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From Here to Forever
dealings of God, would they cast aside truths sustained by the clear
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testimony of His Word?
This test would teach the danger of accepting the interpretations
of men instead of making the Bible its own interpreter. The children
of faith would be led to a closer study of the Word, to examine more
carefully the foundation of their faith, and to reject everything, how-
ever widely accepted by the Christian world, that was not founded
upon Scripture.
That which in the hour of trial seemed dark would afterward be
made plain. Notwithstanding the trial resulting from their errors,
they would learn by a blessed experience that the Lord is “very
pitiful, and of tender mercy”; that all His paths “are mercy and truth
unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.”
James 5:11
;
Psalm 25:10
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