Gospel Trumpet – 13 June 1895

13 June 1895, Volume 15, Number 24

AT PEACE WITH MY GOD.

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I have drank of that wonderful river,
That gladdens the city of God,
And my heart has found gladness forever,
My soul is at peace with my God.

Temptations may gather around me,
And Satan come in like a flood,
But my spirit a banner uplifteth,
My soul is at peace with my God.

I may weep with the sorrows of mortals,
I my bow ’neath the chastening rod;
And yet, whether smiling or weeping,
My soul is at peace with my God.

The way all around may be hidden,
The heavens be covered with clouds;
No fear ever enters my bosom,
My soul is at peace with my God.

How sweet is the blessed assurance,
I have as I lean on His Word;
I know without doubting or wavering,
My soul is at peace with my God.

No fear now of death, or of standing
Before the tribunal of God;
My sins have gone on to the judgment,
My soul is at peace with my God.

When all of life’s duties are finished,
And the last pathway is trod,
I’ll dwell in that grand realm of glory,
Forever at peace with my God.

Georgia Cook.

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“SHOULD I JOIN THE CHURCH?”

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IS the title of a tract written by one who signs his name, Rev. John Lloyd Lee, Ph. D., who is pastor of the first Presbyterian sect in East Liverpool, Ohio, so a brother froth that place informs us; also that he gets the handsome sum of $2,500 per year out of the thing which he calls the church. No wonder he wants people to join it. The more heads, the more poll-tax hire.

We are requested to review this tract, which we believe the Lord leads us to do. First, he parades the gaudy steeple houses and cathedrals of large cities, to excite and increase the idolatrous worship of these great vanity gods in the earth. “No one stops at Cologne or Strasburg without viewing their cathedrals, the pride of these cities, and of the whole world.” So this blind guide thinks these proud extravagant structures are an honor to God, as if that which is the “pride of this world” is pleasing to God. He has not learned that “the things that are highly esteemed among men are an abomination in the sight of God.” Does he imagine that the meek and lowly Jesus has any place in these great idol temples? He says,

 JOINING THE SECT IS ALL TO HIM.

“Every Christian is likely to have, at least, two great struggles with Satan. The first, is when he decides to accept Christ as his personal Savior. The second, is when he is about to unite with the church of Christ.”

“To accept Christ and remain out of the church on the enemy’s ground, is dishonoring to Christ and dangerous to you.”

“Every one, therefore, who believes and accepts Christ to be his personal Savior, * * * should join the church of Christ.”

“We can serve him better in the church where there is organization, and preparation for work.”

“It is infinitely easier in the church.”

“Are you willing to be shut out from all that God has promised to his people by refusing to be one of that number?” i. e., by not “joining the church.”

“How may you be safe? By remaining out in the wilderness where savages may attack, and wild beasts may devour? No: but rather entering the fortified city, the church.”

These and other passages in the tract, set forth the idea that, to accept Christ as our personal Savior, leaves us still outside the church. That being saved in Christ and entering the church are two distinct steps. W.. … serve God outside … … ..an do it better and easier in the church. After accepting Christ as our personal Savior, we are still on the enemy’s ground, dishonoring Christ, and in a dangerous dace. Out in the wilderness where savages may attack and wild beasts devour. All this is false teaching and doctrine of devils.

Were we to attend that twenty-five hundred dollar high priest’s services about the next Sabbath after some big evangelistic wind had struck his town, we would have an opportunity to see the process he calls joining the church. Having previously announced that upon that occasion he would open the door of the church, he now proceeds about as follows: “All who wish to join our church please now come forward and occupy this seat.” Then if joiners respond to the invitation, they are asked if they are willing to be governed by the “confession of faith of the Presbyterian church.” Agreeing to do so, the preacher enters the name of each one in his sect class-book. Perhaps they are asked if they have been baptized. If they have not been baptized, or had water sprinkled upon them when babies, or in later life, either then or at a future meeting, the preacher dips his fingers in a bowl of water, and while the ladies slightly set back their Sodom head rigging, he lays a damp linger or two upon their foreheads, solemnly pronouncing the falsehood, “I baptize thee,” etc. The ceremony concludes with a hand shake with the preacher. And now the candidates for glory are safely housed inside the church; no more outsiders. Have left the “wilderness;” they are clean escaped out of the “enemy’s ground,” and are in the “fortified city,” where ho more “savages may attack,” nor “wild beasts devour them.” Is it not wonderful what that little bit of ceremony can do for a soul? Just think of it, two or three drops of water, one fourth of a drop of ink, and shaking hands with the man who gets $2,500 dollars a year for his officiation, will do all that for a man. Why, those few drops of water and ink, and the grasp of the preacher’s hand, have power equal to the mysteries of a Romish scapular. And according to the teaching of the Rev. Lee, Ph. D., it far surpasses all that Christ can do for a person. For he says that “taking Christ as our personal Savior leaves a person still outside the Church; and to remain out, is to be banished from the highest privileges of man, and the greatest blessings of God.” After taking Christ as our personal Savior we are still out in the wilderness; the soul, unfed and exposed to be devoured by beasts, unless we go through this operation, called joining the church. Now we rebuke all such teaching as doctrines of devils, and anti-christ deception.

DENIES THE LORD THAT BOUGHT HIM.

The Apostle informs us that “we are complete in Him which is the head of all principalities and powers.” — Col. 2:10. Mr. Lee virtually says, Christ does nothing for us. But the thing which he calls the church does it all. In the great day of final doom God will bring Mr. Lee and all other selfish heretics into judgment for attempting to cast the Son of God and his work into dark obscurity, in order to hold up their sect, and glorify the works of their own hands.

A BOLD FRAUD.

Mr. Lee and heretics, generally, are also guilty of this wicked deception and willful fraud. They quote what the Scriptures affirm of the divine church of the living God, and apply it to their own institution, which they deceitfully call the church of Christ. Mr. Lee even quotes and applies to the joinable sects these words of Christ: “I am the door; by me if any man enter in he shall be saved.” John 10:9. Now he is surely not so utterly blind as to see that this is not true of any sect on earth. Is Christ the door of the Presbyterian sect? Is salvation the mode of induction into that human institution? He knows better. He admits that there are hypocrites and sinners in his sect. But Jesus says, By him if any man enter his church he shall be saved. There is no access save through Jesus Christ, and by the experience of salvation, and saved people are neither hypocrites nor sinners. Behold the bold unblushing deception from the “father of lies.” All through this little booklet Mr. Lee extols very highly the “church of Christ;” says, “It is far more to us to belong to the church of Christ than to the greatest nation.” Again, “the promise of constant supply is to the members of the church,” then quotes as proof, “Take heed . . . . to feed the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.” Acts 20:28. Again he says, “The church is safe; if you want to be, you must go into it.” As proof of which he cites Eph. 5:27. “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.”

THE CHURCH AND THE SECT CONTRASTED.

We read of an institution in the divine Word, properly called the church of God. But if we follow up the preacher we find he is drumming for an institution altogether different than the one to which those scriptures refer, although he deceptively applies them to the thing he is interested in, which gives him his fat salary. For instance, the church spoken of in the New Testament was founded in the beginning of the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, nearly 1900 years ago. The one he is recruiting for, 252 years ago. The former was built by the Lord Jesus Christ at Jerusalem, the latter by certain preachers at the West Minster Assembly in England, in A. D. 1643, and six years later was adopted by parliament, and for a time it was the established religion of England, and the king was its head. Whereas God’s church has never changed heads, and no other head but Christ will ever suit it. A body upon which a man’s head will fit is a human body.

The former was purchased by the Lord Jesus Christ, organized by the Holy Spirit, and its creed, the word of God. The latter was formented by the ecclesiastical strife and war in the dark ages of ignorance, organized by human beings, and furnished with the “West Minster Confession of Faith,” and with a “shorter and longer catechism.”

The Lord adds men to the church; they are baptized by one Spirit into the one body. But in the thing that Mr. Lee represents they are only taken in by the preachers, and badly taken at that.

The church that Jesus purchased with his own blood, has for her class- book the Lamb’s book of life, which is kept in heaven, and he only enters the names. Whereas the preacher or his secratary enters the names of the sect, and they are written on the earth.

Thus we might go on and note the striking contrast between the body of Christ and the human organisms, and find a marked line of distinction running all the way through. In fact, the former is Jerusalem which is above, the Bride the Lamb’s wife; and the isms are Babylon, the mother of harlots and all her Protestant daughters. The former, and it only is the church, which is the family of God, is very precious in his sight; whereas the latter is a sect, a heresy, a thing which God abhors above every other abomination on earth.

Read the mind of God respecting all sects in Rom. 16:17, 18. 1 Cor, 1:10-13. Titus 3:10, 11. 2 Pet. 2:1-3. “Destructive sects,” is the German version, and Young’s Bible translation. And yet Mr. Lee, and such ones very generally, have the affrontery to steal the precious promises God makes to his Church, and apply them to their own schisms, which are hateful in his sight, and which he has promised to “consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

2Thess. 2:8. They bait their destructive sects with the meat that God has given his church, and thus, “By good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” That is said of the builders or sects, “For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own stomach; and by good words,” etc. Rom. 16:17, 18.

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drags: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Hab. 1:15, 16. They catch men in their drag by the lie-bait that the door they open is that of the church of Christ. Most of them do it knowingly and deceitfully. But their conscience is seared with a hot iron. With them “gain is godliness;” therefore they rejoice and are glad, when they get joiners. “Therefore they sacrifice (the souls of men) unto their nets, because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.” Yes, they gloat themselves with salaries of from $1000, to $50,000. No wonder they beat up for joiners. When Mr. Lee quotes such scriptures as Eph. 5:27, he knows very well it has no reference to his sect.

We also call attention to the different moral statutes that exist between the church and the sects. He confesses “the church — his sect — is not perfect.” He acknowledges that hypocrites and sinners lodge in her. And we all know that his sect, as well as the entire harlot family, are formal, proud and worldly, and guilty in the sight of God of base festivities, and abominable carousals, together with the world, in order to raise money as a sacrifice to their gods. So that instead of it being “dishonoring to Christ to remain out of the church,” as he falsely calls his sect, it is really dishonoring to God, and a disgrace to any child of his to join such corrupt institutions.

As for the church proper, we know it is called a “holy nation,” a “peculiar people,” and is declared to be the spotless bride of Christ.

HIS REASONS FOR JOINING A SECT.

He says, “we must join to enjoy the sacrament.” That is all so. The mother of harlots instituted several sacraments, some of which she bequeathed to her Protestant daughters. But there are no sacraments in God’s church. Jesus her divine founder instituted three precious ordinances; they are for the body of Christ the church, and we need join no sect to participate in them. In fact, sectarians are not fit to take part in them because they discern not the body of Christ. It is one thing to join Babylon and partake of the sacrament — swearing — of Rome and her daughters, and quite another to be joined to the Lord, and fit to observe his holy ordinances.

HE ANSWERS OBJECTIONS.

We will notice a few of his answers to objections that people make for not “joining the church.” First, “I have no experience,” to which he replies, “That is exactly the condition of the heart that God wants — empty that he may fill you. No experience is needed for a beginning. The church is the place in which to get experience. So the sect requires no salvation in order to form it. No experience is exactly what their god wants. But there is no access into Christ and his church without a glorious experience. He says, “I am the door, by me if any man enter he shall be saved.” To be saved is exactly the experience that the Lord of the Bible demands, without which no person can enter the church. Quite a difference in these two gods. Our God is the God of salvation, theirs is the God of inflation.

Second. There are so many denominations.” Thus he answers, “This is not to trouble you, since it did not trouble Christ. He established none, he forbade none, though he did condemn the sins of individuals and sects. This is then a matter of minor importance. Join the church which presents to you the best system, the highest worship, and the most of Christ and his truth, and be loyal to the Master and people.”

What a confused mess of heterodoxy! What a shocking lie that Christ is indifferent to sects and denominations! Go, thou false prophet, and read his earnest repeated prayer to the Father for the perfect unity of all who believe in him. Yea, “That they may all be one as he and the Father are one;” and repent for the sin of thy heart and the falsehood of thy mouth.

“He established none, he forbade none.” Such is babylon throughout. It is all hit and miss. A truth then a lie, are more frequently ten falsehoods to one truth.

“Join the church which presents to you the most of Christ.” So it would appear that, after all, Christ is divided, and every sect has a portion; some more, some less. It is a virtual confession that no sect presents a whole Christ. We say to all, Stay out of all Christ-crucifying factions, be joined to the Lord, be born into his church, and receive him entire. And do not be fool enough to imagine you can be loyal to both him and the people. “No one can serve two masters.” Be loyal to God, and him only shalt thou serve.

BUT SHOULD I JOIN THE CHURCH?

By all means, says the hireling, who is not the shepherd of the sheep. But what saith the Lord? His church is not even joinable. There are only about three cases on record where parties attempted to join God’s church, and they made a sorry failure. One was Simon the sorcerer, whose crafty motives were soon discerned and he was told that he was yet in the gall of bitterness and in the bands of iniquity, and he got pretty badly scared. The other two were Ananias and Sapphira. They both found it impossible to deceive

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Requests For Prayer.

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Pray June 12, at 4 p. m., that I may be healed of phthisic.

Nancy Talley.

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Pray that I may be healed of heart trouble, so as to be more able to work for God.

H. F. Dunagan,

Maytown, Ky.

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Pray that I may be healed of catarrh and cough. Your saved sister,

Ella Wirt.

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Pray that I may exercise strong faith for healing. Yours in affliction,

T. H. Boaz.

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Pray June 16, for the healing of my body, and for spiritual help.

Melissa Nation.

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Pray for my brother, Geo. Hartwell, and for my husband who has been sick for some time.

Martha Jones.

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There seems to be something growing in my throat which causes severe pain in my jaw and face. I have suffered much during the past year. Will you pray for my healing? Your sister in Christ,

L. Freyer.

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For a year I have been entirely helpless. Pray for my soul, and that my body may regain its full strength; also for my mother who has been, an invalid for fifteen years.

Rosa A. Bliler.

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Dear Saints: Pray for a young man whose mind is deranged, that he may be clothed in his right mind. A mother.

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I have been sick seven weeks, and in poor health about twenty years with heart trouble and rheumatism. Pray that I may be healed, soul and body.

Mrs. E. A. Holland.

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I have been sick eight weeks, and after reading the book, “Divine Healing of Soul and Body,” I believe I can be healed, both soul and body. Pray for me.

James W. Holland,

Corsicana, Texas.

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Dear Saints Everywhere: Please pray for the healing of my sister, Jennie Farns- warth, June 12, at 9 o’clock in the morning. She has a tumor in her side. From your sister in Christ,

Mrs. L. D. Mercer.

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I desire to share with the dear saints on the day of fasting and prayer, for the salvation of my soul, as it seems sometimes my soul will sink beneath the load of sorrow and trouble. Do not forget to pray for me.

Mrs. Sarah I. Mills.

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I humbly ask all the children of God, who believe in the power of God through prayer, to pray that he will fully restore my son and daughter who are insane at times. The latter is in the asylum. Oh pray that God may pity and save them.

H. R. Morrison.

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Dear Saints of God: Please pray that I may be saved, also for the salvation of my unsaved husband; and that some of God’s holy ministers may be sent here to teach us the Word in its purity.

Juniata Buckmaster,

Arthur, N.. Dak.

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I will now ask the saints when they come to the camp meeting, that on June 16, at 10 o’clock, A. M., that they pray earnestly for my son, that he will be healed, both soul and body. He has not walked for four years. His sickness is spinal disease. His feet and legs are all drawn up. Some doctors say he received this disease from birth, but they could not help him. He is now fourteen years old and not healed, so I gave up all earthly doctors. Saints of the living God, pray earnestly. I have faith in God that the work will be done. Your brother in Christ,

George W. Adams,

Council Grove, Kan.

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Calls For Meeting.

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We would be glad if some of God’s fire brand ministers would come here and help the church get more clear and pure for God. Pray for all here.

S. M. Singleton,

Eubanks, Ky.

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We desire some of God’s workers to assist in the work here. Many of the people are very desirous that Bro. Dansberger and Co. return from Kansas.

Ida M. Stone,

Orlando, Okla.

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MEETINGS.

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A tabernacle meeting is to be held at Lakeview, Logan Co., Ohio, June 23 to July 4.

Wm. G. Schell.

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Tabernacle meeting, Berlin, Ont., beginning July 10.

J. A. Dillon, Wife and Co.

Assembly meeting at Danisville, Miss., July 7 to Aug. 4.

Mrs. G. A. Thomas,

Welch, Miss.

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There will be a tent meeting, Lord willing, near Sears in Osceola Co., South Orient Township, beginning July 22d to continue as long as the Lord wills. Those wishing to attend, address Bro. J. Sturges, Sears, Mich.

W. B. Grover.

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NISHNABOTNA, MO. ASSEMBLY MEETING.

There will be an assembly meeting of the saints of the most high God at Mill Creek Chapel, to begin Saturday night, June 29, to continue over July 4. Bro. Geo. Backus is expected to be present, and all others that the Lord may send. All are invited to attend this meeting. We are expecting a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Amen.

A. A. Kinzie.

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CAMP MEETINGS.

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Grand Junction, Mich, camp meeting June 11-20.

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WASHINGTON CAMP MEETING.

Elberton, Whitman Co., Welsh., June 14, to July 8.

F. N. Jacobson and Co.

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Camp meeting, Thayer, Oregon Co., Mo., July 24-Aug. 4.

B. F. Chase.

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Auburn, Neb. camp meeting, Aug. 1-12. We trust this will be a general assembly of the saints. Yours in Jesus,

M. H. Long.

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A general Western camp meeting at Woodburn, Marion Co., Ore., Aug. 8-23.

J. L. Green.

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Camp meeting, Aug. 16-26, at Vowell, Windstone Co., Miss.

R. H. Owens,

Freeny, Miss.

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Camp meeting at St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich., to begin Aug. 15, and last ten days.

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Camp meeting at Zion, Anderson Co., S. C., Aug. 1-15.

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There will be a camp meeting at Manning, Mo., commencing Aug. 20, and continuing as long as the Lord wills. Address R. A. Pierson, August Blemme or Geo. Frederick.

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Camp meeting, McLallen Corners, Erie Co., Pa., beginning about Aug. 22.

Arthur Howard.

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Grove or camp meeting, Aug. 11-20, in Bliss Township, Emmet Co., Mich.

Allie R. Fisher.

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Canada camp meeting, Aug 29 to Sept. 9.

J. A. Dillon and Co.

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Camp meeting, Frisco, Ark., beginning Sept. 12.

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The Norwood, Mo., camp meeting is desired to begin about Aug. 1. Further particulars will be given later. Bro. G. L. Cole and Company are desired. All saints and workers are invited. Any workers feeling led to come, write Bro. Woodward or me. Norwood, Mo.

W. M. Wilson.

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There will be a camp meeting near Standard, Okla. (Logan Co.), located ten miles west of Mulhall on the R. I. R. R., S. F. R. R., eighteen miles east of Hennessey. Expecting Bro. G. L. Cole and Co. in charge, the Lord willing, and all other workers desired that the Lord may lead. Everybody invited to attend. Leave the time for the workers to determine. Yours in the one body,

S. Post,

Standard, Okla.

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The Vichy, Mo., camp meeting will be held as usual on Bro. J. Thornton’s farm, ten miles north-east of Rolla, and ten miles from St. James, Mo., beginning Aug. 15, and continuing as long as the Lord leads. Come praying that God will pour out of his Spirit abundantly. If you are sick, come in faith to be healed; do not stay away because you are a sinner, come and get saved.

No huxtering of any kind allowed on or near the ground. Meals will be furnished to all who are able to pay at 15 cts., workers and God’s poor free. If you are poor, come, you will be taken care of. Those who can, would do well to bring your own bedding. Bro. Geo. E. Bolds and Co , and Bro. G. B. Collins are expected.

James Thornton.

Vichy, Mo.

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GROVE MEETINGS.

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A GROVE meeting is to be held in Noble’s grove, about 3 1/2 miles north of Tekoa, Whitman Co., Wash., July 12-22. Tekoa is on the O. R. & N. R. R. For further particulars address Bro. Wm. Franklin, Box 93, Tekoa, Wash.

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There will be a grove meeting northeast of St. Louis, Mich., on the bank of Pine river, near Goodyear school house, along the river road about six miles, commencing June 22, and lasting over Lord’s day. Come prepared for all day Sunday. All who can, come and help in this place. Your brother saved and in the one body,

David Mitchell,

St.Louis, Mich.

No “Trumpet”

WILL be issued next week, as the workers will be attending the camp meeting.

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We have received many requests for prayer that came too late to publish, but will be remembered at camp meeting.

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IMPORTANT CAMP MEETING COUNSEL.

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NEVER locate a camp meeting on any ground, park, etc., that you can not get full control of during the meeting. Let not Babylon or the world reserve rights to run any business of their own on the ground. What fellowship hath Christ and Belial?

In all cases, where camp meetings can be run without any eating establishment, better do so. If the congregation comes chiefly from the surrounding country they can be informed through the town papers and your bills, to bring along their food over the Lord’s day.

But where there is no general eating house do not suffer the sisters to be enslaved in the tents by cooking over and above actual needs. About one cooked meal a day, with another cold lunch will be sufficient. Meat peddlers should have no place in the camp, as flesh food is entirely too dear for these hard times, and is by no means the best diet for the service of God, and but little, if any, should be used. A half barrel of rolled oats contains more food than $10 of meat, and costs but very little, and is better. Large quantities can be cooked at a time and eaten warm or cold. Graham bread and mush is an excellent diet for camp meeting. Where God has blessed the people with abundance of fruit, but little of the drudgery of cooking is needed. Bread, real bread of all the parts of the wheat, with butter and fruit is a heavenly diet, and all sufficient for light labor or camp life.

Again, where no boarding house is actually needed, suffer no man to set up one because he sees a financial prospect. But if the circumstances be such that it is a duty to feed the people, do not fail to remember and carry out these important suggestions.

1. Never hold a meeting where the devil, the spirit of the world, or of Babylon, have reserved any right to carry on a traffic for mammon. Christ and Belial have no fellowship. Every foot of the ground must be sanctified to the Lord for the time being, or it is not fit for the camp of the saints, nor pleasing to the King.

2. If it is really thought necessary to have some kind of an eating establishment, for Jesus’ sake, let it not go into the hands of any person, any sinner, sectarian, or Judas-like professor, who is specially concerned about making something. No person is fit to control a camp boarding house who does so chiefly for personal, selfish interests. That man that would like to make a little money out of the cause and gospel of Christ, is covetous, and covetousness is idolatry. Therefore the ground occupied by his place of business is dedicated to another god. “And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?” In our extensive experience we have never yet seen a meeting where any person was permitted to carry on business for self and greed, that God could freely bless, and the Spirit was not restrained. The boarding house, if any at all, should be carried on for the same object the meeting is being held for, the glory of God and the salvation of souls. If God wants a boarding house he will call and qualify some consecrated saint to carry it on. Better not have a camp meeting than allow a rendezvous for mammon, a traffic for selfishness, on the same ground. God abhors the littleness that would make money out of the blood of Christ. All that pertains to God’s work must be of one heart and soul.

It is well to inform yourselves just what your state laws are respecting camp meetings, and your rights in excluding anything displeasing to God; and hold the peace of surroundings sacred for the Lord.

AN IMAGINED OUT.

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THE following we clip from a sermon by the high priest of Babylon – Talmage. N. Y., Apr. 7., reported in the papers.

I tell you when we have come down to the river of death and find it swift and raging we will have to put off our sectarianism, and lay down all our cumbrous creed, and empty handed put out for the other shore. “What,” say you, “would you resolve all the Christian church into one kind of church? Would you make Christian worship in the same way, by the same forms?” Oh, no: you might as well decide that all people shall eat the same kind of food without reference to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel without reference to the shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament, your surroundings, will decide whether you go to this or that church, and adopt this or that church polity. I do not care which one of the gates you go through, if you go through one of the twelve gates that Jesus lifted.

THE TWELFTH GATE.

Well, now, I see all the redeemed of earth coming up toward heaven. Do you think they will all get in? Yes. Gate the first, the Moravians come up; they believed in the Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate the second, the Quakers come up; they have received the inward light; they have trusted in the Lord, they pass through. Gate the third, the Lutherans come up; they have tire same grace that made Luther what he was, and they pass through. Gate the fourth, the Baptists pass through. Gate the fifth, the Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate the sixth, the Reformed church passes through. Gate the seventh, the Congregationalists pass through. Gate the eighth, the German Reformed church passes through. Gate the ninth, the Methodists pass through. Gate the tenth, the Sabbatarians pass through. Gate the eleventh, the church of the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But there are a great part of other denominations who must come in, and great multitudes who connected themselves with no visible church, but felt the power of godliness in their heart and showed it in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all the remaining host out of the. city? No: they may come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission through any other entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before the throne.

Looking up at the one hundred and forty thousand, you cannot tell which gate they come in. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one glassy sea, one doxology, one triumph, one heaven.

In passing through what he described as the “swift raging river of death,” — doubtless it will be a very terrible stream to all such false prophets — he says, “We will have to put off our sectarianism and lay down all our cumbrous creeds.”

Now, if the creeds of sectism are cumbrous, why be fool enough to pack them about here. They must surely all be of the devil, for Christ says, “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

So this high flying hireling expects to divest himself of his sectarianism in the turbulent stream of death; emerge from the same and enter heaven through a sect gate. How is he even going to enter through that twelfth gate of sectism if he should lose his sectarianism before he gets there? If sectism constitutes the gates into heaven, better hold on to it till he gets clear in. Oh the wicked unscrupulous, utterly reckless handling of God’s word by these presumptuous priests of Baal! whose only thought is to tickle the ears of sleeping sinners, and elicit their money and applause. Woe, woe, unto them! They shall receive a greater damnation than the false prophets, for they are handling something far more sacred than the law of the Jews; they have presumed to minister the words of eternal life, and yet they only serve up to the people the lies of Satan, the words of eternal death.

“Oh no,” we can’t be one, “you might as well decide that all people shall eat the same kind of food,” “and wear the same kind of apparel,” Yes, spiritually this is just what God requires. “We all eat the same spiritual meat, and all drink the same spiritual drink,” even from the same spiritual Rock, Christ. And also all God’s saints wear the same raiment, the white robed wedding garment; and any other trapping will result in being bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness.

Can any thing be more ridiculous than the idea that the twelve gates are twelve big, proud, worldly, sects? He passes by the mother of all these

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gates to perdition, and sees a Moravian’s gate, a Quaker gate, a Lutheran gate, a Baptist, and a Free Will Baptist gate, a Reform gate, Methodist gate, a Sabbatarian gate, a Disciple gate, and last of all, a Presbyterian gate. And all the thousands of adherants to other sect bodies will be sadly pained to find no door into Heaven — which Talmage thinks is this New Jerusalem — with the name of their sect inscribed over it. Poor fellows, how can they enter? Why, Mr. Talmage proposes to open his door for them all. What a clever man! “If you cannot get admission through any other entrance come in at the twelfth gate. He does not say, but it is likely all those multitudes will have to apply in good time, and of course by so doing they could help to swell his many thousand dollars salary. But what if many of them did not have Presbyterian ancestors, nor be of a Presbyterian temperament, and have Presbyterian surroundings. For these three things he says, “decide whether you go to this or that church policy.” See this sharp old wolf! He virtually ignores Christ and the word of truth; they need not be consulted, but join the sect of your ancestors, unless your temperament inclines to another door. What base thoughtless play great fools make of sacred things!

Looking up at the one hundred and forty thousand, you cannot tell which gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one glassy sea, one doxologv, one triumph, one heaven.”

Is it not very strange to suppose that passing through these various sect doors, the opposite effect is produced? The Lutheran passing in at a Lutheran gate, is no more a Lutheran. The Methodist entering into the city through a Methodist gate, loses his Methodism. All that is here said by this great babbler, of the New Jerusalem, is wild imagination, and lighter than vanity. Twelve great sects, of comparative late origin on the earth, and of the earth, earthy, constitute the gates of ingress. How then was that city entered before these daughters of confusion were born? Was there no gateway into heaven before Luthers day, the founder of the first gate? A vast difference is seen between the New Jerusalem of the Bible, and the city of Talmage’s dream. The former came down from heaven, the latter is earth-born. Into the former the saints of God have already entered here, whose names are written in heaven. Into the latter they hope to enter on the day of judgment. Though the holy Jerusalem is actually here on earth, a higher standard is required to enter than Talmage lifts for his imaginary city to come in heaven. None but such as become holy and unspotted from sin can enter the true city of God, which is the Church, the Lamb’s wife.

But, says Talmage, “This one stands at the gate and says, “Let me in. I was a wanderer from God, I deserve to die. I have come up to this place, not because I deserve it, but because I have heard that there is a saving power in the blood of Jesus.” The keeper says. “That is the pass-word — Jesus, Jesus! and they go in and surround the throne.” Who are they? Men that had only heard that there is a saving power in the blood of Jesus. No person can enter the Church of God on earth in such ignorance and blindness, much less enter heaven. “I am the door; by me if any man enter in he shall be saved.” Not only hear of the virtues of the Savior’s blood, but actually have it applied to the heart. This is an experience of which Talmage betrays utter ignorance. His Jerusalem is a thing founded by one Lord fancy. It arose from the dead sea of error and falsehood, and floats about in the mists and fogs of Babel ignorance.

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THE SABBATH OF THE SOUL IN CHRIST.

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D. S. Warner,

Grand Junction, Mich.

My Dear Brother in Christ: I am in receipt of your Sabbath pamphlet of recent issue and have given it a careful perusal. That the individual will finally be judged according to the best light he is able to receive from the eternal Word, is a great comfort to one who is always at variance with the rank and file in their theological deductions.

The following contains some of the steps by which I was led out of the bondage of the creeds.

Turning from all vague and unreliable sources of knowledge concerning God’s plan of government for the human family, there seems no other resource than a plane. What saith the Word? And is there still another appeal from what seems to be the only source of saving light and knowledge for humanity? Most certainly there is. It is plainly declared, “The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.” * * The natural man [in the letter] cannot know the things of God because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Cor. 2:14. When an individual has entered into the perfect rest of the Jehovah, of which the seventh day Sabbath was a memorial all through the old dispensation, he understands principles which lie hidden from the view of a merely analytical mind. The literal descendants of Abraham had the seventh day Sabbath from Moses to Christ, yet they never entered into the rest it commemorated because they sought it not by faith. “There remaineth therefore a rest [or keeping of the Sabbath] to the people of God.” Heb 4:9.

“But the anointing which ye have received remaineth in you, and ye have no need that any? man teach you, etc. 1 Jno. 3:27. A fully regenerate soul, having received the anointing of the Holy Ghost and depending entirely upon the interpretation of the divine teacher for doctrine, discerns the principles of the true Sabbath under-lying all the teachings of the New Testament.

He that hath entered into his rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his.” This means, in this instance, that he has ceased to regard the work of obedience to the fourth commandment in the sense of the Mosaic injunction: “And it shall be your righteousness if you remember and do those things I command you.” Henceforth, to that thrice blessed soul, only that work is acceptable to God which follows as a natural result of the righteousness he hath by? faith. “I will have mercy and not sacrifice,” Mat. 12:7, was also said in regard to the Sabbath, thus fully abrogating the letter of the fourth commandment to those whose minds were open to comprehend all the freedom offered under the perfect law of liberty. Every mandate given by the Jehovah for the well being of Israel was wholly sacrificial, through the perfect obedience of which the Israelites could hope to be led forward until he should come who could justify them from all things under the law. The Sabbath of the law was given as a sacrifice, and typified the rest which should be revealed in Christ as the true Sabbath in its highest sense. When this condition is fully established in the believer’s soul, every act, word and thought is wholly controled by? the indwelling Spirit of God.

Further, “The priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless.” This was said to show the error of attributing so much Pharisaical sanctity to that portion of time set apart as the Sabbath. It was the sacredness of the commandment which was to be held in reverence, rather than the time it covered. “Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.” 1 Cor. 7:19. Only by an entire consecration to the higher principle of the divine command could the Sabbath be made holy unto men. Thus it was possible for the priests in the temple to perform the daily round of service on the Sabbath and be accounted blameless. “There is one here greater than the temple.” Mat. 12:6. Christ, in making this statement, held in consideration the fact that the temple which was hallowed by the visible presence of God, was held in such great reverence by the Israelitish nation that any desecration within its walls was punishable by death to the offender. The people while at prayer turned their faces always toward the temple. A fugitive, could he but grasp the horns of the altar expected to find shelter from his persecutors. In legal proceedings they swore by the temple, by the altar, and by the gold upon the altar. “The one here greater than the temple,” referred to himself and conveyed the meaning that those who were incorporated into his life, and were in perfect oneness with him in precept and principle were in the same manner as the priests in the temple, exempt from the letter of the Mosaic Sabbath. “For ye are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that ye should walk in them.” Eph. 2:10. In Christ every work is holy in his service, every moment of time consecrated to his use, consequently there can be no profanation of the Sabbath; “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the god-head bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” Col. 2:9, 10. A soul complete in Christ has entered into the real Sabbath rest. A perfect communion and heirship with him who is the head of all principality and power makes the Sabbath an ever present fact. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Mat. 5:17. This passage is but a simple declaration that he came because the law and the prophets said he should come. His coming fulfilled the end and purpose of the law. Though, by his own declaration, he came neither to destroy the law nor to condemn the world, yet, the ministration of the Spirit, which is Christ manifest in the flesh, nullifies all obligation to work out any ordinance of the ritual service — otherwise grace is no more grace.

“One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.” Mat. 7:18. Christ, being made under the law, was himself subject to all its ordinances and taught its supremacy to its final fulfillment; namely, The crucifixion, when the priesthood being changed there was of necessity a change also of the law. Christ’s sermon on the mount gave to his disciples the first opening petals which were destined to fill the earth with their fragrance as the waters fill the sea. — “The law that goeth forth out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

Sarah E. Farman.

Battle Creek, Mich.

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TESTIMONIES.

“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” – Psa. 119:129.

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Germany, Ind.

Dear Saints of God: I feel led of the Lord to write my testimony for the first time, to the glory of God. He has brought me out of confusion and sectism, and set my soul at perfect liberty. Praise the Lord that I can serve him without fear in holiness all the days of my life. I praise him for full salvation through his precious blood. Your saved brother, kept by the power of God.

J. J. Plantz.

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Dear Trumpet Readers: This is my first testimony. I can truly say that I am out of sectism, and that the dear Lord has wonderfully blessed me incoming out. Bless his dear name forever! Well I do praise God that I ever heard this evening light that I might walk with him in the light as he is in the light. The Lord gave us some precious meetings and saved some precious souls here, for which we give him all the Glory. Truly I know I am saved and sanctified and kept free from all sin. God is my help in time of need and has often healed me. It is so sweet to serve God and keep his commands. Your sister, saved and sanctified,

Fannie Prickett.

Woodburn, Ore.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel led of the Lord to write my testimony. This morning finds me saved and happy in Jesus. I do glorify my blessed Savior’s name for what he has done for me. A week ago I was taken very sick and we sent for the saints of God, and they anointed and laid on hands in the name of Jesus and the Lord raised me up, and to him I give all the glory. Oh I do praise the dear Lord that I have taken him for my physician for both soul and body. Pray much for the coming camp meeting at this place, that there may be much good done. Your sister all sold out to Jesus, and in the one body,

Mrs. E. Snavely.

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Cornell, Neb.

Dear Saints and Trumpet Readers: I am praising God for saving grace and keeping and healing power over all the works of the enemy. A little over two years ago Bro. John Green and Sister Krieble preached this blessed evening light in our midst. Praise the dear Lord! It was just what I wanted. I consecrated to God and became willing to measure up to all the light God gives me. I am not bound by any straps, bands or traditions. Whom the Son makes free is free indeed. May the Lord send some one here to preach soon. Pray much for us. Yours in Christ, justified and sanctified wholly,

Mrs. Eliza Hay.

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Louisville, Ky.

Dear Brethren: Just one month ago to-day I was delivered from Babylon. Bro. Frost Beanmont and myself were students here at Babylon’s great temple, the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, but praise Jesus! we are now saved and sanctified; have not taken a stone from Babylon. Were baptized Thursday by Bro. Will Schrieber of Moorsville, Ind. I feel called for the ministry, and if the way opens, which I can partly see, I will be at the camp meeting. God bless you, one and all, and may we be sunk down deeper and deeper in Christ Jesus, is the prayer of your saved and sanctified brother,

L. Clarence Levy, Jr.

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Altamont, Kan.

Dear Saints and Trumpet Readers: We feel led of the Lord to write our testimony. We are saved and sanctified and kept by the power of God. We are out of Babylon confusion and free from sin. We want some of God’s true ministers to come to Altamont this fall or summer with a tabernacle to hold meeting, if the Lord wills, as there are some souls here that are anxious to hear the pure Word preached. There were three that accepted the truth when Bro’s Caudel and Brite were here in April, but they have never heard but two sermons preached in the eveninglight. Bro. Caudel promised to come back, but there is no house that we can get to preach in. May the Lord send some of his workers here this summer or this fall with a tabernacle. Yours in the one body,

J. E. and Sarah Waite.

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New Albany, Ind.

Dear Saints of God: I am praising God this evening for a wonderful experience in salvation. Truly the dear Lord has redeemed my soul from an everlasting hell. All praise be to his name forever. For four long years I was yoked in a creed, with a hungry soul, but found no peace until I heard the pure gospel preached last fall. Then I found the strait and narrow way spoken of in Matt. 7:14. But when I found the Lord I was loaded down with sin and false doctrines; but Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Matt 11:28. Then in Isa. 1:19, we find a precious promise: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.” So I began at once to obey God. Praise his dear name forever! I have found his promises true. God first justified me and helped me to straighten up my past life as far as possible, then I brought

my gift to the altar and God did the work that Jesus prayed for in Jno. 17:17. Praise the Lord for perfect freedom in Jesus, name! Your brother in the body, saved and sanctified to the will of God,

J. E. Rineberger.

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East Liverpool, Ohio.

Dear Saints of God: This morning finds me saved from all sin and sanctified to do the whole will of God. I do thank God from the depths of my soul for deliverance from sects, secret societies, insurance companies, whisky parties, and all organizations of man. Praise God for the evening light, and for his highway of holiness that keeps me free from sin! Through the preaching of one of his ministers he showed me where I stood. I belonged to the M. E. sect for twenty-eight years. I was baptized by sprinkling when I joined, but was never satisfied that it was right, and on Christmas day I was baptized in the Ohio river. There are eight saints of us who have come out of the different sects. We have rented a room, and are holding five meetings a week. We hold meetings on the street, and the testimonies on divine healing and living without sin is something new to the people. Praise his holy name! May the Lord bless these lines to the good of some souls. Your saved brother,

C. Kinsey.

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GOD’S WONDROUS MERCY TO US.

Dear Readers: The Lord has done great things for us, whereof we are glad. Psa. 126:3. After he had so wonderfully healed and raised up my dear companion from the violent attack of pneumonia fever last fall, she was blessed with the best state of health she had enjoyed since we have been on the coast. Last April, while at Creston, Wash., holding meeting, we both took quite a cold. It seemed that Satan was determined to afflict us in such a way as to force us to close the meeting, by making me unfit to attend to my gospel duties; but by God’s help I determined to continue the work and the meetings if I fell prostrate at the post of duty. From that time I began to amend, and truly the grace of God did wonderfully sustain us in the conflict of faith. But afterwards my wife became more afflicted with stronger symptoms of quick consumption and was plunged into deep misery and suffering, and it seemed that death would certainly soon overtake her. About three o’clock one morning we gathered around her bedside, called earnestly upon God, and anointed her with oil, and in answer to prayer God immediately relieved and healed her of all suffering and agony. Hallelujah! Yet, she remained very weak and helpless, and greatly reduced in bodily strength, and we sent an earnest request to the GOSPEL TRUMPET office for their united prayers of faith for her immediate recovery. The day after the letter was mailed, the Lord gave us the sweet promise and assurance of Isaiah 65:24: “Before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” From that time she has been increasing in strength and gaining every day. Praise the Lord! This was the most wonderful case of healing in answer to prayer, I have ever witnessed in our family.

I promised God that if he would heal and raise her up again I would sound out his praises throughout all the world. This furnace of love has been blessed to our rich advancement in the Lord, and has qualified us for the work of the Lord in the future. During this sore trial the Lord gave my wife a solemn and wonderful vision and revelation of the speed of these last days, and the rapidity with which this glorious gospel must go forth into all the world; and also a glorious commission to us from heaven to go to foreign missionary fields. About this time our child Sidney was seriously stung by a bee. He was anointed with oil, and as the prayer of faith was offered, he was instantly healed and the poison rebuked, and it did not even swell nor hurt him from that moment. To God be all the glory. Yours in Him,

F. N. Jacobson,

Pullman, Wash.

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Bible Readings.

Arr. by J. W. B,

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TRUTH.

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WHAT IS TRUTH?

Jno. 17:17 — Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Deut. 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Jno. 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 17 — Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Psa. 119:151 — Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

BY WHOM HAS IT BEEN GIVEN?

Jno. 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

IT MUST BE BELIEVED.

2 Thess. 2:13 — But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

GOD MUST BE WORSHIPPED IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH:

Josh. 24:14 — Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth.

1 Sam. 12:24 — Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Psa. 15:2 — He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Jno. 4:23, 24 — But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Psa. 86:11 — Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

145:18 — The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Isa. 10:20 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Jno. 3:21 — But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

TRUTH OUR SHIELD AND BUCKLER.

Psa. 91:4 — He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Eph. 6:14 — Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness.

BY MERCY AND TRUTH INIQUITY IS PURGED.

Prov. 16:6 — By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

A SAD CONDITION.

Isa. 59:9-15 — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; in transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Hos. 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

THE EFFECTS OF TRUTH.

Jno. 8:32 — And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

17:19 — And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

THE CHURCH CALLED A CITY OF TRUTH.

Zech. 8:1-3 — Again the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the Lord: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called, A city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The holy mountain. 8 — And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness.

1 Tim. 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

SOME ARE DESTITUTE OF THE TRUTH.

Jno. 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

1 Tim. 6:3-5 — If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

2 Tim. 3:7 — Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

WHY?

2 Tim. 3:1-6 — This know, also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts. 8 — Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the truth.

4:3, 4 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

CONSEQUENCE OF REJECTING THE TRUTH.

2 Thess. 2:8-12 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

BY THE TRUTH THE WORLD SHALL BE JUDGED.

Psa. 96:13 — Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Isa. 42:1-4 — Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

GOD’S WILL TO ALL MEN.

1 Tim. 2:4 — Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

HOW THE TRUTH SHOULD BE GIVEN.

2 Tim. 2:14-16 — Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they increase unto more ungodliness. 23-26 — But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken c o.. ..y him at his will.

Eph. 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

WHAT THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WILL DO.

Jno. 16:13 — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

1 Jno. 4:1-6 — Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

WHAT THE SPIRIT OF ERROR WILL DO.

1 Jno. 4:1—6 — Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Rom. 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness: 25 — who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator.

HOW WE MAY KNOW THAT WE ARE OF THE TRUTH.

Jno. 18:37 — To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

8:46, 47 — Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

1 Jno. 3:18, 19 — My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

1:6 — If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

Jno. 10:16 — And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one-fold, and one shepherd.

2 Cor. 13:8 — For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

1 Jno. 2:4, 5 — He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

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the Holy Spirit, and under the judgment of God both fell down and expired. The result of which is thus recorded, “And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.” “And of the rest — sinners and would-be hypocrites — durst no man join himself to them.” Acts 5. That put an end to church joining attempts. Even devils have found out long ago that God’s church is not joinable. For they attempted to enter, and from an inside standpoint destroy what they could not by waging war from without. Thus spake Beelzebub, in hell’s infernal counsel.

“So we will feign to have espoused
What we could not destroy;
Our hatred to the truth disguise,
The pilgrims to decoy,
Down from their high and holy way.
And by this bait will tole
Them into fellowship with us.
And so corrupt the soul.

All hell broke forth in loud applause
To hail the good advice;
Then Satan rose and second gave,
Completing the device;
“Much wisdom.” saith he, “we have heard,
But deeper still I see;
More than befriend, we’ll join the Church,
And each a member be.

For if we gain advantage ground,
Assuming to be friends,
Much more within the Church’s bound
We shall achieve our ends.
There to attain each office seat.
We’ll work the wires well;
And gaining rule, we can defeat,
And cast her down to hell.

Our nature we will galvanize,
In penitence appear
Low at the door with weeping eyes,
And pray admittance there.
Our persecutions we’ll repent —
Because they prove in vain —
We’ll seek a place within the Church,
And help to build the same.

But dwelling in the Church of light
All holy we must feign,
And don the saintly robes of white,
Still devils we remain.
Though hating all the holy seed,
We’ll play the Christian fair;”
For devils prone to black deceit,
As well as open war.

So hell agreed upon the plan,
To join the living Church,
And, Satan leading, forth they came,
The entrance for to search.
Like mourners now the fiendish crew
Their wickedness deplore.
But shrink amazed as, lo! they view
That Jesus is the door.

Then looking up in fear beheld
“Her walls were great and high,”
Their altitude no fiends ascend,
Their strength all hell defy.
Then passing round with eager eye,
A second time, and thrice,
No other ingress could they spy,
No other door but Christ.

What mode of access has the Church?
Read now the book and see:
’Tis by a new and second birth,
Whatever that may be.
But who can tell us what that means?
“Ye must be born again.’’
To us it very foolish seems,
Nor can the gods explain.

Whence came the Church? From heaven’s throne,
A golden city fair,
Were she produced by human skill
We might admittance share.
If only formed on earthly plain,
Then devils might come in;
Then we’d assume the Christian name,
And join the social ring.

If creatures did but organize
The structure of the Church,
We’d like a noble pillar rise,
They’d set us in as such.
But now has God the members set,
All in their order true;
He leaving all the sinners out,
And us poor devils too.

Or turned but man the Churchly key,
And passed the seeker in,
We’d knock and pray as loud as he.
And so admittance win.
But He, the porter of the sheep,
Alas! we know too well,
And worse than all, He knowing us,
Would blast us back to hell.

Just then there burst a shout of praise
From all the ransomed host;
Their songs like mighty thunders rose,
Filled with the Holy Ghost.
Then, siezed with terror, Satan’s camp
From Zion’s mountain flit:
In fear of wild disorder scamp,
Back to their native pit.

Then, gath’ring pluck at last to rise,
Thus Satan, loth, began:
“To join the Church we thought so wise,
Now, fools, we never can.

Since war cannot exterminate,
Nor can we join the Church,
We’ll make to it a counterfeit:
We’ll institute a search
For some aspiring dignities,
Who wear the Christian name,
To draft its creed, to organize,
And introduce the same.

We’ll flatter and insinuate
A ritualistic zeal,
Assemble counsels, grave and great,
And help to turn the wheel.
We’ll whisper in those bishops’ ears,
And get them fall in line,
To tinker up a human thing,
A church we all can join.”

And so for the falsely called church, Mr. Lee is eager to get joiners. But believers are the more joined to the Lord.

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ADVANCEMENT.

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FOURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye may abound more and more. * * * But we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more. — 1 Thess. 4: 1, 10.

God is truly on an advance with his saints. And rapidly moving forward now since the people of God have been receiving such wonderful light, and a knowledge of their privileges as saints of the Most High. Remember the promise: “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole earth, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.” — Dan. 7:27.

May the children of God be more stirred in their souls to their privileges, since God sent his Son to this earth to give us this wonderful plan of salvation, that we might be redeemed from all sin and bondage, and be liberated and set free from everything that would hinder us from serving and glorifying God’s name. Since the word of God is the standard to measure by, let every child of God obey the command, and search the Scriptures and read the word of God in the Spirit. God, after the plan of redemption was completed by Jesus Christ, received him up to glory, and has left us his Word by which to square our lives; as Christ told Satan, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion. — Amos 6:1. You that are saved and walking in the light, “Arise, shine for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” — Isa. 60: 1. Also 5th verse:

“Then shall they see and flow together, and thine heart shall fear and be enlarged.” “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.” — Isa. 62:1. Also verse 7, “And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Faith is simple; just take God at his word, and believe it is true and that his promises are for you. Be fully consecrated to the whole will of God forever without one reserve. Then move out on the exceeding great and precious promises, and hold God to his word.

A. J. Bixler.

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TESTIMONIES.

“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” – Psa. 119:129.

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Woodburn, Ore.

Dear Saints: Oh praise the dear Lord for victory in the name of Jesus! To-day is my fourteenth birthday, and I feel it would be to the glory of God to tell the little ones everywhere what the Lord has been doing for me. He is just keeping me day by day and gives me perfect victory in my soul. He has also opened the way for me to go in the gospel work with my uncle, J. L. Green. Oh I do praise his holy name! Your sister in Christ saved and sanctified wholly,

Nora A. Armstrong.

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Oak Run, Va.

Dear Saints of the Living God: With the help of the Lord I will write my testimony. I went to a campmeeting and there I was first convicted of my sins. I was much afraid then that the devil would take me, I did not get free from these awful fears for some time. Death seemed to me to be terrible; but I praise God to day I am free. Bro’s Roe and Cheatham held a meeting here. I was soon saved, and after that I was sanctified, and then was baptized. Pray for me, that I may regain my health. I would like to hear from some of the saints. I hope to meet you all in heaven. Your sister,

Laura Geer.

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Violet Hill, Ark.

Dear Saints of God Everywhere: As I have never written my testimony before I wish to testify to the wonderful power of God to save from all sin and sanctify and keep pure and holy. I have been a member of the Baptist church, or sect, for twenty years until February 1895, when myself and wife and two members were brought before the church, charged with heresy and excluded for being and believing in sanctification, the only charge they held against us. And I am praising God for delivering me from the sin of sectism, as I truly believe it is a sin. And we are praising God for full salvation, freed from all sin, and our prayer is that some of God’s true and tried ministers will come this way and preach the pure gospel. We want the church of God to flourish here. I know that there is great opposition here to the pure Word. Yours all on the altar saved and sanctified,

W. B. Seaton.