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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
as you see fit, to strengthen your assertions, while you disregard the
plainest statements given to correct your course of action.
True Religion Slighted
There has been a departure from God among us, and the zealous
work of repentance and return to our first love essential to restoration
to God and regeneration of heart has not yet been done. Infidelity
has been making its inroads into our ranks; for it is the fashion to
depart from Christ, and give place to skepticism. With many the
cry of the heart has been, “We will not have this man to reign over
us.” Baal, Baal, is the choice. The religion of many among us will
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be the religion of apostate Israel, because they love their own way,
and forsake the way of the Lord. The true religion, the only religion
of the Bible, that teaches forgiveness only through the merits of
a crucified and risen Saviour, that advocates righteousness by the
faith of the Son of God, has been slighted, spoken against, ridiculed,
and rejected. [
See appendix.
] It has been denounced as leading to
enthusiasm and fanaticism. But it is the life of Jesus Christ in the
soul, it is the active principle of love imparted by the Holy Spirit,
that alone will make the soul fruitful unto good works. The love of
Christ is the force and power of every message for God that ever fell
from human lips. What kind of a future is before us if we shall fail
to come into the unity of the faith?
When we are united in the unity for which Christ prayed, this
long controversy that has been kept up through satanic agency will
end, and we shall not see men framing plans after the order of the
world because they have not spiritual eyesight to discern spiritual
things. They now see men as trees walking, and they need the divine
touch, that they may see as God sees, and work as Christ worked.
Then will Zion’s watchmen unitedly sound the trumpet in clearer,
louder notes; for they will see the sword coming, and realize the
danger in which the people of God are placed.
You will need to make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame
be turned out of the way. We are surrounded by the lame and halting
in the faith, and you are to help them, not by halting yourselves, but
by standing, like men who have been tried and proven, in principle
firm as a rock. I know that a work must be done for the people, or