Chapter 65—Northern Wisconsin
While in Roosevelt, New York, August 3, 1861, different churches
and families were presented before me. The different influences that
have been exerted, and their discouraging results, were shown me.
Satan has used as agents individuals professing to believe a part of
present truth, while they were warring against a part. Such he can
use more successfully than those who are at war with all our faith.
His artful manner of bringing in error through partial believers in the
truth, has deceived many, and distracted and scattered their faith. This
is the cause of the divisions in northern Wisconsin. Some receive
a part of the message, and reject another portion. Some accept the
Sabbath and reject the third angel’s message; yet because they have
received the Sabbath they claim the fellowship of those who believe
all the present truth. Then they labor to bring others into the same
dark position with themselves. They are not responsible to anyone.
They have an independent faith of their own. Such are allowed to have
influence, when no place should be given to them, notwithstanding
their pretensions to honesty.
Honest souls will see the straight chain of present truth. They will
see its harmonious connections, link after link uniting into a great
whole, and will lay hold upon it. The present truth is not difficult to be
understood, and the people whom God is leading will be united upon
this broad, firm platform. He will not use individuals of different faith,
opinions, and views, to scatter and divide. Heaven and holy angels
are working to unite, to bring into the unity of the faith, into the one
body. Satan opposes this, and is determined to scatter, and divide,
and bring in different sentiments, that the prayer of Christ may not be
answered: “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as
Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us:
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that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”
John 17:20, 21
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Jesus designed that the faith of His people should be one. If one goes
forth preaching one thing, and another differing with him preaches
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