Gospel Trumpet – 15 November 1894

15 November October 1894, Volume 14, Number 44.

Go Forth.

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Go forth into the harvest,
The fields are white to day;
The Master calls for laborers,
Oh, do not tell him nay.

Ye need not climb the mountains,
Or sail the wide seas o’er;
The ripened grain is bending
Around your very door.

Go forth into the harvest,
Think not of home or gold;
The promise is recorded:
Will give an hundred fold.

Wait not thy dead to bury,
Pause not with friends to weep;
Go help the grain to gather,
Thy loved ones he will keep.

The summer soon will vanish,
The harvest soon be past;
And precious souls ungarnered,
Meet endless woe at last.

Behold, the storm grows darker,
The evening sun sinks low!
E’re long time will be ended —
Who is it that will go?

Georgia Cook.

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CRACKED VESSELS.

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IN “Zion’s (more truthfully Satan’s) Watch Tower,” of September, the editor says, “Our earthen vessels are all more or less cracked by the fall, so that we are unable to contain or retain a full measure of the Spirit of the truth, — with all the daubing and patching we can do; at best they are leaky vessels.”

Thus the natural depraved heart speaks out its unrenewed condition in spite of the deceptive or hypocritical profession of religion. What but error and darkness, confusion and doctrines of devils can be expected from such hearts of sin. It is very true that all men have been cracked and marred by the fall. But there is another truth, a glorious truth of which Mr. Russel has not yet learned, i. e., that Christ came into this world, nearly nineteen hundred years ago to make us every whit whole. Wherefore he is able also, [yea IS NOW ABLE] to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. Heb. 7:25. “Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God.” 2 Cor. 5:17, 18. With this present new-creating Christ, Mr. Russel has never become acquainted. He only has an imaginary Christ that is going to do something for fallen humanity in an imaginary age to come. But at present he seems to think nothing can be done for cracked, fallen men but daubing and patching them up. And after all, “the vessels are leaky and unable to retain a full measure of Spirit of the truth.” Of this patching and daubing business we can read in the Bible. Christ, refering to the good sense of men in temporal things, says “no man putteth a piece of new cloth into an old garment.” — otherwise “the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break and the wine runneth out.” Math 9:16, 17. By these illustrations he gives us to understand that he also has good sense enough not to try to patch up these poor fallen and cracked vessels. Patching, daubing, culturing, formalizing, moralizing, circumcision, or any thing else amounts to nothing in his estimation — nothing but a “new creation.” But Mr. Russel knows nothing to be done but this wretched patching. And the result is just as Christ said it would be, “The wine runneth out, and the bottles perish.” Yea, says Russel, “With all the daubing and patching we can do, at best, they are leaky vessels. We are unable to contain of retain a full measure of the Spirit of truth.” Mr. Russel had better stop daubing, “fall on the rock and be broken to pieces,” and become a lump of clay in the hands of the Great Potter, “that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath afore prepared unto glory, even us whom he hath called.” Rom. 9:23, 24. Whom he prepared for the glory of entire sanctification by the first grace of justification. Thus made a “new creature,” instead of a patched vessel, his heart would be able to contain the Spirit of truth, and there would be a glorious increase to the soul, instead of a constant leakage. Then he could obey the command, “be filled with the Spirit,” even “with all the fulness of God.”

The prophet Ezekiel had his eye upon such as this false teacher of Babylon when he said, “Her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, “Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.” 22:28.

This false teacher of salvation to come, denies that any person is born of God in this age, saying we are only now conceived, and the resurrection will bring us forth sons of God. Thus he contradicts the Word which clearly teaches we are born of God now. John 1:13. 1 Pet. 1:23. 1 Pet. 2:2. Let no one hear this false teacher, bid him God speed, nor receive his false doctrines. He is just as blind, or even worse than when an avowed infidel. His conversion was without salvation, hence, he contradicts the inspired apostle and says the time of salvation is not now. His conversion was simply a delusion of the devil, and was brought about because Satan can use him better to deceive and destroy souls in his present line than he could if he were an infidel and saloon keeper. Flee from all such pitfalls of the deceiver.

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A CHARGE TO THE RICH.

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Charge them that are rich in this world, that the be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. 1 Tim. 6:17.

IN all ages the human family have sought happiness in the different things of this world, which were never created for that purpose, only as we glorify God in the using. True happiness requires a contented mind, and must be of a spiritual nature; consequently earthly goods cannot give it. So far are they from either producing or procuring it, that they always produce care and anxiety, and often strifes and contentions.

To be rich is, in general, a great misfortune; but what rich man can be convinced of this? It is only God himself who by a miracle of mercy can do this. This should be the prayer of every one of God’s children: “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.” Prov. 30:7-9.

Jesus says, Luke 12:15-21, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich toward God.

How difficult it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Jesus says, Luke 18:18-25, And a certain ruler asked him [Jesus], saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good save one, that is God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal. Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

AN EXAMPLE.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come unto this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Luke 16:19-31.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass, he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Jas. 1:9-11.

What art thou, O rich man? Thou art a steward upon whom God has bestowed substance, so that thou art able to help those that need thy assistance. They are the right owners of every cent thou hast over from thine own support, and that of thy family; and God has given the excess beyond what thou needest; wilt thou by treasuring up this, take from the right owners their property?

What blindness it is for a man to lay up that as a treasure which must necessarily perish! A heart designed for God and eternity is degraded by being fixed on those things which are subject to corruption.

But cannot one lay up treasure on earth without condemnation? Yes: if you can do it and not set your affections on it, which is almost impossible; and if there be neither widows nor orphans, destitute nor distressed persons in the place where you live. A rich man is a man who gets all he can, saves all he can, and keeps his possessions. Let reason and conscience speak, for God has already spoken. Can such persons enter into the kingdom of God? All say, No! A man of the world cannot be a truly religious character. He who gives his heart to the world robs God of it; and, in snatching at the shadow of earthly goods, loses substantial and eternal blessedness.

Our God, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, Col. 2:3, says: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is there will your heart be also. Mat. 6:19-21.

A world to come in exchange for the present! Eternity, for a moment! Eternal communion in the holy blessed and eternal life of God, for the sacrifice of a poor, miserable, and corrupted life here on earth.

O God! let thy servant so conduct himself in this life, that he may have entrance “unto the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.”

REASON FOR NOT LAYING UP TREASURES ON THE EARTH.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2 Pet. 3:10-12.

If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

The reason we should not lay up treasures here is, they shall soon be destroyed. Then let us be wise and lay our treasures up in heaven.

But woe, unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Luke 6:24-26.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 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 have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Jas. 5:1-5. They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Tim. 6:9-11.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye lave robbed me. But ye say, Wherein lave we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Mal. 3:7-10.

E. R. Baber.

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WOMAN’S FAITH HOME.

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Danville, Ill., Oct. 31, 1894.

Dear Saints of the Living God: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear ones, I am praising God this morning for free and full salvation that satisfies all our longings, and fills us with his glory. I do praise God for the Spirit of truth which guides us into all truth. Oh, how sweet is the life of a Christian after they sell all they have and get the pearl of great price. Mat. 13:46. It has been some over two years since God for Christ’s sake forgave my sins; and after that he sanctified my heart. I cannot praise God enough for redeeming my soul from hell, and taking my feet from the mire and clay and putting them on the solid rock Christ Jesus. He opened my blinded eyes, and showed me my awful condition and the doom of my soul if I did not repent. Although a professor, and belonging to the Protestant Methodist sect, I found that with my mouth I was professing Christ, but my heart was far from him. My heart was filled with the things of the world, there was no room for Christ, and I was a bitter enemy to the truth. Yet God’s Spirit did not stop striving with me. For five years I was under the preaching of the evening light, but would not yield to the truth till the year i892. In March God sent dear Sister Elizabeth Walters to our place to preach the truth, which awakened me to all the truth I had heard during the time stated. Oh what peace I found to my soul after complying with the Word, forsaking my sins and confessing them to God. 1 Jno. 1:9. For godly sorrow worketh repentance; and after consecrating every thing to God, giving up every thing, the worldly honor, friends and relatives and self, the holy fire of God burned up all the dross. Praise God! there is the only pure love of God in my heart. I know that Jesus has taken up his abode in my heart. How sweet it is to follow our blessed Master. His service becomes more sweet to my soul. Through every trial and temptation he has made a way for my escape. 1 Cor. 10:13. And with every persecution his grace has been sufficient. Bless God for the wonderful dealings with my soul.

Sometime after I was saved I felt the call of God to go and labor for souls, which I obeyed after much communion with God. A year ago last June I was led to labor with Bro. Worden’s Co. Was with them over a year, when God laid the burden of these precious souls at my heart. I began to feel the hand of God upon me while at the camp meeting, but not knowing any thing about this line of work, and not desiring very much to enter into it, it was sometime before I could see God wanted me here. But bless God, I am here to do the will of God; every soul is precious. There was a time in my life when I would not notice this class of people, but thank God for teaching me that one sin will damn the soul as well as the other. I do feel the great love of God in my soul. Now you dear ones who have not this love for this class of fallen humanity, I beseech you in the name of God to get it. Has God only saved your soul to sit still and do nothing, or to help others? There is a woe upon them who are at ease in Zion. Amos 6:1. God wants us to be lively stones and to defeat the ranks of the devil. Who will consecrate his or her life this day to the Lord’s service. 1 Chron. 29:5.

There ought to be work done among the opposite sex, as well as ours. God help and send forth more laborers who are willing to go through the fire, for without the Holy Spirit it would be in vain to try to accomplish much. 2 Tim. 2:6. The Lord is increasing the burden. Praise his holy name! Well, dear ones, I know that I am nothing, but Christ is all in all. Though by friends despised, and by the world neglected, Jesus never leaves me nor forsakes me, but he is my sufficiency. Praise his dear name! The work is slowly moving on, but we know it is God’s work. On account of finance the work has been much hindered, but the trial of our faith was more precious than gold. Dear ones, pray much for us that we keep low down at the feet of Jesus, that we may know Father’s will at all times. Yours in the love of God, separated for the work of the gospel,

Mary E. Metter.

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Dear Trumpet Readers: This evening finds me fully saved and sanctified. Praise His dear name! I take him as my physician, my all and in all. I find him a present help in time of need. Two weeks ago our little baby had some kind of a gathering on his neck, as large as a hen’s egg, and we took him to the dear Lord, and praise his dear name! the pain all left, and the child rested quiet until the place was ready to be opened. His unsaved father knew that it was a miracle. I was a member of the M. P. sect for two years, but am now free from all sects. I ask an interest in all your prayers.

Your sister in Christ,

Amanda Bouser.

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THE GERMAN TRUMPET.

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Last week announcement was made that we were intending to issue the German paper by Jan. 1, 1895. We have not heard from many of our German friends yet about the matter since that time, but are making preparations for publishing, and the Lord willing, will order the necessary material for printing in a few days. Do not forget to pray for this work.

For some time we have had a number of tracts ready for publication, which for want of paper have been left unpublished. Among the number are “Babylon and what it Includes,” “Social and Sexual Purity,” by W. A. Haynes. “Three Hundred Scriptures on the Church,” by J. E. Roberts, and others. We hope to have these ready in the near future.

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CORRECTION.

In my article, “Two Works of Divine Grace,” I see a typographical error in which I am made to say, “Beginning at Ver. 24, we find their meeting- and salvation.” It should read, “their meeting and salutation.”

J. N. Howard.

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Requests for Prayer.

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Pray that my children may be saved.

H. Oldacre.

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Eagleville, Tenn.

Please pray for Sister Redmond, she has cancer. Has three children.

Please pray for Sister Smith, she has indigestion and is but a mere skeleton.

Also pray for Jennie Christopher who has fits. I also desire your prayers. Your sister in Christ,

Mrs. E. Williams.

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Trapp, Va.

Dear Saints of God: Bro. James Lee asks the united prayers of all God’s little ones on the 18th of Nov. at eleven o’clock for the healing of his wife’s afflicted body. She is bearing her afflictions very patiently, and is resigned to God’s will.

F. Rosenberry.

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Calls for Meeting.

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We want someone filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit to come here to preach the pure gospel.

Lucinda Underwood.

Condray, Mo.

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May God send some of his ministers here. I do not care who so they preach the gospel in its purity, and are straight for God and true to souls. Your brother,

S. T. King.

Waterloo, Linn Co., Ore.

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ASSEMBLY MEETINGS.

Doniphan, Ripley Go., Mo.

There will be an assembly meeting of the saints at the Doniphan, Ripley Co. camp ground, nine miles southwest of Doniphan, Mo. Commencing Sunday, Dec. 23. and last through holidays, the Lord willing- We expect Bro’s Stanberry, Collins, and Haynes to attend the meeting. All who wish to come to Doniphan notify C. C. Scates at Pitman, Ark. when they will beat Doniphan,and he will meet them. C. C. Scates.

There will be an assembly meeting of the saints of God from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1 or 3, at the Moys School house, thirteen miles west of Pullman and two and one- half miles from Almota, Wash. Pullman is on the N. P. & U. P. R. R. In the name of Jesus we earnestly exhort all the saints and friends seeking after light, truth and a deeper experience, or for the healing of the body to attend this feast of the Lord. Let all the saints of Idaho, Wash, and Ore. make every possible arrangement, effort or sacrifice to be at this meeting. After that meeting we start for western and north-western Wash, directly to the Pacific coast and Puget Sound, and Alaska, Lord willing. All coming to the assembly, and those wishing any information or particulars, address Bro. A. B. Peterman, Pullman, or Bro. B. B. Naff, Almota, Wash. Let all the saints pray for a glorious success.

F. N. Jacobson.

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HERESY AND HERETICS.

Continued.

But here comes one more question which should be settled, and perfect uniformity attained in the minds of all God’s people in the present truth: Should baptism received by the hands of a sectarian ministry also be ignored when coming out of her? In cases where persons received the ordinance and were not in a clearly justified state, or the ministering preacher was not of upright character, in all such cases, all agree that rebaptism is proper and right. But how about the exceptional cases where the candidates were truly born of God, and the minister, though in the sect, evinced true love, and sincerity? Two things are necessary: first, the candidate must be qualified by the grace of God; second, the administrator must be approved and authorized of God That there have been ministers in the sects that were called of God to preach the word, and administer its ordinances we have no doubt. But did he ever call them to join and labor in and for a sect? By no means. In so doing they directly departed from the counsel of his word. Though in many cases it was done in ignorance, it was the act of becoming a sectarian, a heretic, the act of indorsing that which God abhors and utterly detests. Now where emanated their authority to administer baptism? From the original call of God? or from the sect machinery? From the head of the church of God, or from the head of the beast power? God never gave his ordinances to any human sect, nor authorized any man to administer the same to a sect. They are all institutions of the house of God, which is the church of the living God.

WHERE THEY GET THE AUTHORITY.

The fact of the matter is, every sectarian minister gets his credentials to preach and his authority to baptize from the sect. Even if possessing the Spirit, and called of God, he could not, he dared not baptize any person until empowered by babylon lords. And a miserable hypocrite, who enters the ministry out of selfish motives, gets the same license he does, and has the same authority to administer the ordinances. This proves that their authority to officiate in sacred things does not come from God at all. For if it did he would empower the former, and reject the latter. So every person baptized by a sect minister, no matter how sincere he may have been, received the ordinance through the power of the sect, and not through the voice of God. When he placed himself under the sect regulations he took himself out of the hands of God. He was virtually compelled to ignore what power and authority he had from God, and await the movement of the sectarian wheels for authority to preach and administer the ordinances of God. Therefore no person is scripturally baptized by his hands; because his license is from the beast instead of from God. The party received heretical and not scriptural baptism. And all ignorance of the true character of sect institutions, which has prevailed in the past, vanishes before the evening light and leaves her without excuse. Sincere children of God were blessed in being baptized by sect ministers. It was accepted for the time being as obedience to his command. But judging from the strong denunciations of his word against sects, who can say that God would ever accept and bless a person in being baptized by a heretic if he understood God’s mind, and the difference between the church and the sect? If the church of the living God had continued in all its primitive holiness and unity, until the present sects arose; and they were organized right under the glorious light of her perfection, every good man and woman on earth, and every angel in heaven would abhor the founders of those factions as the worst foes and destroyers of the sacred cause of Christ. It was therefore only the ignorance and darkness that preceded the modern sects, which shields their founders from the strong denunciations of the word of God. Darkness is the only apology for the works of darkness. But now the true light shines, and heresies are without a cloak. Therefore God holds us to treat the sects and their authority just as he would had they sprung up without the darkness under which their founders were canonized instead of anathematized; especially since God is now pouring out his vials of wrath upon the whole babel of sectism, and is judging her.

About eight years ago while on the way to a large baptismal service, in which several were going to be rebaptized, our heart was deeply exercised as to where to draw the line in this duty. This answer came very forcibly to our mind: “What God had done for us by his direct saving grace we should not ignore; but that which was administered by the hands of sectarian ministers, we should ignore as a witness against her.” And the leadings of the Lord in his people coming out of the heretical folds have, very generally, agreed with that decision.

In the various denominations there has been an effort to make all rebaptism a shocking sacrilege. The object of this is to keep men from ignoring their authority. But the scriptures give no sanction to such sentiment. It is generally believed from Acts 19:5, that at least, some of John’s disciples were rebaptized by the apostles; doubtless, because the full light of the kingdom had not yet shone forth under John’s ministry. But we think it will be conceded that the modern sects are scarcely up to the standard of John’s preaching and baptism If. therefore, rebaptism was proper in that case, why not even more so to men coming out of heresies that never were authorized of God, whereas John was a man sent of God?

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WHY I WAS REBAPTIZED.

Having been saved and baptized by a preacher who was walking in all the light he had, and the time had not yet come when God sent forth his ministers declaring the fall of Babylon, for years after I had received the light on sectism and stepped out into the clear gospel light, I did not feel it a duty to be rebaptized, as I considered it scriptural baptism that I had received. As I had walked in the light, and wrote an article stating that I knew of no scripture requiring such a person to be rebaptized, but that very few in sectism when coming out have really had Bible baptism. The exceptional cases considered were where only the authority of God was regarded, regardless of all sect authority. But in drawing the lint just where the Bible draws it, we are always safe in hewing right to the mark, and while the baptism of itself may have under such circumstances been owned of God, even after such ones have made their escape from sectism, yet the tincture of sectism connected, and its close alliance with the circumstances of the baptism even in such cases, makes it necessary to have a clean sweep in the matter, by a rebaptism without a taint of sectism. This gives a clear conscience to teach without compromise in the least; having a knowledge that you have had a baptism according to the Word, and cannot be gainsayed.

E. E. Byrum.

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AWFUL DOCTRINES OF BABYLON.

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BISHOP Foster delivered a sermon before the Pittsburgh conference of M. E. preachers, in which we find doctrines extremely hetrodoxical, and a shocking slander upon the character of God. The sermon appears in the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. The editor says, “We publish in full this week the sermon of Bishop Foster preached at the late session of the Pittsburgh conference. * * * The report was made by the Rev. J. J. Hill of the conference.” The matter comes to us through a Methodist reporter and through a Methodist organ: therefore we have every reason to believe the Bishop was not misrepresented. The preacher expresses a desire at the beginning to utter some kind of strange doctrines. “I have come to feel that, growing out of both my office and other circumstances, the people, when they come together in companies like this to hear a sermon, expect something special. * * * And I feel under some obligations, therefore, to depart from the common line of pulpit subjects.” He says nothing of his obligations to God; he seems to feel none; hence a few repetitions of his text is about all the scripture in the whole lecture. But his eye is upon the people, he must preach to please them. How strikingly is the word of God fulfilled: “The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them.” Yea, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Jer. 5:13, 31. O this ungodly fashionable preaching! what a fearful end awaits its victims, and a still “greater damnation” the preachers. A very few extracts from this discourse will enable all to see that Babylon is certainly fallen and become a habitation of devils. Says this high priest:

“In our bewilderment we have said that sin caused death. And we think the Bible says so. We impute to the Bible a great many things which it never says in the meaning we give to it. Our teaching will need reconstruction. I am here to utter that death is God’s normal method of the universe; the idea that our death is the result of sin is a mistake.”

So says the Bishop; but thus saith the Lord:

WHAT THE WORD SAYS.

“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive,” i. e. in the resurrected. 1 Cor. 15:21, 22.

How did death come by man? Answer: “As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men. for that all have sinned.” Rom. 5:12. The preacher says death came by God, and in him we all die. God says it came by sin, and in Adam we all die. And the preacher makes no effort to explain the text which he contradicts. That spiritual death is the immediate result of sin we all know. But sin is also the cause of physical death, all death. The passage above quoted from Corinthians refers directly to physical death, being placed opposite to the resurrection of the body. But here comes the climax of his corrupt teaching:

“Sometimes we have a vain imagination about the perfection of Adam; about his great knowledge. I undertake to say he knew nothing, and that God treated him just exactly as a person who knew nothing, when he put him in the garden of Eden with these potential powers and possibilities in him. He treated him just like you treat your infant.”

“That soul was under a law it understood, and it felt an impulse — which God had put into it, not the devil; God had put in the soul — to take the fruit which he told it not to take. * * *” The soul ought not to be without the impulse. He puts the impulse there. No man ought to be without those natural impulses which lead to wrong. They are God-implanted.”

These utterances need only be read by the spiritual to see that they express rank doctrines of devils. That Adam was as an infant and knew nothing, is contrary to the Word. But that God planted the impulse or bent to evil in the original constitution of man is a slander upon the Creator. If that were so there was no need of the devil to tempt him in order to bring about the fall. Then God would be the author of sin, and himself responsible, and not the devil, for the violation of his own law. Surely these words of God apply to such teachers, “THEY HAVE BELIED THE LORD.” Jer. 5:12. The time was when Bishop Foster wrote a book on holiness, in which he taught the doctrine held by the Wesleys, that sanctification removes all inward bent to wrong. We read in some Methodist literature that he was the “oldest and most revered bishop” in his sect. We were therefore disposed to class him among the best in the sect. But a few years ago we were astonished to learn from a Methodist paper that it was “a well known fact that Bishop Foster loves his good cigars,” and now, behold he puts himself on record as being in so much love with inbred sin, that he ascribes it to God. Walking in a wrong way, he would justify himself by saying, “No man ought to be without those natural impulses which lead to wrong.” That is virtually saying, no man ought to be wholly sanctified to God. Common sense should teach any person that a pure heart has no innate bias, or impulse to wrong. “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; an evil man, out of his evil heart, evil things. Like begets like. An indwelling impulse to wrong must be a thing which is wrong. If such had been planted in Adam God could not have said that his work was all good, and very good. But again, that which impels to wrong must he wrong. Therefore if God created that evil impulse in man, and yet created him in his own image, it would prove that there is an impulse to wrong in God himself.

So the Bishop’s teaching casts a reflection upon the character of God; denies his holiness. He also exposes God to the contempt of all the wicked

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who seek occasion against him. Reason never can approve of a God who would “put it in the soul ” of Adam to take the fruit which he told him not to take, and then expel the unhappy pair out of their Eden home because they had followed the impulse he planted in them. “This soul,” says the Bishop, “could not help but feel a desire for the thing which was forbidden, and could not help it, because God made it so.” This is the very falsehood that infidels and abominable free-thinkers (free to sin) have ever tried to impose upon God. Like Foster, they endeavor to charge upon God the origin of the leaven of sin that controls their corrupt hearts. Like the infidel, the Bishop of babylon overlooks the work of the devil, and the fall of man, and makes God, the creator of man as he is with the devil’s works planted in him. The speaker of this ungodly sermon met with no small applause in the pit of hell, and it is the best thing for infidels and scoffers, and all haters of God that we have ever seen put into their hands. How the wicked boasters of reason against truth and righteousness will be comforted by their priest of Baal. How absurd his assertion that “He is a just and holy God, and judges in righteousness,” after ascribing to him that impulse to sin, the exercise of which he forbids, and for which Adam and Eve were thrust out of paradise, and and for following the same, all the wicked will be turned into hell. What an awful account such flesh-pleasing, sin-paliating and God-dishonoring false shepherds will have to meet in the day of judgment. The truth is, the element of every created and of the recreated, or wholly sanctified man is only holy.

But we will look at one more point in the Bishop’s lecture. “When he (God) comes to right up the people, possibly, hopefully, that vast heathen world, with its myriads of uncounted millions of people, may muster through the gates of the city, with crowns on their heads.”

“If I could conceive for a moment that the world as I know it — and I know it from rim to rim; I have traveled in all its lands; I have seen its desolate and despicable millions; I have seen it in shame and filth and poverty — If I were compelled to think that my God whom I worship would by any possible method of administration send down to an eternal and hopeless eternity twelve hundred millions of my brethren who know not their right bands from their left, and save a few of us who are but little better, perhaps, in our moral fiber, I would not go info heaven if I could. I say that with consideration, I could not worship such a God as that. I would join all the hosts of hell in rebelling against such a God as that.”

Shocking! He would rather join the hosts of hell in rebelling against God than be confined to a clean heaven. It looks very much as though the Bishop is in sympathy with the hosts of hell. To him it would be no very shocking thing to join them. There is not a text in the Bible that teaches that the millions who have lived and died in heathen darkness, idolatry, shame and filth, will be seen mustering in the streets of heaven with crowns upon their heads. Since he confesses that he and his Methodist friends were “but little better” than the heathen in their blindness and idolatry, he thinks it were injustice on the part of God to send other idolaters to a hopeless hell, and take them to heaven. He would not worship a God who would not admit the heathen wholesale into heaven, but his sense of justice is not offended by his ideal god, who banished Adam from Paradise because he followed the unholy impulse he had created in him. The Bishop utterly ignores the divine transformation of salvation, into the holiness of God, as the essential condition of entering and enjoying the infinite glory of heaven. Instead of the restored immage of God to the soul, he conditions heaven upon good purposes. He therefore ignores Christ as the only Savior; for men could meet his prescribed conditions without Christ’s incarnation and death.

One thing must strike every pious mind, that Mr. Foster speaks with awful irreverence before God, when he boldly asserts his preference to join all the hosts of hell in rebellion against God, should he not be pleased to admit the mass of heathen into heaven. Another thing is clear that he has adopted views wholly antagonistic to the Bible, savoring of universalism, and that he has set up a wide thoroughfare to heaven in direct contradiction to Christ, who declares the gate is straight, the way is narrow, and few there be which go therein. The shocking sentiments of this old and revered bishop of Methodism reminds us of the words of the prophet. “The best of them is as a briar; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge.” — Mic. 7:4. “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Babylon is fallen, and become the habitation of devils.”

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News from the Field.

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Capling, Tenn., Nov. 8, 1894.

We will begin meeting soon, the Lord willing, at this place. Any one desiring meetings in DeKalb, or adjoining counties, will address us at Capling, Tenn. Your brother, saved and kept,

L. C. Slate.

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Floating Bethel, Nov. 9, 1894.

To all the Saints, Greeting: The meeting at Georgetown closed with good interest, and two at the altar the last evening, making ten in all. The meeting at Hookstown is still going on with good interest. We may spend the winter at this place, as there is a good opening, also Ohio City and Wellsville are connected by street cars. There seemed to be a misunderstanding about us wanting some brother and wife to take our place on the boat for awhile this winter so we could fill some of the many calls in W. Va., my native state. As the boat will not require much care in this harbor, and our children are going to the school at Grand Junction, I have not thought of leaving the boat; it has even exceeded my expectation. Pray for us that the Lord may always be on board to direct all things.

G. T. Clayton,

East Liverpool, Ohio.

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THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.

Psa. 119:129.

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Morley, Mich.

Dear Trumpet Readers: With what I have to contend in the awful surroundings, I thank the Lord for his keeping power. Bless his name! I am saved and ready to do my Master’s will, rooted and grounded in the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and count all things joy. I realize that we are living in perilous times. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Pray that I may continue faithful doing his will unto the end. Your brother in Christ,

A. D. Makley.

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Little York, Ind.

Dear Saints of God: I feel led of the Spirit to write my testimony. I am glad to say that I am sweetly saved in Jesus. About eighteen months ago I heard the blessed evening light preached, and am walking in the light as God gives it to me. The life that I now live I live to the honor and glory of God. I desire an interest in your prayers that I may be healed of catarrh of the head. I have been afflicted before and prayed to God to heal me, and he did heal me, and I give God all the glory. But I feel this time he keeps telling me to write to the Trumpet for the dear saints of God to pray for me. Also my little girl has the catarrh of the head. Pray that God may send his healing upon her. Also pray for my family that they may give their hearts to God.

Sarah E. Stout.

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Husser Mill, La.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I now write my testimony for the first time. I am saved and kept by the power of God through faith. I lived a Roman Catholic for twenty-seven years. About two years ago the everlasting gospel was preached in our neighborhood and I was convicted of the truth, but did not step out of sin and sectism until about two years ago; when God showed me so plain I must do so or be lost. At last I came out, and was converted and soon after sanctified. I have been healed of chills and fever by the power of God, and have been healed several times since, all in answer to prayer, without medicine. I have resolved to take Jesus for my physician. I desire the prayers of God’s true children everywhere that I may remain true and faithful. Your sister in the one body,

Kate Bailey.

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Reynolds, Neb.

Dear Saints of God: We are praising God for salvation, for he has become our salvation. I do praise him because I know I am abiding in him, and his word is abiding in me. My testimony is, I am justified and sanctified just now. How grand it is to practice holiness in our every day lives! Now, dear ones, let us live up to our privileges in the gospel. Be holy in every way, in your daily business, and conversation. Lead a life worthy of imitation. Paul tells us, whereunto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. If we have attained unto holiness, let us walk by the same. It will not do us any good to have a knowledge of the truth, or even profess to be in the truth, but we must walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have the promise.

Frequently, in talking to sinners, they will point out some one who professes to be saved, and does not live it, and then they will tell us, “There is some of your holy people.” Now, dear ones, let us move out so far into God that they will not see us, but just see the life of Christ manifest in us. O praise God for the privilege we have! “Blessed is he that standeth not in the way of sinners.” Let us not be stumbling-blocks. The word of God teaches us, all the stones shall be gathered out. Glory be to Jesus! Every work shall be manifest with every secret thing.

We have been holding meetings it the Quin school house. Bro. Stover is with us. Yours, saved in Jesus,

T. A. Phillips.

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Conneaut Center, Crawford Co., Pa.

I never had heard of the true church before reading the Trumpet and do not think any one around here has. We have Latter Day Saints, but I cannot believe in Joseph Smith. I have been leading a Christian life for several years, but have never joined any sect, nor been baptized. I am afraid the ministers here have no authority to baptize. So then I would be no better off.

I praise God that I ever came in possession of your valuable papers. They have done me so much good. I cannot say that I am sanctified, although I have been seeking it for a long time. I wish the dear saints would pray for me that I might be sanctified and made meet for the Master’s use. I do so long for that perfect love that casteth out fear. I have done every thing that I know except being buried with Christ in baptism, but I am very anxious to attend to that. I wish some of God’s ministers would come here and hold a series of meetings. I believe there would be a great in-gathering of souls. We have revival meetings near here every winter, but they do not seem to do much good. The people seem to be so hardened that I fear for them. I wish the true church of God could be represented here, for some of my family, I fear, are in an unsaved condition. Please pray for them also.

Your sister in Christ,

Mrs. John Baldwin.

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National City, Cal.

To all the Dear Saints of God: I have often felt led to write my testimony, and tell of God’s wonderful love toward us. For what manner of love hath the Father bestowed upon us, that he spared not his only begotten son, but gave him to die for our sins, that we through him may have everlasting life. I praise God for keeping us saved in one of the most sinful places in the world. We are few in number, yet God is our strength. Praise his name forever! When I read Bro. Haynes’ writings on “Social and Sexual Purity” I praised the Lord for having given some of his little ones grace to write plain concerning the dark works of Satan. Oh may God help every one of his children to be true to him! Let us put away false modesty and speak plain to our little ones, do not be afraid that you will destroy their innocency. If Satan should tempt you on that line rebuke him, for God will be with you and your efforts. The schools are overrun with evil practices, and we must send our children there. Now, dear ones, how will they be able to resist the devil if they have not been instructed regarding these things.

Pray earnestly for me that I may do my duty in all things. I am alone with three little children, but Christ is all and in all to us. It is nearly three years since God forgave me my sins, and having sanctified me wholly, my desire is to serve him all the days of my life. I am your sister in Christ Jesus,

Mrs. Fred Lawrence.

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Carmi, Ill., Nov. 5, 1894.

We wish to say to the glory of God and the encouragement of the children of God, that our little Willie was taken sick ten days ago, and gradually grew worse till last Tuesday became very sick, and on Wednesday the neighbors thought he was dying. We then sent a telegram to Bro. Byrum for prayer, and called in four of the saints and we anointed him in the name of the Lord. About five o’clock the Lord touched his body, and he was much better. The Lord had made him better to give us faith. And now he was going to test our faith again. The next evening he got very sick again. Our faith was tried, but glory be to God! we held on to the promises of God till the dear Lord had tested our faith sufficiently, then he completed the healing. To God we give the glory.

Your brother and sister in Christ,

J. D. & M. Baugh.

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Blendon, Mich.

Dear Ones in Christ: This morning finds me saved and sweetly trusting in Jesus. I find it so sweet to trust him in all things and live low at his feet. I praise God also that he ever followed me while I was straying away from him, and when I was willing to follow him that he had not forsaken me. I do know and realize he has created within me a new heart, and gives me victory over all the powers of hell. I always remember the promises we have in Jas. 4:7, 8. Also the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation. Eph. 6:16, 17. O praise God for the victory I have in my soul. Praise God forever! This morning as it was snowing the thought came to me, how pure God’s children are. The snow seemed to be so white I did not see what could be whiter, but the Word says in Psa. 51:7, “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow” Praise Jesus! then if we have been washed in the precious blood of Jesus it is our hearts that are whiter than the snow. I also praise God that he permitted me to be at the assembly meeting, and for the many precious lessons I have learned. Truly it was a feast to my soul. The sweet peace in my soul is something the world cannot give, neither can it take it away. Pray for me that I may stand firm for Jesus. Yours in him, sanctified and satisfied,

Theresa J. McDonald.

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OBITUARIES.

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Snyder, Okla.

Newkirk. — William F. E. Newkirk, son of J. W. W. and R. T. Newkirk, died Nov. 2, 1894; aged one month and twenty-five days. Funeral services by

E. J. Hoffer.

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Dennis. — Bro. N. S. Dennis was born May 12, 1850, died Oct. 11, 1894; aged forty-four years and five months. After two weeks of great suffering his spirit returned to God who gave it. This dear brother fought many hard battles for God and died very happy, near the village of Shawnee, Perry Co., O. His dear companion crossed over before him, and he leaves a family of five children.

A. Dennis.

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Mutchler. — Melissa E. Mutchler died Sept. 6; aged thirty-two years and twenty-four days. She had not been well for some time, but was only sick three days. She was loved by all, and gave us good evidence that she was prepared to go.

Isaiah Mutchler.

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Glover. — Clevland Glover, son of Charlie and Angeline Glover, died after four days illness, Oct. 21, 1894; aged six years, four months and sixteen days. When he went to leave, told his parents he was going to rest. Text, 2 Sam. 12:23. Funeral by

Robt. A. Charlton.

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Friendship, Mich.

Radle. — Henry Radle died Oct. 26, 1894; aged sixty-one years, seven months, twenty-one days. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss which is his gain. He was well respected by all and a devoted Christian, a true loving father and kind husband. We hope it will be the means of bringing his unsaved children to Christ to join him in that heavenly home.

Mrs. David Radle.

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Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Helms. — Little Mary G. Helms obeyed the Father’s call, being about one month old; and also little Minnie Helm was born Sept. 4, 1894, and went home to join the angel choir Oct. 2, 1894. Those two little buds of Mr. and Mrs. Helms the dear Lord used as the chastening rod, for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Pray for the bereaved parents that they may be prepared to meet God in peace.

J. C. Barker.

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Knier. — Died near Poplar Bluff, Mo„ the two little sons of Mr. and Mrs. Knier, born May 2, 1894. Little Henry F. died, being four weeks and two days old; and little James, his brother, died Oct. 28, being five months and twenty-six days. Pray for those bereaved parents. May they take Jesus and his promises, for he will comfort them that mourn. Text, Mat. 18:3.

J. C. Barker.

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Watkins. — Bro. Watkins was born in Richmond Co., N. C., Aug 11, 1835, and moved to the state of Mississippi when twelve years old, living in the same until death. He was a good husband and neighbor, but made no pretention of religion during his life until last August. About one year ago it pleased the Lord to send his ministers through here preaching his pure gospel. Bro. Watkins at once endorsed it and went to seeking salvation and found peace with God, and was faithful unto death, Oct. 31, 1894. He leaves a saved wife and six children.

Robt. A. Charlton.

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Shoup. — Edward Walter Shoup was born Nov. 16, 1871, died Oct. 30, 1894; aged twenty-three yrs., eleven mo., fourteen days. Was buried at St. Petersburgh, Pa. He was the son of Bro. and Sister Shoup of St. Petersburgh. He was sick only a few days and passed away. May the good Lord comfort those that mourn the loss of a dear one is our prayer. Funeral services by

S. P. Gilger.

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Heeter. — Died at Chestnut Ridge, Clarion Co., Pa., Bro. S. B. Heeter. Born Oct. 25, 1845, died Oct. 24, 1894. He was one day less than forty-nine years of age. Bro. Heeter had been afflicted for almost one year and eight months, and suffered great pain until death, but bore it patiently, always praising the Lord. He passed away in peace, the last words were, “Glory to God!” He desired to leave this world and be at rest with the Lord. Bro. Heeter leaves a wife and four children, and many friends to mourn. May the Lord comfort them, and may Sister Heeter ever keep saved and the children serve the Lord so they can meet their father in heaven.

S. P. Gilger.

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OVERWORKED CHRISTIANS.

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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Mat. 6:19, 20, 21.

By overworked Christians, I do not have reference to those engaged as ministers, or those out in the gospel field laboring for the salvation of souls: but I refer to those engaged in the ordinary pursuits of life, who have more business on hands than they can properly attend to, and live true to God and do justice to themselves and families. By having too much business on hands, and being pressed to the uttermost with daily cares, we are almost certain to allow our minds to be drawn away from God, at least to some extent, and to become entangled with the affairs of this life, and so many religious duties are crowded out. And for lack of time, the proper care and training of the children are neglected, and they are allowed to form many bad habits, which in after years may require years of the most careful training to eradicate, or except a reformation takes place, may seal their doom for eternity.

Sometimes business is so urging, and there is so much work on hands that it extends late into the night on Saturdays, and many little chores that ought to have been attended to during the week, are left over to be attended to on Sabbath morning before services. And it is often the case that the wife who has worked very hard all the week finds she has so much to attend to on Sabbath morning, that by the time she gets through with her morning’s work, and some things which ought to have been done during the week, and by the time the children are washed and dressed, she feels almost too much worried out to attend divine service; and both husband and wife find themselves greatly weakened both in body and spirit. By putting upon their shoulders too great a burden, as an overplus of business, and allowing their minds to become entangled with the affairs of this life, soon find a great lack of zeal in their souls, and energy and a desire to press on in the cause of the Master.

Some brother may say, I have a large family, or am in debt and am obliged to meet my obligations. To such I want to say, the scriptures in no case requires us to undertake more than we are able to perform, nor are we justified in undertaking so much business of any kind as would overtax our bodies or compel us to neglect our religious duties, or the care of our families by a pressure of business. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for the body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin And yet I say, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat. 6:25-29.

The above scriptures show that we are not to set our affections upon things of this life, and allow our minds to become entangled therein, to the detriment of our spiritual welfare, and thereby lose our usefulness as workers in the Master’s cause. All chores, and all kinds of labor of every description except such as cannot of necessity be avoided, such as feeding and watering stock, and a few household duties should be included in the six working-days of the week. To be sure, there may be a few exceptions in something not foreseen, and of necessity would have to be attended to.

I am satisfied that if a man or woman does six ordinary days’ work in a week, including all chores, taking time for family worship and the proper training of the children, visiting the sick, and doing our whole duty as faithful followers of Jesus, they will not lack for either food or clothing. Remember the Word says, “The willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land.” Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” (For after all those things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Mat. 6:30, 32. 33.

D. C. Engle.

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CONTEND FOR THE FAITH.

Waynesfield, O., Oct. 30, 1894

Dear Saints of God: Three weeks ago our little girl was stricken with typhoid fever. One of the brethren prayed for her and the Lord touched her with his healing power. The next day I went to my work near Foraker, O., and left her case in the hands of the Lord. But this place is one of the strongholds of Satan, and he stirred the hearts of the people against us and the truth, and the child got worse.

There being no elders of the church near, my wife called in some sisters of the church to pray for her; but the devil had some one to complain to the authorities, and they sent in the health officer. He being the marshal sent a doctor and with threatening of the law they gave her a few doses of medicine, and the child seemed to get worse. She fought against taking the vile stuff. Although the devil was sending his agents around threatening, they stopped giving medicine and sent for me. When I got home I found the child very sick, and the devil raging, but all glory be to God, the church was triumphant in his name, and the Lord showed us that we must throw out the medicine, dismiss the doctor, and have faith in God. And as we obeyed in pouring the medicine on the ground, the Lord filled us with praises to him, and flooded our souls with glory.

When we dismissed the doctor he threatened us with the law if the child died, and the neighbors threatened, but the Lord kept us saved and trusting him. On Monday evening, the 22 of Oct., the church met with us in prayer for her healing, and we got the evidence it was done. Praise the dear Lord! The same night we received a “white cap” notice, and it was reported that they were filing an affidavit against us for cruelty to children. The health officer was coming every day, and brought another doctor, and we then told him that the Lord had the case and we did not want any more doctors, and they stopped coming. We have been told that one of the sect preachers had been to see lawyers what could be done with us. We pray God to show him his condition and save his soul. We ask an interest in the prayers of God’s people that we may be kept humble. Your brother and sister,

John and Rozetta Warren.

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RECEIVED HIS HEALING TOUCH.

Tekoa, Wash.

Dear Readers of the Trumpet: I believe it to be to the glory of God to send in my testimony. I have been an invalid for nearly three years and under medical treatment nearly all the time without very much benefit. I was in Colfax when Sister Collvin was healed. I was impressed that I could be healed, and I asked the Lord to send some of the saints to see me if it was his will to heal me. Praise the Lord, he sent them. Bro. Jacobson and company were holding meetings in Oakesdale at that time, and the Lord sent Bro. Jacobson to Colfax, and he held a prayer meeting, where the Lord wonderfully pardoned all my sins and I was made very happy in the Lord. J went to the Oakesdale meetings, where the Lord sanctified me and healed my body. Oh the wonderful power of God thrilled my whole body, and such sweet peace in my soul. Praise his holy name forever! He is wonderfully raising me up, and I give him all the glory. I I have been doing some work, such as cooking and washing dishes since I was healed, which I was not able to do all through my affliction. Praise the name of Jesus! I am just willing to be anything or nothing for him. I ask an interest in the prayers of all God’s people, that I may ever stand on the word of God. Your sister in Christ,

Frances Palmer.

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A REQUEST FOR PRAYER.

Asheville, N. C.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I am praising the Lord for freedom from all sin. I feel that it would be to the glory of God that I write a little of my experience. When I was ten years old my eyes began to grow weak; and kept getting worse until at times I could scarcely see. I would have to be led about, and then I commenced to have them doctored. I had them treated nearly every day for about three years. I had then treated every day for a year by the finest occulist in St. Louis, Mo. They did not do me any good whatever. I then attended the Grand Junction camp meeting, and the Lord saved my soul. I felt then it would be to the glory of God to have hands laid on me for the healing of my eyes according to James 5. Praise the Lord! the work was done. I lived a Christian life about four months, and then got back into sin through pride, and was led astray by the world and lost my experience. Though my eyes did not bother me for about two years after they were healed; and then they got worse again, but praise the Lord! I have come back to Father’s house again, and have received a full salvation, and being in the vineyard laboring for souls with my brother, I could be more useful in the service of God if my eyes were well. And I have faith through the prayers of God’s little ones and in the word of God that they will be healed. I desire when you read this that you pray earnestly to God for the same, and a perfect healing of my body also. From your sister kept by the power of God ready to be revealed in the last day,

Amanda Carter.

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THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.

Psa. 119:129.

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Uniontown, Pa.

Dear Saints and Readers of the Gospel Trumpet: I am on the altar for God. I am so happy in him. My eyes are fixed on him. I am walking as he walked, preaching amongst the poor and binding up the broken hearted. Hallelujah! I am a blood-washed follower of Jesus. God bless the brethren everywhere.

Alex. Dittimore.

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Castine, Ohio.

To the Gospel Trumpet: I am saved, and have had the privilege of hearing the word of God preached and explained to me in its purity. Also my wife and our oldest son have given their hearts to Jesus. I desire to have the prayers of all the saints. Your brother in the Lord Jesus,

John B. Hans.

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Bon field, Ill.

Dear Saints of God: I write my testimony for the first time. I am saved from all sin. I am an orphan girl and have no home, no father, or mother, but glory be to God, I have a home in heaven. I am so glad I heard the light and truth, and now have it in my soul. Pray for my sister that she may be saved. I am ready to do the Lord’s will, what he wants me to do. Pray for me. Your saved sister,

Eva Nansen.

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Louisville, Colo.

To all the Dear Saints Everywhere: God bless you with just such blessings as you need, is my prayer. I do praise God for a full and free salvation, that saves from all sin, and keeps from day to day. He has healed me and my children at different times, for which I give him all the glory. Praise his holy name! I am sanctified and satisfied. Your sister in the one body, all on the altar,

Mary L. Taylor.

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Decatur, Ind.

Dear Brethren in Christ: God bless you all. We can testify yet to the saving grace of God, and to his keeping power; able to keep from all sin. The Lord is wonderfully blessing his little ones at this place. Praise his blessed name forever! From your brother and sister in Christ,

Wm. and Catherine Ault.

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22D Ave., Meridian, Miss.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I write my testimony for the first time. I have all on the altar. Praise the Lord! A sanctified life is the only life worth living. I desire a position in a Christian family to teach small children. I would teach them about the Bible, with the usual English studies, also painting, etc. If any readers of the Trumpet need my services in this respect, please write to me at once. Your sanctified sister in Christ,

B. Leonard.

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Clay Center. Neb.

Dear Saints: I am saved just now from all my sins, by the mighty power of God. Oh, praise his dear name for the sweet peace he gives to my soul! “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Son of God is born of God; thereby know we that we are son of God, and if sons of God, then heirs and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.” Pray for me, that I may grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. Your brother, in the one body,

J. E. Cook.

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Bezette, Tex.

Dear Saints: We are still enjoying salvation, but we need more spiritual food; that is, we need some one, or as many as the Lord may see fit to send us, to instruct. We still hold prayer meeting as often as we can meet. 1 know he is able to keep his little ones and to make them stand. Praise the Lord! We are persecuted, but that is one of the things promised with the blessings. The Lord healed my little boy and removed a very painful lump from his neck in answer to prayer. Your sister.

S. F. Tramel.

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Mead, Wash.

Dear Trumpet Readers: We are saved and sanctified. Praise His holy name! We meet with temptations, though the Lord will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able to bear. We do pray that some of God’s true ministers will come and speak the true word of God here this winter. Pray for us, that we may always be kept saved and doing the Master’s will. Pray for our boys, as some of them are very disobedient. Your brother and sister in Christ,

J. D. and Lucy E. Hasty.

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Wilton Junction, Ia.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord: God pardoned my sins and gave me sweet peace about twelve years ago. About three years afterwards I was persuaded to unite with the Presbyterians. I yielded to man’s persuasion and to man-made doctrines, and instead of getting strong in the Lord, I became weak, so very weak that I could hardly testify or pray or do any thing for my dear Redeemer.

We had a glorious meeting held by the saints last July and August, and I praise God he called me out of sectism. “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.

Since I have obeyed God’s calling I feel so free and happy in the Lord, and am gaining strength, and I have received more blessings in the last three months than I ever received during the nine years in sectism. I once thought I could not stay away from sect meetings, but God called me out and I know since he has called me out he will not lead me back again. Praise his name, he has even taken the desire of going away from me.

Dear saints, pray that I may grow stronger and do the whole will of God. We have faith God will keep us blameless and believe there will be a harvest of souls brought in the one fold here. We thank God for I what he has done in this and adjoining neighborhoods. There are about twenty saints at this place. Your sister in the Lord,

L. A. Townsend.

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Joseph’s Mills, W. Va.

My testimony is, I am saved, washed in the blood of the Lamb. Though I walk in the flesh I war not after the flesh. Being led by the dictates of the Spirit. I have my fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and will not suffer me to be tempted above that I am able to hear, but will with the temptation make a way for my escape. Therefore I am enabled to present my body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto the Lord, this being my reasonable service. I praise God for his manifestation in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ who is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. The GOSPEL TRUMPET is a welcome visitor. When I read the many testimonies of the dear saints that constitute the body of Jesus Christ, my heart is made glad. Pray for my. I am only a babe in Christ and realize my weakness very much. I am so constituted that I am very timed and can of myself do but very little, yet in Christ I expect to do all things required of me. Yours in the one body.

A. N. Fordyce.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters is Christ: When I was seventeen years of age, I was converted of my sins, and went to the altar at a Methodist meeting, and thought I was converted, but the Lord soon showed me I was not. I was so troubled. Oh what darkness I passed through! I prayed and wrestled so with God. I longed for something: I knew not what it was. It seemed there was something l needed, but I could not tell what it was. I went on in that way until I was about twenty-six years of age. Again I went to the altar at a Methodist inerting, but felt no change. I was almost in despair; so for years and years I struggled on. Oh the blackness of those years! It seemed as if I did not know just how to give myself to the Lord. But at last he helped me to come to him in the proper manner, and call mightily upon him, and when I gave all into his hands, and confessed all my sins to him. he forgave them all. and flooded my soul with his glory.

“Trusting in Jesus. I’m happy and free,
Moment by moment on Jesus I stay;
Trusting the future will ever be blest.
Trusting, oh, trusting, my soul is at rest”

Then he showed me my work, that I should visit the sick and try to comfort them. I was filled with glory; tongue cannot tell it all. Since then I have been walking in sweet peace. I praise God for trials also; they bring us nearer to Christ. I was sick all the time, but when the Lord removed my sins he healed me of partial paralysis of my left arm. At times it would hang helpless by my side, and I had severe soreness around my heart, and was unable to work much on account of weakness. I seemed to be a wreck. I had to take medicine all the time, and it seemed I could not do without it one day.

A sister came and prayed for me and anointed me, and now I can work again. My heart and arm are well, and my health is wonderfully improved. I was a slave to drinking tea and coffee. I prayed God to take the appetite a way, as it was shown me that it was wrong to drink so much, or anything that would stimulate, and tea never tasted right afterward. I pray God to sink me deeper down in his ways and keep me hid away with Christ in God, that I may know nothing but Christ and him crucified.

“No longer in darkness I’m walking,
For the light is now shining on me;
And now unto others I’m telling,
How be saved a poor sinner like me.”

Your sister in Christ,

Mrs. Lizzie Bell.