14 April 1892, Volume 12, Number 16.

She Christian’s will and God’s are one.

The will of God, O what is it?
And how is man to tell,
To what, and how, he should submit,
To do our Savior’s will?

Can other mortals tell us what,
Our God would have us do?
And judge if we are right or not,
Or know if false or true?

God wills to us, what e’er is good,
His mind should be our guide.
In all His holy providence,
We calmly should confide.

For if our will with God’s agrees,
Shall we to mortals turn,
And ask what would our Maker please,
Of men God’s will to learn?

Shall we that monitor mistrust,
Which dwells within our breast,
And ask of creatures made of dust,
What pleases God the best?

Has not the Savior plainly taught
That when he left should come
The Holy Spirit? and we ought,
To make our souls His home.

And He should guide us in all truth;
What plainer then can be,
To man in age, or man in youth,
If He abides in thee?

Thy mind is subject to God’s will,
Thy heart is then his throne.
The truth does then your being fill,
God’s will is then your own.

O when we come to God in prayer,
And ask in Jesus’ name,
He will impart his blessings there,
His mind and yours the same.

Clint Atkins.

Norwood, Mo.

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Romans, Seven.

(Continued from last issue)

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We continue this subject this week by giving an extract from the Bible Proofs of the Second Work of Grace: —

Relying upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I am led to a very clear and decided conclusion, that the dual state of a young believer in Christ is here portrayed.

Bear in mind that absolute freedom from sin is the subject of this epistle.

In the fifth chapter the apostle sets forth the superabundance of saving grace, over all sin, and the two successive salvations. In the sixth chapter, he argues the inconsistency of continuing in sin, since grace provides for our death to, and consequent freedom from sin; he therefore admonishes them to “reckon themselves dead indeed to sin,” that is, now appropriate, by faith, the perfect “salvation that is in Christ Jesus.”

Continuing the same theme, in the seventh chapter, the apostle illustrates the extent of the law by the marriage obligation. As the latter terminates in the death of the companion, so total emancipation from the law, is only effected by death to sin.

Sin and the law are married; the existence of the one is the occasion of the other. “The law was added because of sin.” “Was made for evil doers;” hence retains its hold upon the believer, until all evil is blotted out of the soul by the blood of Christ.

“Now, the end of the commandment [law] is charity out of a pure heart.” — 1 Tim. 1:5.

A pure heart is one where only charity (love) dwells; hence all subject to love, which is the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

But “charity out of a pure heart,” implies such a thing as charity out of a heart not yet pure; hence, not entirely free from the “law of sin and death;” so called, because it is inseparable from sin, and only works death.

Now, these two moral natures with their respective laws, Paul holds up, as a mirror, in the seventh of Romans, that his brethren might see the dual, or conflicting state of their hearts; and then carries their minds forward to deliverance “through Jesus Christ our Lord,” — ver. 25, — and confirms the blessed truth by his owm experience. “For,” says he, “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” — 8:2.

With him the dual state was ended, being wholly brought under the one law of love.

I submit the following reasons for believing that a converted person is here described:

1. While the sinner is wholly under the “carnal mind which is not subject to the law of God,” the apostle here delineates one, the “law of whose mind” is not only loyal to, but “delights in,” and actually “serves the law of God.” — 22, 25.

2. Two opposite natures are here attributed to the same person. This is the experience of every merely justified believer.

3. The chapter personates one who was a subject of two laws. The one came with transmitted sin, the other must, therefore, have been written in the mind by implanted grace, hence, he was a child of grace.

4. The sin or evil described in this chapter is confined to the “flesh.”  — 18. It is used interchangeably with the “carnal mind.” — 8:4-8. “Fleshly mind.” — Col. 2:18. These and other scriptures, show clearly that the “flesh” in this connection, does not mean our physical nature, in contradistinction to our spiritual; but our corrupt, fallen nature, as opposite to our new nature, in-wrought by divine grace.

This is a parallel case with the Galatians, who were all the “children of God,” and possessed the divine Spirit; yet the flesh (this same fallen nature), “lusted against the Spirit.” — 5:17.

The wretchedness depicted in Romans 7, is not that of an awakened penitent. There is no expression of guilt, no out-cry for pardon, which is the repenting sinner’s constant plea. Even in the short-comings confessed, justification is contended for, on the ground that it is “not I but sin that dwelleth in me.”

Now, this is not the way the convicted sinner talks to God; his bitter experience and humble confession is: “I have sinned, and done this evil in thy sight;” yea, I have sinned against leaven.

When a soul becomes a subject of Christ’s kingdom, this inherited “body of death” is ignored and even loathed. The affections and desires fully consent to the divine law, and though the heart is pained, and filled with shame at the stirrings of indwelling evil, guilt is not necessarily implied; because the new born soul is not in sympathy with this sin-ward nature, nor yet responsible for its presence, until light reveals the duty, and privilege of extirpation.

6. The sin deplored in this chapter, does not relate to transgressions of the divine law, which, like dark specters, throng the memory of the awakened sinner. But it is sin in the singular: an invisible “body:” a real moral and spiritual entity, which exists back of all its works. It does not consist in sinful acts, but is the root, and source of all sinful acts.

It is the sin that sins. It dwells in men, carries on an extensive business in the world, has many signs up in the unsanctified church; employs numerous servants, and pays them wages. Rom. 7:17. John8:34. Rom. 6:16, 23.

This sin is not comprised in the bundle that press the heart of the penitent. We can’t repent of, nor receive pardon for that that we are not responsible for. It is only after the thick cloud of our sin is removed by divine acquittal, that the eye of our consciousness can discern this deep- seated foe of the soul. Hence, it is clear, that the picture in Rom. 7th, is that of a justified Christian, whose eyes are fully opened to his need of perfect heart purity. Weary of the conflict within, he accepts the pains of crucifixion.

“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”

If, therefore, any think this picture too dark for a real justified believer; please remember that Paul is describing the duality, and not any of the blessings of this primary grace: the fact and virulence of in-dwelling sin, and not the blessedness of implanted grace. Since the simple object for which he longed to come unto them, and for which he wrote, was to convict them of the “spiritual gift” they needed, i. e., “the righteousness of God,” it was necessary that he lead their minds from the joy of pardon, to the wretchedness, occasioned by the offensive “body of death.” In fact, the picture supposes the subject under a vivid, and painful consciousness of this foul enemy; yea, in the very throes of his expiration. I appeal to any man that has ever passed through the pains of this death struggle, “the swelling of Jordan,” that lies between the 7th and 8th of Romans, if this picture is overdrawn. Having led their minds on to this crisis, he proclaims help near.

“I thank God through Christ Jesus.” Therefore by faith, “reckon yourselves dead indeed unto sin. — 6:11. For “our old man must be crucified,” the “body of sin destroyed,” not pardoned but destroyed. Thus Paul also admonished the Ephesian Christians, to put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.” — Eph. 4:22.

After declaring his absolute freedom from this body of sin and its accompanying law, the apostle continues the same subject in the 8th chapter, calling the two opposites, the “body,” or “carnal mind,” and the Spirit.

“And if Christ be in you [if according to the promise made to the church, Christ and the Father have come and taken their abode in you], the body is dead, because of sin.” Ver. 10. That is, it is “dead in reference to sin; the members of your body no more perform the work of sin, than the body of a dead man does the functions of natural life.”

Here is an utter end of the civil war in the believer’s heart; for if one of two contending parties is slain, the fight must cease. Here begins an entirely new state of existence, altogether unknown in the dual state of mere justification.

Again, “If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwelt in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” — Ver. 11. This language is quite commonly applied to the resurrection; but it undoubtedly refers to the work that God does in us after receiving his Spirit of adoption. How could this quickening, or making alive refer to the resurrection, since it is done by the Spirit of God dwelling in us? Does the divine Spirit dwell in our dead bodies in the grave in order to resurrect us therefrom?

Let us hear from James McKnight’s translation and paraphrase:

“For if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead, abide in you, by his influence, he who raised up Christ from the dead, will make even your dead bodies, — ver. 10, your, animal passions, together with the members of your mortal bodies alive, that is, subservient to the spiritual life, through his Spirit who dwelleth in you.”

This learned and pious Presbyterian divine, was no professional advocate of the second grace; yet in faithfully following the word, he, as well as the common version, emphatically teaches the second work. First, the reception of the spirit of adoption. Second, our death to sin and quickening of all our powers for God’s service. For to be “dead to the world,” is to be “alive unto God,” and “made perfect to do his will.” — Heb. 13:21.

Let us follow the apostle one step farther: “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” — Ver. 13.

This is a clear key to the whole subject; here terminates the dual state, and all internal strife. The Emphatic renders it thus: “For if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body you shall live.” Other versions have “put to death” instead of “mortify.” Observe that in this chapter, the apostle applied to his brethren at Rome, the mixed state he characterized in the preceding; hence, we know where it belongs, namely, to justified Christians, for such he addressed.

They had spiritual life, for they were in danger of dying, i.e., backsliding. Yet there was that sin which must be “put to death,” as a condition to healthy, spiritual life. The idea is here conveyed that fallen nature and implanted grace are antagonistic to each other, and will not be likely to dwell together very long. And unless we, by the power of God’s Spirit, (in a measure already received in regeneration), and by faith in Christ, our deliverer, put to death this body of sin, we are in imminent danger of failing by its subtlety. “Therefore,” says the apostle, “I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end ye may be established.” — 1:11.

How was he to impart that gift?

The verses following show that it was by preaching to them the “gospel which is the power of God unto salvation to all “that believe,” for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to (eis, into) faith. — 16, 17.

So, the spiritual gift that was to establish them is the real “righteousness of God,” transmitted to them, in a second degree of faith. See 1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 12:10.

And I am sure that when I come unto you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ” — 15:29.

“Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus.” — 16:26.

 The establishing gift that Paul longed to come and impart to these brethren is the crowning “blessing of the gospel,” and is in-wrought by the power of God, through the “preaching of Jesus Christ,” our perfect Savior. And, having been preceded by justification, it is a second grace. It is the “also” grace, after justification “wherein we stand.” — 5:1, 2.

“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.” — 15:13.

To be filled with all joy excludes inward trouble; all peace is an end of all internal war, the total death of inbred sin.

The apostle then confesses that he is “persuaded of you brethren, that ye also are full of goodness,” etc., i. e., I do not look upon you as unconverted or backslidden. “Nevertheless, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given me of God, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.” — 15:16.

Here Paul declared it his special calling to labor for the sanctification of the Gentiles, and not being able to come at once, to lead this church into this great “blessing of the gospel,” he “boldly” lifts up the standard in his epistle, assuring them that they need not always suffer the bitter conflict between good and evil in their hearts; but that Christ was able to deliver them from the “body of death,” and “stablish their hearts unblamable in holiness before God,” make them “free from sin,” clothe them in his own righteousness, and “fill them with all joy and peace in believing.” Yes, all this glory on the simple conditions of presenting yourself a living sacrifice to God, and then believing.

What an important work of grace and glorious rest of the soul is here offered to the Christians at Rome! Not of works, but a “spiritual gift.” Not included in, nor developed from justifying grace, but an “also,” or supplemental grace. Not a transitory blessing, but that paramount “blessing of the gospel,” which “establisheth us in Christ Jesus,” and “wherein we stand” forever. Not through self-culture, but by the power of God through the Holy Ghost.

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Dearly Beloved Brethren: I have felt impressed for some time that the Lord would have a small Messenger published to be circulated through the north and most of our Dominion. We have been engaged in publishing, and circulating tracts, etc. But as we come in contact with the people, we see the need of a more extensive work. The harvest is truly great; and as we behold the condition of things, we are convinced with you, O brethren, that this world has rolled close to the brink of the burning lake; we feel time is short, and the question is before us, Have we hitherto done our whole duty? We regret to say, No. We felt we were in God’s order and our responsibility, when publishing the little Guide, but we were at that time in such straightened circumstances financially, that we thought it necessary to discontinue its publication, which we did, in place of holding on to God. However God has taught us lessons not easily to be forgotten, and has graciously borne us out of our financial troubles, and we feel we must go forward again in order to obey him. We wish to state the printing office is well equipped, and we can send forth the Messenger at a trifling cost, as we have no postage to pay on papers, and as this is a new field where present truth has not found its way as yet, it would also afford a blessed opportunity for the children of the Most High to preach through its columns, the everlasting gospel. We expect the paper will be sent forth monthly at least, and entreat your hearty co-operation and earnest prayer in its behalf.

Your saved brother in Christ,

C. L. Kaumeyer.

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The Way Out 10
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Conviction 13
Consecration 15
Faith 17
Conversion 23
Sanctification 26
The Two Works of Grace 34
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Is The Day of Healing Past? 53
The Use of Divine Healing 59
Old Testament Witnesses 67
New Testament Witnesses 76
The Apostasy 87
The Evening Light 95
The Promise of His Power 99
The Gifts of Healing 100
Who are The Elders? 105
What Kind of Oil to Use 107
Anointing and Consecration 107
Can I Be Healed? 109
Sick For The Glory of God 109
The Use of Medicine 112
Means Which God Blesses 113
The Prayer of Faith 116
Walking out Upon His Promises 118
Resisting Temptation 121
Resisting The Truth 122
Hindrances to Healing 123
Casting Out Devils 124
Sending Anointed Handkerchiefs 126
Spiritualism 128
Christian Science 130
Witnesses Since The Apostles 131
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Nine Years an Invalid 145
Corroborating Testimony 149
Physicians Baffled for Eleven Years 151
Deliverance from Disobedience 152
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Motherhood 157
He Healeth Our Diseases 163
Touched with Divine Power 165
A Trial of Faith 170
Marvelous Healing of The Soul 175
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A Crushed Arm Healed 187
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How God Delivered Me 206
A Warning Against Opium 217
Devils Cast Out 219
The Blind and Lame See and Walk 221
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An Anointed Handkerchief Applied 224
The Chastening Rod 226
A Friend in Affliction 230
Crutches Thrown Away 233
Healing of Cancer and Consumption 235
The Lord is My Physician 238
A Wonderful Answer to Prayer 239
A Change of Physicians 241
Confirming Testimony 242

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Dear Saints: I am praising God for a free salvation that keeps me day by day, and I am standing in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made me free, and keeps me from all evil. I am praising God for the marvelous light he gives me in reading his blessed word. I do pray God to send some Holy Ghost preacher here; we need the truth preached here so much.

Your brother wholly sanctified,

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Dear Saints: Praise the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. By his blessing I have nearly recoverd from the rheumatism. This week, if God will, we start west; will reach Kenesaw, Neb. by Saturday, April 16. And after several days visit with the church there will fly on to Denver in the name of Jesus. The Lord willing, our dear Bro. E. E. Byrum will accompany us. Also Bro. James Willis is expected to join us at Kenesaw, and be with us at Denver. Bro. Wm. N. Smith and Co. also think of reinforcing us at Denver. We hope the way will be open for them to do so. Praise our God! We look for a glorious victory in Denver. Also pray God to bless the work at Kenesaw. Amen! Amen!

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Bro. Michael Stover, Jr. writes us from Meriden, Kan. that the Lord has called him into the vineyard to work; has been with Bro. Achor during several meetings after which visited the churches at Piqua, and Otter Springs, strengthening the brethren and held a few meetings at Bro. Gahman’s, four miles from Chanute, and had wonderful victory. One soul saved and one sanctified. From there went to Vinland where had meetings nine days, and had a glorious victory. One backslider was gloriously saved and sanctified. From there came to this place. Have been praying the Lord to open the way to go with some one as a helper. I am sinking deeper down proving all His holy will. Pray for me.

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On Tuesday, April 19, it is desired that as many saints and friends that live in reach of here, as possible can turn out with teams to take down and haul the buildings and lumber from the old camp ground to the new. A good many teams will be needed and many hands. Some will begin to work on Monday. As soon as this move is made a building will be erected for the accomodation of the workers on the ground and buildings. Let there be a general turnout, and the Lord will bless the willing-hearted. Any one led of the Lord to help provide for the camp meeting workers, it will be thankfully received, any thing in the line of household and provisions.

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GRAND JUNCTION CAMP MEETING.

The time of this glorious convocation of the saints of the Most High, unless hereafter changed, will be June 14th to the 22d, 1892. The dear Lord is sending more workers on the ground, and we trust by his blessing, nothing shall be wanting to thoroughly set the ground in order, and furnish all necessary buildings. A good pavillion 40 x 70 will be erected, filled with comfortable seats. Also boarding and sleeping buildings.

Any one wishing a board tent put up on the ground will please notify Bro. A. B. Palmer at Bangor, Mich. and it will be built as cheap as possible. If any wish to rent tents also let him know. A very large attendance is expected, and it seems to us that the fire of the living God in our soul assures us that it will be the most glorious place, and season of divine power, grace and glory ever witnessed in these last days. Come in the name of Jesus, in the love of God, and in the Spirit of earnest prayer, and so come expecting glorious things from the presence of the Lord. Amen.

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Bro. Ed Boicourt, Minden, Neb. writes us some big swelling words of vanity which he copied from Bishop P. S. Merrill respecting their coming, great general M. E. conference to be held in St. Louis in May. He says: “This body is the supreme and only law-maker of the church.” According to this confession Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost have no lot nor part in making the laws of Methodism.] Speaking of the character of the body he says: “Not all of the great men of the church will be present, nor all of the greatest, but the great thinkers, scholars, writers, debaters, and preachers will be there. It will not be confined to ministers, but to representatives, laymen, such as statesmen, bankers, lawyers, doctors, and so on.” On which our brother comments as follows: “For priest craft, human lordism. rationalism, infidelity and every other kind of ism that the Lord hates. I certainly think I have not found an equal to the above.” “We see here that the kind of men the bishop calls the greatest in the M. E. sect are the kind on which Christ pronounced the greatest woes. Lawyers, doctors, and rich men which includes bankers.

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Certain ones have written us asking and explanation of Rev, 13:12, and asking the question: “How does the second beast cause the earth and they that dwell therein to worship the first beast?”

Answer. First the two beasts brought to view in this chapter are understood by all who are in the light of present truth to represent Romanism and Protestantism. The second beast Protestantism exercises all the power of the first beast before him. It is a fact that Protestant sects have usurped power or authority over the conscience of men, and demanded loyalty to their systems and creeds just as Rome has demanded submission of all her subjects to the will of her ecclesiastical lords. Yea, this second beast has even put to death those that dared to dissent from its authority as Rome has done before her. But now to the question, “How did the second beast cause the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast.” There are plenty of facts that show how this has been done. Rome is the author of a great multitude of traditions, ecclesiastical laws, rites, ceremonies, and sacraments. These institutions having no place in the Bible. Rome freely acknowledges them as her own inventions. It is also a fact that a large percent of these religious inventions have passed down into Protestant creeds and there become laws the Protestants must obey. These rites and ceremonies enjoin acts of worshiped Rome being the author of them, they that do them necessarily thereby worship her. As certainly as he that truly obeys the commands of Jesus Christ thereby worships him; so truly he that obeys the rite of sprinkling and numerous other rites of Rome found in Protestant creeds, in so doing worships Rome. It would astonish any person to investigate and find out how much of the phraseology and general makeup of Protestant creeds have passed down from Rome, the mother of all the sects. This we think a clear explanation of the matter in question. Since then it cannot be denied that the second beast, Protestantism, does enforce many elements of the first beast. Romanism, upon their devotees, what can more clearly fulfill this prediction?

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God Answers Prayer.

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In answers to prayer, through faith in Jesus he healed me of a cancer, which the doctors could not do. The more medicine I took the worse I got. O bless God! he is my all and in all. I cannot praise him enough for his goodness to the children of men.

My little boy was thrown from a pony against a log wagon and was badly hurt. I felt led to pray for him and as I did so the answer came, “It is done.”

Praise God! he heals me now when I am sick, and his word says, “Ask what you will and it shall be done.” I want all the dear saints to pray that I may sink down deeper in the will of God and ever be humble and useful in God’s hands. Your sister in Christ, saved and sanctified by the second work of grace.

Pray for my unsaved family,

Jennie Moshier.

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Out of the False; into the True.

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Dear Saints: May God bless you with all peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. I feel impressed by the Spirit of God to make known to you the wondrous love of God to me. Oh ’tis wonderful! that God has taken me and my family into his ark in the eleventh hour of my life. Glory be to his name! I can say to day that I am saved and sanctified wholly, spirit soul and body, by a second work of grace. I am all on the altar for Jesus Christ.

I will say that I was born and raised in a very moral neighborhood, in a sect called the Schwenkfelder Society. But O how dark where there is no revival meeting, no prayer meeting, no family worship, and none of the Lord’s ordinances kept, and the teaching is that we have to be sinners all the days of this life, and repent daily to God for forgiveness of sins!

In 1860 I left them, and went to another sect, the so-called Evangelical Association. I repented of my sins to God, and was justified. I tried to live as near to God as I was able and had knowledge of his ways; but the old stump in my heart was trying its best to bring forth sprouts; so I had lots of fighting to do with my old nature, the old man. I have seen for the last ten years that that sect was on the downward road, and felt it in my soul that I was growing colder in love to God; for there was no holy fire in the church not did I hear any one talk of being sanctified, or that we must be holy to see God, and be perfect. But glory be to God! on 12th of last June the Spirit of God led me to a holiness camp meeting at Bangor, Mich. Glory be to his name! On the 13th the power of God came so heavy on me, there was no resistance any more for me, to fight against God’s Spirit. It took me all down on the altar just as I was; thanks be to his name! God gave me faith to take hold of his promise, and the old stump was taken out of my heart, and I was baptised with fire and the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah to God! His love came into my heart like a lightning flash and I was sanctified wholly. I came out of darkness into the true light. John 8:12. O how good it is to be in God and have God in us! 2 Cor. 6:16. Jesus leads his children by his hand and is around them like a wall of fire. Thanks be to God that he has taken me out of sectism! I am out of Babylon and Babylon is out of me; for God said, “Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” — Rev. 18:4. O how good it is to be free! A man that has never been outside of the prison of sin and sectism doesn’t know what a happy life it is to be free from all creeds, organizations and sects, free from sin and ungodliness. Glory to God! He gives us power to overcome all temptation of the world and the devil. God help us to watch and pray!

Dear readers, God’s church is not of this world; the true church is in Jesus Christ in heaven. Jesus is the rock of God’s church. “On this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” — Matt. 16:18. Thanks be to God for a rock that will stand when heaven and earth will pass away! All the holy ones will stand on this rock and be saved when the heavens are shaken and the earth shall tremble; and God’s wrath will come to make an end of this world. God’s church is a clean church; has no hypocrites, no lame ones, no backsliders, no filthy ones, such as tobacco eaters, beer drinkers, robbers, or those who curse, swear, get angry, spiteful, ect. All those who are not clean cannot be in God’s church; all must be perfect and washed in the blood of the Lamb. Jesus holds the class book; he takes the members into his church and puts them out, just to please him. God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34, 35. The Holy Spirit is the class leader in God’s church; he leads into all truth, John 16:13; yes, into deep things. 1 Cor. 2:10. To join God’s church is to repent of our sins and get salvation, and the moment this is done, we are in the church. By losing salvation and the Spirit of God we get out of God’s church. The members in God’s church are free and his grace is sufficient to keep them pure and holy unto the end. In God’s church are no false shepherds, no hirelings. Glory to God! He gives us rich food, heavenly manna in our souls to eat, and living water to drink, from the living fountain. O how willing the Father is to give manna to the soul when his children call on him in a faithful prayer! Our Father is rich; he has plenty in store for millons more to come. The bread that he gives is life. John 6:35. Glory to Jesus! he is living in us, and we are living in him. And the power is in him to keep us wholly sanctified, spotless and without blemish, to the end of this life, then take us as his bride home to dwell with him. And we shall reign forever and ever, Rev. 22:5.

Your brother, saved and sanctified,

J. K. Kriebel.

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD.

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Robinson, Kan.

To the Saints, Greeting: We desire to say that we are gloriously saved and kept by the power of God. The roads and weather have been very bad this spring in Northeastern Kansas, making it hard to hold meetings. Had a glorious ordinance meeting at Green Door, Brown Co., Kan. on the eve of the 3d of Apr. The Lord was with us in power; one backslider came back to God. The Lord wonderfully blessed us in the washing of the saints’ feet. Two were ordained by the laying on of hands: Bro. J. M. Marcum, for deacon; Bro. Charles Cotton, for elder. May the dear Lord bless and keep them faithful to Jesus in the performance of every duty. Amen. We are now at Kingston, Mo.

Wm. N. & S. J. Smith.

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Tampico, Ind., Mar. 29, 1892.

To the Redeemed, Greeting: Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, in truth and love. Amen.

We are saved through the blood, shouting Hallelujah, glory, honor and power unto the Lord our God! The night following the close of the Crothersville meeting we went about five miles and held one meeting in a school-house. Several received the truth, not to salvation, but as to being the way thereof, and gave us warm invitations to return, which we hope to do soon if the Lord wills. We then went to Daviess county and began a meeting at the home of Bro. N. B. Moore, Mar. 19, and continued until the 23d.

The children of God enjoyed the meeting and were edified; one claiming the healing power of God, and was restored to the joys of salvation. God help the other prodigals to loathe the husks and speedily return. Came home on the 24th and was rejoiced by meeting Brother David Moore of Mooresville, Ind., whom God is using to His glory. Meeting begun at this place the evening of our return and closed the evening of the 27th. The brethren have secured the use of the court room at Brownstown, Jackson Co., Ind. and are waiting for God to send someone to join in the work.

Your brother, and servant of God,

Charlie Orr.

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Matchwood, Mich., Mar. 20, 1892.

To the Saints of God: I want to say that our good Lord has gloriously led me here, in this wilderness, where Satan controls — sets aside law, order and Christian institutions. No Sunday, but opened wide every door for vice and shame. The lumbermen, need to be rescued from the charms of the serpent that leads to ruin. A fountain of tears, to soften the hearts, holy song to charm, and truth to make free, is needed to save these noble sons of toil. I have preached in about fifteen rising villages and twenty lumber-camps this winter; studied their condition and feel like crying, O dear saints, come and help rescue the perishing! These poor misguided lumbermen are like an ox led to the slaughter, a network of pest-houses is all around them. No loving companion to smooth down the pillow, no children to cheer, no good society, no law; blind passion ruins them. Walking into a village on Sunday, you are met with devils that have set every thing ablaze with the firebrands of hell, tumbling around like brainless creatures bleeding because of fights, or skull cracked by the brutal club of the keepers as they cleanout the house when they become dangerous. I have often returned discouraged and spent all night in prayer to know what to do. One morning God gave me encouragement and strength when in answer to special prayer he gave me to read, Isa. 41:10-20, and gave me as theme, Ruin if we obey not God. Reading Ps. 1; Jer. 36:19-27; Matt. 7:24-27; Rom. 2d and 3d chapters; 2 Cor. 5:1-11; Gal, 5:21. Beloved saints, read also these scriptures as a part of this letter and pray that God will send firebrands of truth here, and dear saints will come to the rescue. Pray for me that God can make an instrument to thrash the mountains.

Your saved brother,

J. Storrer.

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TESTIMONIES.

Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.
Psa. 119:129.

Anointed and Healed.

Dushville, Mich.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel that it would be to the glory of God to testify to the great healing power of God. On Tuesday I stepped on a nail and in an hour I could not move my foot. The nail went in at the instep and almost through it. The doctor thought that it would lave to be cut open and the bone scraped, but we went after Sister Smith, and she prayed, anointed it with oil and laid on hands; and in less than twenty minutes I stepped on my foot and went from the bedroom to the table, and Thursday afternoon I put on my shoe and walked to my father’s and back, — four miles. This morning finds me healed and saved, made every whit whole, praise the Lord!

Hoping that this will strengthen the weak ones’ faith, I remain, your sister in Christ,

V. Gauser.

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Murdock, Kan.

To all the Dear Saints: I praise the Lord for full salvation and his sanctifying power. I am fully trusting Jesus. I am praising the Lord for his healing power; he has cured me of my cough which I have been troubled with for over twentv-five years. I have used a great deal of medicine in my life, but none can cure so quick as our Great Physician. Praise his name!

Elizabeth Christ.

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St. James, Mo.

I am praising God and in my soul I feel that I am above sin and darkness, and the sun of righteousness shines in me and makes me brighter and whiter than the snow. I have been having a good time teaching singing this winter, praise the Lord!

Your brother, sanctified,

C. C. Kennedy.

Big Bend. Pa.

Dear Saints: God bless you all. I am still saved and trusting in God to keep me free from all sin, pure and holy here in this present life. I praise him for what he has done for me. He gives me his Holy Spirit to lead me in all truth.

Your brother, walking in the light of God,

Henry Latshaw.

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Johnstown, Pa.

Dear Brethren: I do praise Jesus this morning for full and complete victory over all the power of the enemy and for full salvation from all sin. I am saved and sanctified wholly to God: The grace of God sustains me in all trials, praise the Lord! Your humble brother washed in the blood of the Lamb,

A. A. Roland.

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Lake Springs, Mo.

Dear Saints: I was happy in my soul to receive the Trumpet and read the testimonies of the saved ones. Bless God that I am numbered with his people! My love extends with fellowship to all of God’s children. I was converted while on my bed and having a broken leg. I gave myself to God and my heart was filled with unspeakable love. I want all of God’s people to pray for me.

T. J. Huffman.

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Millville, Miss.

Dear Saints: The Lord sweetly saves me this morning and sanctifies me wholly. I thank him that I can say I am a child of God. It is a great consolation to read the testimonies of the saints. May God bless them all and keep them steadfast. The Lord was so kind to save a poor sinner like me. Pray for me.

Your sister in Christ,

El Norah Johnson.

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La Paz, Ind.

Dear Saints of the Most High: I do feel to praise my blessed Redeemer for a full and free salvation. I know I am all the Lord’s and he is mine, a very precious help in every time of need. He is my physician, my all and in all. I am all on the altar which sanctifies, and am willing to follow where my Guide leads. Free from Babylon; out on the sea of glass that’s mingled with fire, singing the everlasting songs of praise with a golden harp of God. Amen.

Phebe Kimble.

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Mountain Grove, Mo.

Dear Saints: I feel led of the Lord to write my testimony. I am praising God for a full and free salvation that saves me from all sin. I am so glad that I ever found this perfect way that leads to endless joys. We have many trials and temptations, but the Lord is able to keep us if we but trust him. Oh how sweet it is to trust him, just to take him at his word! I praise the Lord for what he has done for me. I ask the dear saints to pray for me.

Your sister saved,

Eva Gale.

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Buckley, Washington.

Dear Brethren in Christ: God bless you in your work and labor of love. I love the truth, and it makes me free. God has dominion over my entire being. I feel-wonderfully blessed. This is a wonderful salvation. Mortal man cannot find language to express the great peace and joy there is in pure religion. The Lord sanctifies me wholly. To him be glory, dominion, and power forever and ever. Amen. Your brother saved.

Peter Huddle.

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Floyds Knobs, Ind.

Dear Brethren in Christ: May the grace of God ever abide with you all. Amen. We are praising God for salvation full and free. He has built us upon a rock. The rains are decending, the floods coming, the winds blowing and beating upon our house, but glory to God, it stands!

We ask the prayers of all the dear saints that we he kept humble, that our lives in this community will be such as will show the reality of the salvation of Jesus. We have much opposition. The world is against us, but God is for us; he has not left us comfortless. Praise his name!

Your brother saved and sanctified,

W. B. Schreiber.

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Decatur, Mich.

Dear Trumpet Readers: As you have not heard from me for some time, I’ll let you hear how well the Lord does lead me. I’m lost in wonder, love and praise for His keeping power. Without doubt I would have had the La Grippe as well as the rest of the people about here, but as I had faith in God for the body as well as the soul, every night I would ask him to keep me well soul and body. Therefore I’m not surprised to wake up next morning and find myself well. It is just like him to hear and answer prayer. No more hard times with my old master, the devil, since last June I have been free from his power. I am so glad to get the Trumpet every week; also that I was led to follow the pillar of fire, as it led. me among the dear saints. It was the great God that led me and kept me all the way.

Pray for me.

Mary F. McCormick.

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Thayer, Kan.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel led of the Spirit to testify to the goodness of God and of his precious salvation, that saves to the uttermost. I was converted when about eighteen years old while in the U. B. sect. Two years ago this coming May the Lord saw fit to bring me down very low on the bed of sickness, and I do know that the Lord sanctified my nature. It has been a little over a year since I heard the evening light preached. It does me so much good; for the Spirit tells me this is the right way. I can say that I am free from sectism. I am thanking the Lord for the light he is shedding, and that he has shown me that I can live without sin.

Your sister in Chrst,

Sarah Huff.

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OBITUARIES.

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Died, at Hamilton, Mich., March 24, 1892, Bro. Thomas Moon; aged 51 years, 8 mo., and 18 days. He leaves a wife and children and many other friends to mourn his loss. May God bless them in this hour of bereavement, and bring them all to the knowledge of the truth, is our prayers.

Services by

Wm. E. Warren.

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Clam Lake, Mich.

Died, George Henry, infant son of H. D. and E. M. Winters; born Jan. 16, 1892, died March 4; aged 6 weeks and 6 days. May God comfort the mourning ones and may they prepare to meet the little one in glory.

Funeral services by

Leroy Sheldon.

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Willie Jessup, son of Stephen and Sister Elizabeth Jessup, died March 29, 1892; aged 16 yrs., 7 mo., and five days. Willie leaves a father, mother, three brothers and three sisters to mourn his loss. He was a very intelligent boy and well respected in his school. May God bless the bereaved family. Funeral services at Praise Chapel, March 31, by your unworthy servant,

H. C. Wickersham.

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Bro. August Rachow departed this life near Piqua, Kan., April 2, 1892. He was sanctified in the meeting that Bro. Achor held this winter. He kept saved and always had a glowing testimony at meeting. On Saturday night he took very sick and said the Lord showed him he must die. His wife and son are sweetly saved.

Pray for them that they may be true to God,

Sallie Rogers.

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

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What is in the Tea-pot?

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UPON a close investigation of the matter it will be found that the tea-pot when there is tea in it contains a substance that is very poisonous to the system.

Some time ago a brother wrote: “I will be one of fifty who will quit the use of tea and coffee and give the money saved thereby to help publish the gospel.” This was a wise conclusion. It would be wise if all tea and coffee topers would go and do likewise.

Another writes: “I like the most of the testimonies in the Trumpet, but think it would be better if you would put none in against tea and coffee.” So it goes; tobacco users, beer drinkers, etc. do not like to have anything said against their idols. Our advice to such would be, Get out from under the lash, and it will not hurt you. If you are a slave to the appetite, call upon the Lord and he will remove it, if you do your part.

The drinking of tea was first practiced among the Chinese at a very early date and was used for its effects on the nerves, causing sleeplessness. The active principle of tea is known as tannin, an effective astringent producing costiveness. We will now proceed to give you several extracts from Alcott’s work showing the physical, mental and moral effects of tea and coffee: —

That every variety of tea sold in our American market, if good for anything, is, in a greater or less degree, exciting or exhilarating, is believe, generally known.

Of the nature and extent of the excitement produced by tea, however, most persons appear to be ignorant. They are, in all probability, little aware that it pervades, by its influence, the whole vital domain; and so far as it excites or exhilarates at all, does it by affecting the brain and nervous system, the stomach, heart, liver, &c., in nearly the same way with distilled and fermented liquors, opium and tobacco. They rarely suspect that they are admitting to their embrace, in the guise of a friend, a most insidious and dangerous enemy — one who is silently, though slowly, undermining and destoying the very citadel of life itself. That such is the fact, however, I shall be compelled, by a stern regard for truth, to prove.

Tea does not appear to have been known, in Europe or America, till about two hundred years ago.

The tea plant, of which there are two varities — the VIRIDIS or green, and the BOHEA or black tea — is a native of China and Japan.

I have said that tea did not find its way into Europe till about two hundred years ago. The East India Company appear to have imported it, in 1664. They brought two pounds and two ounces of it, as a present to the British king. From that time to the present, its use has been increasing — sometimes more, sometimes less rapidly. The present yearly consumption of the article in Great Britian is variously estimated, but can hardly be less than 50,000,000 pounds.

Perhaps no country of Europe or America makes so much use of tea as the United States; its use, moreover, is rapidly increasing. In 1821, the amount imported was a little short of 5,000,000 pounds. In 1836 — fifteen years afterward — it was 16,382,114.

TEA A POSITIVE POISON.

One evidence that tea is poisonous, is found in the fact that, like alcohol, stramonium, belladona, and many other medicines, it produces its specific disease — the TEA DISEASE. This part of our subject will be best illustrated by the experiments and deductions of Mr. John Cole, a distinguished member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

Mr Cole does not, indeed, attempt to show that every tea drinker has the tea disease: a point as difficult to establish as that every one who uses alcoholic drinks of any kind has the drunkard’s disease. All who use tea, however, are on the high road to the tea disease, just as every dram drinker, and in truth every wine, cider and jeer drinker, is on the road to DELIRIUM TREMENS.

The following is his description of the progress of the disease, in those whose systems were already prepared to be injuriously affected by it:

“In a longer or a shorter time after taking the beverage (from a few minutes to two or three hours), an uncomfortable feeling arises in the stomach — a craving, sinking emptiness — which soon acquires a degree of intensity that is almost insupportable. The hunger-like gnawing and craving are described as being to the last degree painful to endure. The stomach being full, has no affect in preventing its accession; neither does eating relieve it. This is often all that is felt for a long time; but by degrees a fluttering, as of a bird, in the left side, is superadded; and a feeling of fullness pervades the chest with breathless and frequent sighing. The fullness is more especially felt about the clavicles (or collar bones), and the root of the neck.

When black tea or coffee has been taken, considerable excitement often ushers in this sucession of phenomena: the face becomes flushed, the eyes sparkle with unusal brilliance; all the earlier effects of intoxication from alcohol are observable — the pulse being full and throbbing, and considerably quickened. If green tea have been taken, the previous excitement is less, or perhaps not at all perceptible; the skin soon becomes pale, the eyes become sunken, the pulse feeble, quick and fluttering, or slow and weak.

Whichever may have been taken, in the progress of the affection, the hands and feet often become cold as marble, and bedewed with a clammy sweat. Efforts to warm them are made in vain even in the hottest weather; a feeling of coldness and numbness also invades the back part of the head.

This is the milder form of the disease (if I may so term it), the one which is most commonly seen; but occasionally a variety of aggravated symptoms arises. To the coldness and benumbed feeling of the back of the head, there is added fornication of the scalp (a sensation as if ants were creeping in it), violent pain in the head, dimness of the sight, unsteadiness in walking, and vertigo; and these are accompanied by a fluttering, feeble pulse. To the feeling of fullness of the chest and about the clavicles, are added threatenings of suffocation, insensibility, and convulsions. The sufferings felt in the stomach are aggravated to voilent spasms. The fluttering at the heart becomes pain, violent palpitation, or enfeebled action, bringing on a syncope. I may add, here, that the mind does not escape injury, but partakes of the disorders of the body, as is seen by the temper becoming peevish and irritable, so as to render the sufferer a torment to all about him.

Who does not see, in a substance that can induce all these mischiefs on the living system, a less severe though certain poison? Is there a possibility of mistake? But Mr. Cole brings forward a list of ten eases of disease from tea drinking, of which the following is an abstract:

His third case was that of a female, thirty years of age, who had long been in the use of very strong green tea, in large quantity. For a year before Mr. C. was called, she had been subject to violent spasms of the stomach, which had at length become so frequent and severe that the slightest exertion, even a little walking was sufficient to bring them on. When Mr. C. arrived, she was suffering from spasms of unusual violence. She had likewise the other usual symptoms of tea disease. On inquiry, he was fully satisfied that all the trouble, in this case, was the effect of tea. She was directed to abstain from it; and for several weeks had no return of the spasms, nor any other symptom of disease. But one day, on venturing upon a single cup of her favorite beverage, she had a slight attack of her old complaint. She resumed her abstinence, and remained well.

Case sixth was that of an author and parliamentary reporter, of middle age. He was a green-tea drinker — sometimes using it strong, as his common drink, for five or six hours together, to keep up his mental strength. He had become so enslaved, that two or three times a week, he was found lying in a state of insensibility on the floor.

A middle-aged mother was the seventh. She had been subject for some time to occasional fits of insensibility, which occurred in the evening. She load used black tea twice a day, which Mr. C. suspecting to be the cause of mischief, forbade her, and she quickly recovered, — I should have said that she had taken the strongest medicine without success.

Mr. C. concludes his remarks by observing — “I could extend the number of cases so as to form a body of evidence which it would be difficult to resist. Those I have brought forward are, I think, sufficient to excite considerable doubt as to the harmless qualities of tea.”

Dr. Beddoes, of England, by a series of experiments, several times repeated, completely demonstrated that tea is as powerfully destructive to life as laurel water, opium, or digitalis. Indeed, it is entirely certain that a small quantity of a strong decoction of tea or coffee will destroy human life, in one unaccustomed to the use of it, as quickly as an equal quantity of laudanum.

Dr. Cullen, a Scotch physician of great eminenec says: “From the observations which I have made in the course of fifty years, upon all sorts of persons. I am convinced that the properties of tea are both narcotic and sedative.”

But what does Dr. Cullen mean by narcotics. His definition is — “As their powder and operation (that of narcotics generally) may be extended so far as to extinguish the vital principle altogether, they form that set of substances which properly and strictly may be called poisonous.”

Dr.Combe, in his work on Digestion and Dietetics, observes, that “when made very strong, or taken in large quantity, especially late in the evening, they (tea and coffee) not only ruin the stomach, but very seriously derange the health of the brain and nervous system.”

“Not a case of sick headache,” says Dr. Burdell, of New York, “has ever occurred within my knowledge, except with the drinkers of narcotic drinks, (meaning tea and coffee) and not a case has failed of cure, on the entire renunciation of these drinks.”

Tea injures the teeth, indirectly, and induces premature decay.

Dyspepsia, nervous or sick headache, heart disease, palsy, and sometimes epilepsy — in truth, every form of nervousness and nervous disease which can be named, may be, at times, the legitimate and certain fruit of tea drinking.

If tea affects the brain and nerves, and produces not only that state of things which is every where known and called by the general term “nervousness,” but also the severer forms of nervous disease; if, moreover, it affects those avenues to knowledge, the senses, it is manifest it must affect all those powers and faculties of the mind whose results we call intellect.

There is no doubt that the mind of every person is made more dull, in the end, by its use.

A more important step is, to show that the tendency of tea drinking to intemperance, is immoral. Whatever takes away from us the power of self-government and leaves us the slaves of others or of our own propensities, is of this description, and is therefore wrong.

Some may startle at the intimation that tea drinking leads to intemperance. But such persons should know that whatever keeps up or encourages a morbid or unnatural thirst in the community, exposes to the danger of gratifying that thirst with extra stimulants. I Indeed, tea is itself an extra stimulus and is drank for the sake of the stimulus, whatever some may think to the contrary.

That tea drinking subjects us, in no trifling degree, to the dominion of the animal appetites, will, I think, hardly be doubted. He who is dependent for strength of body or mind, to any thing whatever which is a mere excitant of the nervous system, has his spiritual nature in a degree somewhat in proportion, enslaved to the animal propensities.

It will hardly be necessary to give an article on coffee at present; it is sufficient to say here that nearly all authorities agree that coffee produces the same or nearly the same effects. The active principle of coffee is known as caffeine, and with theine (the principle of tea) belongs to the family of narcotics, that includes nicotine, the active principle of tobacco. The same work proceeds to prove that coffee produces the same diseases ascribed to tea. Any of our readers who wish to investigate this matter further will do well to send twenty- five cents to S. R. Wells & Co.. New York, for The Physical, Mental and Moral Effects of Tea and Coffee. This is a book that should be placed in the hand of every one and especially the young. Remember that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

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Little Things.

THE apostle Paul in 2 Cor. 6th chapter says, “We then as workers together with him [God] beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.” When we think of the important time in which we live, and how the enemy of all good is using every plan that he can devise to lead astray those who are clean escaped from error and enjoy the high attitude of Christian perfection, it is indeed alarming. Oh, how necessary it is to heed the Savior’s command, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch!” Were it not for the devil’s transformation, he would accomplish very little among the elect of God. But with the garb of light he leads captive those who are not continually on their guard.

Dearly beloved, it is not enough to be sanctified wholly and out in the clear light of God’s word, although this position brings us into very high favor with God. But to secure our salvation it requires a holy and strictly devoted life on our part. Here is where Satan uses his cunning devices, and if he cannot get us to yield to great temptations he is very well satisfied if we yield in LITTLE THINGS. It is the little sins that must be watched — those that appear the most harmless. Remember, dear ones, it was only eating a forbidden apple that shrouded the whole human family in sin and death: and of earth’s millions there are comparatively few who will stand acquitted at the judgment seat of Christ. For all the great sacrifice made for sin, there will only a remnant be saved. Oh the awful effects of sin upon the heart, however simple it may appear! If we have been cleansed by the blood of Christ, let us walk circumspectly, or our white robes will soon trail in the dust and mire of sin, and we become polluted with worldliness, and begin to lust after those things which are not convenient; for when lust conceives it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished brings forth death. James 1:14, 15. Sin never lies dormant although its dire effect may for awhile be invisible, but like a canker it will break out even until the third or forth generation.

Dear brother, sister, look well to your lives. Let us not indulge or practice any thing that any may take occasion to imitate, and thus be led astray. Let no Babylonish garment or gold wedge be hid in our tent. Though it is but a little thing, yet God’s people cannot have the victory and favor unrighteousness. And thus it seems to be the devil’s plan in these last days to try God’s people on little things. It may be only a little conformity to the world in dress, or in serving tables, or in wearing a costly garment — an example that some of the poorer class would be justly grieved at, and God’s money spent in a wrong way; or it may be joking or jesting to amuse company. “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. —” 1 Pet. 1:15. We are in the last of the last times, and the word teaches us that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works therein shall be burned up. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy coversation and godliness? 2 Pet. 3:11.

“We call him strong who stands unmoved —
Calm an some tempest-beaten rock —
When some great trouble hurls its shock;
We say of him, His strength is proved;
But when the s vent storm fobis its wings,
How hears he then life’s little things?

We call him great who does some deed
That echo hears from shore to shore —
Does that, and then does nothing more;
Yet would his work earn richer meed,
When brought before the King of kings,
Were he but great in little things?

We closely guard our castle gates
When great temptations loudly knock;
Draw every bolt, clinch every lock,
And sternly fold our ba..s and gates;
Yet some small door wide open swings
At the sly touch of little things.

But what is life? Drops make the sea;
And petty cares and small events,
Small causes and small consequents,
Make up the sum for you and me;
Then, oh, for strength to meet the stings,
That arm the points of little things!”

Your sister in Christ.

Nancy Byers.

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Robinson. Kan.

Dear Saints: May the richest blessings of God’s love rest upon each one of you. The Lord has often led me to write my testimony for Jesus to the GOSPEL TRUMPET, and by the grace of God I want to do just as he leads me. I will tell some of my experience. The seed for good was sown in my heart when a child, and it was then I began to trust the God of the universe. At the age of fifteen I was converted, but I did not hear the call to go on to perfection. And I found there was still a foe in the temple not subject to God. In a little less than a year from that time I heard holiness preached. I was convicted that there was more for me. So I went to the altar and gave up all to God; made a complete consecration, and the altar (Christ) sanctified the gift. But I am sorry to say I did not remain so long, for I was the only one in the neighborhood that was sanctified, and I did not have the light on God’s word that I have now. I belonged to the U. B. sect and the members strongly spoke against holiness. I kept on trying to serve God. I know sometimes I was justified, and sometimes was not. But I thank God for the blessings he did give me for five and a half years. I realized many a time that there was a famine in the land: not a hungering for bread, or thirsting for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. But praise God! he has chosen me from the beginning to salvation through sanctification. Last spring I heard the word of God preached in its purity. I am glad to say I was willing to measure up to the Bible standard, though I found myself far from being straight. It took me about a month to give everything up to God, and get the real experience of sanctification in my soul. Praise the Lord! I got it by faith, but I wanted to keep it by feeling, and I fell again. But God has been very merciful to me, and I have learned to live by faith and not feeling. This evening I can say I am not of the world; am dead to the pleasures and vanities of the world, out of Babylon, justified, freely and sanctified wholly. Glory be to Jesus! Dear saints, pray that God may keep me meek and humble, right where he can use me to his glory. Amen.

Your sister saved and sanctified,

Mary H. Mechau.

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