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you as a Christian and who love you as such, to state to you that the
network of argument, which you have thought of so great consequence,
is not the theory of truth that God has given His people to proclaim
for this time.
The light God has given me is that the Scriptures you have woven
together you yourself do not fully understand. If you did, you would
discern that your theories tear up the very foundation of our faith.
My brother, I have had many testimonies to correct those who have
started out in the same way you are now traveling. These persons
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seemed sure that they were led by God, and they have come with their
different theories to ministers who were preaching the truth. I said to
these ministers, “The Lord is not in this; be not deceived, neither take
the responsibility of deceiving others.” At camp meetings I have had
to speak plainly in regard to those who were thus leading away from
right paths. With pen and voice I have borne the message, “Go not ye
after them.”
Dealing With a Dying Man
The hardest task I ever had to do in this line was in dealing with
one who, I knew, wanted to follow the Lord. For some time he had
thought he was obtaining new light. He was very ill, and must soon
die. And oh, how my heart hoped he would not make it necessary for
me to tell him just what he was doing. Those to whom he presented his
views listened to him eagerly, and some thought him inspired. He had
a chart made, and reasoned from the Scriptures to show that the Lord
would come at a certain date, in 1894, I think. To many his reasoning
seemed to be without a flaw. They told of his powerful exhortations
in his sickroom. Most wonderful views passed before him. But what
was the source of his inspiration? It was the morphine given him to
relieve his pain.
At our camp meeting at Lansing, Michigan, just before I came to
Australia, I had to speak plainly in regard to this new light. I told the
people that the words they had heard were not the truth of inspiration.
The wonderful light, which presented such a show of truth, was the
result of a misapplication of Scripture. The Lord’s work would not
close up in 1894. The word of the Lord to me was, “This is not truth,