and Trumpets. We have bought quite a quantity, all our spare means going to the Trumpet office for that purpose. God leads us to ask who will send of their means as the Lord has prospered them to the Trumpet, so that we may have an abundance of tracts and Trumpets to distribute? Brethren, the world is hungry for the truth. We make this call, and we have delivered our souls. Our tent will, the Lord willing, be erected on or about April 1st, at Mammoth Springs, Ark. Dear Bro. Farquar is still with me, and the Lord is using him to his glory. I send an earnest call for the saints everywhere to pray for my healing. I am suffering with diver complaint and an impure state of the blood. Please pray Sunday, March 17, for my healing. Your saved brother,
G. B. Collins.
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Queen City, Mo. Mar. 6, 1895.
Dear Saints: As this is my first attempt at giving a general account of the work the dear Lord has been doing, I will be brief. Last October the work began in Bro. Hopkin’s neighborhood, near Danville, Ill., after which I had the pleasure of working with dear Bro. Pike in several meetings, parting with him at Evansville, Ind., with victory all along the line. Then my route north as far as Danville was crowned with successs Then a call came from Missouri, which by the grace of God only, I have been able to fill. Have been here about two months, just closed the third meeting with a glorious victory from beginning to end. Sixteen consecrations in all; quite a number were under conviction, but failed to get to the important point, death to sin. I expect to start east in a few days to join wife and Sister Metter at Todd’s Point, there to begin a line of meetings through Illinois and Indiana, via Paris, Ill. and Hadley. Ind Persons in this line desiring meetings can write us at Todd’s Point, Ill. until about the first of April, then at Hadley, Ind. Yours all on the altar,
W. A. Davison.
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Tekoa, Wash., Feb. 22, 1895.
Dear Reapers of the Trumpet: Those who have written to us of coming and making it your home in Washington, for particulars concerning the climate, productions, etc, I have referred all such communications to Bro. Jas. Ramford, who is in charge of the saints’ school and home, Box 50, Pullman, Wash. Those who expect to move West this season, I would advise you to come out here in March or by the forepart of April, as this is the best time of the year for settlers and new-comers for homes. You will then be on time to take in our annual camp meeting, eight miles from Colfax, about June 20th, the Lord willing. The annual Washington camp meeting will be held about the same time, and in the same grove as last year — in the Mc Croskey grove, about eight miles from Colfax. I believe, and feel deeply impressed in the Spirit, that this meeting will be the most glorious, spiritual, and largely attendee camp meeting of the saints yet held in the evening light, on the Pacific coast. All who possibly can, look earnestly to God to open the way for you to attend this meeting. We earnestly invite all the saints, kind readers of the Trumpet, and all seekers after light, truth, and healing of soul or body to get ready in time and come to this meeting. Let the saints and readers of the Trumpet in Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington, from the mountain regions to be sure and come. We hope the Lord will also send the saints and workers from the Willamette Valley to this meeting. Let there be much, and constant prayer to God for the success of this camp meeting. You will also have the privilege of visiting the saints’ school and home.
F. N. Jacobson,
Box 56, Pullman, Wash.
A WORD OF ADMONITION.
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Fresno, Cal., Mar. 3, 1895.
Dear Readers of the Trumpet: Although many months have passed since our last report, yet, glory to Jesus, we are still treading the narrow way, with victory in our souls over sin. Praise the Lord! We are kept each day by his power through faith unto salvation. We have had many precious seasons of refreshing, with seasons of trial, and much opposition to the pure word of God, and much prejudice in the hearts of sectarians, and persecution from the same source. But, praise God! his grace is sufficient. There has been a gathering in, and a falling away. We were compelled to abandon two meetings on account of such stormy weather that the people would not turn out. We met with the church at Drumm Valley on our return from Kern City; bund them in the full enjoyment of the Holy Ghost. Met at Bro. M. P. Elam’s and had a wonderful time of rejoicing under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit, and shouts were heard from nearly every one present. Hallelujah to God in the highest for the privileges we enjoy in him, and of meeting together in heavenly places!
Dearly beloved, there is a thought that engages my mind, that from experience and personal observation, and the reading of the Word, I have been impressed for some time that it would be to the glory of God to write a few lines concerning. I find an error existing (if I may call it an error) among the followers of Christ, which I am led to believe in many cases is an error of the head and not of the heart. However, God has given us plain directions how to conduct ourselves, and how to govern the body. God says, “He that offendeth not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.” Jas. 3:2. Very true; but while we are striving to avoid offense with our fellowmen, let us be careful that we do not offend God, or any part of his law; for he says, as. 2:10, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” Again, he says, Matt. 18:15-17, Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go to thy brother and tell him his fault between thee and him alone; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church.” Again, Gal. 6:1, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness.”
Here, dear ones, in many cases is where the mistake is made. Instead of obeying the Word on these points, for lack of courage or Christian boldness, we are liable to begin talking it over among ourselves, instead of telling him his fault between him and thee alone. I have had individuals talk to me of what they took to be faults in others. I have asked them: Have you told them their faults between them and thee alone? And very often they would reply, “Oh, no: it would be useless for me to say anything to them, it would only drive them farther away. It will take some one that is not so well acquainted with them to do anything with them.” Dear ones, why should we hesitate when God has commanded it to be done? Do your duty in the spirit of meekness, and you have cleared your skirts. Do not treat them coolly without giving your reasons. For I have known cases of this kind when I was satisfied that the individuals were just as unconscious of why they were coolly treated as could be.
Now, dear ones, I do not write this as judging, for I have seen and heard for myself and know whereof I speak; and may the dear Lord help us to obey his Word all things. “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.” This means all of them, and these things above mentioned are some of his commandments. I do realize that the devil is surely loosed for a season, and is going about to deceive the nations, and is watching the saints of God with an ever waking eye, and takes the advantage of every opportunity to catch a word or an expression that he might accuse them, or find fault in them. Our conversation should ever be as becometh the gospel of Christ. “Speaking the things which become sound doctrine, in all things showing ourselves to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Having a good conscience; that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.”
Pray much for us, that we may be kept at our post of duty, and filled with the Spirit and power of God, chat the Word may have free course in us and that we may be instrumental in leading many souls to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Feeling the weakest of all his servants we earnestly request an interest in all your prayers. Yours all on the altar,
E. B. and E. Elam.
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TESTIMONIES.
“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” Psa. 119:129.
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Morley, Mich.
Dear Saints of God: This morning finds me saved, justified, sanctified, and satisfied. I am working in the vineyard of the Lord and precious souls are being saved. Praise the Lord! Yours in the one body of Christ,
A. M. Priest.
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West Liberty, Ohio.
Dear Brothers and Sisters: May His richest blessings rest upon you all. I feel led to write my testimony for the first time. I am saved through Jesus Christ. Oh, praise his name! He has healed me different times. I am saved and sanctified just now. Pray for me. Your saved sister,
Katie B. Plank.
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Blue River, Ind.
Dear Saints of God: My testimony is that I am sweetly saved and kept by the power of God. It has been about nine months since I received full salvation, and praise God, it is brighter every day. He is sinking me deeper down in his love and enables me by faith to launch out on his many precious promises. Your saved brother,
James W. Mayhand.
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Hope, Miss.
Dear Saints of God: I want to say that I am rejoicing in Jesus Christ as a present and complete Savior. I realize that,he saves me from sin and from the evils of the world, from isms and schisms of all kinds. Praise the Lord forever! I do praise God for the King’s highway of holiness that is cast up for God’s chosen ones. I know that I am walking in heaven’s own light, and every day grows brighter. The dear Lord has taught me many precious lessons of trust. He has touched me many times with his divine healing power. We give him all the glory. Your sister sanctified,
Becca Clark.
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Leesburg, Kan.
Dear Saints of God: I feel it would be to the glory of God to write my testimony for the first time. I am saved and kept by power divine, for which I give God all the glory. The Lord has been so kind to me and my family. We witnessed the healing power a number of times. My little boy had some kind of fits and God healed him in a moment’s time. Bless his dear name! Your brother in the one body,
S. A. D. Morrow.
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Ekin Ave., New Albany, Ind.
Dear Trumpet Readers: Jesus sweetly saves my soul from all sin. He sanctifies me wholly. I am so glad that God gave me a willingness to serve him and do his will, for “not every one that saith Lord, Lord shall enter in, but he that doeth the will my Father which is in heaven.” Sometime after God had first saved me I became careless, and almost unawares to me God’s spirit had left me because I did not do my duty on several lines. But when I saw my true condition I again cried to God for mercy and he heard me, and again gave me a sweet experience. Oh praise the Lord! And he has taught me precious lessons ever since. Let me warn you to do the will of God; though the heavens fall, be true to souls and ever follow that which is good. Praise God for freedom, for whosoever the Son makes free is free indeed. Your sister in Christ,
Bessie Moore.
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Lambertville, N. J.
Dear Readers of the Trumpet: I am led to write a few lines to you about my religious experience. Having been deeply convicted of my sin for a long time, and feeling it my duty to publicly confess the same, I at last presented myself at the Methodist altar as a penitent, on the 22d of January 1890. Was converted at this time, and the following autumn was admitted into the M. E. sect as a full member. I continued so until the fall of 1892, when under the preaching of the brethren in the one body, I resigned from the M. E. ism, requesting my name to be erased from that sect, as God had revealed to me the body of Christ. I made a consecration for entire sanctification, claimed it, preached it, and thought I lived it. The fall of 1893 I again consecrated for sanctification while attending meeting at West Point, Pa. Was really blest for awhile, but finally I became acquainted with a brother as I supposed in Christ, he being sent to my home by a young man acquaintance of mine, because he thought we were both out on the same line. But we were not. This man I allowed to preach the doctrine that the moment a person believes in Christ he inherits eternal life and can never be lost even though he were to sin. He would quote such scriptures as John 5:24, arguing that it would be impossible to lose eternal life. This doctrine I permitted him to preach in my home, as also a millennium doctrine which was different from any I had ever heard. The result was, I became confused, unsettled, and adhered to some of this teaching. Last September I attended the camp meeting at Chalfont, Pa., and went to the altar, consecrated for justification and sanctification. Again I felt the blessing of God rest upon me. But since that time I have allowed the adversary to trouble me about certain things which concern my domestic life. I would think of these things and get angry, which would lead to words unbecoming a follower of the meek and lowly Savior. And now, dear readers, I take this opportunity to testify, my conscience also beforehand-bearing me witness that God does justify me freely and sanctify me wholly by grace divine. He saves me from the penalty of sin and delivers me from the power of sin. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20. Pray for me, that from henceforth I may be settled and grounded in the faith. Your brother in Jesus’ love,
Edgar H. Yuncker.
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OBITUARIES.
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Barron, Wis.
HUNT. — Lettie, adopted daughter of Amasa T. and Martha B. Hunt, departed this life Feb. 21, 1895; aged eighteen years, five months and twenty-five days. She left a clear evidence of being safe with the Lord. Funeral services by
H. Grant.
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BOROFF. — Died Feb. 27, 1895, at Broughton, Paulding Co., O., Sister Harriet, wife of Bro. James Boroff; aged forty-one years and eight days. She leaves a husband and eight children to mourn their loss. May the blessings of God be upon the bereaved family and kind neighbors. Funeral services by the writer,
W. L. Kilpatrick.
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Vichy, Mo.
CHAMBERS. — Emeline, wife of Wm. Chambers, departed this life Mar. 2, 1895. Died from lung trouble. She made her peace with her Savior a few days before her death. She leaves three small children. God bless them. Funeral services by the writer,
Jno. P. Bailey.
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Harbor Springs, Mich.
CEASE. — Robert Earl Cease was born Nov. 19, 1893, and departed this life to be with Jesus Feb. 26, 1895; aged one year, three months and sixteen days. May the Lord bless dear Bro. and Sister Cease, and comfort their hearts, and help the dear brothers and sisters of little Earl to give their hearts to the Lord, that they may be an unbroken family around the throne of God. Funeral services by
Allie R. Fisher and Della Gardner.
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Wakelee, Mich.
GRAUGER. — Ocenia Granger was born April 4, 1862; died February 24; aged thirty-two years, ten months and twenty days. Sister Granger accepted the evening light in March 1894. Although afflicted with consumption she seemed reconciled to God’s will. She was only confined to the bed about two weeks. When we came to her bedside only a few hours before she passed away she said she was only patiently waiting for Jesus to take her home, and as we were singing the songs of Zion, although she was struggling for breath, she would sit with uplifted hands praising God. Text, Psa. 34:19.
F. W. Simmons.
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MOORE. — Sister Emily Moore, wife of Bro. N. B. Moore, of Watonga, Okla., departed from this earthly tabernacle to be present with the Lord, Feb. 20, 1895. She had been a child of God from early life. About nine years ago, when we visited Davies Co., Ind., preaching the everlasting gospel, she and her husband received and walked in the light of present truth, and has kept the faith once delivered to the saints to the end. Her son writes us that she departed in great peace and blessed assurance, with prayer and praise upon her lips to the last. How beautiful in the sight of the Lord is the death of the righteous! Her age was fiifty-six years, eight months and twenty-six days. She leaves a saved husband and three children to mourn the loss of a dear wife and loving mother. May the Lord bless and comfort them, and may all be prepared to meet her in glory. Amen.
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JENNINGS. — Mrs. Jane Jennings died at the home of her daughter at Oblong, Ill., Feb. 3, 1895; aged seventy- four years, seven months and twenty days. She professed conversion at the age of sixteen, and sanctification in 1865. She continued faithful to the end of her life. She was loved by all true Christians, and respected by all good people. She was born in Marion Co., O. Married to James Browning in 1838. Came to Illinois in 1847, where her husband died, leaving six children for her to care for. All her boys went to the army, from the effect of which her eldest, Elias, died in 1869.
In 1860 she remarried to William Jennings. Her last illness was of six weeks’ duration, which she bore with great patience. Though very weak, she frequently sang her favorite hymns. Her last audible words were, “Bless the Lord!” but she continued in prayer to the Father to the end. All her six children were present around her happy death-bed, some of them helping to sing as her spirit was about to take its flight to be with Jesus. We, her relatives, mourn not her departure, for it was God’s will. Let us all strive to meet her in heaven. Should this paper fall into the hands of friends of the deceased scattered far and near, I would be pleased to hear from you. By her grandson,
F. M. Hulse,
Robinson, Ill.
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Bible Readings.
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Arr.by J. W. B.
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THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
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TYPIFIED. Ex. 12:1-13 — And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall he unto you: the beginning of months: It shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this mouth they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male, of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep and from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that of it which remaineth until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgement: I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.
ATONEMENT IN THE BLOOD. Lev. 17:11 — For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
WHAT WE OBTAIN THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
PROPITIATION (what appeases). Rom. 3:25 — Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.
1 Jno. 2:2 — And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
4:10 — Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
JUSTIFICATION (setting right). Rom. 5:9 — Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
REDEMPTION (bought back). Eph. 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
Col. 1:14 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Heb. 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Rev. 5:9 — And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people and nation.
1Pet. 1:18, 19 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
PEACE. Col. 1:20 — And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto, himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.
SANCTIFICATION. Heb. 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
13:12 — Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
CLEANSING. 1 Jno. 1:7 — But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Rev. 1:5 — And from Jesus Christ who is a faithful witness, and the first-begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
7:14 — And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
REMISSION. Mat. 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Heb. 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
MADE NIGH. Eph. 2:13 — But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who were sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
OVERCOMERS. Rev. 12:11 — And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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to see how good God has been to give them the evening light, and forgetful of what they did when they were in Babylon by their means to spread sectism. Some of you gave twenty dollars to the foreign work, and then your yearly taxes for the pastor, besides the collection at every service. How much do you do for the gospel? But you may say, “We have not prospered of late as we did then.” No wonder; you have not brought all the tithes into the store house. Now, remember if you were steward and should receive word for a check for five hundred dollars and you should refuse to send it, do you think you would be kept in your position? You say, No. Well, when you are wholly sanctified, all you have is God’s, and you are the steward and must deal straight, for your immortal soul is at stake. Should you lose favor by disobedience, you could not gain it in any other way, only to obey.
We do not write these few lines because we are in need, for we have found Him faithful who hath said that bread shall be given, and water shall be sure. But to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance, that the gospel be not hindered.
“Many souls are now rejoicing in the blessed evening light;
Many more would give their hearts to God if they were taught aright.
Hear the call from every nation; brother, does not this denote
That the work is to he hastened? for the time is very short.”
Your sister saved and sanctified wholly,
Lena L. Shoffner,
Liverpool, Eng.
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TESTIMONIES.
“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” Psa. 119:129.
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Terre Haute, Ind.
Dear Trumpet Readers: It is with great joy, and praise to the living God, I can give in my testimony to a present salvation. I am sweetly saved, and I know something of the healing power of my blessed Jesus He is not only a Savior to my soul but a physician to my body. I am so glad that he ever led me out of the darkness of sectism into the marvelous light of God. I see so plainly as I never saw before. I am alone here in this light. Pray that some of the saints may come here. I pray that God-sent ministers may come and open up the way for holiness among the people here. Your sister saved and sanctified, soul and body,
M. J. Pierson.
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Berlin, Ont.
Dear Saints: I feel led of Lord to write my testimony for the GOSPEL TRUMPET. I was saved on the 20th of January. I had been saved before, but grew careless and went back. My mother and grandmother often prayed for me and taught me out of the Bible, so I cannot say that I was ignorant of the word of God. I can say it is good to serve God. He is very kind and loving to us. His word is so sweet that it seems almost like our natural food.
I am very much troubled with catarrh, and I want you all to pray that God may heal me of this disease. I am going to school yet, and my companions are very wild. I need your prayers very much that I may stand firm for Christ and let my light shine brightly for him. I am the only saint in this school. The Lord blesses me wonderfully, and I have great feasts in his Word. I am not yet sanctified, but I ask your prayers that I may be. I am fourteen years of age and mean to serve God all the days of my life. Your saved brother,
Uriah Hallman.
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Proctor Valley, Cal.
Dear Saints: I feel led to write our testimonies. This afternoon finds us sweetly saved and filled with the glory of God. We are about eighteen miles from San Diego, and on our ranch. Do not get to assemble with our dear brothers and sisters to sing and pray and praise our dear Father only once in two months. But we have blessed good times around our family altar. The Lord has blessed us wonderfully and is so good to us. I am so glad that the Lord took me out of the Roman Catholic sect and is teaching us every moment to love and serve him in place of man. The dear Lord is everything to us; gives us health and strength, and gives us work that we can earn our support and something for his cause. Oh bless his name for ever and ever! Pray for us. Your saved brother and sister in Christ Jesus,
H. H. and J. Snyder.
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Fairdeal, S. C.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel that God wants me to write my testimony and let the dear saints know how I was brought out of sectism. When I was about fifteen years old I joined the M. E. sect, being taught by my parents that that was the right way, and about two years later, I was happily converted to God and have been living a Christian life I thought as far as possible for me to live, until a few years ago when I heard sanctification preached, and then I began thinking I needed a deeper work of grace in my soul, but was not very seriously convicted on the subject until I heard the Word preached by dear Bro. Carter, after which I began to see that sectism was wrong. I began reading and studying the word of God more than before, and carrying the subject to God in earnest prayer until I became convinced that God wanted me to leave Babylon, which I did, and then I felt that God wanted me to go on to perfection, and I began seeking the blessing of sanctification earnestly. But I do not feel that I am fully sanctified yet, although I feel my spiritual strength has been greatly renewed. Pray for me, that I may be fully sanctified, and that my husband may be saved, and also healed of rheumatism. Your sister trusting in God,
Susan S. Burgess.
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Pratt, Kan.
Dear Saints: I am glad that I can testify to the saving and keeping power of God. I have this blessed salvation, and he saves and makes me free. Oh it has been about one year since God through His holy ministers showed me the sin of sectism, and I heard the voice, “Come out of her, my people;” and praise God, I came out never to return again, and I can say I have had more joy since I left the sects and take God for my physician than I had in my nine years of Christian experience in sectism; for it seems that God’s word opens new things to me. How plain the Word is! And when I go to Father it seems as though he has confidence in me since I can trust him for all, and he helps me in my earthly cares, and he teaches me the way to raise my little ones. Oh the responsibility God shows me! Oh that I could find words to explain! Dear Christian mothers, let’s do our best to raise our children, so we will stand clear before God, and our children will not tell us we never taught them the way. Our God has promised to give us wisdom, and let us not be afraid to ask him. Pray for me, that I may do my whole duty. I love the GOSPEL TRUMPET; it comes next to my bible. I do love to read the testimonies of God’s little ones. How I would like to hear that all the debts were paid and the office had the means to get a folding machine, for it is surely In need of it. If we could each send in our little mites, so they could get the folding machine by the first of April, how it would lift the burden off of God’s servants at the office. Dear sisters, I am willing to wash or do any work for Jesus’ sake. Oh just stop and think how much he has done for us, how he suffered and died for us, and the joy and peace he gives us, besides an eternal home. He has said, “Give, and it shall be given to you. good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over;” and again, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” God bless all his true children is my prayer; and I ask you all to pray earnestly for me, that I may be true to God and keep humble at the feet of Jesus. Please pray for my unsaved companion. Your sister, saved and kept by the power of God,
Jennie Moore.
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TEEGARDEN, IND.
Dear Children of the Living God: I can say that I am still in the narrow way, am living a life of peace and happiness, which I have never had in all my life. All the glory be to God! Oh how he takes care of me! Last winter he raised me from a bed of sore affliction. Oh the pain I had to endure! I was thinking my time had come to be called home, and I left it all with the Lord and his children, and he did wonderfully heal me. I could not help myself at all. I learned a valuable lesson through my sickness, which I will never forget. My faith is stronger than it was. I take all my little troubles to him and he always helps me so wonderfully. I find the more I trust him the better I get along. He has taken away my appetite for all such drinks as tea and coffee and a good many more things. He keeps me from story papers and books, and from talking slang and jesting and all worldly pleasures. And I bless God that he keeps me every day clean and unspotted from this wicked world. I am persecuted, but he is by my side I can truly say, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” I am resting upon the solid rock.
Henry Moses.
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Teegarden, Ind.
Dear Trumpet Readers: God has so wonderfully saved my soul and healed my body. I love to tell it. In the past I was a little skeptical about faith healing. For that reason, I think now, I did not enjoy a full salvation as I desired. I could not get the victory over the world. God works in his own way. I did not take medicine, as I did not need it. Often wondered what I would do if I was brought to the test. In the last year I became afflicted; did not take medicine but kept praying over it, asking God to show me what to do. I kept getting worse until I felt I would soon be bedfast, and then my friends would send for a doctor, as they are not saved. I went to So. Bend, and promised my family I would see a physician there. I was feeling very weak. At the depot we met a lady who had gotten off the train by mistake, thinking she had to change cars, and did not. I happened to speak to her. She had to wait until next morning, and was short of means, so we took her with us. She said she was the Lord’s child, and when she saw her mistake, she told him, “I am yours, Lord, take care of me.” When she saw her prayer was answered so soon, she said, “Praise the Lord!” I asked her if she was a saint. She said, Yes. Said she had been at Grand Junction, Mich., was healed there; wonderfully healed through faith in God. She was M. J. Pierson, of Terre Haute. She told me so much of her afflictions, and how hard it was for her to overcome her skepticism. It so encouraged me, that I was enabled, by the help of God, to grasp the faith to be healed. The next morning, after she was gone, I took one of those terrible bad spells that I had been having for the last six months. My friends wanted to get a doctor. I said, No, I have this moment decided to take the Lord. I could then look up into the face of my Redeemer, and say. Live or die, I will take you as my all and in all. Oh how strength came to me! my soul was filled with glory. The darkness and doubts had all gone. I promised God if he would spare my life, and give me strength to get home, I would comply with the Word. Bro. Dillon and others laid hands on in the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the name of our God. I was healed! It is so wonderful what the Lord will do for us, if we only obey all his commands, and trust him for all things. Pray for me, that 1 may ever be faithful and true to the God that has done so much for me.
L. Davis.
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Monument City. Ind.
Dear Saints: Believing it will be to the glory of God, I will write my testimony for the first time. I joined the Dunkard sect when I was sixteen years old, but knew nothing of the new birth. I had been taught that this was the only church that was right, and in order to escape hell and finally go to heaven I must belong to them. I lived in this sect nearly eighteen years without any knowledge of salvation. But about ten years ago I was convinced of my lost condition under the preaching of a U. B. minister, and when I truly repented of my sins the Lord did freely forgive, and gave me the witness of the Spirit, and I knew that I was born from above. I had never heard the evening light preached and thought I must still belong to some organization, but did not stay with the U. B. sect long, as we moved away so far we could not often attend meetings. About two years after my conversion, we moved near Monument City, There were very few Christians here at that time, A W. M. minister came shortly afterwards and held a meeting at which several persons were converted and a class formed of which I was a member. But this class was composed of Christians and sinners, as most such organizations are. But these people taught the doctrine of entire sanctification as a second work of grace, and I soon saw my need of a clean heart, and made a complete consecration and was willing to die to the world. And, oh, praise the Lord, I received the anointing of the Holy Ghost, and knew that the inbred sin was all destroyed. And now I began to see the corruption that was in this sect as well as all others. Many of the members did not enjoy the blessing, and did not like to hear one testify to it, and some even opposed the doctrine.
I began to wonder why ministers did not teach the doctrine of divine healing as it is taught in the Scripture. I was very badly afflicted and medicine seemed to me but little good. Last February while I was suffering with asthma and heart trouble I did hope and pray that some one would come this way who could teach me the way of faith in regard to the healing of my body; and praise the Lord, some of the saints came. They held meeting a week, but I was not able to attend, and after the meeting closed and I was still very sick I was greatly discouraged, and I saw soon that unless the Lord would help me. I could not live long. So I threw away my medicine and gave myself over in the hands of the great physician, and bless his name, he did heal my body, and I promised him I would follow him wherever he leads, and after reading a few of the Trumpets, and tracts on the church, and prayerfully reading the Bible, I could plainly see the wrong there was in sectism. I requested my name to be taken from the class book; and now I am free, praise the Lord, and am able to stand persecution, God’s grace being sufficient for me. And although I was saved and sanctified while belonging to these sects, yet the Lord has shown the evils of division so plain, that I could not belong to any sect again without disobeying the Lord. Pray for me, dear ones, that I may stand firm; and not shun to declare the whole counsel of God; and pray that the people in this community may be saved. Your sister