28 September 1893, Volume 13, Number 38.
THE JOYFUL PILGRIM.
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(Tune. “The Blind Child.”)
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I am a happy child of grace,
My heart no sorrow knows;
My life redeemed through Jesus’ blood.
In joyful praises flows.
I trend the narrow pilgrim road
Which worldlings all despise,
A way made bright with golden gleams
Of glory from the skies.
They sing about the lonely road,
The rough and thorny maze,
The heavy crosses lying in
The heavenly pilgrim’s way.
But Jesus hears sweet company,
His gentle presence cheers,
And kindly smooths the rugged road,
Dispelling doubts and fears.
He does not give a heavy cross,
Or hardens hard to bear;
He bids me cast in confidence,
On Him my every care.
How sweet to walk with Jesus here,
His sufferings all to share!
I love to do his sweet commands,
His easy yoke to bear.
I love to be us Jesus is,
To make his joys my own;
I love to walk as light doth stream
Down from the golden throne.
How sweet the rest my spirit finds
Deep in his precious will;
Amid the raging storms of life
I hear his “Peace be still.”
And ns I near death’s narrow tide,
I lift my longing eyes.
And press toward that happy place
From whence my soul shall rise.
’Twill soar beyond the arch of blue
And gain those happy lands,
Where, mid eternal glories bright,
The jeweled City stands.
There will I rest my happy soul
With all the ransomed throng,
While heaven’s bright eternal years
With music roll along.
R. M. Haynes.
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“NOT ERADICATION,” REFUTED.
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IF sin is only partially destroyed in the hearts of men, then we must conclude that the sacrifice made for the destroying of sin was only a partial sacrifice. It exhibits a weakness of mind, a sinfulness of the heart, or the attempt to overthrow the words of God, for a man to confess that our bodies are turned over into the hands of Jesus Christ, and at the same time being in the full control and supreme command of God, to retain sin in them. What does Christ want with such a thing as that? It is contrary to reason, logic and scripture. When Christ has anything in his hands and is given the right to do as pleaseth Him, He eradicates everything that is not pure and holy. One of London’s greatest preachers, claiming entire knowledge concerning the more important points of doctrine as found in the New Testament, has discovered that sin, in this life, is not destroyed in our bodies, and has in consequence of this startling find, published a little tract entitled “NOT ERADICATION!” This tract has become very popular indeed, more especially among those people who try to serve the devil and God at the same time. This dogma is embraced by the majority of the denominations, because it is just exactly what the many thousands of professors want (needs not taken into consideration), and I have no doubt but what the pulpits of these sects hail such a publication as something grand on account of it being quite conformable to their own ideas of a Christian life.
A man who does not want to believe, or is afraid that there is a hell, welcomes with joy any attempt to overthrow the truth that there is a hell. So it is with people who do not want to believe, or are afraid that their lives are to be clean and pure, entirely free from sin; they hail with great gladness any attempt to overthrow truth of holiness and entire sanctification of sin from their hearts.
The preacher in question is known as Rev. B. F. Meyers, B. A., and in writing of the works of sin and the devil being destroyed in us, denies that such work is done immediately or suddenly. Says he: “On the contrary, if we learn from what we see in the world of nature or in the continued presence of disease and pain in the bodies of his people, we must infer that the process of destruction is a gradual one wrought in successive stages!”
This is a serious piece of doctrine. What are those people to do who never are sick, and those to whom disease and pain are strangers? This class of people will never have, according to the above theory, the works of sin and the devil destroyed in them. So then, sound and healthy people must be classed with the unfortunate inhabitants of this world. Nay, they are the most unfortunate of the unfortunate, because they are doomed to battle with sin in their hearts as long as they exist here, and to be at last shut out of heaven. “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin.” The power of God through the Holy Spirit destroyed the works of the devil and sin in my heart. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. — 1 Jno. iii. 8. iv. 10.
If Mr. Meyers is correct in his theory, then let us proclaim that Jesus Christ died in vain. Take up the refrain in doleful tones and cry that the office of the Holy Spirit is not to enter the heart of man. May Almighty God help us to understand that which is right. Such dogmas cannot possibly come from God — then it must come from the devil.
It is a dangerous thing to preach, because it makes the bloody sacrifice on Calvary’s summit a breezy farce and substitutes theory, “sickness,” something that oftentimes comes from the devil himself. The very statement kills itself, for the devil cannot and will not destroy himself. There is no penance for sin apart from him who cried on Golgotha’s mount, the place of skulls, “It is finished.” Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree.” 1 Pet. ii. 24. The medium of sickness, to save a man radically, is very rare, and ninety per cent of those who repent in sickness turn their backs upon God when they are fully recovered.
It is a question in my mind whether God does hear such prayers or not, prayers I mean offered to escape the punishment they deserve — a mean and selfish motive. Even if they do repent and are saved, God is the power [not pain or disease), to destroy the works of sin and the devil. Let God’s children cry aloud that sin can be destroyed and eradicated while we are in health, and it does not take years, months, weeks, days, hours or minutes, but according to our faith so shall it be done unto us. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. — 1 Jno. v. 14, 15. It is self evident that this eradication must be because there is no sin in Christ, and he has said, “Be ye holy for I am holy.” — 1 Pet. i. 16. And “be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. — Matt. v. 48. No eradication means no holiness, and no perfection. Christ was speaking in the present tense, and not in the future tense, as many people suppose.
One of Meyers’ strongest quotations is this: “The flesh lusteth even in those who are said, a little below, to be Christ’s and to have crucified the flesh.” I do not claim that God does destroy, when he sanctifies a man, that part of the human mechanism which he has created in order to comply with his command and law in propagating the human species, but I do claim, being taught by the direct testimony of God that, such as does relate to lust, is destroyed and our bodies without reserve, are used as God would have them be. It is not sin to comply with God’s command, “Multiply and replenish the earth,” after you have been subject to the commands in placing you in the right, in God’s sight and being subject to those over you in authority. This cannot be called lust for it is sanctioned by the great Maker of all men, instituted by him and sealed by the Holy Ghost. Christ said, “It is said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” — Matt. v. 28. Therefore if we lust we are not fully in the hands and control of God, and if we are bound to lust after any thing to covet that which is not our own, if we want, in our hearts, anything contrary to the commandments and will of God, if these things are inevitable, then it is logical to conclude that we shall never be saved.
According to Mr. Meyers, God will not save us from lust or sin, and at the same time God tells us in his word that lust or sin is condemned by saying “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord,” and Luke i. 75, And God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. — Rom. viii. 3. Therefore, that which God condemns he cannot sanction, and and that which he cannot sanction, if committed and indulged in, must be displeasing to him, and that which is displeasing to him can have no part with him, and that which hath no part with him can never enter the gates of the great city of heaven. To lust is to be in the flesh, so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. — Rom. viii. 8. Oh that God may convince men of the error of their teaching!
I am willing to corroborate all that men say, when I find it conformable to the Bible, but when it is contrary to the teachings of the holy scriptures I must condemn it, and expose it as diabolical. Meyers says we must lust, but Christ says it is as much sin to lust and covet, as it is to perform the deeds. Read the scriptures. Rom. vi. 6, Gal. v. 24, Rom. xiii. 14, Gal. ii. 20, Rom. v. 19, vi. 2, 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23. Mr. Meyers lays great stress on Gal. v. 17. — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. This I admit is true in the sense that the carnal nature is enmity against God. The original condition of man does war against the spirit of God, because man at this stage is sinful and God is holy. I admit further, that after a man is even justified or converted, he has a fighting experience between the Spirit and the flesh. But one great fundamental truth must not be overlooked, that the Spirit is against the flesh and beyond doubt will conquer the flesh providing that the man is willing that it should do so, for God is all- powerful, and can, and does destroy the works of the devil, and every thing not in harmony with himself.
Let those who use Gal. v. 17 think for a moment. It does not say that the flesh shall war against the Spirit for any stated period; so to think that it is always to be the same is a great mistake. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. — Rom. viii. 2. Also the third, sixth, thirteenth verses of the same chapter. When a thing is destroyed, it is destroyed and that is the end of it. Only be careful not to allow something else like it to take its place. When sin is destroyed in your heart, live near to God so, as keep it clean and to keep all sin from entering it again. Kill sin, or let God kill sin in you once, then another killing is not necessary, as long as nothing enters to be killed. Away with the old man. That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. Eph. iv. 22. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. — Eph. iv. 24.
Take an animal out of the house [being the only one there] and kill it and you never will be able to take another animal out of the same house to kill as long as you do not put one in, or allow one to go in, or to be put in. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. — Col. iii. 3. Meyers says: “Hand over to him the minor conflict with the evil tendencies of your heart.” This is good advice and sound doctrine in itself, but for one to suppose that Christ is going to take the sinful heart and let it remain in that condition is a true sign of spiritual if not mental insanity. If Christ should take a sinful heart, and permit it to remain in that condition, would not Christ be the great head and retainer of sin? Give your heart to Christ and he will destroy every thing unholy and impure in it. Call it what you may. Eradication, destroying or killing.
For people to claim to have sin taken out of their hearts, says Meyers, “It lessens their dependence on the Holy Spirit.” According to this theory we must have our hearts in a depraved condition in order to receive the Holy Spirit, and sin must reign there so as to retain and rely on the Spirit. If the above quotation be correct, then the more sin, the more Holy Ghost and the greater our reliance upon the Holy Spirit. May God reach the hearts of such men ere they can do more harm. Such teaching is dangerous, even for strong minded people to read, and every possible effort should be made to crush it out of existence. The only way to get sin out of the heart and have the heart kept pure, is through the atonement of the spotless Lamb; by the filling of the Holy Spirit, a constant dependence in, and reliance upon God. Awake to righteousness, and sin not. — 1 Cor. xv. 34.
Such things as “Not Eradication” teaches, are agreeable to those individuals who would try and divide their lives between God and Satan, but will never do for those who believe that “ye cannot serve God and mammon.” — Matt. vi. 24. Mr. Myers sees the great evils of sin, causing destruction on every hand, polluting the body and cursing the soul, but seems to favor the existing of this fatal poison, by his unscriptural defence in “Not Eradication.” Yours in Christ,
Philip Evans.
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WATCH.
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke xxi. 86.
DEAR friends and TRUMPET readers: It is very needful for us to watch and pray in these days of perilous times; not so much the kind of temptations and trials the disciples had, as it is the enticing temptations of to day. Though there are people that have been tried and tempted something as they were — perhaps a husband would opose his wife severely or even abuse her for serving Jesus, parents bitterly oppose their children, or friends turn against you and treat you in a violent manner, and such like — yet that is not what some of our brethren had to endure. Though there is perhaps not so much severe temptation as in olden times, yet, there are very enticing temptations that tend to draw us away from God; such as being crowded in business that we neglect the house of worship, secret prayer, testimony for Christ, by being encumbered with care, also neglect of the reading of God’s word which is food to the soul and a lamp unto our feet, also neglect the giving of our substance as God demands. And another enticing temptation is to have respect of persons. These all, if yielded to, tend to draw us away from Jesus.
But this is not altogether the subject that has been on my mind for some time. The subject that has been on my mind, is mote in regard to secret orders, such as Coal Miner’s Union, Stone and Brick Mason’s Union, and the Farmers’ Alliance, and others of the same class, which perhaps is altogether useless to mention, only to say, let us follow Christ rather than these things. But some one may say, “What harm is there in joining the Farmers’ Alliance, seeing it is said to be for the purpose of helping the farmers?” Or some one may ask, “What harm there is in belonging to the Good Templars’ lodge, or to some of the other orders that claim their order to be for a good purpose?” If nothing else would condemn any body joining them (who profess to have the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ), this scripture will: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness?” — 2 Cor. vi. 14. Are there not unbelievers in all of them? And not only that, but the word of God says in 2 Peter, i. 10, “Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.” Therefore we should keep ourselves from anything that would have the appearance of the beast spoken of in Revelation xiii., for these orders are somewhat, or altogether like the beast, because you cannot enter their order without a sign, and they want you to join their order or you do not have much chance or none at all to work with them — those like the Brick Mason’s Union and others. Dear brethren, the day may not be many years off when every class of work will have its union, and everybody will be compelled to join or die. Read Revelations xiii.
Seeing then that it has the appearance of the beast, in one form at least, let us keep free from it, for the word of the Lord says, Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thess. v. 22. And God’s word says furthermore, Neither give place to the devil. Eph. iv. 27. We, by joining some of the small ones, may cause some one else to join some larger one, like the Free Mason or others, so let us give no place to the devil. Pray for me, that I may watch and pray, that I may escape all these things, and fill my place in the body of Christ.
O. E. Wieringa.
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Malden, Ill.
Dear Saints of God: I am glad to say this morning that I am saved and walking in the light, and that God healed my body. I have been suffering for a long time, but this morning I can say I am healed, and I give God all the glory. O praise his name forever! Your sister sanctified now,
Jennie Paddock.
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Requests for Prayer.
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Prayer is requested for Melissa Nation, that she may be healed of her afflictions.
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Pray for Emma Norquist, of Kansas, who is suffering much from internal bodily afflictions.
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Pray for Bessie Davis, Vineland, Mo., that she may be healed of nosebleeding and other afflictions.
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Geo. Hoffman and wife, of Dayton, Ohio, ask the prayers of the saints, that they may be healed of despepsia and nervous disease.
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Salina, I. T., Sept. 23, 1893.
Dear Brethren: I have been afflicted with locomotor taxia since June, 1877. I am unable to do any work. Can barely walk around. My voice is afflicted. I can scarcely speak. Have not been able to write for nearly six years, but my wife writes for me. I am a Christian. I know I am saved. I am trying to understand sanctification. Would gladly live free from all sin, if I could know the way. I want to get well for the glory of God. As I sit here in my chair, unable to wait on myself I wonder if it is possible that I have been bound of Satan, lo these many years. God willing, I will fast and pray, that I may be healed, Sunday, Oct. 1st, wife and I. I ask your most earnest prayers. I would gladly call for the elders and be anointed in the name of the Lord. I feel loth to call on people who have little or no faith in divine healing. I attended Dr. Dowie’s divine healing mission in Fresno, Cal. in April 1890, but was not healed. I have never felt that God was unwilling to heal me. Pray that I may have faith to believe.
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A meeting is wanted at Moulton, Loup Co., Neb. Address Mrs. Emma M. Miller.
A holiness meeting is wanted near Keene, Wabaunsee Co., Kan.
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Martha Hutchinson, Sargent, Texas Co. Mo., desires a true holiness minister to come there and preach the Gospel.
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Brother F. M. Long, New Decatur, Ala. writes that they hope some one will come south soon to preach the Gospel.
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Bro. E. F. Houghton and Sigel Hunter are now at McKinley, Oklahoma holding meetings, and are ready to push the work of the Master in that part of the country wherever the way opens.
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Bro. Roberts writes that the church at Denver Colo, meets each Sunday at 10:30 A. M. and 7 P. M. at the brick chapel corner, ninth and Dawson Streets, Highlands. Any one stopping in the city is invited to attend.
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Get ready for the assembly, beginning Oct. 4th. Come in the name of Jesus, with your heart filled with his love and praise, or with a determination to receive the satisfying portion to your soul. Bring enough bedding to make yourself comfortable if possible, those who cannot do so will be cared for. Brethren living near should also make an extra effort to aid in supplying bedding and provision for those from a distance. Let there be much prayer and fasting for the success of the meeting, and the salvation of many souls.
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WORK ON THE RIVER BETHEL.
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We have just received a letter from dear Brother Stowe, who with a few consecrated hands is hard at work on the floating bethel at Pittsburg. Only a few weeks more will be needed to get the portable house of worship ready to open up gospel work. But means have not come in fast enough to keep the work moving. The brother has already borrowed $100.00 for 90 days. Please, brethren and sisters, do your duty. May God help you to determine to send help, that the gospel may sound out “from the rivers to the ends of the earth.” Amen! Send it to Brother Clayton. His present address is No. 404, 44th St., Pittsburg, Pa.
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CAMP AND GROVE MEETINGS.
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There will be a meeting of the saints at Mt. Zion, five miles east of Hartsell, Ala., commencing on Friday, Oct. 20, next, at six o’clock, P. M. Bro. J. N. Howard and others whom the Lord may lead, will be present.
S. S. Stinson,
Hartsell, Ala.
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The camp meeting in Augusta, Ga. is changed to a tabernacle or hall meeting, and the time will be Dec. 1, 1893.
W. H. Morris,
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There will be a tabernacle meeting about six miles north-west of Sidney, Shelby Co., O., beginning Oct. 10, and continuing over the 15th, and longer if the Lord leads. Let as many saints as can, attend this meeting and pray God that a glorious work may be done for the Lord.
Otto Bolds, J. N. Howard and Co.
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Grand Junction Assembly Meeting.
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The Lord willing, a general assembly of the saints of God will be held on the camp ground at Grand Junction, Mich., beginning Wednesday, Oct. 4th and continue about one week, or as much longer as the Lord directs. A glorious time is expected in the name of the Lord. Let all who can come, make preparations to come, and stay during the whole meeting. Everybody invited to come. Pray much that a harvest of souls may be brought into the garner of the Lord, and much good done in his name.
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- Explain 1 Cor. iii. 15.
- “ 1 Cor. ix. 7-15.
- What is the office of a Bishop?
- “ “ “ “ “ “ Deacon?
G. W. Breazeale.
ANSWER, TO FIRST. “If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” This fact often occurs, in the case of sincere men, who have not reached the perfect plane of gospel truth and holiness. They labor zealously, and gather quite a large number of converts, but on a low plane of spirituality, or having but a form. So when the light and fire of holiness comes, his work cannot stand the test, he receives the word, passes through the fire and is saved, but behold! his works are consumed by the very fire that saves his soul, and he is stripped of all its support, and left to start anew, building up a clean work that will stand forever. The text is to be applied to only certain cases. It does not mean that every preacher who builds up wood, hay and stubble, shall be saved, but of course, such only as meet the conditions of salvation.
ANSWER TO SECOND. Please read the words in your Testament. The lesson is very plain and needs but little explanation, but there is much profitable matter in it. First, it teaches a principal and law in the kingdom of God, namely, that all whom God sends forth to preach the gospel, should live of the gospel. That is they should not carry on some secular work or business in connection with their preaching as a necessity to their maintenance. They of course, should all be willing to labor with their hands, and indeed do so, whenever that labor might be an accommodation to those among whom they sojourn, or whenever the Lord seems to give some leisure, and an opportunity presents itself for such service. It is dishonoring to God that his ministers stop out of the field that is every where crying for more laborers, in order to work with their hands as a matter of necessity. It virtually says that, he who “has ordained that they who preach the gospel shall live of the gospel,” is unable to carry out his own ordinance.
We hear of a dear brother who is constantly needed in the gospel field, who labors with his hands until some means have been gathered, then calculates how long that will supply his family, and goes forth preaching the Gospel, till that time expires, then leaves his calling in Christ Jesus, and returns to labor with his hands again, while hungry men and women are calling and begging for the pure gospel, and souls are dropping into hell, but these things ought not so to be. The above lesson teaches us that, just as soldiers when enlisting, leave all their other pursuits as a means of maintenance, and trust the government for their living, so those who are sent forth to labor in the vineyard of Christ, should trust our king for their living, and “not entangle himself in the affairs of this world, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier.” And just as it dishonors the government for a soldier to act as if that government were unable to feed him, also dishonors Jesus Christ our king, for men called of God to preach his gospel, when they act as though he that has called us to be a soldier, is not able to feed us. It is true that the apostle Paul labored with his hands to supply his temporal needs; but he did not dishonor God by doing so through any doubts but that God was able and willing to feed and clothe him; but because he wanted to give an unmistakable evidence of the utter purity of his motives in preaching the Word. And perhaps, the Lord permitted this to give an example of the perfect holiness and unselfishness of the motives of his ministry. For every true minister of Christ is just as far from being influenced by temporal gain in preaching the Gospel, as he was. And it is also true, we doubt not, that God does call some men to preach, and for a time allow them to labor with their hands, and devote a part of their time to the gospel. But when he sends them forth, to leave all and preach the gospel, they should never dishonor God by abandoning the great harvest field, especially in our day, “upon whom is come the ends of the world.” And the gleaning will soon be cut short by the coming of Christ. We should look upon this matter as the Word says. “He that preaches the gospel shall live by the gospel.” And this rule the apostle finds foreshadowed in the law, for it is written in the law of Moses. “Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn,” and this was said for our sake, we are told. How careful God is to provide for his messengers! He constituted a type in the legal system, which he inspired his apostle to interpret in favor of our support from the gospel field. It is true he has chosen a very humble and apparently stupid animal to represent his ministry. A comparison that his gold-jeweled, and plug hat self reverenced hirelings of sectism will not appreciate, but every true servant of God emulates the obedient patient toil, and endurance of the dumb ox; yea, he is even willing to be as dumb as that hard-working animal, in all the arts of self and sin, and, in fact, in every thing else, save that which we have been taught of God, and have learned in Christ. As the ox knows no better than to toil and obey his master, so we are also “fools for Christ’s sake.” And as the ox never complains, nor refuses to work because poorly fed, so God’s ministers count it all joy to suffer for Christ, and never look about for the place that promises the most ease, honor, or temporal gain.
Doubtless the twelve oxen upon which the brazen sea was placed before the temple, was also designed to typify God’s ministry. The water in the great vessel represented the gospel of Christ, as it rested upon the oxen; so the gospel is borne by the living ministry. As these twelve faced in every direction, so the twelve apostles went, and all God’s heralds continue to go, in every direction bearing the water of life to a lost world.
All God’s children who have been saved from sin and hell by the gospel of Christ should, in all reason, and even in the principles of natural sympathy, humanity and philanthropy, give what means they can possibly spare to bring others to the same blessedness. Reason, we say, and common affection should teach this to all who are saved. But in addition to this, God has positively commanded, “Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.” — Gal. vi. 6. Another translation renders plainer, “Let him that is being instructed in the word, give a part of all the good things he possesses to his instructor.” Of course that is to be understood that he is to give such things as he has, and the preacher may need. And to withhold what is needed, from God’s messengers is to muzzle their mouths, and hinder the fulfillment of God’s word, which affirms that this gospel of the kingdom must be preached in all the world. But, “Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that sendeth forth the feet of the oxen and the ass.” — Isa. xxxii. 20. By sending forth the feet of God’s patient toilers and burden bearers, in the sanctified rise of your means, you are enabled to sow beside all waters, and God’s blessing is upon your soul, and all that you do
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shall prosper. And thus it is, there is a giving that enriches, and there is a withholding that tends to poverty. Again, it is seen in our scripture lesson. that the gospel ministry are to receive their living from the people to whom they preach, just as the priests lived off the things of the altar.
Moreover, whether men do their duty in supporting the gospel or not, God’s ministers must fulfill their commission. “Approving ourselves as the ministers of God in MUCH PATIENCE, in AFFLICTIONS, IN NECESSITIES, in DISTRESSES.” etc. And also do it cheerfully, and willingly. “For if I do this thing willingly. I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. What is my reward then? Neither money, honor nor the fears of God’s woes, are fit motives under which to preach the gospel. It must be a service of disinterested love to God and humanity, in order to glorify God, and secure his blessing and reward. Amen.
ANSWER TO THIRD: What is the office of a Bishop? The Bishop is the same as an elder. The first term is from EPISKOPOS, which means an overseer, or shepherd. Elder is from PRESBUTEROS, and denotes one advanced in age. The name bishop, signifies the office-work of that member of the body of Christ, while the word Elder, was doubtless carried over from the elder of the Jews. Early in the second century, there began to be a distinction made between a bishop and an elder, and this has been carried down through the dark age. and adopted in all the machinery of sectism. But no such distinction is made in the Word. Paul left Titus at Crete to ordain elders. and after mentioning their necessary qualifications, adds, “for a bishop must be blameless,” etc. Titus i. 5, 7. Thus bishop, and elder are used interchangeably, refering to the same office. Paul sent for the elders of the church of God at Ephesus. Acts xx. 17, and the same elders, he called EPISKOPOS, translated “overseers,” in ver. 28, of the common version. It is furthermore evident that bishop and elder was the same office, from the fact that both bishop and elder are nowhere spoken of together in the scriptures. Paul addresses “the saints which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.” Phil, i. 1. And writing concerning these officers in 2 Tim. iii. 1, 8, again calls them bishops and deacons. So there were but two classes of officers ordained of God in the church, and they are here called bishops and deacons. And yet we read that elders were ordained in every city. This shows the same fact in Titus i. 5, 7. that elder and bishop is the same thing.
Again we find there are two kinds of elders; “Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.” — 1 Tim. v. 17. All elders have ruling authority by the Holy Spirit of God, but some labor in word and doctrine; i. e., are called of God to preach the gospel, while others are not so commissioned, but are ordained of God to take the oversight of the church as local elders. So all preachers are elders, but all elders are not preachers.
The qualifications for an elder or a bishop are clearly seen in 1 Tim. iii., Titus i., and 1 Peter v. The same scriptures also point out their duties. They are not to be lords over God’s church, not to rule with mere office authority, which is of the dragon, and which characterizes all sect officials. Their authority is because of their office. But with God’s elders, it is just the reverse; their office is because of their authority, and their authority exists by means of the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit in them. They are to be ensamples to the flock, their life, meek and holy temper, purity, and holiness in heart and conversation, should exemplify the very life and character of Christ. They should be apt to teach, and endued with such power and authority by the Spirit of God, that they can, through God, stop the months of evil speakers. They are to take a zealous oversight of the flock of God, to feed them the Word, lead the meetings, exhort, reprove as the Lord will, and occasion needs. According to Jas. v. 14, 15, the elders are to be armed with the gift of healing and ready to exercise the same.
ANSWER TO FOURTH: The word, deacon, signifies, a servant. The deacon’s place is to attend to the temporal affairs of the church. To see after the house of worship, gather, and appropriate means to the support of the gospel and the relief of the poor, etc.
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WHAT IS THAT TO THEE? FOLLOW THOU ME.
Jno. xxi. 22.
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In our religious welfare, it is of great importance for us to look to Jesus at all times, who is the author and finisher of our faith. As long as we have our eyes fixed upon Him, and see no man save Jesus only. there is no danger of falling or backsliding. We find Peter began to sink as he looked about when he walked on the water. Matt. xiv. 30. So it is with persons when they get their eyes away from Christ. This text, “What is that to thee? follow thou me,” is one very precious, with a great lesson in it, especially for those who in time past have had their eyes on something else, and lost their salvation, and for those who have just begun to travel on this beautiful way of holiness. We read in Isaiah, xxxv. 8, 9, of the highway where nothing unclean can pass over; no lion shall be there, and no ravenous beast shall go up thereon. Very true this is, but close to this way, the devil sets his traps and snares, and the very moment we get a little careless we get out of the way, and then we are in his awful hands. But God says, to turn not from it, to the right hand nor to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. Josh, i. 7. Nothing should lead us away from our Savior, not even crooked professors, as they are not on that highway. Follow thou Jesus. Others may get out of the Lord’s order, “What is that to thee?” follow thou Jesus. The enemy of our souls uses different means to catch us, were it possible. Yes, he will tell lies about the true children of God, and bring up something that never was true, and these are the hardest trials, and seem almost too hard for us to bear, but God’s grace is sufficient, and his Spirit will lift up a standard in such a trial. It is very precious to have God’s word abiding in us. Then when the enemy comes, we have a shield to put forth, and in faith we hear these words, should that be so: “What is that to thee? follow thou me.” God permits these things to come upon us for our own good, to make us strong, so we may be able to stand and trust him fully, and not lean upon the arm of flesh. In Jer. xvii. 5 we read, “Thus saith the Lord; cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.” He command us to stand, in Gal. v. 1. “Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”
We do not find that the Bible teaches us to follow a hypocrite, a backslider, or sinners, but we should follow Jesus, which is righteousness, faith, charity, holiness, etc. 2 Tim. ii. 22, Heb. xii. 14, 1 Peter ii. 21, 22. Here is enough to follow after, and and if we do these things we shall never fall, 2 Peter i. 10. Often we sing the song,
“And tho’ all men should forsake thee,
By thy grace, I’ll follow thee.”
O may all who sing this, mean it from the depth of their souls, and if the Lord should ever permit us to get into such a state that it would seem we were the most forsaken creature on the face of the earth, that we might then rejoice, knowing that “If God be for us, who can be against us?” and keep the victory in Jesus’ name, because, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword? Rom. viii. 35. Here you see that nothing can hinder us from following the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, as long as we are willing to follow. Therefore let us put forth our whole will to follow Jesus, that we may not stand speechless on that great day, or seek to make an excuse, and that so and so, you were looking to. Remember Paul says in Rom. xiv 12, “So then every one of of us shall give an account of himself to God.” “Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children.” Eph. v. 1. Amen. Yours in Christ,
Wm. Ebel.
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News from the Field.
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Monticello, Ill.
Dear Saints of God: We are happy to report victory in our souls over the world, the flesh, and the devil. Dear Bro. and Sister Husted are with us now, and our Father in heaven is teaching the little church at this place wonderfully through the dear brother and we give God all the glory. Praise his dear name forever and ever! Amen. Your brother and sister in Christ.
O. A. S. and E. Marquiss.
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Kalamazoo, Mich., Sep. 20, 1893.
Dear Trumpet Readers: God bless you all is our prayer. We are saved and sanctified and kept by the power of God, ready to be revealed in the last time. We went from the Cheshire grove meeting back to the Beech- wood school house, three miles from Bloomingdale, and held five meetings where God truly met with us in power and sinners were made to acknowledge that God was in us of a truth. 1 Cor. xiv. 25. Four more were immersed. From there we once more visited the little church at Bell school house, held one meeting and God wonderfully blessed us in preaching his Word. From there we had a call to Kendalls, held meetings nearly two weeks in a hall, with good attendance and attention. There were in all eight consecrations for pardon and sanctification, and deep conviction on the people. I pray God to deepen conviction on the people until they will be willing to forsake their sins and repent. We are at Kalamazoo at present and expect to stay as long as the Lord leads From here we have a call to Mt. Pisgah, Lagrange Co., Ind. and from there to Akron, Ohio. Any one desiring meetings between those places will please let us know as there is no time appointed for the meeting in Akron, so we could stop on our way there.
J. N. Worden, and E. Ellis.
417 Jane St.
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Barron, Wis., Sept. 19, 1893.
Dear Saints and Brethren, Greeting: We are bolding meetings in this part of the Lord’s vineyard. God brought us out into the evening light through the labors of brother F. N. Jacobson, at Rice Lake about two months ago. We have been laborers in the Free Methodist sect a number of years. But when God showed us the light, through his word and spirit that sect organization was of man, and not of God, and that there is only one body and one Spirit, we were willing to walk in the light. Glory to God! We were entangled in a number of ways while we were among them. We can appreciate the perfect freedom from sect bondage. When God first saved and sanctified me, I had the gift of healing, but lost it in my entanglement, but God has given it back to me. Glory to his name! God is doing great things in this neighborhood. Praise the Lord! About thirty souls or over have come to Christ, There is deep conviction on the people and some have requested our prayers. Yours forever in the holy war.
W. P. Halbesleben.
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Levant, Kan., Sept. 19. 1893.
Dear Brethren: I am rejoicing this morning in a present salvation that saves to the uttermost. Praise his name! Since the camp meeting at Hollenberg the Lord has taught me some wonderful lessons, and I know he is sinking me down, and preparing me for a wonderful battle in the West. Dear ones, God has been calling me for some time to the coast; and now he has sent me. Praise the Lord forever! I only had sixty- four cents when I got the witness, but glory be to God! He set the time for me to go, and I felt as sure I was going as if I had the money in my pocket. I started the 8th of Sept., and stopped to visit the saints at Smith Centre, also Kensington. We had some glorious meetings. Some wept for joy while others shouted. Two souls were saved while at Kensington. The saints at that place want a camp meeting next year if the Lord wills. From there I came to this place where I met Brother and Sister Kepford, standing alone for God. We had meeting last night in the school-house. Expect to have meeting to-night again if the Lori wills, then we take our leave in the morning for Denver camp meeting. Now all the brethren at these places are anxious to have some one come and hold meeting. They wanted me to stay, but I felt God leading me on west. Any one wishing to write to me, address me at Denver, Colo., 2515 Lafayette St. Your brother saved and all consecrated to God.
Michael Stover, Jr.
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Atlanta, Kan., Sept. 16, 1893.
Dear Saints of God: The Arkansas City camp meeting is now passed, and was a blessed victory for the truth. Much good was done, notwithstanding the great uproar and excitement over the government lands that came in market about this time. It drew the attention of the public, but we had large crowds. Souls were saved and sanctified. There were over one hundred saints present. The true light is shining fast oyer the western country. Bro. Byers, Bro. Phillips and Bro. Masters go West. They will hold the Denver meeting and I felt it unnecessary for us to go, as means are so scarce. We expect to labor in Kansas and Nebraska this fall. Brother and Sister Cole, Sister Fink and Sister Austin went to Nishnabotna, Mo., Brother Houghton to Oklahoma, and other fire-brands in all directions. We can say God has been good to us on this line of camp- meetings. All we needed has been supplied; just enough, nothing over. I can not say that I have one dollar over just the expenses of the meeting. It is marvelous how God will provide. We are resting a few days at Brother Yeaman’s, Akron, Kan. and then expect to go north and hold a meeting in Nebraska. Our present address is Gresham, Neb. Pray for us. Your brother and sister,
James Willis and wife.
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Butler, Pa., Sep. 21, 1893.
Dear Beloved Saints of God, Greeting: Through the kind invitation, and sacrificing love of Bro. and Sister De Rousse and more especially through the leading of the divine Spirit, we came to this place and began meeting about two weeks ago. We are blessed with a comfortable house to live in, and are holding meetings in a hall, and on the streets and also teaching the words of eternal life from house to house. Only a few thus far have been saved, but quite a number of honest souls are receiving the ingrafted. Word with all readiness, which we trust will soon be able to save their souls. There is quite a general awakening in the place, and sect devotees are not a little alarmed. It is a serious fact that the zeal for human crafts is the greatest obstruction to the gospel of Christ. This has been manifest in this place by the clergy warning all their hearers to not come and hear the gospel of Christ. Because we came to this city to offer the people Jesus only, they cry out against us and denounce us as the most dangerous men. O what a sad discovery they will make when they find out what they say against us who only serve Christ, they say and do against him! O may God deliver men and women who fear God, from all idolatry! Last week we were reinforced by the coming of Sister Billig, and on the night of the 19th we were surprised and filled with great joy by the coming in of brother Wm. J. Henry, who just arrived from England. The dear brother has failed much in health, but his soul is full of the holy fire and the Lord is rapidly building up his body.
Dear Brother Smith has been passing through a great furnace of trial and recently he has reached a glorious experience of the sanctifying grace of God, and is much comforted in the Holy Spirit, and more fully prepared to live and work for the Lord. We know not how much longer we may remain here, doubtless some weeks, and perhaps for months, just as the Lord wills. Pray much for us. Amen.
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West Point, Pa., Sept. 19, 1893.
Dear Saints: May the dear Lord bless you all. Amen! I do praise God for real victory on the Lord’s side, in the work of the Lord. Jesus so sweetly saves and keeps me unspotted from all this world of sin. My cup runneth over. God has wonderfully healed me of all chronic diseases, Bright’s disease of the kidneys — also one of my lungs was afflicted so bad since the Grand Junction camp meeting that I coughed matter and blood and could hardly talk at times. But praise God! I was healed completely. The devil tried me hard one time, when God had given me the evidence of healing, and told me to expound the Word. I got up before the congregation and my lungs hurt me and were clogged, but God gave me voice enough to testify that I was healed and gave me my voice and power to preach and sing good as ever. Glory to God forever! He just told me, “You are healed. Act like it.” Oh praise God! I was very much strengthened at the Beaver Dam camp meeting, in faith, and feasted on the light of Heaven’s Gospel. Since then we were at the Clark Co., Ohio camp meeting, where many precious souls were saved, and from there we went in company with Bro. Clayton and wife into the very mountainous country of Franklin Co., Pa. and held a tabernacle meeting. God only and alone gave me strength to walk fourteen miles through the wild mountains, crossing one very high one. I started at eleven A. M., met an M. E. picnic in Shade Gap, with a brass band and it looked more like a dance as I found they had no speaker. I offered to talk to them but my testimony to a few of the leaders did not suit, and as I felt God moving me on, I got to the destination where God gave me still strength to talk in the cold open air to a good-sized congregation. Praise God! My lungs did not bother me any. Oh how my heart goes out to God, as I drink in the lovely mountain atmosphere. At this place there were over fifteen consecrations. Some for justification and some for sanctification. God set up a precious little church at Dry Run, and from there we crossed two more mountains up among the clouds to get to Horse Valley where Brother Beltz and other brethren live. Feeling God hurrying me, I left there for West Point, Pa. at Shippensburg, having traveled the most rugged country for thirty-four miles from station to station.
We are now preparing for the foreign field. There are several that God has called to go along who have not enough means to go. If any one feels led to help spread the Gospel may the Lord move you to scatter the pure Gospel beside all waters. Sectism has scattered its various creeds of division instead of unity, making the Gospel of none effect by their form of Godliness but denying the power thereof. They have compassed land and sea to make a proselyte, but cannot show people how to get rid of sin, preaching the devil’s discouragement of remaining in sin all the days of their life. Oh Lord send forth thy light everywhere with signs following. We are ready to go forth wherever God leads. Pray on brethren, Give our Lord no rest until Jerusalem become a praise in the earth. Amen.
Jas. S. Kriebel.
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A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE.
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“Therefore pray not thou tor this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer tor them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.” — Jer. vii:16; xi:14; xiv:11.
Pray not thou for this people. What people? and why not? Some people think this is very harsh language, that the prophet should speak it three times through the book of Jer. But God spoke to him, and he must speak it to the people. And now it is being spoken through the flying messengers of God to day. It must needs be; God’s truth must go forth; judgement must be laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet.
In the first place, God appeareth to Moses, and sendeth him to deliver Israel; and says, come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt. Ex. iii:10. God led them through the Red sea, gave them manna from Heaven, water drawn from the rock, and passage through the Red sea. The Bible is full of his goodness, and yet they murmured and rebelled against him, and followed after Baal, worshiping idols. “The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart. In the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.” Jer. xxiii:20. So to-day God has set before us the right way, and says, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” He has set before us a complete salvation, and a promise of the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, to guide us into all truth. He has promised to give us power over all unclean spirits, and to heal the sick, to suffer persecution, and a commandment to love one another with a pure heart fervently, with the promise of the land of Canaan, which is holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Who will not enter in and enjoy this peace which the world cannot give neither can it take away? Bless the Lord! Who will not enter in? Ans: Those who are professing godliness, but denying the power thereof; those who are worshiping him with their lips, and their hearts are far from him; those who are professing to love God and in works deny him. These are they which are being led by false prophets. Many have gone out into the world to-day to deceive the people. “I have not sent these prophets yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.” Jer. xxiii:21. How true it is in these latter days, people have turned their ears from the truth, loving rather to hear a dream than the truth. But we read in Jer. xxiii:28, “he that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.” They are a rebellious people, stiff necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears, impudent children. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. Eze. ii:7.
Some have sat under the teachings of God’s anointed for months and months, and have had the light held up to them, and have been talked to, prayed for, and still they are not willing to break that stubborn will and believe God’s precious word. It is only the willing and the obedient that shall eat the good of the land. They have closed their eyes and ears to the truth, and a perpetual sleep has come upon them. They sleep the sleep of death, they love to follow Baal. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god (namely, Methodist god, Baptist god, Presbyterian god), and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. Praise the Lord! Cry aloud and spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Isa. lviii:1. Arise and thresh O, daughter of Zion; for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thine hoof brass, and thou shalt beat in pieces many people. Micah iv:13. Still there are some who say they are free from sectism, and yet in their hearts, they don’t like judgment laid to the line, don’t like to have us tear down the so-called churches (sects).
Such ones still lean a little that way. May God help them to see that such poor weak mortals as we are, are not capable of doing such an act. Lord help them to get into the true vine (church) which is Jesus Christ, where the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. O glory to God! I feel like rewarding her (Babylon) double, for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
A lady a short time ago had the light held up to her and she made the remark, that she would die before she would leave her church (Methodist) and she died in a very short time and left her church here. I was in a Methodist prayer meeting not very long ago; they asked me to pray, as well as all the rest, but they did not know my situation and I prayed, and I know my prayer never went higher than my head. They called on me to speak, the meeting being led by man; so I got up and told them what God had done for me, how he saved my soul and what sweet peace and rest I enjoyed here below, and how God had given me such grace and strength to endure persecutions and trials. They had also been praying for the Holy Ghost to come down as it did the day of Pentecost. I told them the reason why the Holy Ghost did not put in appearance, was that sin, vanity and pride had come in, and crowded God out. There they sit all fixed in their finery, and are so stiff-necked. And they had been singing with lip service, “All for Jesus, let my feet run in his ways, let my lips speak forth his praise.” I told them, “You can’t let your feet run in the ways of Jesus when they run to the fair, circus, baseball game, and your lips continually talking of worldly things.” They had been saying I would not come to their meeting and let my light shine. So the first opportunity I had I did, for I knew it would be the last: and one happy old saint told them that he had been delivered from the bondage of tobacco to which he had been a slave for fifty years and what a sin it was. And the minister got up and said for his part he did not care to enjoy this rest here, he wanted to wait until he got over there, and said we do not have any persecution now, and thought I was very much mistaken, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace. Jer. vi:14. And he also told them times had become more popular, upholding their pride and sins. O what intense darkness! I thought I should suffocate. No wonder the prophet cries out, “Pray not thou for this people.” He said he did hot think it was a sin to use tobacco, smoothed over all that we said, and they liked it better. O how I felt! I wanted to scream; I waited until I got home, and oh how I gave vent to my feelings, to see those poor souls starved to death-spiritually dead!
Why not cry aloud and spare not? We can pray to God to let light shine upon his sacred pages to the honest souls, that they may be delivered from darkness. But some will say, “When God tells me to come, then I will come.” Here is his blessed word: “Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soul.” Jer. li:60. And if they do not obey his word, what will be the consequences? He that is unjust let him be unjust still, and he which is filthy let him be filthy still, he that is holy let him be holy still. Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be. Rev. xxii:11, 12. O praise the Lord forever and ever for a complete salvation that leads us straight to glory!
“It is a Heaven below, our Redeemer to know,
And the angels could do nothing more,
Than to fall at his feet, and the story repeat,
And the lover of sinners adore.”
Yours in the one body,
Jessie Irland.
THY TESTIMONIES ARE WONDERFUL.
Psa. 119:129.
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Frisco, Ark.
Dear Trumpet Readers: I feel it would be to the glory of God for me write my testimony. I know I am saved this evening, and sanctified through the truth. I am saved from my actual transgressions, tea and coffee, and from the opinions of the people; but the hardest thing was spiritual pets. But God has saved me from them, and I stand out free from all sectisms, schisms, and divisions, and they that do the will of my Father the same is my brother and sister and mother. Pray for me. Your brother in Christ,
C. C. Lane.
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Dear Trumpet Readers: May God bless you all and help you to abide in him, that you may bring forth much fruit for the Master. This is our privilege. The Lord has taught us to abide in him, because we are not able to bear fruit without his aid, and if we do not bear fruit, Jesus says that the Father will take us away. There is a work for all of God’s children, though it may be little. “He that is faithful in little is faithful in much.” Pray for me, that I may be faithful unto death. Your brother, saved now,
Albert M. Johnson.
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Cheshire, Mich.
Dear Saints: I feel like glorifying God by writing a short testimony. It is so sweet to trust in Jesus. He is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. I have found him to be true at all times. He is my physician for myself and children. The devil has tried so hard to overthrow me on my healing, but the Lord says his grace is sufficient. Now pray earnestly that my children and hus- may be saved. Yours in Christ.
Jessie Sinkler.
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Detroit, Mich.
Dear Saints and Trumpet Readers: I praise God this day for full salvation from all sin, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, which cleanses us who walk in the light, as God is in the light, from all unrighteousness. My language cannot express the longings of my heart for the fellowship of God’s dear children. If any should be led of God to come this way, please call at 249 Grand Ave., Detroit, Mich. Yours and the Lord’s, saved and sanctified, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
M. Frey.
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National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kan.
Ed. Gospel Trumpet, Grand Junction, Mich., Dear Sir: For the first time I read the GOSPEL TRUMPET, put into my hand by a comrade at the “Home.” It appears to me to have a good Christian sound. As for myself, I have cut loose from all sectism nearly twenty years since. I worship Jesus Christ as “our only wise God and Savior.” Jude 25. 1 believe he is the “True God and Eternal Life” to all who pray to him. 1 Jno. v. 20. That, “In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Col. ii. 9. That he is the everlasting Father as well as the Prince of Peace. Isa. ix. 6
Yours,
T. C. Price.
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Thompson, Neb.
Dear Saints: I have been thinking for some time of writing to the Trumpet. I can praise God for full and complete salvation. Oh bless the Lord! I have just had the priviledge of talking to a dear young friend of mine. She says she is not satisfied, and knows that she is not living to please God in all things. She belongs to the Baptist sect. Pray with me that she may come out of Babylon, and be saved and sanctified, and also her dear parents. I do praise God this afternoon. Brother Stover is now holding meeting in our town, for which we give God all the glory. Pray for our success and also for my dear father that he may be saved before too late. Your sister in Christ, saved and sanctified, ready to meet you all in heaven.
Myrtle Masters.
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Hessel, Mich.
Dear Brethren in the Lord: I am praising the Lord for clear deliverance from the bondage of Satan. I am all the Load’s and he is mine. I have consecrated a part of land which the Lord has made me steward over, and all of it if necessary, for a home for the family of ministers, who are called into the field, and for any of God’s children who want a resting-place on their pilgrimage. I have 160 acres, mostly woods, and if any of God’s people would like to help to build a house, or take an interest in such a thing, I would like to hear from them. Your saved brother,
Daniel Gugins.
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Danville, Ill.
Dear Saints: I feel led to write a few words of my experience. I am praising God for deliverance from Babylon. I was a member of the Campbellite sect for twenty years, stumbling along in darkness, not knowing any better way, until God sent one of his holy ones here to preach the true light, and God soon showed me that I was in darkness, and I would be lost if I did not flee out of Babylon. I had been taught there was no such thing as holiness, and to think we are saved in this life was clear out of rsason. But I thank God that through his holy child Jesus I am saved and kept saved. O I do praise God he has given me a pure heart, and I do not care for the pleasures of the world. I am walking with Jesus and uot trying to please the world. And while Satan is roaring on every side of me. I feel safe in Jesus. O it is such joy to be able to trust Jesus. It is a pleasure that the sinner knows nothing tbout. O praise God! Pray for me. Your sister in Christ.
Jane Hinton.
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Meriden, Kan., Sept. 13, 1893.
Dear Saints of God: Since sending in my testimony, the Lord has impressed upon me more strongly than before the thought that among God’s children, there was one who might help in opening the way for the gospel in the towns around us — in this way; we have a good home, family of four children under twelve years of age, and keep house help through the summer. Any one needing a home and able to share with me the cares of the family, could give me opportunity for mission work, near us, and be fairly well paid therefor; that I might be absent a few days at a time, and yet obey the Word of providing for our own. A sister advanced in years — a real mother, is what my judgment would approve. May our Lord lead if this is his will, all to his glory. Any one desiring to know of me can inquire of Sister Cole or Bro. Achor, as they have stayed with us while holding meeting here. The work at Topeka needs much care and pressing forward. All the workers, passing through or near, should stop for a few services, as a good place is provided; a hall over the Star grocery, 108 Kan. Ave., cor. 6th st. Services Tuesday and Friday evenings, and twice on Lord’s day. The Lord add a blessing unto each one. In Jesus,
Jennie C. Rutty.
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Huntington, Ind.
Dear Saints of the Living God: I send much love to you. My heart is running over while I write this. I can say to-day that I am saved and sanctified, and kept by the power of God. The Lord has been my physician for seven years. I want to give my experience for about the past year. The Lord permitted me to have a little money, and I thought I needed another house, so I got a chance to buy a little place near town, and I bought, and rented my home in town, and moved out. The Lord began to scourge me; I hardly knew whether I was saved or not, but I held on to God’s promises. I saw my mistake. I have been pierced through with many sorrows. I took the Lord at his word. I asked him in the name of Jesus to send me a buyer, and he answered and sent a man to buy me out. I shall soon move back to Huntington, where the children of God will find a welcome home. I want to say to the glory of God, that he has never forsaken us in the work. He has manifested himself in the salvation of souls and healing of the afflicted. The people at La Gro, Ind. wanted us there to hold meeting. Bro. Collins and I went there. The people began to give their hearts to God last Saturday, and up to Monday noon there were eight claimed pardon. There have been seven buried with Christ by baptism. The Lord has raised up a little church, between twelve and eighteen. If any of the Lord’s ministers pass through that way they would be glad to have them stop and hold meeting. They are all poor people, but the children of God will find a welcome in that place. Your brother, under the blood,
M. C. Gardner.
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267 Montgomery Ave. Providenc, R. I.
Dear Saints of God: I am so glad you sent the GOSPEL TRUMPET to me. I enjoy it much. By teaching the dear Lord’s full salvation work, and the laying on of hands and obeying James v. 14, 15, the dear Lord has used me most gloriously in seeing the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the the blind to see and the sick to be raised up. I have been sent for, east, west, north and south. Will you please state in your paper, I wilt go and pray with the sick, and hold meetings where they want them. I am poor in this world’s goods but rich in faith. I go preaching like the disciples went; trusting in the dear Lord to supply my needs. My dear family consists of a dear wife, a little boy seven, and a little girl four years of age. The dear Lord is the doctor of our home. I believe the last sign is in the heavens. I am looking for dear Jesus’ coming every day. Oh, how I long to see him! He has healed me, and for most thirteen years I have not used the slightest remedy. Oh glory be to his dear holy name! How the whole world are deceived by the harlot power! But she will soon sink like a mill-stone to rise no more forever. May the dear Lore bless all the household of faith. Oh, how little is the dear Lord known in his fullness. Your dear brother in the Lord, waiting for speedy redemption,
W. S. Woodworth.
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Cadott, Wis.
Dear Saints of God: I feel led to write my testimony, hoping that it may do some poor sinner good that has not yet come out in the pure evening light. Ten years ago I gave my heart to God and he wonderfully blessed my soul. I joined one of the sects, so-called churches, and tried to serve God, but I can not say during the whole ten years of my Christian experience that I was really satisfied. I still kept praying for God to give me more grace and more peace in my soul, and for the last few years I did not feel right in joining any of the sects. And as the minister who had admitted me into the so- called church had left the place where I lived for a number of years, I considered my self free from all sects and did not care to join them. But I do thank God that about two months ago he sent some of his true ministers to our town and I gladly accepted the truth and was justified and sanctified, and I now rejoice in full and free salvation. Glory to God! He has also healed me of a bad attack of the quinsy, for which I give him all the glory. Your sister in Christ,
Laura L. Greely.
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Centre Point, Ia.
Dear Saints and Trumpet Readers: I wish to write my testimony to show what God has done for me. I have been a member of the Campbellite profession for forty-five years, and part of the time serving the Lord as I thought, with all the light I had, and part of the time, I thought I was a backslider. But when the true light of the gospel shone into my heart, I learned I was a sinner. Then I went to the Lord in prayer, and he wonderfully blessed my soul. He forgave my sins, and I saved by the blood of the Lamb. Praise his holy name! I was not saved by water as I had been taught. Praise God for the evening light! I was an unbeliever in sanctification in this life, but bless God I have learned better. As we are found in death so we will be found in judgement; and if we die out of Christ we will be forever lost, for we know there is no sin in heaven. My desire is to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. Brethren I do desire that the saints would pray for me that I may ever be found faithful. Amen.