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new and strange shall not be laid alongside of truth as a part of the
burden of the message to be given at this time. The very messages we
have been giving to the world are to be made prominent.—An Appeal
for Canvassers, pp. 1, 2.
The Charm of New Theories
Every phase of fanaticism and erroneous theories, claiming to be
the truth, will be brought in among the remnant people of God. These
will fill minds with erroneous sentiments which have no part in the
truth for this time. Any man who supposes that in the strength of his
own devised resolutions, in his intellectual might united with science
or supposed knowledge, he can start a work which will conquer the
world, will find himself lying among the ruins of his own speculations,
and will plainly understand why he is there....
From the light given me of the Lord, men will arise speaking
perverse things. Yea, already they have been working and speaking
things which God has never revealed, bringing sacred truth upon a
level with common things. Issues have been and will continue to
be made of men’s conceited fallacies, not of truth. The devisings of
men’s minds will invent tests that are no tests at all, that when the
true test shall be made prominent, it shall be considered on a par with
the man-made tests that have been of no value. We may expect that
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everything will be brought in and mingled with sound doctrine, but
by clear, spiritual discernment, by the heavenly anointing, we must
distinguish the sacred from the common which is being brought in
to confuse faith and sound judgment, and demerit the great, grand,
testing truth for this time....
Never, never was there a time when the truth suffered more from
being misrepresented, belittled, demerited through the perverse dis-
putings of men than in these last days. Men have brought themselves
in with their heterogeneous mass of heresies which they represent as
oracles for the people. The people are charmed with some strange new
thing, and are not wise in experience to discern the character of ideas
that men may frame up as something. But to call it something of great
consequence and tie it to the oracles of God, does not make it truth.
Oh, how this rebukes the low standard of piety in the churches.