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and be cautious what you receive. There is need of caution lest the
minds of the little flock shall be found accrediting that which is not
the genuine work of the Holy Spirit. There is very great danger here.
Satan is ever seeking to introduce spurious material into the work, in
order that he may mar the testimony, and bring discredit upon the truth.
He would mingle with it an element that would be a stumbling block
in the pathway of God’s people.
The commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus is the
message we have to bear to the world. The Word of God is not one-
sided, it is truth to be practiced. It is light extending on every side like
the rays of the sun. It is light to lighten every man who will read and
understand and practice its teachings. “If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him” (
James 1:5
).—
Letter 103, 1894
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“Believe Them Not”
I have a message to you from the Lord. Brother R is not engaged
in the work which the Lord would have him do. God has given to
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every man his work, and Brother R is stepping out of the lines to which
the Lord has appointed him. He cannot see the outcome of this work
which he has taken up. Anna Phillips is being injured, she is led on,
encouraged in a work which will not bear the test of God.
Anna Garmire was thus injured. Her father and mother made
her believe that her childish dreams were revelations from God. Her
father talked to the child as one chosen of God; all her fancies and
dreams were written down as Anna’s visions. She had figures and
symbols presented to her, and had reproofs for her mother and for her
father. After a scathing reproof, there followed the most flattering
representations of the wonderful things the Lord would do for them.
These things I was pointed to as spurious, a deception. They descended
to the most minute and trifling matters, commingled common, cheap
things with important subjects. The imagination was largely developed,
there was a mingling of the sacred and the common. The truth of
God was belittled, and yet some received these pretended revelations,
and carried out their teaching. A little party was formed who were
apparently inspired by them, and the visions were declared to be more
spiritual than the visions of Sister White