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the way of the Lord, or is it a false path in which Satan would lead
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me? they would receive light, and would escape out of the net of the
fowler.
Let all our brethren and sisters beware of anyone who would set
a time for the Lord to fulfill His word in regard to His coming, or
in regard to any other promise He has made of special significance.
“It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father
hath put in His own power.” False teachers may appear to be very
zealous for the work of God, and may expend means to bring their
theories before the world and the church; but as they mingle error
with truth, their message is one of deception, and will lead souls
into false paths. They are to be met and opposed, not because they
are bad men, but because they are teachers of falsehood and are
endeavoring to put upon falsehood the stamp of truth.
What a pity it is that men will go to such pains to discover some
theory of error when there is a whole storehouse of precious gems of
truth by which the people might be enriched in the most holy faith.
Instead of teaching truth they let their imagination dwell upon that
which is new and strange, and throw themselves out of harmony with
those whom God is using to bring the people up upon the platform
of truth. They cast aside all that has been said in regard to unity
of sentiment and feeling, and trample upon the prayer of Christ as
though the unity for which He prayed were unessential, and there
were no necessity for His followers to be one, even as He is one
with the Father. They go off on a tangent, and, Jehulike, call to their
brethren to follow their example of zeal for the Lord.
If their zeal led them to work in the same lines in which their
brethren who have carried the heat and burden of the day are work-
ing, if they were as persevering to overcome discouragements and
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obstacles as their brethren have been, they might well be imitated,
and God would accept them. But men are to be condemned who
start out with a proclamation of wonderful light, and yet draw away
from the agents whom God is leading. This was the way in which
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram did, and their action is recorded as a
warning to all others. We are not to do as they have done—accuse
and condemn those upon whom God has laid the burden of the work.
Those who have proclaimed the Seventh-day Adventist Church
as Babylon, have made use of the
Testimonies
in giving their po-