Gospel Trumpet – 1 July 1888

1 July 1888, Volume 10, Number 8.

The Presence Of God.

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O Thou, who fling’st so fair a robe
Of clouds around the hills untrod —
Those mountain-pillars of the globe,
Whose peaks sustain thy throne, O God!
All glittering round the sunset skies,
Their trembling folds are lightly furl’d,
As if to shade from mortal eyes
The glories of you upper world;
There while the evening star upholds
In one bright spot their purple folds,
My spirit lifts its silent prayer;
For Thou, the God of love, art there.

The summer flowers, the fair, the sweet,
Upspringing freely from the sod,
In whose soft looks we seem to meet,
At every step Thy smiles, O God!
The humblest soul their sweetness shares,
They bloom in palace-hall, or cot —
Give me, O Lord! a heart like sheirs,
Contented with my lowly lot!
Within their pure ambrosial bells,
In odours sweet Thy Spirit dwells;
There breath may soon to scent the air —
’T is Thine, O God! for Thou art there.

List! from you casement low and dim
What sounds are these, that fill the breeze?
It is the pleasant’s evening hymn
Arrest the fishers on the seas —
The one man leans his silver hairs
Upon his light suspended oar,
Until those soft delicious airs
Have died like ripples on the shore.
Why do his eyes in softness roll?
What melts the manhood from his soul?
His heart is fill’d with peace and prayer,
For Thou, O God! art with me there.

The birds among the summer-blooms
Pour forth to thee their strains of love,
When, tumbling on uplifted plumes,
They leave the earth and soar above;
We her their sweet familiar airs
Where’er a sunny spot is found;
How lovely is a life like theirs,
Diffusing sweetness all around!
From clime to clime, from pole to pole,
Their sweetest anthems softly roll,
Till, melting on the realms of air,
Thy still small voice seems whispering there.

The stars, those floating isles of light,
Round which the clouds unfurl their
sails,
Pure as a woman’s robe of white
That trembles round the form it veils,
They touch the heart as with a spell,
Yet, set the soaring fancy free,
And O how sweet the tales they tell!
They tell of peace, of love, and Thee!
Each raging storm that wildly blows,
Each ludury gale that lifts the rose,
Sublimely grand, or softly fair,
They speak of Thee, for Thou art there.

The spirit oft oppress’d with doubt,
May strive to cast Thee from its thought,
But who can shut thy presence out,
Thou mighty Guest that com’st unsought!
In spite of all our cold resolves,
Whate’er our thoughts, where’er we be,
Still magnet-like the heart resolves,
And points, all trembling, up to Thee;
We cannot shield a troubled breast
Beneath the confines of the bless’d,
Above, below, on earth, in air,
For Thou the living God art there.

Yet, far beyond the clouds outspread,
Where soaring fancy oft hath been,
There is a land where thou hast stud
The pure of heart shall enter in;
In those fair realms so calmly bright
How many a loved and gentle one
Bathes ..s soft plumes in living light
That sparkles from Thy radiant Throne!
There souls, once soft and sad as ours,
Look up and sing ’mid fadeless flowers —
They dream no more of grief and care,
For Thou, the God of peace, art there.

Amelia B. Welby.

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When is the Time to Die?

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I asked a glad and happy child,
Whose hands were fill’d with flowers,
Whose silvery laugh rang free and wild,
Among the vine-wreathed bowers.
I cross’d her sunny path, and cried,
When is the time to die?
‘Not yet! not yet!’ the child replied,
And swiltly bounded by.

I ask’d a maiden, back she flung
The tresses of her hair;
A whisper’d name was on her tongue,
Whose memory hover’d there.
A flush pass’d o’er her lily brow,
I caught her spirit’s sigh;
‘Not now,’ she cried, ‘O no, not now!
Youth is no time to die.’

I ask,d a mother, as she prest
Her first-born in her arms,
As gently on her tender breast
She hush’d her babe’s alarms.
In quivering tones her answer came,
Her eyes were dim with tears,
‘My boy his mother’s life must claim,
For many, many years!’

I question’d one in manhood prime,
Of proud and fearless air,
His brow was furrow’d not by time,
Or dimm’d by woe and care.
In angry accents he replied’ —
And gleam,d with scorn his eye,
‘Talk not to me of death,’ he cried,
‘For only age should die.’

I question’d Age; for him, the tomb
Had long been all prepared,
But death, who withers youth and bloom,
This man of years had spread.
Once more his nature’s dying fire
Flash’d high, as thus he cried,
‘LIFE, only life is my desire!’
Then gasp’d, and groan’d, and died.

I ask’d a Christian — ‘answer thou
Where is the hour of death;’
A holy calm was on his brow,
And peaceful was his breath;
And sweetly o’er his features stole
A smile, a light divine;
He spake the language of his soul,
‘My MASTER’S TIME IS MINE!’

Amanda M. Edmond.

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PROHIBITION.

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THROUGH party politics the prohibition question has become a national question; a question of great importance. It comes to the Church and professor of religion, to the voter and to the citizen of every state, country, town and city. Shall we prohibit the rum traffic, or shall we continue the license system?

It is admitted on all sides that the rum traffic has become a great curse, and that it is an evil that is getting worse in place of better; and that a vast amount of money is used to support it, and that it corrupts and destroys life and property; that its gigantic evil is spreading every day. It has taken hold of the politicion and the office seeker and has entered the halls of congress; it has subverted courts of justice. The office seeker uses the rum traffic to get votes and yet favors the license system. The cry among the old political parties is, “High license to regulate the ram traffic.” The question comes to every candid mind, Shall we prohibit the traffic, and can we prohibit it? Is it just and right to take privilege from one man and add to many? Shall we close our breweries, destroy our distilleries and close up our saloon? is it just to destroy one man’s income to benefit masses? Is not the rum traffic bringing into the public treasury vast amount of revenue which lessens the burden of taxation? Can we prohibit? and shall we prohibit? Is it right to exercise the power? and lastly, shall we as Christians take part in the effort? or shall we remain at home and away from the polls? Shall we favor a third party etc.

Dear brethren, these questions come to you as well as to me. No doubt you have studied over it and felt as though some thing ought to be done to put down the evil: yet perhaps you have hesitated to act and waited for better oportunities. Dear brethren allow me, as one who has had experience in this great evil, to address you upon the subject. There never was a better opportunity to strike a blow at the evil than at present. In fact it is admitted by all classes that the rum traffic is an evil. The question is debated by all political parties; it is brought into question by the majority of sects, shall we the saints of God’s Church keep silent and take no part whatever? If it is an admitted fact that the rum traffic is an evil, shall we keen silent because we are free and not fallen in its grasp. Are not our sons and daughters in danger of being slain? Shall we continue to pray for God to destroy the evil, and fold our hands and do nothing? Will the Lord answer our prayers if we do not act accordingly? Will the Lord answer any prayer that we can answer ourselves or do any thing that we can do ourselves? Shall this nation, or the people that shall fill our place and make our laws and goverment, be a sober and industrious nation; have good laws, good Christian communities, and free schools, and be free from the rum curse? or shall we have a drunken nation? our sons fill drunkards graves, our daughters marry drunken husbands? Will our prayers save our children, if every oportunity of vice awaits them? The father that planted the seed of drunkenness into his son by keeping hard cider in his cellar, and the mother that manufactured wine for medical purposes, and put the temptation before her children, and they in turn are addicted to strong drink, may never see the day when their prayers are answered; but very likely may see and feel the effects of their folly all their days. May the Lord open the eyes of every believer, that they may be careful to keep the temptation a way from their children. We have to many so-called christians among the sects that excuse themselves by quoting a few Scripture texts in their favor, without studying the meaning. Many advocate that our Savior made water into wine, and that the apostle Paul did reccommend the use of beverage to Timothy, and that we should not judge our brother in meat and drink, and thereby excusing themselves, and put the temptation before their children. We hope that none of the saints are that blind and subverted. But the question comes before us, what shall we do? Shall we take part in voting? shall we help to put down the traffic, or shall we trust in God and remain away from the polls? I will answer the question from my own conviction, and the light I have. I was once myself on the downward road to ruin, by strong drink: and by God’s grace escaped the ruin of both soul and body. Shall I sit idle and do nothing to stop the great evil? Shall I not help to save my fellow men? my neighbor? my neighbors children from the evils of the intoxicating cup? Supposing my neighbor’s son had fallen into a pit or a large stream and I could help him out, but would refuse until he had actually drownded, could I enter Heaven without asking forgivness of my neighbor and seeking God’s mercy? So also it is my plain duty to help to destroy the great evil of the rum curse, which is destroying my neighbor, my neighbors son, and exposing my own son to danger, also my daughter. It is true that the Bible teaches us to be temperate in all things, and great many do understand it to mean the moderate use; but we are able to prove that the Bible does not teach the use of any thing that creates an evil, or that is injurious in its nature: neither does nature teach such things. But it teaches to the contrary as we will prove in our next chapter. Neither has God nor the Bible any compromise with evil, neither Christ with satan. It is also true that many of our temperance advocates are not strictly temperate in all things, for the majority are in bondage to some Secret Society or outside trap to destroy God’s children; and many are slaves to tea, coffee and tobacco which are also evils. The ungodly pride that they carry on their person is an abomination in the sight of God. It is also true that many temperance workers are, in many things, as blind as is the rum tippler or the wine bibber; and it is a question of time whether the prohibition party, if put in power, will not soon be as shaky and corrupt as are the two old political parties. But I am not bound more to the prohibition parties than to the others as far as party is concerned; but as long as we see the old political parties sold out to the rum traffic by advocating license, just that long it is the duty of every candid minded believer to step out of her ranks; for we might just as well talk of licensing any other evil as that of the rum traffic. We have just as good a right to license horse thieves as the saloon. Just as much right to license houses of illfame and gambling houses, as the saloon; for license does not prohibit but it legalizes the business, it makes it appear respectable; yet does not diminish the misery caused thereby. Any system that legalizes the whiskey curse should be wiped out spedily, and every child of God should do his duty in this direction. Not that we are bound to any political party, “for whom the Son has made free is free indeed.” But we should use our liberty to abolish the works of iniquity. This could be brought about by all professors of religion doing their duty, and lending a helping hand. As long as the prohibition party is working to put down the whiskey curse, we should support it, not in mailing it a third party — but upon all questions of right and justice; such as making amendments to the constitution, to abolish the license system, to drive the saloon curse from our land, we that are free from all sects, and other tricks of satan are not bound to any political party whether prohibition democratic or republican; but we are bound by the holy Bible to put down evil when it is in our power to do so. The only way this great evil can be put down is by enacting prohibition laws. This can only be done by our legislators; and this in most of the states can not be accomplished until the state constitution is changed. This can be done only by the majority of the voters and probably in most of the states it will require a two thirds or three fourths majority, but this can only be submitted to the people by and through our legislators and state senators. So in order to ever bring the question before the people we must put men into office that will be true to the temperance cause. This can not be done by electing officers or law make is that are bound to the old political parties — that are in sympathy with the whiskey or liquor traffic. Actions speak louder than words. When politicians try to make you believe that they are in favor of putting down the traffic, and at the same time try to compromise with the evil for fear of loosing the vote, we know that they do not live up to what they profess. Some years ago I used to vote the democratic ticket, not being in the light of God. But when I saw that the democratic party was working in favor with the whiskey traffic and the republican party took steps toward prohibition, or at least worked to submit this question to the people in Indiana, I boldly voted the republican ticket, thinking that the republican party was true to its pledges: but when I saw that the amendment — or an act to submit the question to the people — was lost by both parties, and that the republican party failed to fulfill its pledge, and that they were defeated in some states on account of the temperance question, and they being afraid to meddle any more with the question and shut out all prohibition representives at their conventions, and adopt local option in place of high license in some places, I saw that they were in harmony with the whiskey element for fear of loosing thier power. We voted our first ticket for St John for president, but we feel that we are not pledged to the prohibition party more than to any other, unless we see that they are true to their principle in putting down the traffic. Neither would we advise any of the saints to vote with any party spirit; but we cannot see how any one can vote with the old political parties and clear their conscience. Let all fairly and candidly look into this question then vote as they pray, that God through human instrumentality may destroy the evil.

It is true that the saints have not this world in view, but should we not help to put down evil? If some of our temperance advocates are not temperate in all things, if some of them are of the world and perhaps full of other evils, remember that the saints are but few in number, compared with the masses, and have not the power to make laws, nor can we control them. We may by preaching the truth convert some, and reform some drunkards, but the great evil wi:ll still exist until every man, woman and child interested in this cause will put their shoulders to the work and help to put down the evil. And in order to accomplish this work, we must make this a national question, a national affair, and work with the majority of the people that see this evil, whether professors of religion or not. We do not need to compromise with any other evil, in order to work with them in this one struggle. Neither do we need to lock arms with the world any farther only to vote and act with them in accordance to our own judgment. “Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its savor wherewith shall it be salted?” Ye are the light of the world; let your light so shine that others can see your good works.

Some say we cannot prohibit; it is unconstitutional. If by the will of the people they could put down slavery and make amendments to the constitution they can do the same thing to put down the liquor traffic. All that we want is the will of the people and it can be done. Remember that the Lord uses means, human instruments. If we feel our duty to pray for the temperance cause we must act accordingly, and at the same time try to put down all other evils as much as is in our power. If necessary, reprove those temperance advocates who lock arms with the world, put on pride, and join themselves to secret oath-bound societies. Let us not forget that the Bible temperance prohibits all evil. These are my honest opinions on this question. Hoping that the light may so shine that we may all see face to face on this question as well as on other matters of religion. I feel assured that the saints will not work and vote with the old corrupt political parties, as do generally the sects: for who can not look about him and see that the corruption is great, and no doubt will be the same until God shall call the world to judgment. Feeling that I have said nothing that should disturb any ones conscience unless they have been out of the way. Let each saint examine this question and see if this statement is not in harmony with God’s Word. Let us try to do our duty in this matter, and then see the result. If we get deceived with the prohibition party as was the case with the republican party, then let us stay away from the polls and not be guilty of helping on fraud and corruption. May the Lord bless the work in the Church of the Living God, the saints of the Most High redeemed by His precious blood.

E. K. Menges.

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Carthage, Mo.,

Dear Saints of the Most High God: — I feel led by the Spirit of God to write: my testimony once more for Jesus, and be a witness for this wonderful salvation. I am praising God for a real Bible salvation; cleansed from all sin, and sanctified wholly just now, with complete victory in my soul over all the power of the enemy.

Praise the Lord! I am so glad He that dwells in us, is greater than he that is in the world; for if we love the world, the love of the Father is not in us. I realize this world has no charms for me, for Christ has set me free; God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, I hat whosoever believeth on Him, might not perish, but have everlasting life. He says again: “Whosoever will, may come and drink of the water of life freely;” I am so glad I ever came and tasted of this water; Oh I am drinking out of the well of living water, that never runs dry! it satisfies my longing and thirsting soul, which nothing else in this world can do. Praise God! I am so glad that I know my name is written on the page white and fair; if our names were written on every sect book in the world, it would do us no good, unless we were truly born of God; for the Bible plainly says: “Unless we are born of God, we cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” There are a great many people belong to the sects, who have no more salvation, than sinners who make no profession at all; men and women who are in babylon, are drunk on her wine; their blind preachers are leading them to hell, but they think they, are leading them to Heaven; they are so proud and stiff-necked that they do not kneel down to pray. O it is awful to see the people of this town who are on the road to ruin. I have heard many people say, we could not help but sin a little each day; well God very plainly says in His Word, that if we sin we are of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning.

And again He says, If we are born of God, we cannot sin, for His seed remaineth in us. O there are so many people, both old and young, who are on the downward road to ruin; all they seem to care for, is the pleasures of this world. Some say, O I believe in religion, but not in your kind; well I praise God, that our kind is the plain Bible, and if they have not a Bible salvation they are on the road to hell; for there is only one kind of salvation the Bible teaches, and that is holiness. Weil I praise God for this blessed evening light, that shines on our pathway. These are indeed dangerous times, and we must keep our eye single to God and then our whole body will be full of light I am so glad I am on the solid Rock Christ Jesus; I realize the all cleansing blood flowing over my soul just now, and makes me whiter than snow. I am all consecrated, sold out to do the whole will of God.

I am saved by power divine,
I am thine entirely thine;
Jesus now from sin sets free;
Sanctifies and cleanses me.

O Halleujah! for the sweet rest and freedom I feel in my soul just now; I am so glad I am from bondage set free; every band is riven. I have forsaken every thing but God, and I am determined by His grace to spend time and eternity for Him. Although there are a great many trials and temptations that we have to go through with, yet they only drive us closer to His side. Well dear ones pray for me, that I may be a bright soldier for Jesus.

“All on the altar I abide,
And Jesus says I’m sanctified.”

Your sister saved to the uttermost.

Lillian M. Pine.

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CAMP MEETING IN KAN.

The Lord willing there will be a Camp meeting, July 10, six miles Southwest of Cedar Vale Kan.. Let all the saints come; bring your tents and stay through the meeting. Come full of the Holy Ghost. Amen! The Lord willing we will be there with tabernacle.

J. P. Haner.

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A meeting will be held, the Lord willing, in Pleasant Grove meeting house near Pitt, Wyandot Co. O. beginning June 23rd.

Grove Meeting Near Sidney O. July 27-31

Beaver Dam, Ind. Camp. Aug. 1-9.

Jerry City, O. Camp. Aug. 10-16

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GROVE MEETING.

The Lord willing our little company, and whosoever else the Lord may send will hold a grove meeting, in Bro. Grow’s grove, one mile east of Deerfield, Randolph Co. Ind.. Beginning August 17th, and continuing over the 21st, longer if the Lord will. Bro. Wickersham writes us to publish a general invitation to all saints to come, that can. Amen!

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FOURTH OF JULY MEETING.

I am requested to say through the G. T., to the saints who live near enough, to come. There will be meeting on the 4th of July, two and a half miles south of Chanute Kan. in the grove on Bro. Sweeney’s farm. Let all the saints come prepared to stay all day and in the evening. Brother

Edgar Houghton and William Rutherford will be there. Dear Bro. Sickles can you be there? And as many more as can, come. We will have our tabernacle there. Yours fully saved in Jesus. Amen!

J. P. Haner.

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There will be a Camp Meeting at Akron, Cowley Co. Kan. ten miles north of Winfield, on Bro. Benjamin Aldridge’s farm one and a half miles West of Akron, commencing July 25th. Let all the saints come, and bring your tents to stay on the ground. Come full of fire and the Holy Ghost. Come to work to save souls; do not come merely to have a good time, but come burdened for souls. Amen!

J. P. Haner.

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A Grove Meeting

Will be held near Lima or Brushy Prairie Lagrange Co. Ind., July 20-26, by Bro. S. L. Speck and others.

A meeting will be held at New Washington, Crawford Co. O., Aug. 29, to July 5, by Bro. A. J. Kilpatrick.

A Grove Meeting

Will be held near Union Grove, Whiteside Co. Ill., Aug. 10-16, by Bro’s. Kilpatrick and Speck.

A Grove Meeting

Will be held at Father Byers’ near Albany, Ill., Aug. 17-26, by Bro’s Kilpatrick and Speck.

A Camp Meeting

Near Hayesville, Keokuk Co. Iowa will begin, the Lord willing, Aug. 28. Bro’s. Kilpatrick and Speck.

A Grove Meeting

Two miles west of Tekonsha, Calhoun Co. Mich., on the Airline R. R., beginning Aug. 17. Bro’s. Palmer and Michels.

For information address C. H. Eldridge.

A Grove Meeting

At Berian Springs, Mich., beginning July 18. Bro’s. Michels, Palmer, Grover, Jacobson and Bro. and Sister Wm. Smith are expected to be present.

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GROVE MEETING.

There will be a grove meeting held in Wm. Kemp’s grove at Mc. Donald, Bangor township Van Buren Co. Mich., beginning Wed. July 11, and continue over Sunday. Brother W. B. Grover, Bro. and Sister Smith and others of the ministerial brethren will be in attendance if the Lore wills. Your Bro. in Christ.

A. H. Coon.

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD.

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THE HAMILTON GROVE MEETING.

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WAS held as per announcement June 6-10. We, with quite a force from the office went on Friday the 8th. The meeting was a glorious victory; several souls were converted, others sanctified wholly, and some healed by the power of God. O what love and joy flooded our hearts, and inspired our praise to the precious Savior of our souls. O the sweetness of the fellowship of the pure in heart in the Holy Spirit of God. Dear Bro. Speck, and the little ones of our Co. whh had been with him in Ohio, arrived at the beginning, ready to work for God, all filled with power. Dear Bro’s Palmer, Evans, Sharpnack and companion, Barney, and Bro. Mayne were all there, anointed to preach the blessed Gospel of Christ. The meetings were held in the grove by day, and in Dr. Kimber’s hall at night. God bless that kind friend of Jesus and all his family; some of them are blessedly saved. On Sabbath Bro. Palmer baptized five saints, and in the evening we had a very solemn and spiritual feast to our souls while obeying the sacred ordinances of our Head and Redeemer. O bless His name! About fifty or sixty saints were present to enjoy the happy privilege of following our Lord. Truly His commandments are not grievous, except to such as never do them, but chafe and worry over such as know the truth, and delight to do the whole will of God. O bless the Lord! we who know these things are happy in doing them to the glory of God.

One year ago last winter the work was first opened up in this country, and now many souls, some redeemed from the world, and others from various sects, have been washed in the Savior’s blood, and are praising God for complete salvation from diseases, tobacco, secresy, sectism, and all sin. All glory be to Jesus. Amen!

THE BANGOR CAMP MEETING.

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Praise the living God! This glorious feast of tabernacles has passed around once more and left its divine incense burning in hundreds of grateful hearts. Glory to Jesus! it has started many streams of grace and glory that will flow on through the remnant of time, and the ages of eternity. The pure and wonderful love of God burned as one mighty flame from all the redeemed there assembled. The very atmosphere of the camp seemed pure and sacred, and the mighty power of God rested on the holy spot, and upon all the meetings. The sweet reign of love and harmony was without the slightest interruption from beginning to end. The God of love, power and wisdom was truly “over us all, and through us all, and in us all,” and it was He that “worked all things in all.” But one thing seemed to grieve the Spirit, and that was so very many saints in the surrounding country deprived themselves of attending the meetings regularly. Having had a severe drouth in this country last year but little was raised, and dear souls, though anxious to attend, thought themselves unable to do so. We cannot help but think, a larger measure of faith in God, would have seen a way to attend the meeting. God help His children to trust Him, and not forsake the assembling of themselves together at the great feast of tabernacles. A very precious rain came at the beginning of the meeting, after which the weather was very delightful, praise the Lord! There were about nineteen of God’s true ministers present. Of those who came from a distance, were Bro. C. Z. Lindley from Iowa, Bro. J. and sister Mary Cole from Mo. Bro. Jacob Byers from Ill. There were two sisters from Denver Col., and quite a little company from western Ill.

The work was very deep and thorough, many saints seemed to reach a glorious establishing grace, and the powerful anointing of the Spirit of God. No count was kept of the number that consecrated. Nearly all the three meetings per day were attended with altar services; and not an invitation was given but what from seven to twenty seekers presented themselves, about all of whom were blest with the grace they sought. Some poor sinners were melted down and converted, many backsliders restored, sanctified wholly; also there were many cases of healing. The order was very good. On Sabbath two or three thousand people were on the ground, and a great multitude of people listened to the Word of God. Neither did the great throng of people neutralize the power of God. The faith once delivered to the saints held the victory, and about twenty souls were saved that day.

On Wednesday afternoon ten followers of Christ were buried with Him in baptism. Which act of obedience was so owned and blest of God, that their very bodies were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, and they all emerged from the symbolic grave with shouts of praises to God for the resurrection of Jesus in their souls. What folly and ignorance of men that deny the divinity of those holy commands, when God Himself so signally endorses them by the Holy Spirit direct from His throne.

When returning from the water we found meeting in progress by those not having had a way to go, and an altar full of seekers, and the power of God was there to heal their souls and bodies. Praise His name! Then we proceeded to observe the lowly ordinances of washing the saint’s feet, and the Lord’s supper. O how our inmost souls were melted and flowed out in love to the blessed Son of God, as we surrounded, in mind and Spirit the awful scene of His suffering in our behalf. O thou dear Lamb of God! as by the use of thine own appointed symbols, we review thy holy passion on the cross, how thy love is made to burn more and more intensely in our hearts. To “do this in remembrance of thee” is not a mere cold menial recollection of Christ, as blind frigid hearted anti-Christ spirits imagine. But it is to impress anew His death upon our hearts and thereby deepen our love in Him, and call out all our very being in tender sympathy with Him who has so loved us, and suffered for the sins of the whole world. O that foolish men would cease to rant at the words of Christ, and get enough warmth in their abstract hearts to appreciate the holy spiritual things of Christ.

The next morning we thought to close with a short brief meeting; but there were yet many hungry souls, and the work of teaching, salvation and healing continued until past noon. Praise God. Many had to take the farewell embrace in haste, in order to reach the train.

One thing we think was very pleasing to God, was the entire absence of all hu..stering and trafficing stands. Last year men, in open defiance of us and the law set up their ungodly traffic to make money on the Lord’s day. This year we heard of no less than four parties, who were goin to do the same thing again; by the grace of God we posted our bills in the town and gave notice in the secular paper that nothing of the kind would by any mean be allowed. We consulted legal counsel and found the law utterly prohibited anything of the kind; we provided a force o.. witnesses and resolved that as soon as … sale was made, a warrant would be issued and if the selling was repeated, another warrant would be issued, until the parties were made to know their business would be an unprofitable one. Praise God! those men found out that we were prepared for business, and they all kept their distance and we had a clean camp, without the devil’s traffic. Our dear Bro. Michels provides a large stock of necessary food, fed many saints freely, and the gain on what he so.. about cleared his expenses; thus God was glorified, and this shall be the manner … all the large meetings of the saints so fa.. as we have any thing to say.

Praise God! many are being raised u.. of God to run to and fro and preach ti.. pure Gospel. Bro. Lindly goes lo Davies … Co. Ind., to visit the Church there. Bro’s Kilpatrick and Speck expect, the Lord willing, to make a tour this Fall, to Ill. Ia Neb. and Col. O, may God speed the glorious light of His pure truth in the midst of all lands. Amen!

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Lebeck, Mo.

Dearly Beloved of God. Greeting: – May the God of all grace be with you all Amen! We just closed a live days meeting at Shaw School-house, with victory in our souls. Praise the Living God! A.. we went from Bethel to Shaw School-house we stopped over night with Bro. Fran.. Craig, and while at prayer sister Crai.. presented her body a living sacrifice an.. God did wonderfully sanctify her soul, fo.. which we give Him all the glory; and finding it impossible on account of the flooding water, the next day we announce meeting for the nearest School-house. When we arrived there wo found two long whips standing by the locked door; also … note tied to one of the whips, giving us to understand they wanted no holiness preachers there. We were going to have meeting out of doors, but a young man opened the door with another key, and we went in and had a wonderful meeting. The note was signed K. K.; but the Lord did not care, He poured out His mighty power on us. Hallelujah! Amen!

The next day we erased the river on the ferry, fare only 50 cents. We went on our way rejoicing, toward our next place o.. meeting. On Sunday at 11 a. m. we had the first meeting at Shaw School-house. The anti-ordinance element was not so strong there as in most places; they received the Word gladly. We baptized seven dear souls and it was a blessed time. God wonderfully manifested His power in owning His own children. They came out of the water shouting the praises of Almighty God. Hallelujah! O praise God for ever and ever! We then went to the School-house and obeyed the Lord in washing the saints feet; and God wonderfully witnessed by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven to the precious work of the Lord through His children. Praise His holy name! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and those who obeyed the Lord were wonderfully blessed, and those who sat back did not seem to be happy. About fifteen took part, and just as we were through two brothers came forward and said they did not want to be left out, so they took part in the service, and God wonderfully blessed their souls. Praise the Lord for ever and ever! We then had the communion service and the Lord did wonderfully own and bless the service of the day; for which we all united in giving God all the glory. We find much of this anti- ordinance spirit at this place, and where ever it prevails we find much other crookedness such as the use of tea and coffee, and some tobacco, and many living in adultery and free-masonry &c.

Well praise God for the pure Word, and it is cutting off some of the crookedness. Bless the Lord for ever! I am your Bro. saved in Jesus and kept by the power of God, out for the whole war with glory and victory in my soul. Amen!

Geo. E. Bolds.

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SABBATH SCHOOLS.

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We have just begun work in the Sabbath School at Lake Centre, but we feel assured that we will make a success — through the Lord’s will. We have not the advantages the saints have at other places where there are from 25 to 75 saints; there are only a few of us free from sects. We are running our school on the straight holiness line, and do not compromise with, any tiring that is not straight Bible truth.

Our aim is to teach our children, and also our neighbor’s children the plain Bible truth. We feel it our duty to instruct our children more fully on the Savior’s teachings, and to keep them from wandering about on the Sabbath day into evils, as the lust of the flesh naturally lead away from God. If they be kept out of the Sabbath School, they will he drawn into bad company, and their hearts become so hardened that our prayers may not reach them before we may be called away, and we may never see our children converted in our day. A great deal of responsibility rests upon us; should we neglect our children and see them lost? could we have the real enjoyment we might have, had we done our duty? I fear we could not. It is true that the way the majority of the sect Sabbath Schools are carried on, no saint can consistently send their children and have them taught the sect doctrines, and bring into our families sect literature that is unwholesome. We ought to have good Holy Ghost literature free from satan’s traps, and if all the saints would do their duty and give as the Lord hath prospered them, we might have a Sabbath School paper and many other tracts to spread the glorious truth. When I sent the $5. to aid in the great work, I could hardly see how wo could spare the money, having great need at home, losing the only horse we had, and being obliged to build a house and other improvements on a piece of unimproved land; it seemed almost like robbing ourselves of necessities, but when we remembered how the Lord helped us through great trials and sickness and still spared our lives, and that we always had enough to eat and some to spare, and that our income belonged to the Lord, and when we consecrated ourselves more fully to Him, and brought the costs of our habits and such beverages as tea and coffee, and laid them upon the altar, the Lord greatly blessed us in the act; we felt the amount saved ther by belonged to Him. We fell it our duty to give it to the glory of God and where it could do the most good. What a great help it would be in spreading the truth, if all the saints who were saved from the use of tea, coffee and tobacco would estimate the expense they were, and give that amount to the glory of God and to the spreading of the Gospel. This is just and we should help to support it. The sects in their blindness, not knowing what the true Church is, are busy in sending out tracts and papers that teach their sect doctrines, in order to draw others into their net. Why should we not do our duty and help to spread the glorious light and the straight doctrine of holiness, and show what the true Church is. Sabbath Schools and children’s meeting should be encouraged; these meetings are of great necessity, and in our day where we have the opportunity to talk with the little ones, and teach them of our Saviors’ love for little children. Teachers in Sabbath Schools should be out in the clear light as much as possible; and where there are a great number of the saints nothing can hinder them, but where there are but a few, we must work to the best advantage, and as the Spirit may direct us. I feel for one that the Lord has a work for me to do in the Sabbath School, and in the Temperance cause, and when I am able to work, I can not be idle. May God bless the work and may the saints do their duty in aiding the publishing of a children’s paper, and more tracts ought to be published. Cannot we all help a little? if but a few dimes all will help. Let us not forget to pray that the Lord may bless the work.

E. K. Menges.

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Correspondence.

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Dear Saints Greeting: – I feel to thank God that I am saved and sanctified.

Praise God! we are trusting Him and He is keeping us. We have prayer meeting and Sabbath School at Centennial school house at 11 A. M., and at Victor at 4 P. M., we have glorious meetings and our number is increasing all the time; sinners sit in their seats and weep, and it seems as though they cannot come to God; may God save them is my prayer. We have good Sabbath Schools, from forty to fifty scholars at each place and more coming in. Praise God! babylon is fighting us, but God is for us. I saw in the TRUMPET a few weeks ago a call for aid; we made a treasury box and the Lord has helped us to gather $10. Praise His name! God has a glorious Church here, and I hope some brother will come and preach the Gospel truth for us. May God bless you all.

Your brother in Christ.

Lewis Fox.

Osceola, Nebr.,

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Lawrence, Mich.,

Dear Saints of God: — Permit me to speak through the TRUMPET and declare to the whole world, that I am still saved in Jesus. O glory to His exalted name forever and ever! He keeps me in perfect peace. This blessed soul rest; nothing disturbs me, for I know that “He who keepeth Israel never slumbers nor sleeps. O praise the Lord for this ever blessed sense of security! Your sister preserved and walking in the light.

Lottie Blackwood.

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Bangor, Mich.,

Dear Saints: — I am able to say to day, that I am still kept by grace divine. I know of a truth that Jesus is my present and complete Savior. O, He does so sweetly keep me through the most severe trials; how can I praise Him enough. I know that I am completely killed out to everything contrary to God. I am resting in His will and desiring to glorify Him in my soul, spirit and body which are His.

O, how good it is to know that we are no longer our own, and therefore we need have no concern as to what we shall eat, or what we shall drink, or in what manner we are to be clothed, for our Father hath promised with Jesus to freely give us all things. Pray for me.

Caroline Robins.

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Wasco, Ore.,

Dear Brother Warner: — It has been a long time since I wrote to you, but I have not forgotten you by any means. I am so glad that the good Lord is keeping you on the blood and fire line, and I rejoice today that I ever was made acquainted with this line; and if any enquire about me, tell them I am going through on this line, by the help of the Divine Master and I know He is able to carry me through.

I have been hoping that you or some of the holy brethren would find it convenient to come to the coast, and tell this far off people of this blessed evening light. I hope that some of you will soon find it convenient to come, for the Lord has many people on this coast who would rejoice to find out about this great salvaton light. I hope soon to be able to write you a longer letter. The prayer of your very unworthy brother is, that the good Lord may wonderfuly and powerfully sustain, strengthen and keep you unto everlasting life. Yours and Christ’s.

Martin Myers.

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Princeton, O.,

Dear Brethren: — I feel it is the will of God that I write my testmony. I just say to the glory of God, that I am saved through and through, and I praise the blessed Lord for His saving and keeping power. I do praise the Lord for a salvation that saves us from all sin. I tell you of a truth, that the Shepherd who leads me now is not a hireling; His sheep know His voice and follow Him, and will not stay in sect pens, for they have heard the voice from Heaven: “Come out of her my people and be not partakers of her sins.” I was once in the M. E. pen, and I know for myself the Lord forgave my sins; but I felt there was more in Father’s house for me, and when I heard this highway of holiness preached, I began to search my Bible carefully, and I saw there was a second work of grace. When I listened to the great Word preached by the Holy Ghost I soon renounced all such chaff as sects, and got right to God. I am all on the altar and I know the altar sanctifies the gift. I praise the Lord for the healing of my body; last fail, shortly after I plunged into the cleansing fountain, I was healed by the laying on of hands, by William Kilpatrick and J. N. Howard; then after that I had the Rheumatism and brothers A. J. Kilpatrick and S. L. Speck laying on hands according to the Word, I was made every whit whole. It does make my soul rejoice to hear that there are some Catholics getting in the fountain. I am so thankful that God ever opened my eyes and gave me to see what there was in store for those who come and receive it. I have perfect victory in my soul over the beast, the devil and all their works.

I would just say to the saints, that we had a heavenly feast at Payne, O., The meeting began June 1, and continued until the 4th. There was a clear atmosphere there, for the saints had perfect victory. The sects say we cannot be like our blessed Lord; if they will look at Matt. 10:24, 25 but they are so blind they do not see; they are not in the truth, and they do not bring forth fruit to perfection. If they will read the 15th. Chap, of John they can see the reason they bear no fruit. My prayer is, that God will strive with poor sectarians, and shake their sandy foundation all to pieces and get some saved. Your sister saved and sanctified by the blood of Jesus.

A. C. Sprague.

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Clarks Corners, O.,

Beloved Brethren: — My testimony this morning is, that I am all the Lords, fully resting and trusting in all the will of God, as far as I understand it. Since the Bangor Camp meeting last June, I have been wonderfully healed of bodily infirmities, to labor in the vineyard of the Lord; and I feel that my soul and body are preserved blameless by Him. I am not conformed to the world, and I have no compromise with the spirits of devils, who are doing wonders in the land, and would deceive if possible the very elect. I have the victory over the beast, his mark, name and number; I have no fears while my name is written in the Book of Life. Your sister in Christ kept by His power.

L. Wheeler.

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Carthage, Mo,

Praise the dear Lord! Through all the strife and babylon confusion, we find the Solid Rock under our feet, and the everlasting arms around us. Thank the Lord! we are not only out of babylon. but wonderfully getting babylon out of us, by a biding in Christ the true vine. It means a great deal to get out of babylon, but it means more to get all of babylon out of us. O, dear saints let us examine ourselves closely, while we are warning others of sect ruts, that we are not running in some ourselves. The threshing, purifying and fanning are still going on in our souls. Praise the Lord for ever and ever. Amen!

M. M. & S. Brown.

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Blanket Hill, Pa.

Dear Saints: — This evening finds me sweetly in Jesus, and all on the altar, sanctified wholly to do my Master’s will. Oh I do praise my blessed Savior for what He has done and is continually doing for me. Glory he to God for ever for this blessed evening light! I had the Asthma from childhood so at times I would not be able to walk only a little around the room, and not do any thing for two weeks at a time. I took a great deal of medicine for it, but it did not cure me; so last fall the Lord showed me that it was not right for me to use medicine, and that I was not fully consecrated if I could not take Him as my Physician for my body as well as my soul. So I said, Thy will be done, and trusted God to heal me and the work was done. I have been blessed with health ever since, so I could attend to my household duties. Glory to God and the Lamb for ever for His healing and saving power! Oh how His glory fills my soul while I write. There are only three of us here who are free from all sects; but the Lord is with us in mighty power. Praise the Lord! We assemble ourselves together every Sabbath morning and evening to worship our God, and the Lord is our Leader. Glory be to God for ever and ever! Amen!

The devil is wonderfully enraged at the truth and would like to banish us from the place; but glory be to God, He is keeping us saved on the solid Rock amid all persecution, and the wicked one cannot touch us. Praise the Lord! I ask all the dear saints to pray for me, the least of God’s little ones that I may ever stand last in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free. Your sister saved, and free from babel in the Spirit.

Libbie Snyder.

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Eudora, Kan.

My Dear Brethren: — Oh I do praise God for full salvation that I feel in my soul. I praise God for the joy I have just now in my heart I am free from babylon and every thing that is of the devil. Glory to Jesus! O its glory in my soul, and my blessed Jesus reigns within. I never felt so completely saved in Jesus as I do this morning. Hallelujah! Amen and Amen! My Bible is my pillow. Glory to God! I am eating the Book, and oh it is so sweet, all of it Praise God! I am drinking of the fountain that never runs dry. I am building on the Rock, Christ Jesus. Glory to our God for ever and ever! Your free Bro. saved, sanctified and kept by the power of God.

A. D. Orrick.

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Portland, Mich.

Praise the Lord, dear TRUMPET Readers: – Since I wrote my last testimony I was taken sick and kept getting worse all the time. I contracted a cold and it went to my lungs. My husband and I were asking the Lord to heal me; but that was not the way the Lord wanted to heal me, so He showed me that night that I must obey the Word. So in the morning I sent for Bro. and sister Colby to come and lay hands on me. They came in the name of the Lord and anointed me with oil, and prayed over me and the power of the Lord was on us, and my fever left immediately. Well I think the Lord was trying my faith. Two days after I was healed of the fever I became so hoarse I could not talk so any one could hear what I said; but I went to prayer meeting and the Lord led Bro. Colby to anoint my throat, and I was healed. This is the first time I have been sick since I was healed two years ago, and I feel it was to the glory of God. I give Him all the glory. I am in His hands as the clay is in the potters hands.

Dear Saints, God bless you all with His fullness. I praise God for this well of living water springing up within my soul.

Jane A. Todd.

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Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Dear Saints: — This blessed Sabbath morning, I do thank and praise the Lord for the holy Word. Oh! how it made me to rejoice to read about such a blessed plan of salvation. Oh how I do praise God that He ever enabled me to accept this blessed way of truth; and I realize that God for Christ’s sake has pardoned all my sins, and the very God of peace sanctifies me wholly. Dear saints pray that God may ever enable me to improve my talents, and be found watching and waiting for my loving Saviors coming.

I do trust God that all the dear saints will be earnestly agreed with me for the Lord to send us a preacher. The Lord teaches us: if there be two or three agreed on any one thing, that He would grant it unto them. Praise His holy name! His promises are yea and amen to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

I do praise God for His healing power. I was afflicted about two months ago, and the Lord wonderfully healed me, and I have been well ever since. Praise His holy name! Dear saints pray earnestly for my husband that he may be healed of the chills; pray earnestly that he may be brought low at the feet of Jesus, and improve his talents. I do praise the Lord for what He has done for us. We are among babylonians and sinners. There are but five or six of us here: pray that we stand firm. Your sister in Christ.

Edna Brown.

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New Washington, O.

Dear Trumpet readers: — I feel led this morning to testify through the TRUMPET that I am saved and sanctified by the blood of Jesus which cleanseth from all sin. I am saved to the uttermost, kept by the power of God through faith. There are a few of God’s free children here, we have no compromise with sin, or fashions of the world, parties, picnics etc. God’s people are a peculiar people, dead unto the world and sin. Glory to the Lamb forever and ever. Amen! I am your Bro. under the blood, saved and sanctified.

C. Guiss.

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Bannister, Mich.

Dear Brethren: — I praise God this evening for salvation which we have by obeying the Word of God. I do thank God for calling me to serve Him, I am 15 years old and have been serving the Lord over two years, and find it a good way to live. I am determined to do His will while live here on earth, for I have more enjoyment now than ever before. Pray for me.

Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see their God:
Yes, truly blessed are the words
Of Jesus Christ our Lord,
We can see on almost every page
Within the holy Book,
That people should be pure in heart,
If we will only look.

Then let us ever faithful be
Unto our heavenly King,
That in the long eternity
We may His praises sing;
And let us worship Him our Lord,
With all our might and soul;
For a true Christian in His sight
Is more precious far than gold.

And let us take the Word of God,
And to His cause he true;
And let Him purge out every sin.
And cleanse us through and through;
O let us ever trust in God,
For He the Christ did send,
That we might have eternal life
If faithful to the end.

Your Bro. in Christ, saved by His blood

H. M. Reed.

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Orchard Grove, Ind., Dear Brethren: — I feel led of the Lord to write to the TRUMPET this morning, and tell what the Lord has done for me. He has healed my body so far that I am doing my own work and can walk to the school-house to worship Him; all the glory and praise be to Jesus. But what is better still, He has cleansed my heart from all sin and corruption, so that now I can sing all the day long: “The blood makes me whiter than snow.” O, praise His holy name! He kept me trusting Him and believing that He would heal me, although my sickness lasted three months; I took some medicine on account of my friends, but I could not have any faith in it when I would take it, for the power of Christ would rise so far above it that I could not take it; and I truly believe if I had trusted in the Dr. I never would have recovered, for I felt from the beginning that it was the hand of my blessed Lord laid upon me in mercy and wisdom to bring me nearer to Him. The Lord sent Bro. and sister Longerbone here to preach the Word; there were not many who opened their hearts to receive the truth, and there were no souls consecrated except myself, but some believed the Word; there is one sister who longs for full salvation, but one fear holds her back; will you pray or her that she may be strengthened, and also for me, that I may ever stand firm.

May God bless you all in your labor of love. Your sister in perfect love, wholly sanctified by the blood of Jesus.

Nettie Henderson.

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OBITUARIES.

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Near Glendale, Vanburen Co. Mich, Bro. Eli Root, died June 6, 1888 aged 42 years 8 months 25 days. Our first meeting with dear Bro. Root was, I think, two years ago at the altar during the Bangor Camp meeting. Praise God! the dear Bro. came to the end of his pilgrimage in peace, and passed away with great joy and full assurance. All was well with him, but his departure was a hard stroke on his family and aged mother. He was a hard laboring man and upon his strong arm both his aged mother and family leaned for support. May God bless their dear bereft hearts, and soothe bitter sorrows. O praise God for the comforts of God’s great salvation in such a time as this; for the sweet voice from Heaven, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” We had the solemn privilege of preaching the funeral discourse unto a well filled meeting house in Glendale. The Lord bless the old mother, the wife, brothers and sisters; and I pray God that the children may be good and obedient to their mother. O how much the comfort of the widowed mother depends upon those children being good and kind to her.

The following hymn which we sang at the funeral, the old mother wished us to print with the obituary.

“Time onward flows like a river vast,
Age on age it has borne to the sea;
And down this stream we have come at last.
To see time end in eternity.

“What is this life but a fleeting day!
Soon death will come with a stem decree;
Then one by one we must pass away,
And change from time to eternity.

“O joyful day! to the faithful soul
Who walks with Christ in His purity;
Life’s battles fought, and thy vict’ry won,
He shouts from time to eternity.

“For the pilgrim saints there’s an endless rest,
So happy in eternity;
A home, sweet home where the pure are blest,
All happy in eternity.”

D. S. Warner.

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THE BACKSLIDERS RETURN.

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The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,” and his ways are not the ways of the Lord, but a continual lusting after the things of the world. But who are the backsliders? They are those who once knew the blessed ways of salvation, and experienced a knowledge of the truth, but have now lost that joy and are walking in darkness, with a terrible eternal doom awaiting them. In plain words; they are the children of the devil. “Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way; and be filled with their now devices.” Then has the backslider any hope of ever reaching Heaven? No not as long as he remains in his present condition, and is a backslider at heart. Surely such a one is in a terrible situation, no longer a child of God, and consequently has no inheritance in the heavenly kingdom. It is painful to think of such a thing as being banished from the presence of God forever when the great day of judgment comes; the great pay-day when every one will receive their wages. And while the angelic hosts pass through the straight gate and enter into the joy of their Lord, “the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

What a horrible spectacle it will be to see the millions of lost souls ushered into eternity; cast into the awful burning pit, doomed to everlasting punishment. When death comes it is then too late to repent; there will not be one glimmer of hope for the unsaved ones then. They will be found without oil in their lamps; without the wedding garment on, consequently will not be permitted to enter unto the marriage, feast, with the ransomed of our Lord, and the door of Heaven will be forever shut against them. Among this great throng of lost souls will be found a host of persons who once had the love and joy in their souls and were at peace with God and an heir to His throne; some of whom have labored long in the vineyard of the Lord, even to the eleventh hour, or nearly to the close of their life and then fallen from grace, or turned aside from the ways of the Lord and thus met their eternal doom unprepared to meet their God.

Again we ask the question; is there any hope for you poor backslider? Yes if you will only turn from your evil ways and seek the Lord with your whole heart, He will receive you again with great rejoicing, like the prodigal son who returned after having spent his substance in riotous living. “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord: for I am married unto you.” Again He says: “remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” But in face of all this earnest pleading to turn unto the Lord, and the warning to flee the wrath to come, lest the Spirit cease to strive with them any longer, the multitudes go on to judgment and are “weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

The following language in Heb. 10:26. appears to be rather a difficult passage of scripture for many persons to understand. “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” Some explain this by saying that there is no hope for the backslider because he has had a knowledge of the truth and afterwards sinned wilfully. But we know such an explanation is not true, because we have known persons who have returned unto the Lord and were accepted, after having spent many years in a backslidden state; also the scriptures teach us that there is a hope for such ones.

Under the law, an animal was slain, and offered as a sacrifice for sin; but this offering only atoned for past sins. And if a person sinned after having made the offering as a sacrifice for sin; the offering did not atone for the sins committed afterwards, hence there remained no more sacrifice for sin, but another offering had to be brought. Old things have passed away; we are not under the law but under the Gospel dispensation; and it is through the blood of Jesus Christ that we are saved; for His body was offered once for us all. when we come with our sin-sick soul and cast our burden of sin upon the Altar, which is Christ, we receive atonement through His blood which was shed on Calvary, and have peace with God, and and a knowledge of the truth.

But now “it we sin wilfully there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, nd fiery indignation.” How true this is for the Word of God says: He that committeth sin is of the devil. Such a one is no longer a child of God; but having had a knowledge of the truth have a continual dread and fear that God’s judgment will come upon them as a thief in the night, at an unexpected hour, giving no time then to repent. Their first works of repentance and offering themselves dead in trespasses and sins, which first brought them into the favor of God, is of no avail since they have sinned, and truly there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins. But the injunctson is: “Repent and do the first works.”

Under the law the people received atonement for their sins through the shedding of the blood of animals and the offering of their dead bodies, which performance was repeated for sins committed afterwards. So we under the Gospel dispensation receive atonement through the blood of Jesus Christ and the offering of ourselves dead in trespasses and sins, and if we sin and lose our blessed experience and become a backslider at heart, it will require another offering of ourselves as before in order to obtain favor with God. But now this does not license, nor in any way give a legal right to any person to commit sin. Notwithstanding the great love and mercy of God, do not presume to much upon His love, by taking the privilege to disobey Him, excepting to receive mercy at His hand in that great day. For He says in His Word: “The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disebedience.” Then flee the wrath to come, and seek the Lord while He may be found; make the complete sacrifice and the Lord will receive you again with loving embrace, and give you an inheritance to His Kingdom; and will pardon your sins and give you sweet peace in your soul; then you are a fit subject to “present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God; and He will purge out your evil nature, and sanctify you wholly. Therefore let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, but become established in Him; ever abounding in His love.

There is another passage of Scripture in connection with this, which is often misconstrued. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of Got afresh, and put him to an open shame. — Heb. 6:4-6. The principal trouble in understanding this is in knowing what “falling away” means. We understand, to “fall away,” means something more than merely backsliding, or losing our experience. But it means sinning against the Holy Ghost; because it is possible to be renewed again unto repentance for any other sin. Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. — Matt. 12:31, 32. Then truly there is no hope for a person who has “trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant an unholy (or common) thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace;” making a mock or sport of the blood of Jesus Christ; counting it nothing more than the blood of an animal. To such a person there is no hope; not one ray of light; all is darkness before him. Such a one has no inclination or desire to turn unto the Lord. The Spirit of God has taken its flight, and ceased to strive. O what a horrible condition! Dear reader, if you have lost the joy and peace of God out of your soul, and have the least desire or inclination to return to him; if you feel the least conviction of your sins, and feel the Spirit still striving with you; then in the name of Jesus get to God at once and be saved, lest your heart become hardened and you commit that great unpardonable sin.

E. E. Byrum.

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I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE.

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BY request, I will acknowledge what the Lord has done for my body. I was afflicted from my childhood; truly misery stole me at my birth. Many a time I would sit beside my mother and cry on account of my afflictions, and I would say

to her: why can I not die? why am I in this world? I am a trial to myself and to those around me.” She would reply: “we should never question the ways of the Almighty; the Lord has a good design in all this.

“Mother being a christian, she did what she could to comfort me. Christian mothers take courage, your work will be rewarded. I was converted seventeen years ago, and sanctified soon after; I still remained a great sufferer, and have been sick for months at different times; and never was able to wash or do any hard work in my life. I had spasms and dyspepsia from the time I was seven years of age, besides other diseases I was afflicted with, as I became older, none of which the physicians could cure; but the Lord would cheer me with these precious promises. Behold I have refined thee but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa. 48:10. For I will restore health unto thee and heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an out cast saying, this is Zion whom no man seeketh after. Jer. 30:17. It was over nine years after I was sanctified before I knew that God was just as willing to heal the body as He ever was. Glory to God in the highest! the scales fell from my eyes; God says: “I change not,” and I believed His Word. Seven years ago the 15, of last Nov. the Lord healed me of all my diseases instantaneously, while mother and I were on our knees praying at home I alone. I took the promise Matt. 18:19, and said: “Lord we are agreed that thou heal me soul and body, just as far as it is for thy glory;” my faith touched the throne, and I arose from my knees saying: “mother it is done; the Lord has healed me.” He also wonderfully filled my soul with His glory, and mother and daughter rejoiced together. I was constrained to say, “this seems to me the beginning of months,” Ex. 12:2, for I never could say in my life before, that I was well; but I had the witness from Heaven that I was healed. Halleujah! O, the joy that fills my soul while I write, is inexpressible and full of glory!

The same day after the Lord healed me, I could eat food, without hurting me, which I could not do before in fifteen years. Since then I have done many large washings and other hard work, without hurting myself in the least; I have held meeting alone, for over three weeks at a time, and felt just as strong in body when meeting would close, as when it commenced.

Truly God is good to Israel; even to such as be of a clean heart. The Dr. I had employed, shortly before the Lord healed me, wanted the honor of my recovery, and became offended because he did not get it; soon afterward he was smitten with disease, and in less than a year he was found dead in his office; it is dangerous to take honor that belongs to God. Dear afflicted ones take courage; look to Jesus who is able to heal all your diseases, and listen to His precious promises. Who healeth all thy diseases. Psa. 103:2. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. James 5:15. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Mark 16:18. Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. Matt. 8:17. Only trust Him, for our God is a mighty God of power; and faith takes God at His Word, while unbelief does not.

When I consecrated for healing, the Lord showed me that I must give up medicine entirely, and He has never shown me to use it since. Jesus is my all in all, and my physician of both soul and body. Your sister down at the feet of Jesus, sanctified wholly, built in the true Church, and joyful in glory. Amen!

Mary Cole.

Windsor, Mo.

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Correspondence.

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Carthage, Mo.,

Dear Saints who belong to the Royal Family: — I feel led of God to write my testimony to the Trumpet, and to be a witness to the wonderful things God is doing in these last days.

I have never had the privilege of meeting with some of you, yet glory to God, we are bound together in the unity of the Spirit; we are builded together as lively stones in the Church of Christ. The love of God binds us closer together than any earthly tie; for God is love, and if we dwell in love, we dwell in God, and God in us.

I realize the real saving and keeping power of God in my soul continually; I praise the Lord for this blessed evening light that He is letting shine on my pathway; for where there was once darkness in ray heart, there is light: glory to God! He hath caused light, to shine in darkness. I have proved Christ to be an all sufficient Savior and I have the Holy Ghost with me as an abiding Comforter. Christ has placed the springs of joy and gladness in my soul, and I have no more thirsting and longings for the fading pleasures of this world; but praise God, I have found this great salvation that satisfies my longings as nothing else can do. With joy I am drawing water out of the wells of salvation; I am living in a land that floweth with milk and honey; and I know what it is to get the sweetest honey out of the rock.

The Lord has done wonderful things for the saints at Carthage, in sending holy men of God, to the edifying, establishing and setting the Church in order. The Lore raised up a little band of saved young people here in Carthage, but He is calling several to work in His vineyard. Oh glory to God! I am consecrated to do His will; there are so many souls all around us going to hell, and we are comparatively weak to rescue them. O, who would’nt lend a helping hand to the lost benighted souls? O dear saints, you who are young, be true to God; let us muster holy zeal and faith, that will enable us to stand, though burned at the stake. The few trials we have here only make us stronger; Jesus says: “He will not suffer us to be tempted above that which we are able to bear, but in every trial He will make a way for our escape. Resist the devil and he will flee from you; and draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to us. Oh it is sad to see the young, as well as the old, rushing down to hell; and all that makes us differ from them is, that we have heeded the Savior’s call and have the love of God shed abroad in our hearts; throw off your timidity and get the man-fearing spirit taken out of your hearts, and go warn and plead with your friends, for whom Jesus died to save. Let us do work for eternity. I praise the Lord for the freedom I have in my soul just now; free from everything that is not of God.

“I cannot tell how precious
The Savior is to me,
Since I have Him accepted,
And He hath set me free.”

O love the Lord, all ye saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentiful ly rewardeth the proud doer.

Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Your sister free in Jesus; saved and sanctified.

Della L. Oakley.

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Rosco, Mo.,

To ALL THE DEAR ONES; — May the Lord bless you and fill you with all His fulness. Amen! To day I am wonderfully saved and sanctified. Halleujah! I am out for the whole war, doing all God commands of me. I have complete victory in my soul; dear ones I am young and need light, knowledge and wisdom; pray God to keep me low down at His feet, learning of Him. Your sister free in Jesus.

Mattie Bolds.

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Willshire, O.,

We have been taking the GOSPEL TRUMPET and we feel that we could not get along without it, for it gives us so much light on God’s Word. I was converted twelve years age, and lived in the wilderness of darkness ever since, until this Winter, when the Lord will three of His servants here; I then received much light, and since then I have been asking the Lord to give me the fullness of the Spirit. But in some way I feel almost discouraged at the present. I was a sectarian for twelve years, and I went to their meeting one day and told them I was no more a member of their class. I have renounced every thing I know that is of a sinful nature; and I am living up to all the light I have. Oh I do pray that God will show me just where I am, and give me grace to stand all that comes upon me; I am determined never to give up until I get the satisfying portion. Pray for me, that God may show me what He has for me to do. When Bro’s Whitcraft and Basore were here, they told me all my friends would turn against me; I thought the members of the class would never turn against me, for I supposed they were my friends; but I found they were not, when I left them. Some say I am deluded, some said I would lose my mind; if I could lose my mind, and get the mind of Christ, I will be satisfied. Pray for me.

Belle Stetler.

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Rosco, Mo.,

Dearly Beloved of the lord: — Grace, mercy and peace be multiplied unto you. I am praising the Lord to day, for victory and glory in my soul. O, halleujah for ever! it does pay to be true to God; I am praising the Lord for the freedom I have in Jesus; my soul is full of glory to day. I am sanctified and kept by the power of God, and walking in all the light God gives me, and I am out for the whole war. Amen!

George E. Bolds.

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Lawrence, Mich.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: — This beautiful morning. I feel impressed to write my testimony, and tell what the Lord is doing here for us. I praise God for the freedom I enjoy, and the willingness I have to follow in the footsteps of Jesus; and for the rest He has promised to those that believe. I am believing and receiving, glory to His name!

I do think we are living in the last days when the cry is: lo here, and lo there, and when so many are teaching for doctrine the opinions and commandments of men; and I have found the only sure refuge is God’s Word, which is a lamp to our feet and a light to our pathway. I praise the Lord for sending Bro. Haner here to preach the Word of the living God. Some who had professed for years and said they had followed a great way off, got free in Christ and now are rejoicing in the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free. We only had three or four service: two found pardon; also had an ordinance meeting, some opposed, but the saints got the victory, and there were shouts in the camp. Praise the Lord! From your sister saved and sanctified wholly, free from sect yoke.

Minnie Whaley.

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St. Loris. Mich.

Dear Bro. Warner and all the dear saints: – We send our greeting in the name of the Lord. I know this afternoon that I have a deep well in my soul flowing from the City of God. It seems to me that never since the Lord accepted me as His child has it required so much grace to stand as in the last year. But God’s grace has been sufficient, and I expect forever to love and obey Him.

While billows are tossing we fear not the tide.
In life’s flowing river we safely abide:
The current grows stronger when tempests are high,
Believing His promise He guides with His eye.

Sailing, yea sailing we sing as we go;
His blood makes us whiter, yes whiter than snow.
With Jesus our Captain well not miss the shore.
He guideth us safely to Heaven’s bright door.

Your sister Redeemed.

M. E. Shelly.

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MeLorth. Kan.

Dear Brethren: — I feel led by the Lord to write my testimy for Jesus and what the Lord has done for my soul. Praise His holy name! I can just shout hallelujah to Jesus for full and free salvation! I am basking in the glorious evening light, and am completely saved from babylon; though the devil almost led me into the F. M. sect, he did not succeed. By the grace of God, I have none of the garments on me now, nor do I intend to be entrapped in her net. My companion has not had the privilege of meeting with the saints of God since we left Williamston Mich. God bless her, she still holds faithful.

I have met Bro. J. P. Haner twice since coming to Kan. I was with him the 4th and 5th of March at Meriden, and how the Lord filled my soul with joy to meet him filled with flames of fire from above.

I love to read the Bible. God has given me such a glorious knowledge and understanding of His Word. Glory to God for what he has taught me about the beast and his mark and the number of the beast which is the number of a man. — Rev. 13:18. Praise the Lord! I have on the whole armor of God, and am wrestling not against flesh and blood. I am saved, sanctified and redeemed from all sin. Pray for me.

J. W. Wyrick.

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Bentley, Kan.

Dear Brethren: — By the grace of God am what I am; and His grace is sufficient,

I do thank God that He has called me from darkness into His light, and that Jesus helps me to do His will day by day. O I feel to rejoice in God the Rock of my salvation. I ask the prayers of all the saints that I may be kept by the power of God; for I am living in a community where darkness and blindness of unbelief reigns. We have not had any preaching here for a long time, and I am praying that we may have a teacher sent here soon.

Elizabeth Newsom.