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@@@^Completely ignoring both our oral request and our written protest, they uncompromisingly forced us into meeting them on their own terms. And so not to have wrung from our grasp the opportunity we had so long sought, and not to be made out as defaulters, to the detriment of the Truth, we were compelled to bow to their pleasure at our severe inconvenience, as well as to judges most of whom were already the @9Rod’s@7 bitter enemies.

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@@@^After a lapse of about four weeks from the adjourned session, we were informed of the time that they would render their reply, which they had prepared in writing! At this meeting, twelve of the @9Rod’s @7adherents were present, no objection being made to their attending. One of the committee read the long-delayed report of their findings, which plainly showed that the document was composed with the determined end in view of refuting, at any cost, the message of the @9Rod@7, even at the price of using means often employed against the Sabbath truth. This fact will be painfully clear to all who honestly read the document which is now in print under the title, @9A Reply to The Shepherd’s Rod.@7

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@@@^However, neither their unprincipled actions nor their sophistic refutation have, as they had hoped downed the message. On the contrary, they have served only to lift it up. They have, however, caused the indolent and superficial — every one who is depending upon others to decide what is truth and what is error — to remain in their Laodicean condition, — lukewarm, satisfied, waiting to be “spued out.”

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@@@^We realize that the committee’s action is hardly believable. And we deeply regret that they have compelled us, in defense of the Truth, herein to disclose the facts, that each may know and decide for himself, as the @9Spirit of Prophecy @7instructs:

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@@@^“As the student sacrifices the power to reason and judge for himself, he becomes incapable of discriminating between truth and error, and falls an easy prey to deception. He is easily led to follow tradition and custom . . . The mind that depends upon the judgment of others is certain, sooner or later, to be misled.” — @9Education@7, pp. 230, 231.

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@@@^Obviously, therefore, the committee should confess their own extraordinary blunder, and acknowledge the truth that symbols are not only positively necessary, but are also positively safe, as a basis of “essential Bible doctrine.” And this blunder alone should give sufficient impetus to everyone to make an honest and thorough personal investigation of the Rod.

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@@@^Moreover, as these symbols, types, and parables are not interpreted in the writings of Sister White (only a promise there being made that someone must come to interpret them), and as the Professor accepts no other authority of interpretation, then it is evident that he and those who put credence in what he says, will never arrive at the truth of these things! But still worse, is their

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@@@^In pages six and eight, the @9Reply@7 conveys the idea that it is a reply to the “Harvest Study,” which was presented to the “committee of twelve,” and that it is in compliance with the Fullerton agreement. The truth, though is that the committee never replied to the “Harvest’ study (our tract No. 3) itself, but endeavored to silence with a sort of super-stroke all the publications of @9The Shepherd’s Rod.@7 Indeed, the very title of the booklet acknowledges that it is @9“A Reply to The Shepherd’s Rod,”@7 and not to the “Harvest” study.

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@@@^@0“There are a thousand temptations in disguise prepared for those who have the light of truth: and the only safety for any of us is in receiving no new doctrine, no new Scriptures, without first submitting it to the brethren of experience. Lay it before them in a humble, teachable spirit, with earnest prayer; and if they see no light in it, yield to their judgment; for ‘in the multitude of counselors there is safety.’” — @9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 5, p. 293. verse TN7: 38:2}@}

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@@@^From this example, we can see very quickly that though two passages be inspired by the same Spirit, yet, when treacherously manipulated, they can easily be made to collide with each other. However, when the author’s object in making the statement is first considered in every case, then and then only can one rightly interpret his thought, and find it trouble-free. In specific demonstration of this general truth, we call the reader’s attention to the following brief analysis of the much overworked and misused statement in @9Testimonies@7 Vol. 5, p. 293, concerning new light:

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@@@^“There are a thousand temptations in disguise prepared for those who have the light of truth; and the only safety for any of us is in receiving no new doctrine, no new interpretation of the Scriptures, without first submitting it to brethren of experience. Lay it before them in a humble teachable spirit, with earnest prayer; and if they see no light in it, yield to their judgment; for ‘in the multitude of counselors there is safety.’ “

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@@@^Accordingly the committee of twelve, and all the rest of the leading brethren as well, must humbly and implicitly accept the word of the inspired writings for the church in their full setting if they each would echo the voice of experience and truth. Had they done this, the Lord would not have made the denunciatory statement: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.” Rev. 3:16. In other words, though they do not occupy the same position as did the “brethren of experience” mentioned in @9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 5, p. 293, and are now in a perilous condition, yet had they exercised the same judgment and the same spirit as did the latter, they would now be safe counselors, deserving the same respect.

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@@@^This truth is further demonstrated by the fact that if the statement from @9Testimonies,@7 Vol. 5, means what our leading brethren would have us think it means, then John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the Apostles, Luther, the Reformers, William Miller, and Sister White in 1844 and again in 1888, were all, one after another dead wrong, for not one of them respected the decisions of their leading brethren who in their respective times were popularly acclaimed to be the “brethren of experience,” and who having seen no light in the messages, denounced them and the messengers. And Sister White never yielded to their judgment when they opposed her.

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@@@^We deeply regret that our brethren have so involved themselves against the Truth that we have been compelled to expose their subversive efforts. Were not our only aim for God’s honor, for the good of these brethren and for all His people, we would never make the facts public, but the solemn time, “the days of purification” (@9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80), to which our church is come, compels us to “Cry aloud, spare not,” and to obey the command: “Lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Isa. 58:1.

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@@@^@@Dear Brethren:@^Though you have challenged and brought into question our integrity, we care not to protest the personal aspect of the reflection. Indeed, the facts herein unmasking your challenge and exposing it in its true character, so completely strip it of any force as to make useless our further meeting it, in defense of Truth, with any measure other than the counter-challenge: Clearly prove us wrong in the same forthright and evidential manner in which we have herein proved you wrong, then try us and see whether or not we “make good” our “pledge.” Or, if you are so pressed for time as to feel unable critically to examine the other @9SRod@7 volumes, then let the few pages of this little booklet suffice as “Exhibit A” upon which to build your case. “Produce your strong reasons.” “Come now, and let us reason together.” But we, as brethren, would earnestly caution you not to resort again to those artful “escapist” tactics which wholly vitiate @9A Reply to The Shepherd’s Rod.@7 Demonstrate us in error, brethren, and you will be astonished to see how quickly we shall retract and destroy all our publications, even though you continue to cherish other inconsistencies. You see, we are not asking the unreasonable, but only that which in common sense and duty you would be bound to @9demand@7 were you in our place.

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@@@^This brief recital of abuses by our brethren gives only a glimpse of what they are doing throughout the churches. It is ample, however, to make clear the baleful results of their activities, not the least common or deplorable of which is the influencing of many to take the position that it is wrong to accept a message if the leading brethren are opposed to it! Though these find an assortment of excuses for their carnal position, the truth is that while some fear being cast out of the synagogue, others hate to bear the reproach, despite Christ’s comforting charge: “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out @9your name@7 as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.” Luke 6:22, 23.

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@@@^Perilous as it always is blindly to accept the opinions of others, far more so is it to lean for salvation upon man’s uninspired decisions, especially when the authors of them are refusing to open the church’s doors to a message that is knocking for entrance. And though God has warned the laity time and again that “the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed” (Isa. 9:16), yet in every advance of Truth, they have repeated these mistakes!

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@@@^“There has ever been a class professing godliness, who, instead of following on to know the truth, make it their religion to seek some fault of character or error of faith in those with whom they do not agree. Such are Satan’s right-hand helpers.”

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@@@^“Who can truthfully say, ‘Our gold is tried in the fire; our garments are unspotted by the world’? I saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. Then He said to me: ‘Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement and rottenness of character? “How is the faithful city become an harlot?” My Father’s house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have departed! For this cause there is weakness, and strength is lacking.’” — @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 8, p. 250.

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@@@^“Page after page might be written in regard to these things. Whole conferences are becoming leavened with the same perverted principles. ‘For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.’ The Lord will work to purify His church. I tell you in truth, the Lord is about to turn and overturn in the institutions called by His name.