Pillars of Our Faith
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I testify the things which I have seen, the things which I have
heard, the things which my hands have handled of the Word of life.
And this testimony I know to be of the Father and the Son. We have
seen and do testify that the power of the Holy Ghost has accompanied
the presentation of the truth, warning with pen and voice, and giving
the messages in their order. To deny this work would be to deny the
Holy Ghost, and would place us in that company who have departed
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.
Confidence Assailed
The enemy will set everything in operation to uproot the confidence
of the believers in the pillars of our faith in the messages of the past,
which have placed us upon the elevated platform of eternal truth, and
which have established and given character to the work. The Lord God
of Israel has led out His people, unfolding to them truth of heavenly
origin. His voice has been heard, and is still heard, saying, “Go forward
from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from glory to glory.”
The work is strengthening and broadening, for the Lord God of Israel
is the defense of His people.
Those who have a hold of the truth theoretically, with their finger
tips as it were, who have not brought its principles into the inner
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sanctuary of the soul, but have kept the vital truth in the outer court, will
see nothing sacred in the past history of this people which has made
them what they are, and has established them as earnest, determined,
missionary workers in the world.
The truth for this time is precious, but those whose hearts have
not been broken by falling on the rock Christ Jesus, will not see and
understand what is truth. They will accept that which pleases their
ideas, and will begin to manufacture another foundation than that
which is laid. They will flatter their own vanity and esteem, thinking
that they are capable of removing the pillars of our faith, and replacing
them with pillars they have devised.
This will continue to be as long as time shall last. Anyone who has
been a close student of the Bible will see and understand the solemn
position of those who are living in the closing scenes of this earth’s
history. They will feel their own inefficiency and weakness, and will
make it their first business to have not merely a form of Godliness, but