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pens the truth in bright, warm rays has gone to all parts of the world,
and that which was to them testing truth, as brought by the Lord’s
delegated messengers, is testing truth to all to whom this message is
proclaimed.
The burden of the warning now to come to the people of God,
nigh and afar off, is the third angel’s message. And those who are
seeking to understand this message will not be led by the Lord to make
an application of the Word that will undermine the foundation and
remove the pillars of the faith that has made Seventh-day Adventists
what they are today. The truths that have been unfolding in their order,
as we have advanced along the line of prophecy revealed in the Word
of God, are truth, sacred, eternal truth today. Those who passed over
the ground step by step in the past history of our experience, seeing
the chain of truth in the prophecies, were prepared to accept and obey
every ray of light. They were praying, fasting, searching, digging for
the truth as for hidden treasures, and the Holy Spirit, we know, was
teaching and guiding us. Many theories were advanced, bearing a
semblance of truth, but so mingled with misinterpreted and misapplied
scriptures, that they led to dangerous errors. Very well do we know
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how every point of truth was established, and the seal set upon it by
the Holy Spirit of God. And all the time voices were heard, “Here is
the truth,” “I have the truth; follow me.” But the warnings came, “Go
not ye after them. I have not sent them, but they ran.” (See
Jeremiah
23:21
.).
The leadings of the Lord were marked, and most wonderful were
His revelations of what is truth. Point after point was established by
the Lord God of heaven. That which was truth then, is truth today. But
the voices do not cease to be heard—“This is truth. I have new light.”
But these new lights in prophetic lines are manifest in misapplying the
Word and setting the people of God adrift without an anchor to hold
them. If the student of the Word would take the truths which God has
revealed in the leadings of His people, and appropriate these truths,
digest them, and bring them into their practical life, they would then
be living channels of light. But those who have set themselves to study
out new theories, have a mixture of truth and error combined, and after
trying to make these things prominent, have demonstrated that they
have not kindled their taper from the divine altar, and it has gone out
in darkness.—
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