24 August 1893, Volume 13, Number 33.
At Jesus’ Feet.
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There is a place I love to dwell,
A place more sweet than tongue can tell;
’Tis where we find a sure retreat,
It is low down at Jesus’ feet.
It is there I love my soul to rest.
And feel assured that I am blest;
While humbly at his feet I bow,
And glory crowns his lovely brow.
When trials come and pain severe,
His promise then our hearts should cheer;
For he will keep us pure and sweet,
If we keep humble at his feet.
It was there by faith we bowed in prayer,
When burdened down with guilt and care;
Jesus looked down with pitying eye,
And heard our penitential cry.
He spoke the word, the work was done.
Our hearts rejoiced nor knew no harm;
And we were then for his use made meet.
While we lay prostrate at his feet.
Dear saints of God, lift up your voice,
Shout forth his praises and rejoice;
For now our love is made complete,
While there we rest at Jesus’ feet.
Hannah Lineman.
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THE DEATH OF THE OLD LAW AND SABBATH.
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BY the power of God’s Holy Spirit and his word, let us reason together and let it be done for edification. Paul says, When ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. — 1 Cor. 14:26, 30, 35. But while we reason thus together, let us let God’s word decide all matters for us. I will admit that this was Paul’s manner of doing God service when he was a Pharisee and lived after the Jewish religion. For says he, You have heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it. But how was it with him when he got converted to God? We find him then teaching against the law of which he was so zealous. But first let us find out what this law was. for fear that we will be misunderstood.
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. — Ex. 24:12. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him on mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the linger of God. — Ex. 31:18. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. — Deut. 4:13. Here now, we have the law of which Paul was so zealous; the ten commandments written on tables of stone. And in this law or ten commandments, contains the Adventist idolized “Sabbath,” which they say we must keep, or else we have the mark of the beast, etc. But is this all? No. We find that all of those old rites and ceremonies that the Jews kept in their religion were laws,” and “commandments,” such as “circumcision,” the “feast of the passover,” of the “new moons,” etc. In Lev. 23d chapter, we have a record of nearly all of these.
Paul was a smart man and well educated and was taught according to the perfect manner of the law and was zealous toward God. See Acts 22:3, and says that he profited in the Jews’ religion, above many of his equals, and was so zealous of the law that he persecuted the saints, or church of God and wasted it. He even went from house to house, haling men and women committing them to prison. — Acts 8:3. And even went so far as to obtain letters from the high priest, to go to Damascus to the synagogues, so that it he found any of the saints there, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. And while he was on his way to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me. — Acts 9:3, 4.
For the first time Paul had found out that he was doing wrong and begun to inquire into the matter, and after asking the Lord what he would have him to do, He told him to arise and go into the city, and. it shall be told thee what thou must do. Ver. 6. And then the Lord sent Ananias to him, that he might receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
We find that a great change had taken place in Paul. For if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature, old things have passed away and all things have become new. We find him now going forth in the name of Jesus. “For there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. — Acts 4:12. We find him now teaching contrary to the law. He was no more a Pharisee. Hence no more of the law. But there was a great many of the Jews like the Advents that believed. But they thought that they must keep the law. For, — thou seest brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe and they are all zealous of the law. And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. — Acts 21:20, 21.
Paul could not teach against the law, and still keep the “Sabbath” that was contained in the law if he taught against the law. He certainly taught against the Sabbath, but we find that he did take four men and purified himself with them (as was the custom of the Jews), and went into the temple with them. See 26th verse. But this was done to gain a hearing among them. But that he taught contrary to the law is positively proven by his language in the 15th chapter, as we will see. And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — Acts 15:1. And there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees, Paul’s old sect, which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. — Acts 15:5. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. — 2d verse. And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. — 6th verse. Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. — 12th verse. And then after having a brief discussion about this matter, each one of the apostles in turn, they wrote letters by them after this manner:
The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law; to whom we gave no such commandment. — 23d and 24th verses.
If Paul and the rest of the apostles did not command the people to keep the law, fifty-two years after the ascension of Christ, we are not. But the Advents are ready to take exception to this. They want to do away with all the Old Testament law except the “ten commandments.” Would not this be dealing deceitfully with the word of God? The law means all the commandments given in the Old Testament. And when they declared they should not keep the “law” they meant every commandment there is in it. Paul makes no distinction of two laws, as we will see later on. Now let us hear Paul again. — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. — Gal. 3:10. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, “The just shall live by faith.” And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. — Gal. 3:11-13. Who would want to be under a law that Christ was made a curse to redeem us from? and if he redeemed us from any of the law, he redeemed us from all. Therefore he has redeemed us from the “sabbath” that was contained in the law. Again he says, Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. — Gal. 4:3-5.
Having found out that there is no righteousness in the “Old Testament law,” that the law is not of faith, and that Christ has redeemed us from the law, etc., let us look into the law of Christ, for if Christ hath redeemed us from the law of Moses, he has certainly given us another law. For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. — Heb. 7:12.
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. — Heb. 8:8. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, tor the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. — Heb. 9:15.
The word “testament” here, is rendered “covenant” in the margin, hence it means the same. Now this is a positive proof that the law of the Old Testament, took in every commandment given in the Old Testament, the same as Christ’s law or New Testament takes in every commandment given in it; so in order to keep the law, we would have to keep every commandment given in the Old Testament. For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. — Rom. 2:25. Circumcision was not mentioned in the ten commandments, yet Paul speaks of it here, as profiting them it they kept the law; that is, if they kept every commandment given in the Old Testament, and the same on the other hand with Christ’s or New Testament law. Though we may keep the whole law, yet if we offend in one point, we are guilty of all. Guilty of transgressing the law, and this is what Paul meant when he was speaking to those Jews, telling them that if they made void any one of the commandments given in the Old Testament, though they were circumcised, it would profit them nothing. That would not be keeping the law. For further proof of this, we read in Heb. 9:1, Then verily the first covenant or testament had also ordinance of divine service and worldly sanctuary, and in the Toth chapter and 1st verse, we read again, For the law (here we see Paul speaks of it as being the law, instead of the “covenant” or “testament” and makes no distinction of more than one law. Thus we see that the law covers all the teachings of the Old Testament.) — For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
It appears reasonable that if there had been two laws as the Advents teach, that there would have been a distinction made between the two somewhere in the Bible. There is no distinction made between a “ceremonial law” and a “ten commandment law” anywhere in the Old or New Testament, so far as we can find; there were many different commandments given yet it was all termed as one law. Take a look at your dictionary in regard to this.
Now let us return to the covenant just spoken of and examine it more closely. For finding fault with them he saith, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Now let us see what this first covenant was. In Deut. 5:2-5, we read: “The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire. I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord.”
Now follow the ten commandments, as given in Ex. 20th chapter, and in the conclusion of the ten commandments, in the 22d verse he says, These words the Lord spake unto all of your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick darkness, with- a great voice and he added no more, and he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. And in the 9th chapter, 9 and 11 verses he says, When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water: and the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the Lord spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of the forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the two tables of the covenant.
What could be more plain than this, that the covenant spoken of here and the one in Heb. 8:7-8, are the same? But there are many other proofs that the “Sinai law” or the law given on mount Sinai is abolished. Behold the days come saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. — Heb. 8:9. Read Deut. 5:3. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. Can you see the harmony of these two verses, that the one Paul speaks of in Hebrews, and the one just read are the same?
Let us now hear the new law or covenant. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. — Heb. 8:10-11.
The “Ten Commandment Covenant” given to Moses on Mount Sinai was written on “tables of stone,” but love is a law that is to be “written in the minds and hearts” of people. This the law that was written on tables of stone could not do. It was all outward righteousness, and not of the heart. The people that lived under this law were very zealous in keeping the law as far as Outward appearance went, but still the sin was in their hearts. The old Adamic nature was still in them to commit things contrary to the law, hence there was a continual warfare being kept up within. They would do things contrary to the law and receive punishment according to the law. But still they would going on and do the same thing right over again. Hence we hear the Lord crying out, — “Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.” — Isa. 1:13, 14. There was nothing in the ten commandment covenant that could remove sin out of the heart. Hence it was necessary for Christ to come to do this and to give us a new covenant, which was established upon better promises; one that would reach down into the heart and take all the lusts of evil doing out. “For if the first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. — Heb. 8:7, 8, 13.
Here is a positive proof of the matter, abolishing of the covenant given on mount Sinai. Neither can we add to, or make it a part of the new covenant. Because we believe the new covenant, or law by faith in Christ Jesus, and the old law is not of faith.
This thing of persuading people away from the law of Christ “written in the heart,” and pointing them to a law that is written on tables of stone, that there is no righteousness in and one that God in his holy word declares could not give life, is altogether wrong.
But let us not stop here, let us hear Paul again. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all tresspasses: blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days. — Col. 2:13-17.
It is plain enough to be seen here, that some of those Jews that were so zealous of the law. were making war with the saints of God; trying to subvert them, and judging them in meats and drinks, and of the sabbath days, etc., judging them after the law, of which Christ died to redeem us from. Another thing we will notice, that Paul speaks here of the sabbath days. Now there were many other sabbath days given to the Jews besides the weekly sabbath, but Paul makes no distinction of any particular one; but says, sabbath days, meaning all that were kept in the law. If Paul had meant any of the other sabbath days and not the weekly sabbath, as the Adventists teach, it is reasonable that there would have been a distinction made between them. God’s word is very plain and is intended to teach us the way to heaven. Surely God and the holy inspired apostle Paul would not have made such a blunder. Thus the “law Adventism teachers,” don’t like Paul’s statement here about the law. So they go about to misconstrue the word of God, by teaching that the Old Testament is divided off in two laws; namely, the ten commandment law, and a ceremonial law, and say that no where does Paul in his teaching of the abolishing of the law, mean the ten commandment law.
Let us put Paul on the witness stand once more, and see if this statement is true. In the third chapter of 2 Cor. verses 2 and 3 he says. “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.” Who dare stand in the face of these scriptures and say that Paul does not mean the ten commandment law? Let us read this over again, “not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” What could be more plain than this, that Paul meant the utter abolishing of the law given on mount Sinai, as we have seen by the scriptures already given, that Christ’s law is written in the heart, and the ten commandment law was written on tables of stone, in with all the dark teachings of Adventism, and every other kind of ism on the face of the earth? God has scripture to overthrow every one of them. Again he says: “For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the
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Howard City, Mich.
Dear Trumpet Readers: We are glad to report this morning that we are saved and walking in the light as He is in the light. Praise his name! Since starting out for Jesus, our God has blessed us with victory in every meeting. At Hamilton there was a refreshing time from the Lord, also at Blendon. The last meeting at Jamestown was glorious from beginning to end. The church was brought together in the unity of the faith and the bond of peace, and closed Monday night with an ordinance meeting. I find that the people here are anxious to hear the Word. There is a famine in the land, not of bread and water, but are anxious for the gospel truth. Yours in the gospel truth,
Byron Wooden & Co.
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1446 Marbury, St., Augusta,. Ga.
Saints of the Most High God: All glory to God and the Lamb forever! The camp meeting at Wanesboro is past and gone. The attendance was small until Sabbath day, then we had a very good gathering which lasted until Monday night. One was sanctified and many convicted of this way of the Lord. And there was a grand jubilee and a wonderful outpouring of the Spirit. Praise the Lord! Preached three sermons for the Lord on the Sabbath. And I will also state Brother J. C. Pendergrast has seen the error of his way and has returned to the Lord. O praise the Lord! Your brother saved and sanctified,
James F. Macbeth.
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Hollenburg, Kan., Aug. 17, 1893.
Dear Brethren: God bless you. Praise the Lord for a present full and free salvation! I know this morning that I am justified freely by faith, and also sanctified wholly, and my whole spirit and soul and body is preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord has wonderfully been using me in preaching the word in new fields where the gospel of God has never been preached in its purity. It was a wonderful seed sowing time. People seemed to be hungering for Bible salvation. Some cried out, What shall we do to be saved? Praise the Lord! We are here at the camp meeting at Hollenberg. God is using us to his glory. We are not here as idlers, but have the harness on to gather the stones out all to His glory. We have been burdened of late to go to Lousiana and the south, all for the glory of God. All those wishing our labors, address us at Hollenberg, Washington Co., Kan.
Daniel Fire and Wife.
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TOPEKA CAMP MEETING.
Hollenberg, Kan., Aug. 17, 1893.
Dear Saints of God: We closed meeting in Topeka the 15th with a precious victory. God has raised up his church at Topeka. This meeting was truly of God. There were some things took place that I never witnessed before. The Wesleyan Methodist sect pitched their tent right by the side of the Lord’s tent after we had been to work about seven days. We did not know what to think at first, but it all worked out for the furtherance of the gospel in many ways. The glory of God was in the camp of the saints. The tabernacles were about fifty feet apart. God worked the whole matter to his own glory. I think there were forty or fifty consecrations, baptizing, and ordinance meeting Monday the 14th. It was a blessed meeting; about forty took part. A regular prayer meeting is established. Meeting at Hollenberg began last night with a shout in the camp. Pray for us and for the work in the west. We think best to put the Denver camp meeting two weeks sooner. I received word from the church there that the weather is quite cool there in October, and the church there want all the saints to come that can. The meeting there will begin the 20th of Sept. Your brother,
James Willis.
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West Middleburg, O., Aug. 14, 1893.
Dear Brothers in Christ: I am most blessedly saved in Jesus. Bless his name! Bro’s Schell and Warren held a meeting for us here and the Lord most wonderfully blessed their labors, and the light is still spreading. Saturday and Sunday Bro. Yoder was with us and baptized four, and preached for us Saturday night and Sunday, 10 A. M., also in evening. The Holy Ghost was with us in power. Bless the name of the Lord! Another brother came out of sects in the light and liberty of Christ. About fifteen have come out of sects and two or three conversions from the non professors. It is wonderful how God is revealing the light. I was near Ostrander visiting last week and found the light was beginning to shine in that part as well as here, but very, imperfectly for want of teaching. With the help of the Lord I gave them some light. Pray for them and us. The Lord be with you. Yours in the Lord,
Amos A. Witcraft.
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Neosho, Mo.
To the Trumpet Family: God bless you all. I feel led of the Lord to write my testimony. I do not often write, but want you all to know that I am still saved and sanctified by a second work of grace. Oh praise God for salvation! Oh it is wonderful, praise God! I left Coy to day. The meeting is going on there. About ten daysago we came to Neosho, and found the saints somewhat scattered, as you know the pure saints are few here. But praise God we gathered them togeth- and had three nights meeting. The Lord wonderfully blessed in the preaching of the Word, and the people accepted the truth. One dear soul blessedly saved and the power of God was wonderfully manifested. Dear saints, pray much for this place. Now as Bro. Cordell has been praying for some one led of the Lord to help him in the work, the Lord has sent wife and I, so we will be company workers together, so long as the Lord would have us be. We expect, the Lord willing, to commence meeting at Wade Station to morrow night. Pray for us that we may keep where God can use us to his glory.
Your brother and sister in the war,
D. Murphey and Wife.
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Dearly Beloved Saints: We can truthfully say we are blessedly saved in Jesus and kept by the power of God through faith, ready to be revealed in the last time. And as we have not made any report of our work since the Grand Junction camp meeting we feel this morning that it would be to the glory of God to let the little ones know that we are still in the field battling for God. We held about four weeks meeting near Todd’s Point, Ill. which place we found to be a dry and desert place, so far as salvation is concerned, and but little visible results in the meeting. Bro. Davison assisted us in the meetings. From there we came to this place (Hadley, Ind.) to assist in a meeting which begun Aug. 6, and is still in progress. The meeting has been a success up to the present time. There have been twelve or more consecrations and the people are generally awakened. This is just about the center of Quakerism, but we found a good honest people here, and a number of persons that have real salvation, but there are some that are badly stirred. May God bless them and give them salvation. The workers have been Bro. Davison, Bro. Buckellen from Danville, Ill., and Bro. Bogert from Brooklyn, Ind. Anyone desiring our service, address us at Hadley, Ind.
G. P. Keeling and Ostis Wilson.
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Lauderdale, Miss., July, 1893.
To all the Saints in Christ: May the smiles of a compassionate Father ever be upon you, and a peace that passeth understanding ever rest within, and keep you under the blood of the everlasting covenant. Being led of God I and Bro. Stowall and Birdsong held a meeting four miles east of Potersville, Kemper Co., Miss. The Lord was there from the beginning in the Holy Ghost power. We are thanking God for the victory through Jesus Christ over all opposition. We went there putting God in front, and God gave them the truth through his servants, which was gladly received. There were twelve justified. Some stepped out on the promise and received the experience of sanctification as a second definite work of grace. One buried in baptism and others shortly will be. There will be a house built there tor the saints to meet together for the use of that neighborhood, and dedicated to
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God. To God be all the praise forever. I am now holding meeting at Enon, on the Mobile and Ohio R. R. Pray for success of the meetings on ahead, to which we feel called.
R. Charlton.
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Visalia, Cal., Aug. 12, 1893.
To all the Dear Reapers of the Trumpet: I am so glad to know that dear Bro. J. W. Byers and wife have told me that they would come unto us here soon, possibly by Sept. 15. not latter than Oct. 1st, as the Lord may permit. And we will make the neessary arrangements for camp meeting to begin as soon as they arrive. We will try and give due notice to all concerned, of exact date that they will reach here from the east. Dear lovers of the Lord, we cordially invite your presence, and hope all will come prepared to camp on the grounds. The work of the Lord up at Drum’s Valley is now in progress and will continue there until the Lord says to close, for to make arrangements for the camp meeting. We shall use every possible means that God may give us to make it a glorious time, and one of rejoicing in the Lord. Yours in the body of Christ Jesus our Lord, saved now, and kept by power divine. Hallelujah!
J. J. Bentley.
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Carmi, Ill., Aug. 15, 1893.
Dear Saints of God: May the Lord bless you all. I live in Carmi, Ill. and I am very happy in the Lord, as wife and I are justified and sanctified. Glory be to God! We moved to this town five years ago. We found this place to be of about thirty- five hundred inhabitants, with seven churches organized, as they are called in this country, all of which have hired pastors but none of them preached holiness until a year ago last January. God showed me that I could he sanctified and that I must preach it. I got a couple of brethren to bring a tent and we had a glorious meeting. Several got sanctified. They also came back this summer and had their second meeting in this place. I also closed a meeting last night of about twelve days duration. Fourteen sanctified and one justified. To God be all the glory. During the last of the meeting I felt led of the Lord to preach on the church of God, and I find some are willing to walk in the light. A few will be baptized next Lord’s day. I want one or two of the best posted brethren in God’s church to come about the first of October, and preach the full gospel. Brethren who can come, let me know as soon as possible who will come. We can use a tent and if some one could come and bring a large tent with them, it would be the best way. Some one that can come at the time mentioned please write me, at Carmi, Illinois. May the dear Lord bless all the saints of God every where is my prayer. Amen.
Your brother saved and sanctified,
J. D. Baugh.
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McGrath, Mo., Aug. 15, 1893.
Dear Saints of God, Greeting: We take pleasure in reporting to you all through the Trumpet that we have victory through Christ over all power of the devil. The evening light has been preached some two or three years in this community, but very little good had been accomplished until recently, Bro. Geo. E. and Louie Bolds came to this place and held a camp meeting which continued eighteen days. The Lord wonderfully blessed their souls in delivering the word of truth to the people. There were from one to ten seekers at nearly every altar service, thirty-seven souls were made free from the power and condemnation of sin, and there were also seven that were sanctified wholly There were a few dear souls delivered out of sectism, among whom was a Methodist preacher. He had been preaching some seven or eight years. He declares his freedom and says he is out of Babylon and Babylon out of him. Praise the Lord! There were thirty-one dear souls buried with Christ in baptism during the meeting. On Sunday evening quite a number of the saints, some forty or fifty, participated in a glorious observance of washing the saints’ feet and partaking of the Lord’s supper. Praise the Lord for this privilege! I know God has a people here, so pray mightily with us that truth may ever stay, and the powers of hell and darkness will forever give way. Pray for me that I may ever continue to walk worthy of the Lord. Yours in the one body,
A. J. Bennet.
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San Diego, Cal., Aug. 13, 1893.
Dear Gospel Trumpet, and Readers: After an absence of nearly five months from the church at this place and not having the Trumpet to read in that time, I naturally as well as spiritually became anxious to see and learn from both. I thank God for the communion of saints and what he has been doing for the world. I have been engaged in the gospel work in Mexico for the last six or eight months, and I want to say to the glory of God, that my labors in that field have not been in vain. I wish I had the time and the Trumpet had the space, I would interest your readers and possibly encourage some of the dear children to come over and help us in this greatly neglected and vast field of labor in God’s vineyard. I pray God the latter may be the result of this writing. But let me say this, that the harvest is great and the laborers are few. Pray God that he may by the Holy Spirit power raise up workers for this particular field of labor. It requires a man or woman or both man and wife, filled with the Holy Spirit, who know the Spanish language or can readily learn it, and that can teach the children, and live as the natives do. Oh, my brother, sister, come and get owned and blessed of God. Any of the dear saints that feel led to assist this work by money or Spanish bibles can do so by addressing me at this place, San Diego, Cal., or after September address Ensenada, Lower Calif., Mexico. God has opened two or three mission posts where I expect to start schools and preach the gospel. The people are kind and hospitable and are eager for to be taught, but they want thus saith the Lord for all you do and say. If God leads me, I will write more about this in the future. May the Lord bless his people every where and send workers into his fields where they are the most needed is my constant prayer. Bro. Elliot has been laboring at Ensenada for some time, and I trust has done good. I expect to return to my field of labor in Mexico the first of Sept., the Lord willing. I have been greatly blessed and built up in the faith once given to the saints since I came. Praise God! Yesterday, Lord’s day, we had an ordinance meeting. It was a great day in Zion and our souls were strengthened and drawn closer together than ever before. The power of God came upon us, and we all felt how blessed it is to wait upon the Lord, and to obey his commandments, The church here is praying for Bro. Byers’ safe return. I pray God, his work be greatly blessed wherever he goes. Love to all God’s saints everywhere. Yours all for Jesus,
S. C. Shaw.
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Lambertville, N. J., Aug. 14, 1893.
Dear Saints: May the peace of Christ be with you all evermore. Amen. This finds me. praising God tor his uttermost salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Since my escape from the galling yoke of Babylon confusion, I have been engaged in holding up God’s standard of salvation to the inhabitants of this and other places. In the month of May and June, I held four open air meetings at this place all on Sabbath evenings. God did greatly bless me in delivering his word in warning the people to repent and turn to God and seek him with all their hearts. This is a very dark place of over four thousand population. We have distributed holiness literature and faithfully warned the people to quit their sinful life and accept the salvation of Jesus, but as yet there is no more in this direction. The devil is doing all he can to thwart and frustrate the spread of the gospel. Why? Because he is only loosed for a little season, his time is short; he knowing this roars louder. This is one of his devices to roar and foam and rage, thinking to intimidate the children of God. But we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor. 2:11. God can work and none can hinder. Praise his holy name! On June 11, I went to West Point to visit the dear ones; staid over Sabbath; had a glorious feast. May the dear Lord bless each individual member of his body at West Point and keep them tempered together in love that the world may see and know that they are disciples of Jesus. Jno. 13:35. Sunday the 30th of July, I walked to Lumberville, Pa. seven miles, to visit the family of dear Bro. John Shick. The Lord went before and prepared the way for a meeting in the M. E. house. In the evening we held forth the word on two works of divine grace to quite a large congregation. So far as we know, this is the first time it has been preached in Lumberville. When speaking about cleansing ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, we saw conviction stamped by the Word and Spirit on the countenances of many. We know the word trims close, but as we are in the service of God we must obey his orders, or else forfeit our position in the body and be cut off as unfruitful branches. We dare not compromise with the enemy of our souls. May God help some honest souls to accept his word at Lumberville. Aug. 9, I went into the state of Pennsylvania about three miles, and held a meeting in a school house, blew the trumpet, sounded an alarm in God’s holy mountain. The people are blinded by the fogs and mists of Babylon, but we are holding on to the Lord by faith and prayer. I am working in the factory by day and preaching the word at night and Sabbath. We are holding four regular meetings every week in private houses, and at other places as the Lord leads. Oh dear ones in Jesus, do pray for us and the work at this place and surrounding country, that the work of the Lord may abound more and more. Your brother in the faith of Christ,
E. H. Yuncker.
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THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.
Psa. 119:129.
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Indian Springs, Mo.
Dear Saints: God bless you all for Jesus’ sake. God is wonderfully keeping me saved and sanctified. I was saved and sanctified at the Granby camp meeting, and was baptized the Sunday following. I am going to start with Pa and Bro. and Sister Murphy to White Rock Prairie. Pray for my brothers that they may get saved and live straight for God.
Naomie Caudel.
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Latty, Ohio.
Dear Trumpet Readers: To day finds me saved and sanctified and kept by the power of God; all on the altar, ready to do the whole will of God. I realize to day that God is good and merciful to me. He saves and keeps me each moment of my life blameless before him. I followed the life of folly until quite old, but now he blesses my soul each day, and I continually trust him for all things. My husband is saved too, and O what a glorious salvation it is that keeps soul and body. Your sister saved by the blood of Christ,
Nancy Jones.
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Fair Haven, Ill.
Dear Saints of God: May the choicest of heaven’s blessing rest upon you all, and the God of all grace keep you faithful to the end is my prayer. I feel it would be to the honor and glory of God to write my testimony. I am praising God for a complete salvation full and free that saves from all sin. Praise his dear name! He has saved a poor weak unworthy creature like me. All glory be to Jesus, for his saving cleansing, keeping and sanctifying power felt upon my heart! When I presented my body a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God which was my reasonable service, he sanctified my nature. Glory be to his dear name! And I stand to day as it were a living monument of his wonderful love and mercy. I praise God to day, dear ones, that he has led me out of all divisions and sectism and every thing that is not in accordance with his blessed will and word, having been a member of the Evangelical church for three years or more. I told the dear Lord that if it was his will that I should come out from every thing and trust only to him, I was willing and ready to do it. It is through no goodness or righteousness of myself but only through the merits of a crucified Redeemer. He has done so much for me that tongue cannot express it. Praise his dear name! I ask an interest in your prayers, dear ones, that I may prove faithful to the end.
Your sister in the bonds of Christian love,
Emma C. Isenhart.
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South Haven, Mich.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel led to write my testimony. I am rejoicing in the rock of my salvation to night. O praise God for salvation that saves from all sin! My husband was saved two weeks ago, and the Lord took away the appetite for liquor and he is now rejoicing and singing praises to God. Things he once loved now he hates. I praise God I am saved and sanctified just now. Your sister in Christ,
Lelia Parish.
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Houston Mo.
Dear Saints of God: My testimony is I am saved and under the all cleansing blood, justified, and sanctified as a second work of grace. We had a week’s meeting held here by Bro. R. M. Haynes and wife, Sister Mattie and Rissa Bolds and Sister Anna Cox. There were six or seven consecrations for sanctification. Three or four others justified. We have a prayer meeting every Saturday night. The Lord is the leader. Eight raised their hands for prayer last night. Pray for the success of the meeting and salvation of souls.
John Stage.
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Poynor, Mo.
Editor Gospel Trumpet: I feel this morning, dear saints, that the Lord wants me to send up my testimony. I am praising the Lord for full and complete salvation that keeps me from sin every day. The Lord does wonderfully bless me and I do praise his name for it. I feel that I have on the whole armor of God, and that I have on the breastplate of righteousness, and am shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. O blessed be his holy name! May the dear Lord bless and keep you in the will of God, is my prayer.
Your brother in Christ Jesus,
R. C. Moore.
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Lownders, Mo.
Dear Saints of God: I feel led of God to write my testimony. I know that I am justified before God, and and seeking for sanctification. We are praying God to send some of his holy ministers to this place, Aug. 5, and hold a meeting. Dear ones, I want you all to pray for me and my wife that we may be wholly sanctified. They are all against us here but one brother and sister. We desire a meeting at what is known as the Pine Grove school-house. Satan is raging high here. But come filled wiih the Holy Ghost. From your brother and sister,
H. W. and Elizabeth White.
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Butler, Pa.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I do praise God this day for salvation that keeps me from sin. My trust is in Jesus who sanctifies me through the Holy Ghost. Oh what endless peace and joy there is in doing the Master’s will! What comfort to the soul! I thank God it is our privilege to be like Jesus in this present world. I feel it is to the glory of God to tell what he saved me from. I always was careless and reckless, began smoking and chewing tobacco and drinking intoxicating drinks when a small boy, having been exposed to bad company and bad habits all my life. I joined the U. S. army in 1889 and spent three years of my life in gambling and drinking. I would rather at that time sit all day and all night drinking, smoking, and gambling than eat my meals; and often did so. All persons who have had an experience of that kind know the other evils connected with a gambler’s life, and I was no exception. I often tried to stop some of my bad habits but would make a failure every time, because the appetite was still there. But praise God, the appetite was taken away last January when Jesus rolled the burden of guilt from my soul and released me from that terrible sentence of death and hell. Dear reader, are you under that sentence? If so, seek pardon before it is too late. Behold now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. And let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. I do thank God for a Bible salvation that enables me to say I am a son of the living God, and not adopted through sectism; neither am I under or saved through any other name, only the name of Jesus. Praise God forever!
Frank A. Ferris.
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Aurora, Mo.
Dear Saints of God: I am glad to say we are saved, and walking in the light of God’s blessed word, and laboring for the salvation of souls, living upon every word of God. And I am declaring a whole gospel and a full salvation to the people, and God is with me in power. Glory to God for ever! that I ever heard Brother Bolds and sister preach a full gospel on the ordinances and that I did accept it in full, regardless of what men may think or say. I mean to walk in every ray of light that God lets shine on my path-way. Glory to God! I was converted at eighteen years of age and sanctified wholly at twenty-one as a second definite work of grace. I have been preaching pardon to sinners and sanctification to believers, and preach baptism and the Lord’s supper to the children of God, but had never got very much light on the washing of the saints’ feet and the holy kiss, and the lifting up of holy hands. So I did not preach these I have mentioned. I never had heard any preaching in favor of practicing them, so I left them out. But bless God that He did give me the privilege of hearing them preached so plain; and I saw that it was for me. Oh how I bless God that l had no prejudice in my heart and was honest enough to accept the whole truth, when God just drew back the clouds and let the true light of heaven shine. And on Sunday before the 4th of July when Brother Bolds baptized eight of us it just sealed every thing for time and eternity. The Holy Ghost witnessed to the work in power. We had a good time, and in the evening had an ordinance meeting. The Lord was with us in power. The work is still going on. Glory to God! We are just asking God to be with us and keep us on the straight route to glory. We do ask an interest in the prayers of God’s children. I am all on the Lord’s side, out and out for God with all that I have and am, on the altar, and the altar does now sanctify the gift. Glory to God! And my soul is all on the stretch for glory, and I am just looking for something to do, and saying, Hear am I Lord, send me, send me. I want to meet God’s little ones in the camp meetings as often as the Lord wills this fall. I love the GOSPEL TRUMPET. It brings food to my soul. God bless it and its readers. Yours in Christ,
S. B. Laroutte.
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law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” — Rom. 7:5-7. Here again is a positive proof that Paul means the ten commandments, for he brings forth in the 7th verse one of the commandments that was given in the law, ‘‘Thou shalt not covet.” And in the 4th verse he says: “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”
So we see they could not bring forth fruit unto God when they were under the law, for says he, V. 5, “When we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. “The motions of sins which were by the law,” that is, the lusts of sinning which the law could not take away.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. — V 7. The law of itself was not sin, yet there was nothing in the law, that would save people from sin, or from having the desire to sin. Now to get a better understanding of this, let us take the law of our country, for instance. The law of our country says we shall not steal, and we must not murder, etc., yet there is nothing about the law that would take the desire of stealing out of the heart. A highway man, will commit theft, and receive punishment according to the law, and as soon as he gains his freedom, he is ready to do the same thing over again. So it was with those that were under the law of the Old Testament; it was all outward righteousness, and not of the heart. We find that Paul was very zealous of this law once, yet he went about to kill those that did not believe as he did, right contrary to what the law said. Who cannot see that there is no righteousness in such a law as this, for there was a condemnation all the time of them that were under the law. “For by the law is the knowledge of sin.” — Rom. 3:20. But there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh [law], but after the Spirit. — Rom. 8:1. [The law of Christ.] “Written in the heart.” Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tables of stone, but in fleshy “tables of the heart,” for the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith [the law is not of faith], meekness temperance, against such there is no law.” — Gal 5:22, 23. For the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his only Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.” — Rom 8:2-3. Hear what Jesus says about the weakness of the law. “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart: — Matt. 5:27, 28. Here again can plainly be seen the weakness of the law. Jesus here brings forth one of the commandments given in the law. “Thou shalt not commit adultery;” yet there was nothing in the commandment that could remove the lusts of committing adultery out of the heart, and as long they as were not caught in the very act, the law could not condemn them. This was plainly seen in St. John 8:3-11, where the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman co Jesus that was guilty of this sin, and was caught in the very act. Now Moses in the law had commanded “that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.” They knew that Jesus would not suffer her to be stoned, so they thought perhaps they might get him to command her not to be stoned, contrary to what the law said, so they would have something to accuse him of; but Jesus put them to flight by saying, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” And they all began to sneak away; their guilty conscience would not let them stay; they had all been guilty of the same thing that the woman had.
A. C. Drumm.
THE PROMISES OF GOD.
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GOD has given us his word in which are many good and precious promises. It is a volume of truth which instructs us how to obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of God by becoming one of his children.
It teaches us how to have access to the great treasury of the Lord; how to make out our petitions, and how to send them in to the great giver of every good and perfect gift, in a way that the request will be granted.
This book, which we call the Bible, is the Christian’s covenant book. It tells just how to make a covenant or contract with God, and not only how to make it but how to fulfill it. One reason that so many persons make a failure in living a Christian life is, they do not know what is in their covenant book, and know but little about how to send in a petition for what they desire and really need. There are two things very necessary in order for a person to be fully equipped for the holy warfare, and enjoy the fullness of the love of God. One is to make an acquaintance with God by knowing what is in his word. Another is to make his acquaintance through a work of grace wrought in the soul by obeying the word, and have his spirit dwelling within.
We read in this book that the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; and that he has all power in heaven and upon earth. This being true, surely then if there is a promise left for us, He is able to fulfill it. He is able to perform anything he undertakes, or promises to do. He has all wisdom and power and is willing to impart unto his obedient children just such things as are needed, but they must meet the conditions of his word and also ask according to his will.
In Jno. 15:7, is a very precious promise, that “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
The promise here is given in the last part of the verse, but the conditions are given in the first part, which require an abiding in Christ. There are also other conditions in connection which must not be overlooked.
After Jesus had caused the fig tree to wither away, and the disciples were amazed at what he had done, he turned to them and said: “HAVE FAITH IN GOD.” “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore, I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11:23, 24. Here are some more conditions named, the first of which is faith. His first words to the astonished disciples at this time were, “Have faith in God;” second, they were not to doubt; third, they were to “believe;” yea, he said: “When ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
Again, we are instructed in Jno. 16:24 to ask of the Father, and in the name of Jesus. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.” The same promise is given in Jno. 15:16, upon conditions that they bear fruit, that is, live a holy life and do the will of God.
Peter says there are “exceeding great and precious promises” for us. And after having been partakers of the divine nature we can reach a point where we will neither be “barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” But it is upon conditions that we add to our faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity, etc. And he says that he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
“And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” 1 Jno. 3:22. The latter part of this verse tells why the prayer is answered.
There are many reasons why prayer is not answered. Sometimes it is because the one asking is not right in the sight of God, Psa. 66:18, or desires the work to be done in order to receive praise from some one else, Jno. 5:41; or asks amiss, for some selfish purpose, Jas. 4:3; or the will of God may not have been fully sought, and known in the matter. But there is a wonderful promise, one that is reliable, and precious to the soul, to those who come to him in faith believing, and ask “according to his will.” “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
This promise brings us right down to an active faith, where we not only know that the Lord hears our prayers but that he really answers, not at sometime in the distant future, but just now, and “we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
In James 5:13 is instruction given to the afflicted, and the three following verses of the same chapter are for those who are sick. Those who are tempted will find consolation in Jas. 1:12: and 2 Cor. 10:13. The troubled heart will take courage by the words of Job 5:19; Psa. 9:9; 46:1. O what a wonderful book! in it is found a blessed promise for every sinner, and points out the way of deliverance. It also gives their doom if they fail to obey. The promises to believers are found in abundance. Then why are there so many spiritual dwarfs? there is not the least need of it, for God has promised that we should be fat and flourishing in spiritual things, but he leaves it to our choice as to whether or not we will have it so.
Dear followers of God, if you will make the proper acquaintance with him, and with his blessed Word, making a search to know what he has in store for you of his bountiful riches, there will soon be a wonderful advancement in the ways of the Lord in your case. The pure minds of the children of God throughout the land need to be stirred up to a sense of duty,anc a good way for them to accomplish this is to begin to search their covenant book and see what the Lord has promised them, then see to it that they are in proper condition to receive such things from the hand of the Lord.
E. E. Byrum.
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THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.
Psa. 119:129.
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Monticello, Ill.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Greeting: My soul desires to tell you of the rich blessings I am receiving through faithful obedience to my God. I am saved and kept each day of my life through the loving power of God. All glory to his most holy name! He has lifted my soul above all sin and keeps me from evil evey day.
Augusta Lusklett.
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Spring Run, Pa.
Dear Saints of God: I am happy to report victory over the world, the flesh and the devil. I praise God through firey trials and the way grows brighter every day. This world has no charms for me for Jesus has set me free. I have given all up for Jesus, coffee, tea, and every thing that is not the will of the dear Lord to use. I am ever trusting in Jesus and he always brings me through my tribulations. I can say now,
My thoughts are never more gloomy,
My faith no longer is dim,
But my heart is strong and restful,
And mine eyes are unto him.
I want all of the dear saints to pray that my husband may be led to Christ. Pray much for the little ones in this place that we may be steadfast in the faith of Christ, and that our light may shine before the world. Pray also for my little boy that he may walk. He is four years old and cannot walk. I believe the Lord will heal him, for he says, Ask and it shall be given; knock at mercy’s door and its shall be opened unto you. And may his love and peace be with you all. Your sister in Christ,
Catherine Dunkle.
Union City, Mich.
Dear Saints of God: I am praising God to day for full salvation. I praise him for the freedom I have received, for whom the Son maketh free is free indeed.
“Now I am from bondage freed,
Every band is riven.
Jesus makes me free indeed,
Just as free as heaven”.
All glory to God forever! Oh! how I love his precious word, and I thank Him for his blessed holy Spirit, which reveals his word to my understanding, for I realize I cannot understand its spiritual meaning, only as his Spirit throws light upon it. How glad I am Jesus has redeemed me with his own precious blood, and I want to live down at the foot of the cross I where I will know nothing save Christ and him crucified. For the life that I now live I live by faith in the Son of God. I am justified by faith and sanctified by faith. The word says, “By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Your sister saved by the blood of Jesus,
Mrs. Clarinda Foster.
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Reynolds, Neb.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I am praising the dear Lord for a Bible salvation that saves me just now and keeps me sweetly saved in Jesus all the time wherever I go. Oh praise the dear Lord for ever! I am so glad the Lord has taken me out of darkness and the corruption of this world, and translated me into the kingdom of his dear Son. I am not of this world. Oh praise the dear Lord evermore! My soul does magnify the Lord. My spirit rejoices in the God of my salvation. My soul is joyful in glory. I do praise God for victory over hell and all powers of darkness. I intend to spend all the rest of my time in helping to rescue perishing souls. I have forsaken all to follow my blessed Saviour and go wherever he leads. Pray for me that I may keep down in the very dust of humility, and that I may not leave one thing undone, but that I always fill my place in the body of Christ. From your sister saved and sanctified wholly,
Nancy Taylor.
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Little Osage, Mo.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel definitely led of the Father this afternoon to tell of his wonderful love I and goodness to me. I know that I am all on the altar and the altar sanctifies the gift. So I know I am saved from all sin and kept by the grace of God, sanctified wholly just now. There are no words that can begin to express that joy and peace that God gives to those who are willing to pay the whole price and take him at his word. He has kept me about five years, and glory to his name He can keep me faithful unto death. Praise the dear Lord for a pure and straight gospel. Pray earnestly every one that may read this testimony, for the work here. We want some of God’s firebrands to come and preach the word here, for Babylon has utterly fallen here to rise no more, and we often see the smoke of her torment ascend when God lets his Holy Ghost fire down. We are few but Jesus is our leader and guide and he never lost a battle. Any one feeling led of God to come will find a welcome at my home. If God sends you come, but do not unless he does, for it is not by might nor power that any thing can be accomplished but by the Spirit. We have prayer meeting once a week. But there is a way called the Good Way, but this is not as good as God’s way after all. God keeps us from having any compromise in our souls, and remove any way but the way of Jesus. I praise the dear Lord for the comfort and help I get from read- the TRUMPET; and He helps me to sound the trumpet. Pray for me. Your sister, saved just now and all or Jesus,
Alice Walton.
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Fairview, Ohio.
Dear Saints: I have felt for some time like giving in my testimony that I am still saved in Jesus. O praise his name for what he has done for me and my family! My little boy, eleven years old, was afflicted with catarrh since a little child. There was a discharge from his nose so much that the child had no satisfaction to be in school or anywhere. So I thought I would take him to Burbank to the grove meeting to Brother Ezra Smith, and have them lay hands on in the name of the Lord, but it was several weeks until time for the meeting. It seemed I could not wait, so I took him to the dear Lord in secret prayer, then I forgot all about him for several days. Behold when I looked I saw he was healed. O praise His name forever! he still is sound and well. I am glad we have such a dear Doctor that can heal all our diseases both soul and body.
I have a very near relative by marriage who is a Catholic, a hard drinker ever since I knew him. When I got saved I began to pray for him that the Lord would keep him from drink. Last fall he seemed to drink more than ever, and I asked the Lord to just bring it around in some way that he could not drink. So shortly after he had a dream. He dreamed he saw his dead brother, wife and children all in rags. He said he saw his dead brother looking at him with a sorrowful look. He got up the next morning and told his wife he never could drink again; he would send the money he used for drink to that poor woman and her children. He wrote to her, found they were sick and in great need, and he has kept his word. O dear ones, remember Jesus promised to answer the prayer of faith. Don’t get discouraged; his promises are firmer than heaven and earth: he said, Heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away. While I write these lines his love is burning in my soul. There is victory over all the works of the evil one. I am more determined than ever to be true to him as long as I live. I want to hold him up higher.
Araminda Hurless.
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East Dennis, Mass.
Dear Saints: This morning I want to tell you that I am saved and sanctified. For a long time I have wanted to be a saint, and have been walking in the light as best I knew. But when Brother and Sister Rupert came, God told me they had more salvation than I had. I was going to meeting where there was variance, where they professed to be sanctified and did not fellowship each other. I knew it was wrong. I kept going till I lost all joy of the Spirit. But as quick as God’s ministers preached the word, it showed me where I was standing, and I have come out and am separate from all such spirits. I was baptized four years ago, by a sect minister and never felt right by so doing; but one week ago I was baptized by Brother Rupert, and also my husband. The devil is telling a good many lies about me, but I know he is a liar, and feel the sweet peace and victory in my soul. I want to tell you that the Lord has healed my body. I have never been well for some years, but the elders anointed me, and the prayers of faith were answered. I do praise God that I have lived to see this day. My desire is to do all the good I can for perishing souls. We were sorry to have to part with Brother Daugherty and Brother and Sister Rupert. Truly God’s litte ones love each other, and one doesn’t try to be greater than the other. Those who are God’s ministers, come this way when you can. If I had means I would send but am poor in this world’s goods. I expect to move to a place where I shall stand alone in this evening light. I lived there two years ago, and held forth the truth, but the Lord has given me more understanding out of his word. Dear ones pray for me. I need your prayers that I may be useful in the vineyard, and that I may ever be true to God, although every friend should go against me. God bless all my brothers and sisters in the faith. Your sister saved and trusting in Jesus,