23 November 1893, Volume 13, Number 46.

IN MEMORY OF G. W. LANNING.

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Go lay him away, oh how sweetly he’s sleeping,
Fold ye the hands on the cold lifeless breast;
Chide not the friends who around him stand weeping,
But lovingly, tenderly, lay him to rest.

Long has he suffered, and patiently waited,
To hear from the Master the summons “come home;”
But now he has gone to be with the Savior,
The sweet fields of Paradise ever to roam.

Bear him away from earth’s sorrows and heart-aches,
Common to mortals sojourning below;
“Open the gates of that beautiful city,
Let him come in, all thy beauties to know.

Strong was his faith in the promises of Jesus,
Trusting in him when near to death’s door;
Willing to follow wherever he leadeth,
Gone now to be with him forever more.

Tho’ we’ll miss him at morning and evening
There’ll be a vacancy nothing can fill;
We’ll not think of the poor sleeping body,
But we’ll think of George as living still.

Farewell to one who in life we loved dearly,
But who on earth we’ll meet never more;
Tho’ by the help of the blessed Redeemer,
We hope to meet on that beautiful shore.

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WISDOM.

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SCRIPTURALLY considered, wisdom is an attribute of God, and belongs to him alone. It is imparted to humanity only as the will is yielded to God, which enables man to receive of the things of God. After receiving the experience of full salvation, wisdom is one of the most desirable graces, and in fact might be termed the crowning grace. It is indispensable to real usefulness in the Christian life. It begins with the very beginning of godliness and must he developed with the increase of God. Without it, man is but a mortal worm and is an easy victim to all the adverse powers around him. With it he is able to bring to nought every principality and power.

How plainly this was manifested in God’s people in Bible times. They keenly felt its need and humbly sought for and obtained it, by which they became illustrious for God and glorified him among the nations. By this wisdom they were enabled to rise high above all kings and monarchs of earth. As this was necessary for them then, it is equally as necessary for us now. This is evident every where. In these days of peril, when the resources of hell are being exhausted to deceive the world, and the line of battle is drawn up against the saints of the Most High, there is nothing more needful than this heavenly wisdom. It alone can out-general the enemy and secure safety to the soldiers of the cross. Without it, defeat would be certain. With it, victory is heard all along the line and the enemy completely conquered.

WHAT IS WISDOM?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. — Prov. 9:10. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments. — Eccl. 12:13. As long as man remains foolish enough to follow the devices of Satan and believe his deceptions, he will not feel the fear of God that he otherwise would. As soon as he stops his wild career long enough to recieve the convictions of the Spirit of God, he begins to realize that he is unprepared to meet God and fears to face the consequences of a violated law. Every sinner must fear God before he can love him. The Spirit of God warns him of his danger. His danger is the judgment and its awful consequences. He fears God who will do justice in his condemnation, therefore the poor penitent soul forsakes his sins, and falls quietly before the throne of mercy begging forgiveness from him whose law has been broken. As long as Satan can succeed in keeping the mind of the sinner filled with the vanities of the world he does not seriously think of the judgment, therefore he does not fear God, but foolishly sleeps in his dangerous condition. Giving heed to the convictions of the Spirit, he begins the life of wisdom and forsakes his sins. This is the beginning of wisdom.

ITS SOURCE.

Man in his vain efforts has never found it by worldly research. To God alone must we turn to find this priceless jewel, and happy is he who becomes a fool in his own sight and begins at the cross to receive wisdom. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen. The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. But where shall wisdom be found? Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me, and the sea saith, It is not in me. Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and knoweth the place thereof. — Job. 28:7, 8, 13, 14, 20-23. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his! He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.

J. W. Byers.

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“NO-SECTISM.”

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(Continued from last issue.)

IS THE INSPIRED WORD SUFFICIENT TO GOVERN GOD’S PEOPLE?

The head of Rome and the tails of Protestantism say no. But “the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.” Isa. 9:15. Thus they say, “Reason informs us that there are some things necessary in the government of the church, as well as other things, that are not laid down in the Bible.” Hear the argument in defence of the above assertion. “Must I be deprived of using the hoe to cut the weeds out of my corn, simply because the Bible does not inform me so to do?” This is disgusting sophistry. What has cutting weeds out of your corn to do with the government of the church? The object of the Bible is not to tell you how to get the weeds out of your corn-field, but how to get the obnoxious weeds of sin and sectism out of your hearts, which is far more important. But does the F. M. creed give its subjects license to use a hoe in their corn-fields. We think not. So it does not help the matter. But hear again the argument:

“But just how to go about putting a brother [a member] away from among them without some rule or regulation as to what constitutes a brother, is more than I can tell. Says one, the Bible is our rule. But since every one has a perfect right to construe the Bible as he understands it,” etc., “I say how can you put away these Mormons, these drunkards, the covetous, without some rules and regulations besides the Bible, seeing all have the privilege of putting such construction upon the Bible as to uphold them in their ungodly deeds?”

O may God pity the poor priests of Babylon that grope in such ignorance, confusion and mists of darkness. Surely “the sun has gone down over the priests.” “They are all ignorant;” “They are all blind;” “They are shepherds that cannot understand.” Isa. 56. We can see no reason why F. M. preachers should give all such ungodly characters license to construe the Bible so as to uphold them in their ungodly deeds, unless it is because they wish the same license themselves. If a man wishes license to teach that it is all right to have schisms and divisions in the body of Christ, and sects, “cut off” from the body of Christ, notwithstanding the word of God forbids such destructive heresies, it would, indeed, be very difficult for him to condemn men who are guilty of other sins equally prohibited in the Bible, “For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.” Christ said to the old Pharisees, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.” But all being convicted of sin in their own hearts went out. And these modern Pharisees confess they also have no authority from the Bible to condemn Mormons, covetous idolaters, nor even drunkards. “Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?” To rebuke men’s sins by the Bible, men must accept and obey the Bible themselves. But the book of God forbids the sin of schisms, sects, as strongly as it does any other sins on earth; therefore to put away men for the sin of adultery, drunkenness, or covetousness, these F. M. preachers feel the need of “some rules and regulation; besides the Bible.” A creed that will pass by their own sins, and yet condemn the sins of others. And such is the creed they have made.

But let us examine the above unholy plea against the Bible, and for their creed. Having only the Bible, we would be without “some rule or regulation as to what constitutes a brother.” So the Father of all the children of God, and Divine Author of the Bible, has given us, in his word, no rule by which we can determine who is a brother in his holy family; no tests of sonship in Christ. May God forgive this sectish thrust at the wisdom of heaven. A moment’s reflection would have caused the writer to know he penned a positive falsehood. The inspired discipline of the church of God gives us infallible marks of membership. For instance, “He that is born of God doth not commit sin.” “He that sinneth is of the devil.” “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.” 1 John 3:8-10. “And every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” 1 Jno. 4:7. “And this is love that-we walk after his commandments.” 2 Jno. 6. “ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, — not some of them but all — he it is that loveth me.” “Yea if a man love me he will keep my sayings.” “He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings.” Jno. 14:21, 23, 24. “ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” John 13:35. “ Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.” 2 Jno. 9. And “by their fruits ye shall know them.”

So the Bible not only gives us the necessary rules and regulations by which we may positively know who is a brother in the household of faith, but it also points out who are not members. And these tests are so plain and unmistakable that all men may know who are of God and who are not. As Paul also testifies, that we are “manifestly declared to be the epistles of Christ; known and read of all men.” 2 Cor. 3:2, 3. So the blessed Bible leaves no occasion for any other rule or regulations as to who is a brother in Christ. And we affirm in the presence of the Judge of all, that no other rule, creed, law, or regulation on earth has any authority to measure the children of God. But since the Bible does not point out what constitutes a brother to Mr. B. T. Roberts, from whose pen Mr. Sims makes the above assertion, it must be that they allude to a Free Methodist brother. This is all true. The holy Book that emanated from heaven, does not give rules and regulations for institutions that are of earthly origin. Therefore it is wholly unsuited for the discipline of any sect, and the founders of these “cut-offs,” have been forced to assume the headship of their own bodies, and furnish them with laws.

But ere passing this point we must rebuke the positive falsehood that the Bible furnishes us no rule or regulation to put away Mormons — adulterers — drunkards, and covetous men. The New Testament mentions these very sins and informs us plainly that they which do such things have no inheritance in the kingdom of God; so all we need do is to “lay judgement to the line” of the Word, and they are left on the outside. It is also false that, “every body has a right to construe the Bible as they understand it.” Much less, the privilege of “putting such constructions upon the Bible as to uphold them in their ungodly deeds.” What a doctrine of devils is here laid down! What, a standard for sect professing holiness! But by these words they show clearly that they have no authority from God to preach the Word. In their own utter perversion of the word of God, they find it necessary to give base and ungodly men the same chance to cover their deeds. Surely all “heretics are subverted and sinneth.”

If it be true, as this tract asserts, that there are some things necessary for the government of the church, that are not in the Bible, then the apostle Paul was badly mistaken when he said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Tim. 3:16, 17.

Instead of “instruction in righteousness,” the Emphatic Diaglott, Dean Alford, and Rotherham translations all render, “discipline in righteousness.” So the word of God is a perfect and inspired discipline, and there is no other needed; because by means of it, the “man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” If then it is all sufficient for a man of God to live by, and yet is not so for Free Methodists, and other sectarians, it must be that they lack somewhat being men of God. And so, it comes to pass, that in trying to detract from the Bible, they overthrow themselves.

IS THE CHURCH OF GOD A VISIBLE ORGANIZATION?

“But these people do not believe in a visible, organized church.”

So says the tract. This is another misrepresentation. The church that Jesus purchased with his own blood, he also “built.” Matt. 16:18. That is, organized. “From whom [Christ] the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted,’’etc. Eph. 4:16. “In whom [Christ] all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.” Eph. 2:21. “He who hath builded the house, — organized the church — hath more honor than the house.” “He that buildeth all things is God.” Heb. 3:3, 4, “But God hath tempered the body together.” 1 Cor. 12:24. “And God hath set some in the church, first, apostles,” etc. 1 Cor. 12:28. To furnish with organs, build, compact, fitly frame together, and to temper the body together, cover all that is included in the word organize, and, “All these worketh that one and the self same Spirit” 1 Cor. 12:11. Yea, “It is the same God which worketh all in all.’ 1 Cor. 12:6.

These scriptures show that the church of God is a perfect and glorious organization, and that God, through the Spirit, is the Organizer. And all that the Word teaches respecting the ordination of elders — or bishops — and deacons, is proper and right; but their ordination is all consistent with the positive statements, that God himself, works all things in the building, and organizing of his own church.

And that glorious temple, built by the invisible God, is a visible church. “The light of the world, a city that is set upon a hill cannot be hid.” Matt. 5:14.

“The protection of the rights of individual Christians demands that there be a visible organization, and hence sects.” These words contain two deceptive falsehoods from the father of lies. Namely: first, that the organization of sects is essential to the visibility of God’s church. Second, that the church cannot be an organized body without sects. “A sect is a portion cut off, or separated from a body of which it forms a part.” Is there any sense, logic, or divine truth in the teaching that an invisible body is made visible by cutting a portion from it? None of the present sects came into existence till that of Rome, about A. D. 270. Was God’s church an invisible thing on earth until nearly three hundred years had passed? “A sect of Christians,” says Roberts, “is a part of the entire Christian body separated from the rest.” In the name of Jesus we ask, has the body of Christ become more visible by having about 666 parts separated from it? The very pit of hell is the source of such abominable teaching. The formation of all the sects has had exactly the opposite effect. Their great heaps of wood, hay and stubble, and every abominable rubbish, have, in past centuries, well nigh hid the true church from sight. As the historian De Aubigne says, “Originally, whoever possessed the Spirit of Christ was a member of the church.” “But different causes soon concurred to originate the idea of the necessity of external union: * * * a political and earthly form or association.”

This is the same blindness that still prevails in sectism, and is manifest in their confused clamor for sect organization.

And what led to that supposed necessity for earthly organization, or association? Here the historian hits the very cause, when he says, “Ignorant of the spiritual character of the church, and feeling the want of certain external pomp in religion, they prostrated themselves, half savage and half heathen as they were, at the feet of the high priests at Rome.”

Ignorance of the spiritual character of the church, and that earthly idea of the kingdom of heaven, is what led the Jews to reject Christ’s spiritual church; it also led the great mass of Christians in the third century to sacrifice freedom of conscience in Christ, and nearly every element of true Christianity into the hands of carnal and vicious bishops: it gave birth to the blasphemous idea of Christ yet setting up a literal kingdom. And the same fruitful source of all creeds, religious intolerance, strife, confusion and abomination, gave birth, not only to the first sect, the mother of all the modern isms, but to those Protestant daughters of the old harlot. The sin of sectism has bred all the sin in sectism. All the hypocrisy, pride, bigotry, jealousy, ungodly amusements, and carnal festivities carried on in sects, are the fruit of zeal for the sect, a corrupting infusion from the sect. All this mass of rottenness we lay to the charge of man’s organization, the very works of the devil which the F. M. bigots yet have the affrontiveness to plead for, as necessary to the visibility of God’s church. Their baneful fruits are always the same. Let us return to the pages of history again and trace the effect of the first formation of Christianity into an “earthly association,” by human organization. The historian continues as follows: “A great separation took place ere long. The form and the life became disunited. An external organization was gradually substituted for that interior and spiritual communion, which is the essence of the religion of God.” “The living church retired gradually within che lonely sanctuary of a few solitary hearts, an external church was gradually substituted in its place.” De Aubigne’s History of the Reformation, pages 9, 11.

From the time men began to make creeds and organize, two churches appear in the pages of history. One is the “true church,” the other the false substitute. The former possess the life of Christ in the hearts, the other was but a routine of “form,” a lifeless heap or outward machinery. “The true church retired” almost from view, because of the outspread pomp of the false. In other words, the real church of God was rendered almost invisible through the great babel of sects. These are facts of history that no honest intelligent man can deny. Therefore, men’s sects do not make visible God’s church. But to the contrary, they obstruct her life, and obscure her glory. Hence the fact that, until the evening light revealed the true church, as she shone out in the morning of the dispensation, everybody looked upon the man-built substitutes as the church; and the body of Christ, which only is the church, was scarcely discerned at all.

But if the sects do not make the church visible, what do they make visible? Answer, carnality, and the works of the devil. This we shall prove by the Word, and by the Babylon tract itself. In Gal. 5:19, 20 we are told, “the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;” among other things, “heresies,” are the manifestation of this evil. And the word is rendered “sects” in the Emphatic Diaglott. Paul also charges the Corinthians with being carnal, 1 Cor. 3:3, and proves it by their schisms, and sectish spirit.

Now let us turn to the tract and we read that “Most divisions originate in a corrupt heart, and some from error of judgement.” Then divisions, cut-offs or sects, make the corruption in men’s hearts, and the error in men’s judgment visible instead of the church. What utter blindness and confusion to suppose that God’s church is dependent upon the corruption in men’s hearts, and error in their heads, to bring it forth into visibility, and practical operation. But this is the conclusion justly drawn from the teaching of these F. M. preachers.

(To be Continued.)

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Kenesaw, Neb.

Dear Saints of God: May grace be multiplied unto you all. I do rejoice with the joy of our Lord, that I can testify to the saving and keeping power of our Lord and Savior. Praise the Lord ferever! I have been made to notice more than ever before, God’s commands to those who stay at home, in regard to those who have sacrificed the comforts of home life, that they might break the bread of eternal life to a dying world, and gather together God’s elect from the darkness of sectism. Now if we say “Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled,” and do not minister unto those things needful to the body, what will it profit us or them? We must put works with our prayers. What a mighty onward move there will be in the battle of the Lord when the poor saints that seem to have only a living, begin to cast into the treasury of God, the widow’s two mites! Oh what have we that we have not received? and if we have received fit, why withhold that which belongs to the Lord? “For God is not unrighteous to forget our labor of love, which ye have showed his name in that ye have ministered to the saints and do minister.” — Heb. 6:10. If ye are faithful in a few things, God will make you ruler over many things. Let us move out on the promises of God’s word, that we may grow fat and receive abundance of God’s grace. For to him that hath shall be given, but to him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have. May the Lord bless these few lines to the benefit of his children. Pray for me. Your sister, brought into the one fold,

Mary Heldenbrand.

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Let all of God’s people pray very earnestly, on Tuesday Nov. the 28th, for your very needy brother. My soul is saved and sanctified and wholly, given into God’s hands and my body is also in his hands to heal, for I want to be healed so I can work for God again and tell the people what God has done for me. I have already learned a wonderful lesson, and do not see how God can or is getting glory out of a continuation of this terrible disease. If you want to suffer with me and feel so led, you might fast that day and make your earnest request known to God in the evening in my behalf. I cannot do anything; can hardly get out of my bed until God sends the mighty healing power through my body. Oh that I may once more be able to sing and talk for Jesus. Oh let a mighty concentration of faith ascend from every soul. From the hand of your very feeble, but saved brother.

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Bro. Jno. H. Wilson, Worcester, Mass., writes that God has a few faithful children in that city. We trust the pure Word will speedily be preached in that and other cities in the east.

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Since our notice a short time ago, concerning the book we propose to write, a few private letters have been sent us which contained some valuable points of information. We thank the dear ones for their kindness and aid in that line, and shall be glad to hear from others.

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Last week we sent out statements to subscribers whose time of subscription has expired, as we desire to revise our books at the begining of the year; and all who received a notice please let us know whether you desire the paper continued. If you have not the money and desire the paper continued, all you have to do is to write and let us know at once and your names will be left on the list. Those who are destitute and too poor to pay, please let us know, and your names will be placed on the free list.

If any mistake has taken place let us know and we will gladly rectify the same.

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The Boy’s Companion.

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We expect to finish printing this book this week, and in a few days will have some books ready to send out. It was delayed a few days on account of getting cuts for illustrations, also, in obtaining testimonies from the penitentiary.

It is hoped that this volume will be the means of turning many boys from the ways of wickedness and vice. The first few pages show the pure life of Joseph; and the remaining chapters are to the boys of to day. It also contains testimonies from those who are now in the penitentiary, because of a wrong course taken in boyhood days. It gives a direct talk to the boys against evil habits, and the pictures are such as to make a more vivid impression upon their minds. The subject is treated in such away that the modesty of no one need be shocked. Fathers and mothers should not fail to have-their boys informed on such subjects. The cloth books cannot be bound before December 10, as the book binders are over-stocked with work at present. However the cloth books will be ready before Christmas and will make a splendid present for the boys. Cloth 40 cts. Paper cover 25 cts.

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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

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1st. QUESTION: Would a child of God be justified under certain circumstances to trade horses?

J. D. C.

ANSWER. Yes, if the trade can be made to the glory of God, and to the benefit and satisfaction of both parties interested. Put to make a business of horse trading just for the pleasure there is in it, or what little money might be gained at the expense of others, is not to the glory of God.

2d QUESTION: What is a religious proselyte as spoken of in Acts 13:43.

ANSWER. A proselyte is a new convert. A religious proselyte is one who has been converted to some religious faith. Those whom Paul and Barnabas “persuaded to continue in the grace of God,” were doubtless those, who were not Jews, who had accepted the faith of Jesus Christ.

E. E. B.

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A brother asks us how to have a meeting house deeded, so as to be lawfully held, and avoid any unscriptural course.

ANSWER. There are some technicals in state laws respecting the constitution of trustees, that should be looked into. Usually the law requires a ten days notice of a meeting for the election of trustees, and in some states the law requires a copy of that notice, and the results of the meeting to be recorded in the county seat court house, in order to be lawful trustees. Let the meeting be called and published according to law, and then, a minister present, or any brother, can suggest the elders and deacons of the church at that place, and their successors in office be lawfully constituted and appointed trustees of said meeting house. And the entire church can cast their vote by an amen. This avoids all voting by ballot, which is contrary to the principles of the body of Christ, since the Pentecost infusion of the Holy Spirit; where it is God, working all things in all, it avoids subsequent elections, and avoids the creation of all offices other than those authorized in the New Testament. Since only elders, — also called bishops — and deacons are authorized by the word of God, into their hands should be committed all the official business of the church. By the above plan a perpetual board of trustees are provided for, without any special election of men to that office, and all is kept within the apostolic organization.

The deed should be made to, “the church of the living God” at, or in —– (here insert the name of the place) in trust of —– (here insert the names of the present elders and deacons) the elders and deacons of said church, and their successors in office.

By adopting, in all legal forms, the scriptural title, “Church of the Living God,” we not only distinguish the church as being the one that is of God, but also designate which God. While there are lords many, and gods many,” and there are churches of the dead gods, we are members of the one church of the one living God.

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A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE.

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Rulo, Neb.

Dear Trumpet: Please accept my testimony. I have been a slave to the opium habit for twelve years; and all those years I was so miserable; I suffered the torments of hell as it were. Not knowing there was a God in Israel who would deliver me, my husband has spent hundreds of dollars with different doctors and they could never accomplish a cure. Now the reason of my forming this habit is as follows: I was thrown from a carriage, and had my arm broken and the bones in my wrist thrown out of place. Then blood poison set in and I was in such pain the attending physician gave me morphine until I contracted the habit; then of myself I could not beat back the evil one and get free. They recommended opium, thinking it not so poisonous. About two months ago the Lord sent such deep conviction on my heart that I felt without immediate help my soul would be lost; and I cried: “My God, what shall I do to get free?” I went to God and cried: “Forgive me, oh God forgive!” and he being a merciful God, said, “I will forgive all your past sins, but you must quit the opium.” Then what could I do? Of myself this seemed an impossibility. Three weeks passed by without any relief, during which time I was almost insane. But praise the Lord he came to deliver me. On the sixth of Oct., he sent two of his saints to my house. They were perfect strangers to me. I had never met them before. So the Lord led me to make a confession to them. I did so; then they asked me if I would not take it to the Lord in prayer. I consented. Then we knelt in prayer. Then God answered our prayers and removed the desire for opium from me. Yet he took his own good time to cleanse my system. For three days I laid in a cold, clammy sweat. The second day the Lord began to purge my system, which continued for over three weeks. For nine days no food would remain on my stomach, during which time I became so weak I could hardly raise my head off the pillow alone. At the end of three weeks He removed all my pain, and now this beautiful morning I know I am a free woman in Christ Jesus. Praise his name forever! On the 29th of Oct., He sanctified me wholly. Bless the Lord; and Nov. 5, I was buried with Christ in baptism. Glory be to God! Pray for me, dear saints, that I may be humble and ready to do the Lord’s will in all things. Your sister in Christ,

Laura M. Starks.

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News from the Field.

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Carmi, Ill., Nov. 11, 1893.

Dear Saints of God: I have just arrived at home, and found my wife and little girl quite well. Thank the dear Lord! I went dawn to Equality, Ill., Nov. 1 st, and began preaching the gospel. Baptized five the first Lord’s day, one a dear sister that had been in the Methodist sect many years. About sixteen converted and sanctified, altogether. To God be all the glory. Brethren, remember the place, and give them a call in the near future. You will find a good people hungering for gospel light. I think I will go to Vincennes, Ind., in a few days if the Lord wills. We are saved and all on the altar of God.

J. D. Baugh.

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Adams, Iowa, Nov. 11, 1893.

Dear Trumpet Readers: May God bless and keep all of you for his name’s sake. Meetings are still going on in vicinity of Adams. Have been compelled to move about somewhat, but we know that God is working. Have a good interest. The saints here are being established in the second benefit. Those wishing meetings in Iowa, West and South, address us at Adams, Iowa, Muscatine Co. We are praising God for full salvation. Pray for us and the work here. Yours saved,

F. Husted and O. Wilson.

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THE FLOATING BETHEL.

Pittsburg, Pa.

The Floating Bethel is landed at Sixth St., and lies partly under, and partly above the Sixth St. bridge, which is the principal bridge of the two cities, Pittsburg and Alleghany. And as the saints stand on the top of the boat and sing, the passers by on the bridge stop, Took down and listen. The interest is increasing, and many of the honest-hearted men and women that hear the singing from the bridge above, come down to the services, which are held daily and nightly. Let us pray that God may raise the two cities from the dead.

A. B. Gildersleeve.

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Liverpool, Eng., Nov. 1, 1893.

My Dear Brethren in the Gospel of our Lord: I write you this day to inform you how the Lord is prospering his work in this place. Truly we are glad to report victory for the Lord, and praise his holy name for what he is doing for us and others. Truly God has done a wonderful work here in this city, in saving many dear souls; some of which will no doubt make workers in His vineyard. We find many dear people in this country, hungering for the Bible truth. How our hearts go out after such! We are doing all we can in the way of preaching and giving out tracts, and our labor is being blessed to the salvation of souls. We received the tracts that some one sent us. Thanks for the same. And we shall use them to the glory of God. We are all well and joyful in glory. Praise the Lord! We are now praying for Father to provide the means to open up the work in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, which we believe is according to his will. So do not be surprised if he stirs some of you up to that effect. Well, dear ones, pray for us and the work here, and may we all do our duty and practice what we preach, pray and sing. Yours in Christ,

J. H. Rupert.

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Cedar Creek, Ind., Nov. 15, 1893.

Dear Saints ok God: We are happy to tell you that we still hold fast in Christ the faith of the Gospel. Our short stay at Zion School-house in Marion Co., resulted in the salvation of four precious souls. God is at work in those parts, and the people are fast seeing the truth. Tuesday we left for this place, and were met at the station by uncle D. L. Houser. We hope to remain in these parts until December, then go home and stay one week, and then to southern Indiana or Clark Co., Ohio, the Lord willing. May all the saints pray for us that we may be used of God to the salvation of lost souls, and keep under the blood. My standing Post Office address is Burket, Ind. We remain your brother and sisters in the one body, the church; and all complete in him.

S. L. Speck and Co.

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Shelton, Neb., Nov. 12, 1893.

Dear Saints of God: I think a few words from this part of the field is due you. After leaving the Hollenburg camp meeting we traveled with team north-west to this place, distributing tracts and TRUMPETS. On our arrival here we received a package of books and a roll of papers from the Trumpet Office. The papers we distributed over this country. We also preached the gospel and gave lessons in Sabbath schools. This is a new field, and the work is breaking up the fallow ground and sowing good seed. I find a few good people in this country, and one said to me after readings the TRUMPET, “That just suits me, that is just what I wanted.” So we are to sow beside all waters. Since I was anointed at Hollenburg, I have gradually gained strength and have a better appetite than I have had for years. Glory be to our God whom we serve! He is able to deliver us out of the burning fiery furnace, and his grace is suffi-

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cient to enable us to be an overcomer in every trial, in every temptation. Your brother, saved and kept by the power of God.

A. Wiles.

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Augusta. Ga.. Nov. 10, 1893.

Dearly Beloved Saints: May God bless you all abundantly, for Jesus’ sake. Amen. We are happy to report perfect victory in the name of Jesus. We are fully saved in him, and kept by his power from all evil, with a constant river of peace in our souls. Praise God forever! The meeting near St. Clair, Tenn. was good. Although not many were saved, there were quite a number that acknowledged the truth and took their position for the right. Two were converted and three sanctified. At the beginning the weather was unfavorable, being rainy; but the latter part of the meeting was well attended, and the majority of the people were well pleased with the gospel, as delivered in the power of the Holy Spirit. On Lord’s day afternoon we went down to a large stream of water, and there dear Brother and Sister Cope were buried with Christ in baptism, in the presence of a large congregation of people. We had many invitations to return, which we expect to do in the spring, the Lord willing. May God bless them for their kindness to us during our short stay with them and keep them faithful to the end, is our prayer.

We arrived safe in this place last evening, and find truly that God has been working with the people here, and no doubt will accomplish the work intended by sending us here, and get to himself a people and great glory, even in Augusta, and though the Exposition and State Fair have already commenced, we expect to begin meeting to night in the name of Jesus, who is mighty to save and strong to deliver. Praise his name forever! Amen. We desire your united prayers. Yours in the one body, contending for the faith,

Thomas Carter,
A. J. Kilpatrick.

1446 Marbury St.

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THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.

Psa. 119:129.

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Centre Point, Iowa.

Dear Saints of God: I feel led to write my testimony for the glory of God. I praise the Lord I am saved to day. I am free from all sects and human oganizations. Thank God! Pray for me. dear saints, that I may always be faithful, and never depart from the narrow way. Your brother in Christ.

C. E. Caldwell.

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Ellisville, Miss.

Dear Saints of God: I praise God for this wonderful salvation that saves me to the uttermost, frees me from all sectism and Babylon confusion; and gives perfect peace to my soul. I can shout freedom, through the redemption of the blood of the Lamb. Praise God! His word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path; and the more I walk this way the brighter the light shines unto me. Pray for me. Your sister, saved to the uttermost,

G. A. Thomas.

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Dodge City, Kan.

Dear Saints: I thank God that I am rejoicing in a free salvation, that I am saved and sanctified, and have victory over the world, the flesh and the devil. I have been praying for five or six years for God to raise up a people that would worship him without sects and isms. I am asking God to send some of his people here to hold a meeting. There are about four saints here. But we have never had the gospel preached in its purity.

Ellen Ashenfeltes.

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Smith Center, Kan.

Dear Saints of God: I have a desire to let you know I am still trusting in God, and I want to obey him in all things. Oh! I do praise God for his cleansing and keeping power. Glory to God in the highest! There are a few here that are out in the evening light, and we have been expecting some of God’s ministers to come here to hold meeting. We are real hungry for some pure gospel food.

B. A. Williams.

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Cortez, Colo.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I have been waiting, before writing my testimony, for the Lord to heal me. I cannot say that I am healed, but I am better. I am trusting in the Lord for a complete healing. The Lord is my keeper and my all. I am trusting him for all things, and am living up to his word the best I know how. I give God all the praise for what he is doing for me. And I love him dearly. Dear saints, pray for me that I may know more of the Lord’s will. Yours truly,

A. H. Blackmer.

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St. Clair, Tenn.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I am rejoicing in a full salvation. I did not know that people on earth could be as happy as I am this morning. I want to praise God for the gift of his beloved Son, Jesus Christ, who suffered that we might be made so rich and free. I am hid away with Christ in God. Glory, glory! I am kept by his mighty power. O thank God for sending his anointed ones here to preach the blessed gospel in its purity! I am glad to tell you that my husband professed faith in Christ, and was baptized with me. O pray for us, that we may be able to do all the will of God. Your sister, fully saved and sanctified,

Winnie Cope.

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Manchester, Iowa.

Dear Ones in Christ: My testimony is, I am saved and kept by the mighty power of God. Praise His great and holy name! God saved me, a sinner, last July. Since that, he has healed me. I had rheumatism in my arms and all over my back and chest. I got so bad that I could hardly breathe. The doctor told me that when it went to the heart it would be apt to kill me. And I felt as if my time was short upon this earth, but glory be to Jesus he told me to send for the brethren and sisters and have them pray for me, that it was his will to heal me. So I had my husband go where they were holding prayer meeting and have them come to the house where I was in bed. And they came and prayed and I was healed immediately; I got right out of bed and could use my arms in any way I pleased, and could breathe as free as ever. And when my husband saw what the Lord had done, he was saved the same time. I give God all the praise. His praise is continually in my mouth. I am so glad God ever led me out into the evening light. He is my all and in all. He keeps me and sanctifies me. Pray for us. Yours washed and cleansed in the blood of Jesus,

Rolino Hempstead.

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Hamilton, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: Today I am praising God for salvation that saves me from all sin. The scripture tells us that everything works together for good to those that love the Lord, and I find it so. The dear Lord has wonderfully healed me several times, for which I give him all the glory. At this present time I am very much afflicted with a very serious internal cancer. Have been suffering for several months. I ask the prayers of all who read this to pray that everything may be removed that may prevent my healing. I also ask the prayers of the saints that my husband and children may give their hearts to Jesus and be saved. Oh my heart is so burdened for them, to see them saved before it is too late. According to the signs of the times it will not be long before the great and final day of the Lord. From your sister, saved,

Charity A. Kimber.

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Camp Ground, Grand Junction, Mich.

Dear Christian Family: Jesus has now been living with us three years. We love very much to have him with us continually. He is so mindful of us. When cares come he tells us to cast them on him. We obey and so are left free from care. When comes even the faintest shadow of discouragement he speaks such words of comfort and good cheer that all discouragements flee away. When in need we ask and he supplies. Indeed we never are in want, he has such care for us. When we are sick his great heart of love and sympathy is touched and he heals us. He is so faithful in all he has promised; he has won our trust until we know of no matter from least to greatest we have not trusted away with him. Our life every day is one of peace, happiness and victory. We have learned the sweet lesson of contentment, no matter what the natural circumstances may be. Jesus walks with us and enables us to walk in tender love and harmony, and when we come to him in prayer, we two are agreed as if but one, which only we are, and the glory given the Son by the Father is given us.

I enjoy the school-room work with all my heart. The Lord controls by his power and teaches by his wisdom. Praise God! we are pure, happy and blessed. Jesus is leading while we follow on with unwavering faith in all his word. Our hearts are packed and overflowing with the pure holy love of God, making this life a heaven of glory unspeakable. What must our eternal heaven be? It does not yet appear, but by God’s grace we shall see by and by. Yours, patiently waiting the last great day,

Chas. and Minnie Orr.

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Carmi, Ill.

Dear Saints of God: I have never written to the Trumpet and have not taken it but a short time, but have been a reader of its pages for nearly one year. I do think it is the very best holiness paper I have ever read. Praise God for the GOSPEL TRUMPET! The Spirit itself beareth witness with my spirit this morning that I am a child of God. Rom. 8:16. Praise the Lord! Ten years ago God for Christ’s sake pardoned my sins; for about nine years I lived in a justified relation to God, living up to all the light I had. With that I continued hungering and thirsting after righteousness. Matt. 5:6. And Jesus said such should be filled. At that time sanctification as a second and distinct work of grace was preached near by, and I heard of it, and immediately began searching the scriptures and found it to be true, and that this is the will of God even your sanctification. 1 Thess. 4:3. Well praise the Lord, I now realized the truth of Jno. 16:13, — “When He the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth.” Praise the dear Lord for light! As soon as I saw it was my privilege to be made free from the power and dominion of the adversary of my soul, I immediately began seeking for the blessing of entire sanctification. I was then a member of the Missionary Baptist sect, and our pastor tried hard to hinder our faith, but I conferred not with flesh and blood, but obeyed Rom. 12:1, and immediately experienced that peace of God which passeth all understanding. Glory to Jesus for full salvation! Well it was but a short time after the Lord had sanctified me wholly, until they put me out of their sect. I did think seriously for a while of joining the M. E. sect, but the Lord would not let me. I praise the Lord for. the true light. I am out of all sects, and in the one body; and praise God for revealing to me what the true church is. May God bless his truth, to his own glory and to the enlightenment of the eyes of the understanding of his children everywhere, is the prayer of your sister, under the blood,

Mrs. R. C. Baugh.

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Breckenridge, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: I feel it would be to God’s glory to testify to the great and wonderful work the Lord truly has done for me. I was a slave to tobacco for thirty-seven years, thought I could not live without it, as it was ordered by my physician that I should smoke for a distress in my stomach. I had tried in my own strength to leave off smoking, as I was ashamed of it, but could not. This summer as it was my priviledge to attend the saints’ camp meeting at St. Louis, Mich. where the pure gospel was preached in all its power and simplicity, I was convinced that I was not right with God. Up to this time I was a member of good standing in the Congregational sect, but oh there was no life and power of Christ there, and now I wonder that I stayed there as long as I did. I loved God and what I supposed was his cause, but I wanted to be popular and dress like all the rest. But oh how I do praise God with all my heart that my eyes were opened to the truth! I had heard only two sermons preached on the straight way before camp meeting, but oh how this created a hunger and thirst within for more light and knowledge of God’s will and way! Praise God, when I got on the ground I received a great blessing; new light came and I felt that God could take away all the evil out of my heart, and in answer to believing prayer the power was given to overcome the terrible habit. O praise him, all ye people, for the Lord has saved me from all the slavery of this bondage to sin. There is not the least desire for it. I’m free! I’m free! Bless his dear name!

He also saved me from sect Babylon. When I returned home from camp meeting I went to the meeting where I was in the habit of going. I testified to the wonderful saving power of God, then told them to drop my name, which they did; then I had a drawing to go to the M. E. meeting. I went and truly God gave me liberty to testify to what he had done for me, and it did have its effect on some; then the devil said to me, “You surely can go with them now, because God so wonderfully blessed you in testifying.” But since then it was my privilge to go to St. Louis and hear Sister Walter preach a sermon on the spiritual house of God. O praise God forever and ever! Before she was through with the discourse I was fully convinced by the Spirit of God that I cannot go to sect meetings, only when God sends me there with a message. God says in Jer. 15:19, 20, “Therefore, thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth; let them return unto thee, but return not unto them; and I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall, and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee, for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.” Yours in Christ,

Emily Putman.

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OBITUARIES.

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Bangor, Mich.

George W. Lanning was born Oct. 17, 1849, in Hancock Co., Ohio, died in Bangor, Mich. Oct 16, 1893. He was converted when young and lived a true Christian life, until he heard the evening light preached. He accepted it and was faithful until death. Though he was a great sufferer, he never once gave up his hope in Jesus, and just a few days before he died he said, “Take every thing from me, but let me have salvation.” He would sing and praise the Lord through all his affliction. We can truly say, “Our loss is his gain.” Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Mrs. M. A. Lanning.

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On the 6th of Nov. 1893, five miles north of Fern, Pa. Clark W. Davis was called out of time into eternity. Aged 26 years, 3 mo. and 12 days. He and his brother Richard, both beautiful, bright young men, began to be consumpted about five years ago. Though blessed with a praying mother and kind father, they were sinful and rebellious toward God. But in spite of all that could be done to rescue them from the grasp of that dreaded disease, its wasting continued until the dear boys were brought face to face with death. The saints visited and prayed with them, and held meetings in the house, and finally Richard, the younger of the two, was constrained, by the love of Christ, to give his heart to God. He was joyfully saved. He only lived several days to praise God on earth, in the new joys of heaven’s love. He departed in peace Oct. 29. Up to the day of his funeral his brother Clark remained yet hard hearted and unyielding. But as he took his farewell look upon the cold, but peaceful face of his departed brother, he was made to cry out, “I too will have to die.” After returning from the grave, the saints talked to him, and sang with him, and from that time his proud heart melted by the love of Christ, and a few days later he too was joyfully converted to God. O the goodness and infinite mercy of God! Dear Bro. Clark lived about one week, praising God in all his sufferings and admonished all the friends to meet him in heaven. Nine days after the departure of his brother, he bid all an affectionate farewell, and left his earthly house, to join his brother in a house not made with hands in the heavens. The dear boys leave father, mother, brothers and sisters, this comfort in their sorrow, that all is well with them; since they have gone to be with Jesus forever. O may God save the father and all the surviving friends in Jesus, that they may also depart in peace and join the loved ones over there. Satan had evil affected the minds of the dear boys against us, but after saved, they were both very anxious to see us. But this desire was not realized. We reached here the same day Bro. Clark departed, and hearing of his desire to see us, our company hastened on to the place, but found the spirit had taken its flight a few hours before our arrival. We had the sacred privilege of preaching his funeral in the school house near by, to a large congregation. May the Lord bless, comfort and save all the dear friends and make this providence of God a great blessing to the community. Amen.

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West Salem, O.

Ameliah Repp, maiden name Bensinger, was born in Berks Co., Pa. Jan. 16, 1816, and died at her home near West Salem, O., Oct. 19, 1893. Aged 77 years, 8 mo. and 3 days. She emigrated with her parents to Ohio in the year of 1834, and was united in marriage to Peter Repp in 1836. To this union were born nine sons and two daughters. Two sons residing at Glenn and a daughter at Lee, Mich.; and the rest, seven sons and one daughter residing near her home. She was converted during the winter of 67 and joined the Evangelical Association, but lived a consecrated and devoted life until death came to release her of her pain and sufferings. She has been a sufferer for years and for 28 long months she has been sorely afflicted, but humbly bowed to the will of the Omnipotent, and bore her affliction with Christian patience, only waiting for the Master to say, It is enough, come up higher. Her very countenance told that she was prepared to go and meet her God in peace, and she often expressed her desire to depart this life and be at rest. She leaves to mourn her departure, an aged husband, nine sons, two daughters, forty-four grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. Eleven grand children preceded her to the spirit world, where they meet in bliss to part no more. Text, — Phil. 1:21. “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

Alfred Leibey,

Lee, Mich.

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Died, Nov. 12, 1893, at Plainwell, Mich., Opal, infant daughter of Frank and Sister Jessie Irland; aged seventeen months. The child has been a sufferer since it was three months old, and God in his mercy saw fit to take it home. May God comfort the bereaved parents, and may their loss be the means of bringing the unsaved father to Christ and meet her in heaven. Funeral services by

George Nichol.

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Died, near Grand Junction, Mich., Nov. 16, 1893, Emma Belle Courtney; aged ten years, ten months and ten days, only daughter of John and Sister J. E. Courtney of Bay View, Mich. Little Belle was attending the private school on the camp ground. She was delighted with the school and enjoyed the society of the dear ones in whose loving care she was entrusted. On Thursday, Nov. 16 she was taken seriously ill, and within a few hours certain changes gave evidence that she was soon to pass away. Sister Courtney was at Battle Creek caring for her sister who was very sick. She was dispatched to come at once, and arrived in time to talk with and minister to the comfort of her little daughter, from about five to twelve o’clock P. M. of the same day, when, with the calmness of an evening zephyr, like one falling into a gentle slumber, she departed to the life beyond. A telegram was sent to Mr. Courtney who hastened to come on the first train. The day before, she had folded her clothes neatly and packed her trunk. Her last written recitation was fastened with a pin on her jacket, the first thing to be discovered on opening her trunk. A school-mate stood by while she was arranging her things, and on seeing her Testament remarked that she would desire a book like hers. Belle replied, “You may have it, as I shall have no more use for it.” A few days before, she wrote to her papa enclosing a few cards for keep-sakes. She had recently given her heart to the Lord, and the gentle sweetness of his nature wrought within, had greatly attached her to all hearts that knew her.

“At rest, speaks forth the face so fair,
At rest, the books she laid away,
At rest, the trunk she packed with care,
At rest, her soul in fadeless day.

In sympathy we, parents, share
Your loss of darling little Belle,
But God in wisdom doth declare,
In love, He doeth all things well.”

In our school one vacant seat,
We’ll hear her voice no more in song;
No more her lovely face we’ll greet,
Until it be ’mid heavenly throng.

In our school one vacant seat,
The blessed Lord doth all things well;
We bow submissive at his feet,
E’en when He taketh little Belle.

Funeral services by G. B. Collins and S. Michels. Your brother in Christ,

Charles Orr, TEACHER.

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“GOVERNMENT OF CHILDREN.”

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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Prov. 22:6.

SEEING a great need of the government of children among the people, and more especially among the saints, I have felt for some time, impressed by the Spirit of God, to write upon this important subject. And as I greatly feel my weakness, and inability of composition, I ask God to direct my thoughts and pen, and I believe he does it. This is something that ought to concern every one to whom God has entrusted the care of children. Whether as parents, nurse, teacher, or guardian, they should thoroughly understand and do the duty that is enjoined upon them.

The promise in the above text, is one among the most precious to my soul. Praise the Lord! Not only do we have the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come, but also of fixing the eternal destiny of our little ones in heaven. Fathers and mothers, do you know what responsibility rests upon you? Do you know God will hold you accountable how you rear your children? Can you fail to do your duty and stand approved of God in the judgment day?

I answer no. If you do not train them in the way they should go, and they are lost, they will come up as a witness, and a testimony against you in that great and terrible day of the Lord. Oh! for Jesus’ sake and for the sake of your own souls, and the souls of your children, awake to your duty before it is too late.

Well says one, if I knew what to do, I would do it, but my children are so bad, I cannot control them; I do not like to start to whip, for very often I get so mad, I scarcely know what I am doing: and for that reason, very often they go without correction. The trouble is, such persons need correction themselves, by repenting of their sins; and get a knowledge of salvation by the remission of the same, then go on unto perfection and get all of that “mad” taken out of their hearts; then they could deal properly with their children. The timid saint says I would be more firm and strict with my children, and use the rod more, but I fear those around me will think I am carnal, and I know the love of God has destroyed all carnality out of my heart. That is just what it will do; but is that all love does? There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. — 1 Jno. 4:18.

When I was first saved, the devil would tempt me that very way; and more so when some one was present, and it seems like the children will get worse then, than any other time; but the Lord showed me I must be just as firm, and use the rod just the same as if no one were present. Hear what the wise man says.

Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell. — Prov. 23:14. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. — Prov. 22:15,

Some will say, I love my child so much I cannot bear to whip him. It nearly breaks my heart to hear him cry. He that spareth his rod HATETH HIS SON: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. — Prov. 13:24. Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. — Prov. 19:18.

Now these scriptures do not mean we should be unmerciful and abuse our children, but we should give them correction, and use the rod whenever it is needed; and if we love them as we should we will do so, and our children will love us. Show me a child whose parents cannot control, and I will show you a child that does not care much for its parents. On the other hand, the child that is made to obey its parents will love them. There is no certain rule, by which to govern children, because of different temperaments, or dispositions. But there is a law that would prove true in every case, and that is the law of love. There is a natural affection existing between parents and their children, if cultivated will develop into a burning love, but if abused it will be destroyed. The apostle tells Timothy such would be in the last days. 2 Tim. 3:3.

Hundreds of parents destroy the natural affection in themselves and their children, and wonder why it is they are so bad. Oh that God will awaken the people to these facts, that many souls may be saved from hell! We should do all in our power to make them understand that we love them and to win their affection so they love us. We should do our best never to make them angry. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged. — Col. 3:21. I have seen persons, and even parents tease and even torment children until they were angry, and then think it pleasure to see the little fellows fight and cry. And some will teach them to say bad words and laugh to hear them speak them.

Oh dear reader, are you guilty of such a thing? if you are, do you not know you are rushing your child on to hell and damnation? I have seen professors do these very things, but such is an abomination in the sight of God, and any one that does such things, can never see heaven. Another way to provoke a child to anger, (and many often do it), is when they are doing something wrong, to slip up to them and slap them before they know any one is near; and they say the next time you do that I’ll skin you alive. Now such is a sin in the sight of God. In the first place they were not approached in the right manner, second they are provoked to anger, third and worst of all they were told a lie, and they know it; and such treatment has no good effect, but the child is made worse. I have known parents in trying to conquer their child, to shut them up in a dark closet, or out of the house at night, and tell them if they did not behave, they would give them to the dogs, or the bad man. All such treatment is wrong and only fits them for the “bad man.”

Parents sometimes promise their child a whipping from time to time and never do it until the child loses all confidence in them, and gets so bad, they can scarcely live with him; then perhaps the father cannot control his angry passions, and beats the child unmercifully, and all it amounts to, the child’s heart is harder than ever, and has a dislike for his parents and every body else, and is sent headlong down the road to ruin.

Another way to ruin a child, is, when one parent is correcting him for some wrong act, the other to take his part and begin to pet and pity him; and scold the other for correcting him, right in his presence. Now the devil smiles at such as that, and takes delight in the parent helping him to destroy the child’s soul. Oh parents, awake to your duty and do not be the cause of sending your children to everlasting woe.

Well says the mother, My husband is unsaved and he whips so unmercifully. That should never be done. But even if the child is somewhat abused, if it is not too unmerciful you should hold your peace until some other time, then talk the matter over privately, and not in the child’s presence. I have often seen one parent correcting their child, and the other interfere and stop it, then the child would fail to get what it so much needed, and it would become more stubborn and worse to get along with than ever.

We have had but very little experience of this kind in our family, for which we praise God. Now when we chastise one and he goes to the other to be petted he gets no encouragement. They should not be permitted to do that. A good way to discourage a child is to tell all of his faults to some one in his presence and also every thing that he ever did that was wrong. Such only discourage him and he will not care whether he does right or not.

I have heard persons brag of one child’s bright intellect and capability, of learning, etc., and talk of another’s dullness, forgetfulness, and every other fault he had, right in the presence of both. That is a an awful wrong and ought never to be done; it causes emulation in the former, and despondency in the latter. If the child is dull and cannot learn as fast as others, he cannot help it; we should not try to increase that dullness by discouraging him, but we should do all in our power to encourage and help him. His soul is just as precious that of any one else. Paul says, Comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. — 1 Thess. 5:15.

Well says one, How must children be trained? Let the Word answer. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. — Eph. 6:4. Now it does not say to send them up, as a great many are trying to do, but “bring them up.” That implies you must be right with God yourself, so you can go before them, and lead them. Set a godly example before them, never do anything in their presence that you would not have them do. Some people will teach their children not to do some things and do the same things themselves. I have heard men admonish their boys not to smoke, and at the same time have a pipe in their mouth. Such admonitions amount to nothing. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. — Rom. 2:1.

In order for us to train them in the way of the Lord, we must have the divine nature: for it is impossible for parents to lead a child in the path of righteousness if they themselves are not in it. When we have the divine nature, it will overrule the evil nature in the child and keep it under subjection, but if we give place to the devil and get angry, we fellowship the evil spirit in the child; and the good spirit is overruled, and the child is controlled by the evil nature.

We should use all possible means of kindness and love, to get them to obey us; but when the evil nature gets control of the good; it must be conquered if it takes the rod to accomplish it. There is a right way to use the rod. I have seen persons use the rod just enough to tickle or tantalize the child. Such as that only provokes to anger. The Word says, “Thou shalt beat him.” That means to whip hard enough to hurt without fatal prolonged injury. The time to begin to train a child, is from the day of its birth. Do not take it up every time it cries; if you do, it will soon learn to cry for some one to take it, and if no one has time to take it, it will fret and get angry, and the devil who always goes to work in time whether you do or not, will largely develop his nature in the child and make it much harder to conquer when it is older. The time to begin to use the rod is just as soon as the child can understand what you command it. Be sure every command is a consistent one, then see that it obeys you. You hear so many say, My children are so bad I do not know what to do now. The trouble is they never did know, or if they did know their duty they did not do it. Some will say, I have done the best I could, but my children have such mean dispositions, I do not believe any one could have raised them right. Then you do not believe the Word of God is true where it says: Train up a child in the way he should go. and when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Prov. 22:6.

That child never lived that was so full of the devil it could not be trained right. No matter how their disposition is, if they have the proper instruction and correction, they can be brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, as the Word commands. God’s word does not command an impossibility of any one, and Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” — Jno. 14:15. I have met with saints a few times, who seemed to be honest at heart, but did not feel right in their experience, when looking into the matter, and judging from the way their children acted, we would find they had not done their duty in training them, and just as soon as they would consecrate to do their duty in that and everything else, they would get clear in their souls again. The Lord will not let us feel right if we do not obey him. It would not be right for him to do so. We must do our whole duty if we want all God has for us.

Well, says one, I did not know these things in time, and now my children have got several years the start of me; what am I to do now? The Word of God says, “Redeem the time because the days are evil.’’ Do your whole duty from this time forward. Jesus says if any man will do his will (God’s will), he shall know of the doctrine. So if you want to know what to do now, do God’s will, and you shall know. In order to rule our house, we must command our children.

Abraham “commanded his children and his household after him.” Why did he command them? “And they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment.” — Gen. 18:19. The child that is not too much hardened by disobedience can be conquered: no matter if he is along in years, by asking God’s help, and using gentleness and kindness; but be firm and see that he obeys every time he is commanded. If the child is beyond all control, and too large to chastize, all that can be done is to melt down in earnest prayer to God in his presence, and pray God to soften the heart and save his soul. Many a young man and young lady have been converted through the influence of an earnest prayer of a mother, though perhaps it was offered in their childhood. I know this by experience. I remember when I was about twelve years old, about two years before our mother died, one Sunday afternoon she called the children in her bed-room. There were five of us; four younger than myself. She bade us kneel at the bedside. She then offered a prayer to God that I shall never forget. After she had prayed for the older ones of the family, a special petition was offered for the little ones by her side. She gave us up into God’s care, for she seemed to understand that it would not be long until she would be called away from us, and so it was not. Oh praise God! she left us in good hands, and her prayer for the little ones was answered, for we are all sweetly saved in Jesus. One little girl died at the age of eleven years. She told us she was going to meet mother. The rest of us have been saved since.

That prayer I heard my mother utter, stamped an impression upon my young heart that never left me. Although after her death, I wandered far away from the path of virtue, in which she led me, following sin and vice; but wherever I went, those agonizing groans and sobs that came from my mother, haunted me, and I had no rest nor peace until Jesus saved my soul two years ago last July. O dear saints, let us live very close to Jesus, and he will teach us how to train our children, and will also teach them how to obey. I believe the greatest trouble with the people in rearing their children, is because they do not live close enough to God themselves. Do you have family prayer? If you do not, you know you should. When you pray, do you command your children to kneel with you? or do you let them run at liberty over the house, or run off every time you have prayer? I have seen children twelve years old, that would run right through the room in time of prayer. Now the parents are to blame for that. Heathen children could not act much worse, and it is all because they are not trained in the way they should go. Why are there so many prisons filled with convicts? Why are so many hanged at the gallows? Why are there so many drunkards? Why are there so many houses of ill fame, filled with women who were once innocent children? Why do so many commit suicide? Why do so many lose their mind and become insane? It is all because they were not brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Many parents talk anything and everything before their children, and then will wonder why it is their children know so many things they ought not. A man once remarked to a friend, in the presence of a little boot black, Our children know more than we do. The little fellow remarked, “Why shouldn’t we? We know all our parents know, and and all we learn among ourselves.” And it is true, they learn many sinful things they ought not. But the evil effects of sin and vice, they seldom ever learn, because they are not taught it. We should caution our children against all kinds of sin and vice that is afloat in the world in these perilous times. Let us create a disgust in the child’s heart against these evils, then when the devil comes, he will have no effect upon the young heart, because it will fear to do evil, having learned to do well. Be sure your children keep good company. One bad boy will spoil multitudes of good ones. We should always know where our children are, so at any time if necessary, we could go right to them. So many will let their children go every where they please, and be gone from morning till night, and never know where they are. Now I have seen this among some professing to be saints. Oh may God help all who profess Christ, to see what their duty is in regard to their children, is my earnest prayer. When children are brought under subjection to their parents, it goes very far toward inclining them to be subject unto God, hence is one of the chief influences for their salvation, and their ultimate happiness in heaven. On the other hand, if they are allowed to act as they please toward their earthly parents, they will be strongly indisposed to bow to the law of our Heavenly Father. And so your want of government, perhaps more than any one thing, will be the means of their eternal destruction from the presence of God, and the glory of heaven. And now I offer a solemn charge in the name of Jesus; rule your children, and save their souls from eternal misery and woe.

W. B. SCHREIBER.

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Doniphan, Mo.

Dear Saints: I do realize that I have been purified and made white through the blood of the Lamb. Praise God! I feel victory in my soul all the time. I am free from the devil and consecrated to the will of God. I am ready to work for the Lord, wherever he leads me. Pray for me. Your brother, saved and sanctified,

Leroy C. Catlett.

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Center Point, Iowa.

Dear Saints of God: I want to write and tell what God has done for me. How I praise him for letting his glorious light shine on my sin-darkened soul. I thought I was converted thirteen years ago, and lived up to all light I then had. I had not been taught to pray for holiness, or realized what God’s word meant when it said we must be holy. I had an unsatisfied longing for something more, which never was appeased until after God’s dear saints, sisters Fink and Shoffner, came here. Quite a number were saved, my husband among them. I went with him to the first prayer meeting the saints held after the sisters left, and I was then led that I should go in with them. How I do bless and love God for what he has dene for me! I trust him wholly for healing of soul and body, and he keeps me from sin and gives me strength to resist temptation, and patience to forgive and pray for those that call us names and persecute us. I do praise him that we are counted worthy to suffer persecution for our dear Savior’s sake. Pray for us, dear saints that we may always be faithful, and also that some holiness preacher may be led here. Yours, saved wholly, and happy in Christ,

Minnie H. Caldwell.