Gospel Trumpet – 7 November 1895

7 November 1895, Volume 15, Number 44.

CHRIST’S CONSTRAINING LOVE.

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Savior of men, thy searching eye
Doth all mine inmost thoughts descry:
Doth aught on earth my wishes raise.
Or the world’s pleasures, or its praise?

The love of Christ doth me constrain
To seek the wandering souls of men:
With cries, entreaties, tears to save,
To snatch them from the gaping crave.

For this let men revile my name;
No cross I shun, I fear no shame:
All hail, reproach: and welcome, pain;
Only thy terror, Lord, restrain.

My life, my blood, I here present,
If for thy truth they may be spent;
Fulfill thy sovereign counsel, Lord;
Thy will be done, thy name adored.

Give my thy strength, O God of power.
Then let winds blow, or thunders roar,
Thy faithful witness will I be:
‘Tis lived; I can do all through Thee.

J. J. Winkler.

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Eat the Word and find Deliverance.

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“WHY words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.” — Jer. 15:16.

“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: and I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.” — Jer. 15:20, 21. “For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me. Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their face, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so shall the Lord come down to fight for mount Zion and the hill thereof. — Isa. 31:4.

“And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.” — Isa. 32:3. “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” — Isa. 54:17. “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign to the people; to it shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.” “Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand; and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.” — Deut. 32:3. “From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river Arnon, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the Lord our God delivered all unto us.” — Deut. 2:36.

“Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak? Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.” — Deut. 9:1-4. “The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you.” — Deut. 1:30. “Sin shall not have dominion over you.” — Rom. 6:14.

O how beautiful the word of God! The soul that settles it that God is true in the sense that the experience taught in the Word really becomes his, so that he is a living epistle known and read of all men, believes, lives and obeys the whole truth, has it written in his heart and mind, he will be free from every power of the devil; of a truth he cannot be shaken. He will know that all things do work together for good to those that love the Lord, and that temptations are a part of his heritage. The word of God is a fortress and a stronghold against all the powers of the enemy. In every possible attack the Word is lifted against the devil in every soul that is in possession of the whole Word. Praise God! O it all would only obey, “stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong,” how bright would be their hope anchored in the word of God! What confidence they would have in God! We have no refuge but the Word, and why not believe it with all our hearts, and live in the strictest obedience? If you do not you will be weighed in the balance and found wanting. Will to go through; God gives strength to those who turn the battle to the gates. Since God declares that it it is impossible for him to lie, and has given us great and precious promises, and sworn by himself to the everlasting covenant, and declares that the devil is a liar and the father of lies, why not live and believe the truth constantly?

It means a great deal to be perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect, yet God means for us to be, or he would not say so; but with this command he expects to give us the grace to live so, and it is our duty to see that we get the grace through obedience of the truth. We are to increase more and more and to abound more and more. Ask yourself, Am I doing this? If not, it is high time that you were moving. “Speak to the people that they go forward.”

Do you so obey and trust God that the devil cannot tamper with you? Is every thought brought into obedience to the will of God? Do you do little things forbidden by the Word, and when admonished say, I don’t feel condemned? If so, no difference if you do not feel condemned, God’s word condemns you, and it is the Word you must meet in the day of judgment. The devil can sear your conscience, but the word of the Lord endureth forever, so see that you obey it rather than the dictates of a subverted mind. You must square up with the Word or be shaken out, for God is shaking both the heavens and earth as he promised.

On the other hand, with a clear soul, do you resist every accusation of the devil? It is an insult in the face of Almighty God to get under the devil’s accusing power and crushing forces of hell when we are living in the truth; and we cannot stay in the Word and allow Satan to do this, for we are commanded to resist the devil, and if we do not we become a transgressor. Of course, we know he is the accuser of the brethren, but we are not to get bound under accusations by him, or have our spiritual vision blurred; but we are constantly to hold the Word against every accusation he would bring, and not to accept it, and if he is persistent, you be persistent also, and resist him steadfastly in the faith, and know the word of God makes him flee, no difference how many lies he presents in regard to being around yet. Try the spirits whether they be of God. God will not dispute his own word.

We are to so live that we are always ready to give a reason of the hope that is within us, and be so free from every power of Satan that under no trying circumstances, or oppressing force, we will speak an impatient word, or give an impatient glance, or make an impatient move, but are to live just as Jesus Christ would live under the same circumstances, and all will be real gentleness and sweetness through the hottest test.

I want to add with these lines my testimony that God sweetly saves and delivers my soul from every power of Satan and keeps me on the Bible plane, where “I know no trouble or sorrow.” Praise his name! Yours in Jesus,

Jennie McNichelson.

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The Carnal Mind.

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WE are requested to show by the Word whether a person can be a child of God and be carnally minded.

First, we must distinguish between having the carnal mind, and being carnally minded. The first refers to a latent foe that dwells within a justified, but as yet unsanctified child of God. The latter denotes the activity and controlling power of that inbred foe. Therefore a person may be in Christ and have the carnal mind, which is only another name for the “old man,” “the body of sin,” the “flesh,” or “sin in our fallen nature.” See 1 Cor. 3:1. Eph. 4:22. Rom. 9:6, 11. Heb. 12:1. But no person can remain in Christ and become carnally minded, or allow the inward evil nature to bring forth his fruits. This results in forfeiting eternal life. “To be carnally minded is death.” Rom. 8:6. “For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die.” Rom. 8:13. “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” Rom. 8:8. This is explained by verse 5, “For they that are after the flesh, — carnal mind — do mind the things of the flesh;” that is, they are carried along in their lives by the unholy desires of the inward fallen nature. Hence they are not justified. Whereas if they would keep the evil bent in subjection to the implanted grace and new born Spirit, they could remain justified. This however is not the finished normal condition of a child of God; it is a dual state, in which “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Gal. 5:17. This does not describe a full sanctified state, for there the flesh is destroyed. Ver. 24 It does not describe a sinner or a backslider, for such do not have the Spirit. But it is the very experience of every justified Christian. We see by this and other scriptures that a new born child of God has this evil element within to contend with. But by confounding the carnal nature with its works some get things badly mixed, and arrive at erroneous conclusions. For instance, holiness people teach that the “flesh,” or carnal nature remains in us after the new birth, until we are sanctified by the second grace, that we may actually be in possession of that element and yet justified. Then some one who is not qualified to rightly divide the Word of truth, opens up to Gal. 5:19-21, and reads, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;” he reads the black list, and concludes if the holiness teaching is true, a man is justified and yet guilty of adultery, fornication, idolatry, murder, drunkenness, etc. And, of course he is horrified at such a low standard of justification. But do not conclude so rashly. We have told you the flesh is one thing, and his works another. If the flesh is permitted to work, such indeed are his works; and no person can be justified and allow the old man to be active. But we know there is such a thing as having the flesh in subjection, so that he does not work. And again there is such a thing as having the flesh crucified, utterly destroyed. The first is the justified state, the second the wholly sanctified. There are three relations of sin to the soul. 1st, The sinner is the slave of sin; in him sin works. 2d, The justified have their sins taken away, and the inborn sin is subjugated, hence the “flesh” in him does not work. 3d, In the wholly sanctified, sin does not exist. Or more briefly, in the first, sin reigns; in the second, the soul reigns over sin; in the third, all sin is destroyed. The first class are free from righteousness.” Rom. 6:20. The second is a dual state, both sin and righteousness present. Gal. 5:17. The third free from sin. Rom. 6:22.

The time was when we were in that very ignorance which confounds the flesh with its works; and we remember opposing the two works of grace by reading Gal. 5:19-21, and accusing the holiness people for teaching that men are justified while committing all those abominable works of the flesh, because they taught the presence of that element called the “flesh” in the justified. But thank God, we have gained spiritual sense enough to know that the flesh can exist, and not be permitted to work. And now by his destruction in entire sanctification, and the precious illumination of the Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth, we know that the position here taken is the truth, and that no other theory will harmonize with the word of God all the way through. Amen.

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TESTIMONIES.

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

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Rising Sun, O.

Dear Trumpet Readers: I wish to testify to the glory of God that I enjoy a salvation that saves me from all sin just now. I wish to say to the glory of God that the child that was sick is now well and in good health. She was healed immediately in answer to faith and prayer. Her testimony is that the Lord healed her. To God be all the glory.

Daniel Rouse, Jr.

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Kirk’s Junction, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: I feel led by the Spirit to let you know that God through your prayers has healed me. I give him all the glory. He has healed me soul and body. I cannot praise him enough. My disease was Bright’s Disease, and pronounced by the doctors incurable. I was healed the 9th of Oct. at Grand Junction. From your sister saved and sanctified,

Mrs. D. S. Denison.

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Alexander, Ill.

Dear Saints: This is the first time I am sending my testimony. I feel glad to say that the Lord has kept me sweetly saved by trusting him. I get many temptations, but the Lord makes a way of escape. I am all alone here in the evening light, as the people have not had sound doctrine preached to them. My husband has to work by day’s work to make a living for our little family, but we want to do something for the Lord, and have offered to pay a minister’s way out here if any can come. Please pray that I may stand firm and faithful, and pray for the lost in sectism, and sinners around me. Your sister,

Sarah Ewen.

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Smithville, O.

Dear Brethren in Christ: I do praise God this morning for a glorious salvation, that makes us free from all sin, and also from all sects. O I have been wandering from place to place, yea, from hill to hill, seeking the right way. Praise God, I made a full consecration, and the Lord showed me the way, even the high way of holiness, where we can walk with Christ our Lord, and his Spirit leads. We also take the Lord for our physician. O praise the Lord, he heals our bodies. It seems so sweet to have Christ in our midst, while we live in the one body. Your redeemed sister in the body of Christ,

Mary L. Kaufman.

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Darlington, S. C.

Dear Saints of God: May the richest blessings of heaven rest and abide with you evermore. In Jesus’ name I am trying to get very close to God. I want to be fully taken into the love and favor of God. This is certainly a needy time with me, God has, in his wise providence, seen fit to take my precious husband to his reward. He left me on the 28th of Sept, in the forty-third year of his life. This bereavement is very heavy to me. Please, dear ones, pray for me. I want to bear up under it and take it patiently. Oh how I do miss him! He was a faithful, kind, true and loving husband, and always ready for the work of the Lord. He lived a self-sacrificing life, seemed that his zeal for the cause of Christ was very great. Money seemed to be scarce among the saints in this part of the work this year, and when needed means was not supplied to take us to an appointment, when we felt the Lord would have us go, we would take it through on foot. Well do I remember of a long walk we took during the real hot weather. I think we walked eighteen or nineteen miles. Husband was tired and warm, but he was never heard to murmur or complain; just as the Lord led and directed was his will and way. I don’t understand fully God’s plan in taking beloved husband, one so useful and consecrated to the work, yet I do know that God doeth all things well. He gave some deep lessons while he was sick. God grant that the saints may profit by them. God showed him some deep things and it seems that he endeavored to impart some to Bro. Blackwell, who was the only one of God’s elders present. The Lord seemed to manifest his healing power the third time in husband’s case, yet the afflictions would come again and God took him to his reward. Please pray earnestly for me. I am in the hands of God to live or die. What I so much need and want is a witness, bright and clear, to my full acceptance with God. I want to receive the Holy Ghost in all its power and fulness. Do pray for me. My heart was, I believe, too much on my precious husband. I never did get him near consecrated like I ought to have done. Satan was mad with dear husband. His life of faith and trust and true devotions to God is perhaps condemning people to day; nothing else might have ever brought them to see their condition. He loved the Trumpet and the literature that he read from the Trumpet office. He seemed to desire to have many more tracts to give away than he did have. Pray earnestly for the saints in this state. Seems that the hand of affliction is heavy on some. What a trial of faith with us! But the trial of faith is more precious than gold with God’s faithful few. Yours for God and his truth,

Rivie Lee Shaw.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1895.

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LIST OF MONEY LETTERS NOT OTHERWISE RECEIPTED

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Alvin Moffitt, Elihu Bragg, John McBride, S. L. Catlin, H. C. Stahman, N. J. Montgomery, S. C. Berrie, Rebecca Powell, Emory Ferree, E. P. Thornbrough, Samuel Stockman, Fine Raymond, Geo. Burchfield, Melvin Stuart, W. M. Wilson, Clara Moore, Ostis B. Wilson.

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Bro. and Sister Jacobson urge the brethren in the Northwest to make special effort to be at the assembly meeting at the Children’s Home near Pullman, Wash., Nov. 14 to Dec. 2.

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At present we are in need of some carpenters, wood-cutters, and some one to set type. The workers here give their services free. Has not the Lord been talking to some consecrated persons on this line.

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All sinners are commanded to repent and believe the gospel, but some want to wait until they are struck down like Paul, and many while thus waiting are cut off in their sins to meet their awful fate in eternity; likewise some whom God has laid his hand upon for his work are waiting for him to strike them down in order to get them to obey. Sometimes the Lord just permits such ones to backslide, and have all the time they desire to prolong their disobedience.

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Requests For Prayer.

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Kansas City, Mo.

I have been getting hard of hearing for the last four years. Pray that my hearing may be restored.

Mrs. J. C. Kirk.

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Prayer is requested for Sister Sarah Arnold, Sharon, O., at ten o’clock. Sunday Nov. 16. Her left side is paralyzed.

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Pray earnestly, Nov. 17, at ten o’clock, that my faith may be increased, and that I may be healed of catarrh. Also for the healing of my little boy who is afflicted.

Maggie Thomas.

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Pray Nov. 10, for the Lord to heal my afflicted body.

A.Collins,

Stryker, O.

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Tullahoma, Tenn.

I request the prayers of all the TRUMPET readers on the 10th of Nov., for a cancer wart on my hand, that pains me a great deal, as it has commenced to eat. I am your brother saved and sanctified. I had the pleural pneumonia a year ago last May, and I took the Lord for my physician, and he healed me.

M. L. Ulmer.

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Calls For Meeting.

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We have a hall ready and are waiting for some one chosen of the Lord to come and hold a meeting at once.

Nellie Graham,

Pittsburg, Kan.

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We would like for some one to come here and hold meetings who know for sure the Lord is sending them.

Mrs. Sarah Paris,

Monticello, Ill.

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MEETINGS.

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There will be an assembly meeting at Frisco, Ark., commencing Dec. 21, Lord willing, to continue as long as the Lord wills.

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There will be an assembly meeting at Bro. John Holley’s, six miles south of Huntington, Ind., commencing Nov. 22, to continue as long as the Lord wills. We give a hearty welcome to all of God’s children to come to this meeting, and we pray that God will send some his older experier..ed teachers. You can come on the Eri.. road, or on the Wabash, and there will be a way prepared to meet you at the depot. Address Bro. John Holley, or Samuel M. Rothermell, Huntington, Ind.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between covenant and law?

2. Did Jesus make void both the covenant of circumcision and moral law?

3. If so, what does the apostle mean in Rom. 3:31? Yours In the bond of perfectness

S.N. S.

Ans. to first. Covenant in the Bible sense, is a divine enactment, agreement, and sometimes includes also a law. The covenant God made with Noah, to never again drown the earth by a flood was unconditional, hence it involved no law. But the covenant made on Sinai was a law to the Jewish nation, the law of ten commandments. And so is this new covenant a law, the “law of Christ.” So a covenant may, or may not include a law.

Ans. to second. Jesus took away and abolished the covenant and law given on Sinai. Also circumcision, which he said, John 7:22, Moses gave to the Jews; that is, included in the Sinai law. But God had made a covenant with Abraham, which is called “the covenant of circumcision,” Acts 7:8, which Jesus did not make void, but he carried it into execution, and is really the sum and substance of it. By reference to Gen. 17th and 21st chapters, and elsewhere, we find that covenant comprised three promises. 1st, “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” That seed was Christ. See Gal. 3:16. 2d, “I will bless thee and multiply thee, and thy seed shall be as the sand upon the seashore, and as the stars for number.” These are all who believe in Christ. Gal. 3:29. 3d, “I will give unto thee and unto thy seed all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession;” that is, the grace and glory of entire sanctification. Acts 20:32. 26:18. A present possession. Eph. 1:11. This covenant was executed in Christ. He is the seed of the first promise; the head of the seed of the second promise; and the sanctification of the third promise. Now Abraham believed God in these things before he was circumcised, and that faith was counted unto him for righteousness. And circumcision was afterwards given to him as a sign and “seal of the righteousness which he had, yet being uncircumcised.” Rom. 4:11. But Christ took away that outward sign, and instead gave us circumcision of the heart, of which the outward was a type. So Christ took away the entire Mosaic covenant, including the ten commandments, circumcision, and all the other ceremonies appertaining to that system. But he continues to fulfill to us all that God had pledged in the three-promise covenant to Abraham, which really enbodied the whole plan of salvation, and was therefore called the Gospel. Gal. 3:8.

Ans. to third. See Rom. 3:31. How do we “establish the law by faith? We receive by experience all the grace that was foreshadowed in the law, and so establish the verity of those things. Christ also raised a higher standard of moral perfection than that contained in the law, and yet he not only lived out all he taught, but enables us to do so likewise. And thus he established and proved just and righteous all the moral rectitude required in the law. Had Christ failed to meet the moral character taught in the law it would have been a testimony against the justness and reasonableness of its demands; but on the other hand, since both he and his true disciples walk on a plane of moral purity still higher than the old law, the wisdom and justice of all its code are thoroughly established.

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THE CORRECT ORDER.

We are requested to set forth the Scriptural order of the ordinances of washing the saints’ feet, and of the Lord’s supper, and whether Judas was present at either of the observances. This we think the Word makes very plain and conclusive. We begin with John 13, The Savior concludes his teaching on the ordinance here enacted in verse 17, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Immediately following this promise he says, “I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.” In verse 21 he comes out plainly and testified and said —, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.” He did not speak as though the traitor was an absent party, but “one of you shall betray me.” And in verses 26- 30, we see that Judas was actually present, received the sop, was made known, and went immediately out. So he was positively present, and no doubt the Savior washed his feet.

Now since the exposing of Judas is recorded by all the evangelists, we will use that event as a point to measure from to find the order of the two ordinances. We have seen that John unmistakably locates the washing of the saints’ feet just before it took place. And since Matthew and Mark agree exactly in their description of the events of the night, we will take their joint testimony. By reference to Mat. 26:21-26, and Mark 14:18-22, we find the first thing that took place after Christ was seated with his disciples at the passover meal was to make known that Judas was his betrayer. And John informs us that Judas immediately then left the house. Therefore he was not present when the bread and the fruit of the vine were given, which, we see by the above two witnesses, took place later on, or after Judas was exposed. So we may arrange the matter in plain tabular form as follows:

John 13:1-30.	Matt. 26:21-26.	Mark 14:18-22.
Washing feet.
Exposes Judas.	Exposes Judas.	Exposes Judas.
	Lord’s supper.	Lord’s supper.

You see by the Word that John locates the washing of the saints’ feet just before Judas was disposed of. While Matthew and Mark place the giving of the communion bread and cup just after Judas was exposed. And by reading the last two witnesses to the close of the Lord’s supper we find that ordinance was instituted in the last moments of the paschal feast. For immediately after, they sang a hymn and went out. So every thing establishes the above order. Therefore the washing of feet should be first, the Lord’s supper last.

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GIVING.

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Dear Gospel Trumpet Readers: I believe the Lord would have me write a few lines OR giving. “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God has prospered him.” 1 Cor. 16:2. You see the Word says every one, no one excepted. But someone may say, God has not prospered me, I have nothing to give; then God does not require anything of you. Some may think, well, I could only give a quarter or a half dollar, so I don’t think it worth while to give so little. But Jesus said that the poor widow gave more than all the rest because she gave all her living. How should we give? Should we subscribe so much a year or give our notes with interest as the writer has done in Babylon? The Word says “has prospered you” (in the past); give what you have and not what you expect to have. “Not grudgingly, for the Lord loveth the cheerful giver.” “Give, and it shall be given you, good measure, running over, shall men give unto your bosom.” Father says the gold and silver is his, and the cattle upon a thousand hills; so we are only giving to God what belongs to him. “He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.” “Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.” “But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Now dear brethren you have the report of what was given for the paper folder, which is about half what ought to be given. “Who will consecrate his service unto the Lord this day?” I will give one day toward the fund. How many more can do the same, or a half a day, and give all the proceeds for the work? Don’t Ananias-like keep back part of the price, but give all you earn and the Lord will bless you “abundantly, above that you can ask or think.” Praise God, I have given all my time to him and he supplies the strength to work for him. “Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” All for God,

A. F. Adams.

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HEALED BY THE POWER OF GOD.

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Springfield, O., Oct. 20, 95.

I must glorify God by confessing his goodness and miraculous power in healing me of eight or nine weeks of the fever; also our little boy, Jerry, who was taken sick at the same time and has been truly healed. About two weeks ago he was indeed very sick. The neighbors came in and said he could not live an hour. I was in Indiana at the time holding meeting in company with Bro. and Sister Speck, and Bro. C. B. Morton. A dispatch came for me to “come at once, Jerry sick,” etc. I started at 1:15 P. M. and got home at 9:30 P. M. The child looked like a corpse when I came in. We prayed as soon as the dispatch came, and I prayed all the way home. The brethren at home prayed, and the gracious God of miraculous power, who is just the same to-day, has healed Jerry and he is now well and strong. Praise the Lord! We are so grateful to the Lord; we know not how to express it. We have learned many precious lessons while passing through our long siege of affliction. Thank God, we are through and have the benefit, and he shall have the glory. The people said, “He will die on faith,” “never see home,” etc. Others said, “We ought to make them have a doctor.” We had the best doctor in the world — JESUS.

Some people think, when we are sick, and do not have a doctor, and then die, it is a terrible thing. But if we have a doctor when sick and die, then it is all right; “good doctor,” “his time had come.” If God heals the sick, people grumble; if the doctor heals sick, people praise him. “WILL A MAN ROB GOD.” They also conjecture, “If the Lord can heal, we never ought to die.” What a base notion! The apostles were healed, and they are all dead. The man that was a cripple for thirty-eight years was healed, and he is dead. And the Bible says, “It is appointed unto man once to die.” Hence all are destined to die even though you summon all the doctors in the universe. Pray for me.

B. E. Warren.

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TO THE READERS OF THE TRUMPET.

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After visiting the Children’s Home, located on the camp ground about one mile north of Grand Junction, Mich., and understanding, measurably, the object, success and needs of the same, I feel that God would be well pleased to have me say some thing that SHOULD interest the church at large. Why I say the church at large, is because it is not so much a local affair, but of GENERAL benefit; for the accommodations and benefits of the home and school reach far and wide. A home for the helpless and friendless, a school for the children of those whom God has called into the harvest field. May God bless such institutions; they are very commendable. All over our republic such institutions exist, and we hail them with gladness. But dear saints of God, while those of a secular and worldly character are beneficial to the human family, let us not forget that this institution located here is not only for the relief and benefit of its inmates, temporally, but spiritually; here they are not only cared for in the sense of bodily relief and comfort, but their souls are cared for, and a specialty on this line is carried out by those whom God (not man) has placed over this matter by the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah! “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.” Acts 20:28.

Now brethren, this work is yet in its infancy, and we do not presume to say that EVERYTHING in connection with it has been characterized with perfect judgment. While those whom God has appointed over the home and school work may have come short in some particulars, through lack of judgment or experience, or both, yet we believe that they have the Spirit of God and are willing to be guided by the same.

Now dear readers, while all institutions outside of this one demand financial aid, this is not an exception; and the difference, and the only difference between the supporting (financially) of this (God’s institution) and others (which doubtless many of them God sanctions) is in the MANNER of raising funds for support. While many other institutions raise money to pay expenses by resorting to gambling, extortion, begging, passing receptacles in public, taking advantage by presenting subscription papers, taking care to see that those who are likely to subscribe the most are placed at the head of the list, holding socials, festivals, donation parties, etc., where fun and frolic is the order (many times) of the day or evening, and various other methods. I say, while these methods are practiced largely, God’s method is simply to let his people know his demands upon them and the necessity of support. And be it understood that we do know that it is not begging for money, in the sense of begging, to place before the people concerned, the needs of any particular work of God to be supported, and then leave them with the word of God and the leading of his Spirit. It may be, and doubtless is said by some when they read in the TRUMPET that a certain part of God’s work needs money, “There, they are begging for money again!” Be careful, dear ones, that when God stretches forth his hand and says, Bring in your tithes and offerings, you do not cry, “begging.” The King’s business needs haste. This last, great reformation is nothing more, nothing less than GOD MOVING; and dear ones, unless we, as his people, move with him, we will be left far in the rear and how great will be the darkness! Let us keep pace with the great light which the people, who sat in darkness for over four hundred years, saw. Praise the dear Lord for that light! It shines brighter and brighter, brethren. But to return to the subject. This work is increasing. Churches are being planted daily, new messengers are going into the work daily, multitudes are being born into the church daily. Schools and homes are springing into existence, and more contemplated; and it dotn not yet appear what God will do, but we know that if we keep pace with him we shall understand it by and by. And with all of God’s movings and his work increasing in so many directions, no marvel if he cries out once or even twice in a while, “Bring all the tithes into the store house.” We hear some, when a demand is made, say, “What next?” Now dear ones, if you could only properly comprehend the magnitude of this great evening light movement of Gods church, and were wholly consecrated to his service, when one demand is

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satisfied you would look for another and be ready and willing to meet it. Yes dear ones, I hope and pray that this work will move on in such a way as to demand the next installment due on the contract between God and us, one clause of which reads as follows; viz, I consecrate all my time, talents, and EARTHLY STORE. O Lord help us!

Now let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. This month (November) there is due on the camp ground property about $125 00. Who will help to pay it? Send money by draft, express order, or postal money order to G. W. Baughman, Grand Junction, Mich, and it will be paid to the party holding the obligation. Yours in the one body, the church,

A. B. Palmer.

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I feel like saying a few things concerning the children’s home. I have just had the privilege of visiting there a few days, having taken my children there to stay as long as the Lord wills The number of children there is about thirty-four at present, I believe, and about ten or twelve adults. And while I was there I observed that several things are very much needed at present to make the Home comfortable and ready for the winter. A few of which I will speak of.

First, some wheat is needed to make bread. Bro. Michels told me the wheat was about all gone and not very easy to get in that part, as it is not very plentiful there. Now I have heard some brethren say that they sowed and farmed wheat for the Lord. To such I will say, Here is a chance for you to hear the Lord make a demand if you listen very closely, and whatsoever he sayeth to you, that do. The King’s matter demands haste, God has provided this home for the ministers’ children, so they can go forth into this great harvest field to rescue poor lost souls. There may be various reasons why he provided a home for his holy messengers’ children. Perhaps he knew that very few would appreciate having a holy minister live in their locality enough to see that his family was provided with food to subsist upon, and raiment and fuel to keep them warm. O my dearly beloved brethren, you who have homes and sufficient of the necessaries of life to keep you comfortable, and with the heaven favored privilege of having your family with you and enjoying their society, think of those who must break up the domestic circle, deny themselves of the society of their family and all their pleasant things for the sake of Christ and the gospel. Examine your hearts and see if you have, or are now doing your duty? Oh for Christ’s sake and for the sake of perishing souls do not “muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.” Do all you can to take off the muzzle and let him go forth. If they sow to you spiritual things, do not think it strange if they reap and receive of your carnal things; that is, the necessaries of life to subsist upon. If you who have farms and the privilege of working every day think you have a hard time to get along, how do you think the preachers have or will get along who preach all the time or even half of the time? Praise the Lord! we have learned by a dear experience which is very precious to our souls, that the trial of our faith is more precious than gold that perisheth; and we have also a precious promise: “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Hallelujah! Have you done your duty towards sending forth God’s oxen? Here is a chance. “They that sow sparingly shall also reap sparingly.”

The following I speak from experience, which doubtless has been for my good. We cannot preach the gospel as effectually, and devote the greater part of our time to doing manual labor, as we can when we devote a greater portion of our time to the study of God’s word. I could more clearly demonstrate this fact, but time and space will not permit, neither do I deem it necessary, as I think it is clear to all. All who know me know that my consecration means, work with my hands for the support of my family, and preach at such times as I could get away; and I found plenty who were consecrated to let me do it. I do not speak of this to complain; God forbid! I do thank God he has overruled it all for my good and I believe for his glory, and I do thank God that he has brought me through this way. I am willing to pay an apostolic price for the apostolic salvation. But I will continue. God wants some one, or more than one, and they are greatly needed now, who are consecrated to work for him; some good carpenter to do some work on the Home and on Bro. Warner’s house, and on the addition to the T RUMPET Office that was spoken of in the TRUMPET a few weeks ago. The Home and School buildings are to be warmed by steam, pipes are to be put all through the buildings and coils in every room. Bro. Michels is hard at work and a few other brethren, but some carpenters are needed. “Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day to the Lord.”

Dear ones, instead of binding down God’s ministers to “preach part of the time,” let us all do what we can to send them forth, for truly the harvest is indeed great and the laborers are few. Amen. And by helping to do this work that is so much needed, you are helping to send forth preachers into the field. There is also some one needed who is consecrated to chop wood for the furnace. May the dear Lord send in the wheat, the carpenters and the wood choppers and whatever else he sees fit. Children’s clothing will be acceptable and thankfully received. It is scarcely necessary for me to say anything further concerning the home, as to how things are conducted there, and how faithful all are in doing their duty in caring for, training, and teaching the children. Suffice it to say, so far as I was able to discern, all is going in the Lord’s order. Oh how it did thrill my soul with joy to see the dear children fall in line and march to the table and into the school in perfect order as they sang their heavenly songs! May God bless our much beloved Bro. and Sister Michels, and Bro. and Sister Orr, and Sister Cook, for their labor of love, and give them much holy wisdom, and the necessary qualifications to train the children for heaven. Amen Wife and I are now ready to go forth to labor in the vineyard as the Lord shall lead. All who desire our labors, address me at Grand Junction, Mich. Pray for us. Yours saved,

J. N. Howard.

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[Wherever there is a Children’s Home, you may know there are plenty of chances to help the work of the Lord along. The address of the Washington School is, James Bamford, Pullman, Wash. Ask God what you can do for Him for any of these schools.]

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News from the Field

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Leeslick, Ky., Oct. 28.

Dear Saints: We came to this place two weeks ago and commenced meeting in the name of Jesus, and closed the 27th with victory for our King. Praise his name! The devil was present to stir a few deluded souls to oppose the work of God, but the Lord had his way in the service, and a few souls found Jesus precious to them. There were five professions of justification and two consecrations for sanctification. The work on this line has just begun at this place, and I believe will prosper if the seed sown receives the refreshing showers. Cannot Bro. Thos. Carter and company visit this place some time this fall? The saints here will assemble in their first meeting next Lord’s day evening, with dear Bro. Ed. Fitzwater, whom the Lord is calling into the work of the ministry. May the Lord keep him humble and low at the feet of Jesus.

We go from here to Grand Junction, Mich. as we feel the Lord calling us fully out in the work. We believe it his will to put our children in the home, so we can be free to go wherever he leads. Yours for the one body,

E. R. and Jennie Baber.

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Gospel Ark, Hazel, O.

We are happy to report victory in our souls over all sin. We are very busy in the gospel work. The Lord is helping us to put forth the truth in power and is also helping the people to see the true church. There have been five at the altar at this place; one at Long Bottom, sanctified and healed. Another sister out in the full light. Many at both places acknowledge the truth. We realize that the Lord is working. We are still believing that the Lord through the brethren will send the needed means to prepare the Ark for winter. Don’t wait for one to furnish all, but send in as the Lord directs. Let every body talk to the Lord about it. Pray for us. Yours with much love,

L. C. Mast and Co.

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66 Colfax St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Nov. 2.

Dear Saints of God: As I have not reported for a long time I feel it God’s will to tell what He is doing with me. Last winter, I was impressed to come to Grand Rapids and open the work. We went and found God had the way opened for us to lodge, and soon commenced meeting at a private house for a week or so, and then a hall was hired and furnished in a low part of the city among Hollanders. We continued in the name of Jesus and soon opened another mission in another part of the city, and carried them on through very trying circumstances sometimes, often felt like giving it up, but persisted, undaunted, for God gave the assurance he was with us. Praise our God! When I look back I am made to marvel at God’s leading and kind providences. We have trusted God all the way for everything and he has marvelously proved his word true in our case here. We have opened and carried on this work by faith alone, and give him all the glory. Several brethren and sisters have come in during the summer and helped to preach the truth to the people. We have had six meetings in different parts of the city, but the enemy has shut off one, and one it was thought best to drop, as it is cold weather, yet they are anxious for preaching. We had an ordinance meeting about two weeks ago in which twenty-three took part, and was a very precious time. The city is wonderfully shaken, and they want meeting in two or three other places. There is one place we feel God wants us to open soon; it is a good neighborhood and the people are considerably awakened and anxious for meetings. May the Lord move upon whomsoever he will to aid in the work here. The willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land. We feel God wants us to remain here till the work of God is established. There have been some very wonderful cases of healing, and devils cast out. All glory to God! Surely we have a great God. We have a Bible reading every morning, which is a great blessing to us all, and God is opening up his word to us as never before. We do without breakfast and devote the time to Bible study, and like David says, “I cherish thy word more than my necessary food.” Pray for us and the work here, that we may sink deeper in the truth than ever. Your brethren, saved and kept,

G. R. Achor, Samuel Alexander.

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Salem, Ore., Oct. 25.

Dear Saints Everywhere Greeting: We do magnify the Lord for his precious love and power which does save and keep us from all sin and confusion. We do thank God for a prosperous journey across the mountains to this western coast. We landed at Woodburn, Ore. the 5th of Oct., found dear Bro. and Sister Green and dear Bro. Peterman, and the rest of the saints praising God for their deliverance through the blood of Christ. We remained with the little ones a short time at that place, and then we came to this place, where some of us will remain during winter, Lord willing. A part of us will labor in the city, and a part will work in the country as the Lord may lead. Bro. and Sister Kriebel will remain in this city. Bro. J. L. Green and company went seven miles south to-day. Bro. Peterman, wife and myself will go down near Albany, Ore. We are looking for a great harvest of souls this winter. Brethren, pray for us and the work in Oregon that God may push on the battle in this sin-cursed, and sect- hardened country. We invite all the dear saints and lovers of the truth that maybe passing through this place, to call and see us. Our address is Salem, Ore. Corner of Trade and Sixteenth Sts. The Lord has provided a dear good home here for the saints. Yours in him,

Wm.A. and Nellie Randolph,
S.S. and Annie Kriebel.

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TESTIMONY.

Chicago, Ill.

Dear Trumpet: Having been called upon to write a little for the Lord and also of his work in this part of the city, especially among the German class, where the Lord has set me to work right between the German Lutheran and German Baptist sects. I greatly desire to let the world know in some way what the dear Lord has done for me and wife, and also how he is carrying on the work. Let us give God the glory.

May the Lord bless these words, that many may find in Jesus their Savior, cleanser, healer and keeper, as I have done. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name; who forgiveth all thine, iniquities, and healeth all thy diseases.” Praise his holy name, for I was sick and Jesus healed me; I was lost, but Jesus found me; found the sheep that went astray, put his loving arms around me, drew me back into his way, and therefore I’ll praise him ever in joyful song, for he has set me free from all bondage of sin, Satan and sectism, where I was held a prisoner for over thirty- two years. Glory to his name, he has delivered me from them all. And when I, through the instrumentality of one of God’s servants in this city, was shown to look away from teachings of men, and to look to God only, and ask him for the right understanding of his Word, and forsook all sin, and when God had given me the blessed assurance, by his Spirit, that he had taken away all my sin by the atonement of the blood of Jesus, I also found the assurance in his Word, that it is just as easy for our Lord Jesus to heal me from my affliction as to take away my sins, and knowing by his own Word that he said, “Whosoever cometh to me I will in no wise cast out,” I went to him with my affliction wherewith Satan had bound me for over sixteen years with rheumatism. I had tried many doctors and remedies, all without doing me any good, but they got my money and I kept the pain. How I have suffered can not be expressed in words. When I first got sick eighteen years ago, I laid without being able to move one single joint of my whole body for several months, and afterward got so that I could walk around by the aid of crutches; and even at the time just before my healing I was not able to stand alone, for my ankle bones were kept stiff all these sixteen years. My wrist had become useless, and my back I could not straighten, being bound by Satan, my heart being so affected that many a time I fell down helpless from the effects of heart trouble, and for many years had suffered with kidney and liver trouble. But I read that the Lord had taken upon himself our infirmities and bore our sickness, and so with great difficulty I got down upon my knees, and the Lord, whose ears are open to the cry of the righteous, and when they call upon him he heareth them, also heard my cry; and two minutes later I stood to my feet without pain, and all my joints were loosed at once, and I at once knew that the Lord had perfectly healed me. Praise his holy name!

Dear Readers, I feel now as I write this the same as I did at the time when the Lord so wonderfully healed me, as it I would like to be able to call all together and ask them to help me praise the Lord. Let us all join in it now, and with our eyes heavenward, say, Hallelujah, praise, honor, glory be to God and to the Lamb that was slain! He suffered for us and through him we have access to the Father. Praise the Lord forever, who has so wonderfully cleansed me from all unrighteousness! And in him I have now found my all in all, and his only I am, and have consecrated myself wholly to him, spirit, soul and body, to serve him. He has accepted me, and I find that he has plenty to do for every one that is willing to serve him, and showers of blessings are everywhere as well as in the Mission, where he at present has stationed us to work in the north-west part of this great wicked city. There are many shepherds, but most of them are such as the prophet Ezekiel speaks of in chap. 34:2-4. He is now sending out his servants to invite the lame, the halt, the sick, and the blind, and they are coming by scores through our labors, unto the Lord.

I earnestly ask all the saints to pray that the Lord may continue this work and raise up more earnest workers, for the harvest is great but the laborers few. Although Satan and his co-workers are raging, let us go right on and face the enemy in the name and strength of our Lord Jesus. Let us join in the prayer with his dear disciples when Peter was so wonderfully freed out of prison, and let us lift our voice in one accord, saying, Lord, behold their threatenings, and stretch forth thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may follow in the name of thy child Jesus, that they may see and know that we are thy chosen people, going about and working in the strength and name of Jesus. He did not send his disciples to preach what they had learned of other great men in colleges and universities, but Jesus commanded his disciples to go and preach the gospel of the kingdom, and to heal the sick, etc., Matt. 10:7, 8, and that they should go and teach all nations, observing all things whatsoever he commanded them. Now dear brethren and sisters in Christ, there is a call for you. Will you not go and work in his vineyard? God bless these lines written in love for those in darkness, that they may come out into this beautiful evening light, is the prayer of your brother in Christ,

Otto Nimz,

893 N. Lincoln St.

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OBITUARIES.

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Darlington, S. C.

SHAW. — James Edward Shaw departed this life Sept. 28, in the forty-third year of his life. It seems that he had some apprehensions of death nearly a week before he died. The Lord showed his power to heal the third time in husband’s ease, yet he took him to his reward. His only desire to live seemed to be to do the work of the Lord, and get deeper in spiritual things. The day he died he sang some of the songs that he used to sing before he got sick. Would sing even after we did not understand words; yes after it seems he was so near the crossing that we neither understood words nor tune. He left one brother and a much bereaved wife behind. I do not mourn as those who have no hope. It may be soon that the Master will let me go to join him in glory. Funeral service by Bro. H. B. Blackwell a,nd E. B. Haynes. His body was laid away by the side of our little babe, there to wait the resurrection morn.

Wife.

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DIVINE HEALING.

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By E. E. Byrum.

THE COMMISSION.

Throughout all ages we find that Divine Healing was not only commanded to be taught, but has been practiced. We read of Abraham praying for Abimelech’s family, and they were healed. Gen. 20:17. And Moses had a commission and promise also and many were healed. At one time a brazen serpent was commanded to be lifted up for all who would look and live, and they were healed of their afflictions Likewise the prophets of old prayed and God answered their prayers in healing the sick and in doing wonderful works. Coming down to the gospel dispensation, we find that the prophets foretold of Jesus, saying:

“Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken and smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions; he was braised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.” — Isa. 53:4, 5. In Matthew 8:16, 17 we find the fulfillment of this prophecy after Jesus came down from the mount where he had been preaching to the people. We read that:

“When even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all them that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet saying, Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” Here we see that prophecy was fulfilled. And following this were many wonderful cases of healing, and his power manifest in the midst of the people. But did it stop here? By no means. Not only did Christ have this power, but we read in Matthew 10:1 that he commissioned his twelve apostles and gave them the same power and authority. “And when he had called unto him the twelve apostles he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases.” In Acts 5:12 we find the fulfillment of this commission: “And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; * * * insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks and them that were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.”

Some people are willing to admit that Christ and the apostles had this power, but that it was given to no one else. Open your Bibles at Luke 10:1. There we find that the Lord sent out seventy others, and in verse 9, he told them that as they entered into the cities, to heal the sick that were therein. And in this chapter we find that they received the same commission as the twelve. Turning to the seventeenth to the twentieth verses of the same chapter we find the same fulfilled, and they returned rejoicing that even the devils were subject unto them through the name of Jesus. Well, yes, says some one, we see that the Word teaches that the seventy also had that power, but no one else did. Let us call your attention to Paul. Did he not have the same power and authority? He was not one of the twelve, and yet the blind man at Lystra was healed, Acts 14:8, and many other wonderful cases. We cannot doubt but that God had given him the same commission; neither did it stop there. In Mark 16:17, 18, we find it says, “And these signs shall follow them that believe.” And among the signs that, are to follow: it says that they shall cast out devils, and they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. To whom is this commission given? It is to “them that believe.” Are we among “them that believe?” If so, does not that reach down to this time and age of the world? This commission was given by Christ himself after his crucifixion before he ascended into heaven. It was his last commission and meant for his ministers who may be sent forth after that time.

Now, notice St, John 14:12: “Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father; and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son: If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it.” Then he says, “If ye love me keep my commandments.” Does this leave the impression upon any one that this commission, power and authority stopped with the apostles? By no means. No one can find in the Bible where this power was withdrawn from the church, where these promises stopped with the apostles never to be claimed by the church; but we read in the Word where it says, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day and forever. He has lost none of his power. He will not deprive his believing children of the privileges laid down in his word. Because people have departed from the faith does not change the word of God; but thank God he has raised up a people to-day and sent them forth with the Bible commission.

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A Wonderful Acknowledgment.

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WE take the following remarkable concession from the “WAY OF FAITH,” a Methodistic holiness paper, published at Columbia, S. C. of May 8, 1895. The party sending us the paper writes upon the margin, that the writer, R. F. Evans, is a very prominent Methodist preacher in Georgia. We recognize in the writer an able thinker, and we do not wonder that he anticipates that some of his Methodist brethren will become offended at the disclosure that the Protestant sects are the second beast of Rev. 13, and the “most deadly development of AntiChrist.” And that “Popery and Protestantism together form that great Babylon in which God’s people have been held in captivity.” But we will let the article speak for itself.

“The anti-Christ foretold of the latter half of Daniel’s prophetic period, considered as a principle, is the deceitful substitution of the elements of this world in the place of the elements of a pure Christianity. But a principle is without effect except as it gets to itself some sort of embodiment. And so this counterfeit, was to be manifested forth in a counterfeit church, which is the “beast” of Revelations; the seat of “the woman having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornications.” And “the dragon,” the god of this world, “that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan,” “gave him,” the beast, “his power and his seat, and great Authority.” The sum of this last statement is that in a counterfeit Christianity and a counterfeit church there is a substitution of the powers which are of this world, in the place of the Holy Ghost for the maintenance and propagation of the gospel.

The first substitution for the Holy Ghost effected by the god of this world was that of the sword, and the fagot, and the heathenish mummeries of ritualism in Popery. We would anticipate but little difficulty in persuading Protestants generally of the correctness, thus far, of our interpretation. But the great Lutheran reformation, by which Popery was cast down from the seat of supremacy, is a clearly marked event in the prophetic systems both of Daniel and Revelation. And it is taught, beyond the possibility of mistake by those who see the deceitful principle against which these prophecies are seeking to warn us, that the essential spirit of anti-Christ survived that overthrow of “the beast,” the body of the anti-Christ. The prophet saw Popery, “as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed.” Rev. 13:3. It is in Protestantism that the second form of the beast arose, which “exerciseth all the power of the first beast before — whose deadly wound was healed.” Rev. 13:12. It was of the days of Protestantism that the spirit of prophecy characterizes Popery as “the beast that was, and is not,” as to form, “and yet is,” as to spiritual essence.

Let me ask the candid reader, who, with perfect love in his heart, fears none blit God, Has the anti-Christ yet been destroyed? They who worship the beast, who look to the god of this world for the rewards and triumphs of the gospel, may imagine that he perished when Popery was dethroned. But the spiritually minded, who know that “the friendship of the world is emnity against God,” will be prepared to believe the testimony of the prophets that the most deadly development of the anti-Christ was to be in the times of the glory of Protestantism, and that his body, the beast of six hundred and sixty- six names, “the names of blasphemy,” is the heterogeneous mass of ecclesiasticism called the visible church, pervaded by the spirit of the world, and trusting in the dements of this world for success, rather than in the wisdom and power of the Holy Ghost.

We are not saying that God’s true children are not found in connection with this usurping system, nor that the real work of the gospel of salvation is not being carried on by them. But all this was equally true during the times of the ascending of Popery. And there is nothing inconsistent in all this with the fact that Popery and Protestantism together form that great Babylon in which God’s people have been held in captivity during “the forty and two months,” in which the beast “was given power to continue.” As clearly as the sides and summit of a great mountain are seen in the light of the rising sun, may it now be seen that “the beast,” which thus far in the opening visions is the central figure of the book of Revelation, is intended to symbolize what the world during the ages of Popery and Protestantism has called the church, while God has recognized as his church only his hidden people, his true spiritual children.

This discovery has been reserved for the time set in the purposes of God when he will destroy this huge counterfeit of his “holy city.” Mat. 24:14, 15. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall, see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth let him understand),” etc. See the significance of the connective “therefore,” as showing that this abomination, standing in the place where God’s holy temple ought to be, should not be seen until the time of the end.

Let no one who believes the promise of the coming again of our Lord to begin his judgment at the house of God, permit the prejudice, which the god of this world has been careful to prepare for effect against the truth in the day of its unsealing, to prevent him from a careful and candid consideration of the suggestions of this article. Let him reject upon the abundant proof furnished by the Scriptures that the line of division in the religious conflicts foretold of the latter days will not be drawn between the professors of virtue and religion and the openly wicked, that is, between what are commonly called the church and the world, but between the saints of God with Christ in their midst, and their ancient enemy, the god of this world, in the sect of authority in the temple of God. Let him reflect upon the significance of this fact, and counting not his life dear unto him, let him prayerfully study the word of God until God shall give him a perfect understanding of the truth.”

R. F. Evans.

Cairo, Ga.

NOTE.

God bless the man who, though standing in the ranks of one of the Babylon parties, dare utter such true and radical words in the fear of God, and regardless of opposition at home. So far as we know, the GOSPEL TRUMPET is the first paper that heralded the great truth, that Protesanism is the second beast of Rev. 13. And that position at once raised in war against us all the combined forces of sectism, Holiness associationism, holiness evangelists and papers, and we may truthfully add, all devils in hell and on earth. Fifteen years ago it required no small sacrifice to promulgate such teaching as Bro. Evans has so clearly set forth.

Only one small error or oversight we see in the article, — where he speaks of “forty and two months,” as covering the beast power of both Popery and Protestantism; whereas that time was covered by the supremacy of the first beast alone, and Protestantism extended 350 years farther. A. D. 270 is the very year mentioned by Milner, the English historian, from which we are to date the “decayed state of the church.” Century. 4, chapter 1. Forty-two Jewish months, make 1260 days, and “a day for year,” make as many years. 1260 years, beginning at A. D. 270, extend to 1530, the very time the first Protestant creeds were adopted, in the Augsburg counsel; namely, the Lutheran and the Zwinglian creeds. And 350 years more of Protestantism, carry us down to 1880, just when God’s holy people discovered that the Protestant sects were not God’s church at all. Just as Luther discovered that Popery was wholly a fraud and counterfeit. In both cases the supremacy was broken and ended there.

Now we set Bro. Evans against the deceitful and crooked outcries for sectism, that have gone out from the pen of her apologists, such as Roberts, Sims, Nelson, and all the rest. These men in an underhanded and hypocritical manner all identify the modern sects with God’s church, and then seek to arouse the ignorant zeal and idolatrous devotion of men who are blinded with such false education, to continue in the Babylon folds, and be subject to the sectarian lords who feed themselves of them, but feed not the sheep. These all clamor for the sects as the visible church of God; but their defence, as we have recently shown, are always without the Word. But Mr. Evans seems to have judged of this matter by the word of truth. The result reveals to him the startling fact that what his fellow Methodists and other sectites call the “the church,” is nothing more nor less than “the beast of six hundred and sixty-six names, the names of blasphemy, the heterogeneous mass of ecclesiasticism, called the visible church, pervaded by the spirit of this world.

Yea, Mr. Evans, has penetration of mind enough to see that the sectarian missionary work is not really the propagation of the true gospel of the kingdom of God. Hence he says, “This discovery [of Babylon] has been reserved for the time set in the purposes of God when he will destroy this HUGE COUNTERFEIT of his “holy city.” Mat. 24:14 15. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” This preaching, you perceive, he looks for to come, and it would destroy the counterfeit Babel of sectism. Well we are happy to inform Bro. Evans that what he here predicts has been in progress now for fifteen years. And it is destined to increase rapidly and mightily. But the question now to be settled by Bro. E. — Will he perish in the fall of Babylon, or obey God and flee out of her? An awful crisis has now come to his soul. Since his discovery of the truth, he cannot remain justified before God and remain in her.

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TESTIMONY.

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Marquand, Mo.

Dear Saints: I am saved and kept by the power of God. I wrote some time ago for prayer when I was sick with fever; I want to say that God healed me, and I am well this morning, and praising God for salvation.

C. Simmons.

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Beaver Dam, Ind.

Dearly Beloved Saints: I do praise the Lord for this wonderful salvation that has taken my sins all away, and made me clean. It is sweet to live for Jesus, and him alone. I know I am wholly sanctified by. a second work of grace wrought in my soul. I bless God that I am out of Babylon, and Babylon out of me. In the year 1880 the Lord wonderfully healed this body, after being under the doctor’s care for nearly three years. Since that time I have trusted the Lord for all afflictions and I have always found the Lord true.

Your sister, saved and sanctified,

Sarah N. Wells.

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Capitola, Cal.

Dear Saints: I have come out in full, and asked for my letter from the sect I belonged to at Fresno, Cal., first Baptist. I have been working earnestly, and have distributed tracts. I was healed at Fresnoof Rheumatism of twelve years standing. I can now talk on any subject, or stand and testify anywhere without trembling and fear, whereas I could not do so before. I want to tell everybody my heart is so full of love for my Master when I talk I don’t know when to stop. Praise his holy name! I do believe the last days are near and the Lord is calling his beloved, saying, “Come out from among them.’’ May the Lord bless you all. Your sister in Christ,

Anna F. Quinn.

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