16
Counsels to Writers and Editors
the decided messages given years ago. I desire that my sermons given
at camp meetings and in churches may live and do their appointed
work.—
Letter 99, 1905
.
The Three Angels’ Messages—The proclamation of the first, sec-
ond, and third angels’ messages has been located by the word of In-
spiration. Not a peg or pin is to be removed. No human authority
has any more right to change the location of these messages than to
substitute the New Testament for the Old. The Old Testament is the
gospel in figures and symbols. The New Testament is the substance.
One is as essential as the other. The Old Testament presents lessons
from the lips of Christ, and these lessons have not lost their force in
any particular. The first and second messages were given in 1843 and
1844, and we are now under the proclamation of the third; but all three
of the messages are still to be proclaimed. It is just as essential now as
ever before that they shall be repeated to those who are seeking for the
[27]
truth. By pen and voice we are to sound the proclamation, showing
their order, and the application of the prophecies that bring us to the
third angel’s message. There cannot be a third without the first and
second. These messages we are to give to the world in publications,
in discourses, showing in the line of prophetic history the things that
have been, and the things that will be.—
Manuscript 32, 1896
.
[28]