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purpose. The things you have described as taking place in Indiana, the
Lord has shown me would take place just before the close of probation.
Every uncouth thing will be demonstrated. There will be shouting,
with drums, music, and dancing. The senses of rational beings will
become so confused that they cannot be trusted to make right decisions.
And this is called the moving of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bed-
lam of noise. This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious
methods for making of none effect the pure, sincere, elevating, en-
nobling, sanctifying truth for this time. Better never have the worship
of God blended with music than to use musical instruments to do the
work which last January was represented to me would be brought into
our camp meetings. The truth for this time needs nothing of this kind
in its work of converting souls. A bedlam of noise shocks the senses
and perverts that which if conducted aright might be a blessing. The
powers of satanic agencies blend with the din and noise, to have a
carnival, and this is termed the Holy Spirit’s working.
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When the camp meeting is ended, the good which ought to have
been done and which might have been done by the presentation of
sacred truth is not accomplished. Those participating in the supposed
revival receive impressions which lead them adrift. They cannot tell
what they formerly knew regarding Bible principles.
No encouragement should be given to this kind of worship. The
same kind of influence came in after the passing of the time in 1844.
The same kind of representations were made. Men became excited,
and were worked by a power thought to be the power of God
History of the Past to Be Repeated
I will not go into all the painful history; it is too much. But last
January the Lord showed me that erroneous theories and methods
would be brought into our camp meetings, and that the history of the
past would be repeated. I felt greatly distressed. I was instructed
to say that at these demonstrations demons in the form of men are
present, working with all the ingenuity that Satan can employ to make
the truth disgusting to sensible people; that the enemy was trying to
arrange matters so that the camp meetings, which have been the means