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of God are written in the book. He will meet them again. He went out
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from us because he was not of us. And in no case should the church
encourage him to unite with them again; for, with the spirit he now has,
he would quarrel even with the angels of God. He would wish to rule
and dictate the work of the angels. No such spirit can enter heaven. I
and J, whom God frowns upon, have dared to withstand the servants of
God, to malign them, and to impute to them evil motives. They have
tried to destroy the confidence of the brethren in these workers as well
as in the Testimonies. But if the work is of God, they cannot overthrow
it. Their efforts will be in vain. Brother G, you were in such darkness
that you thought these men were right. You have repeated their words
and talked of the one-man power.” Oh, how little you knew what you
were talking about!
Some have been ready to say anything, to prefer any charge, against
the servants of God, and to be jealous and faultfinding. And if they
can find any instance where, in their zeal for the cause of God, they
think ministers have spoken decidedly, and perhaps severely, they have
been willing to make the most of their words, and have felt at liberty
to cherish the most bitter, wicked spirit, and to charge the Lord’s
servants with wrong motives. Let these faultfinders ask what they
would have done under similar circumstances, bearing similar burdens.
Let them look and search and condemn their own wrong, overbearing
course and their own impatience and fretfulness; and when without
sin themselves, let them cast the first stone of censure at the brethren
who are trying to get them into working order. A holy God will not
bring out souls to the truth to come under such an influence as has
existed in the church. Our heavenly Father is too wise to bring souls
into the truth to be molded by the influence of these men who are
unconsecrated in heart and life. These men are not in harmony with
the truth. They are not in union with the body, but are drawing off
from the church. They are working at cross purposes with those whom
God is using to bring souls into the truth.
Who would nourish those who should take their stand to obey all
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of God’s commandments? Who would be nursing fathers and nursing
mothers to those who need help and strength? Do these brethren know
what they are doing? They are standing directly in the way of sinners.
They are blocking up the way by their own wrong course. The blood of
souls will be on their garments unless they repent and entirely change