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Page 167 of 316Ruth 5:1
@@@^When I was an unbeliever in the Spirit of Prophecy–that which made the Seventh-day Adventist church–and was an Adventist mostly in day and in name, I retained my membership, but when the SRod converted me to the Spirit of Prophecy and made me a true Seventh-day Adventist, my membership was deprived me! But I thank God for the privilege to be cast out for the Son of man’s sake.”
Ruth 5:2
@@@^We cannot think of any greater irony than that of the foregoing experience, which is typical of more than one such incident in the church today. We simply cannot understand how our brethren in the church can sleep complacently on through such irrational, outrageous proceedings. To retain one’s membership for eight years while that one is but half converted to its doctrines, and then to disfellowship this person when fully converted is the most appalling inconsistency imaginable. And yet this is the precise thing that God’s church is about today.“
Ruth 7:7
@@@^In reference to the question as to “how can we harmonize the statement, ‘On the @9second@7 day of the feast, the first fruits of the year’s harvest were presented before God,’ (‘Patriarchs and Prophets,’ 539), with the statement, ‘The sheaf offering...was to be offered before the Lord on the morrow after the Sabbath,’ (‘The Shepherd’s Rod,’ Vol. 2, p. 20)” we answer as follows:
Ruth 7:9
@@@^Page 6 of this issue, in answering a question in regards to the length of time from the day Jesus ate the Passover to the crucifixion, proves that He ate the Passover feast with the twelve on Wednesday night and that He was resurrected on Sunday morning; that is, on the day the sheaf was to be presented before the Lord. This proves that the words, “On the second day of the feast, the first fruits of the year’s harvest were presented before God” (P.P. 539), could not mean the day after Jesus ate the Passover. However, thus far we are not able to give a better explanation of P.P. 539; nevertheless, the facts herein prove the SRod correct.
Ruth 8:4
@@@^Human beings without divine enlightenment, as the case is with “The Gathering Call,” can see no reason at all for all those daily sacrifices of bulls, goats, rams, lambs, pigeons, turtle doves, some of which were to be males and others females, sometimes a year old and sometimes three years old, each offered in a special way by meat and drink offerings; and for the many other rituals of the Jewish economy. If we were to employ the mind of “The Gathering Call,” our demeanor would not be that of making light of the services in the “holy place” only, but of the ceremonial system also. Human judgment would compel us to decide that the entire ceremonial system was devised for nothing else but to wear out the people, bring them to poverty, and make them think that God was some kind of being, blood-thirsty, flesh-hungry,and cruel to animals.
Ruth 8:5
@@@^Had the advocates of the “The Gathering Call” lived in Moses’ time,and had they been in the same frame of mind then as they are now, they would have found a thousand times better reason to find fault with what he was teaching then than they now have for finding fault with Sr. White’s writings, and if God was to deal with them now as He would have dealt with them then, He would destroy them as quickly as He destroyed those who found fault with Moses.
Ruth 8:8
@@@^By the above statement “The Gathering Call” is trying to prove that Sr. White was teaching, some years later, that probation had closed in 1844 and that there was no more probation for sinners after that date. But note carefully what she says: “@9With my brethren and sisters@7, after the time passed...I did @9believe@7;” that is, she believed that which Wm. Miller taught, and when the time set for Christ’s coming had passed in 1844 she, with the Millerites, believed that probation had closed for all. But she does not say that she was teaching this after she became God’s messenger. Now we ask “The Gathering Call” to tell us if her belief in Miller’s message would disqualify her from becoming a prophetess after the disappointment, and would her belief before 1844 make the pioneers of the S.D.A. denomination wrong in their doctrines after they had more light? Not at all. Rather, it proves Sr. White right and “The Gathering Call” wrong for using such a weak argument against a proven fact.
Ruth 9:5
@@@^The trouble does not lie in what Sr. White is teaching but rather in the exceeding spiritual darkness that surrounds those who are kicking “against the pricks,” for they see only one close of probation, whereas the Bible teaches a close of probation after every message that God sends. As there was a close of probation for the antediluvians, for the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and for the Jewish nation, just so there is a close of probation for each individual at the moment that individual rejects the message. Therefore after the first and second angels’ messages were presented to the people at that time, their probation closed and their destinies were unalterably fixed either for eternal life or eternal death, as was the case with Saul, king of Israel.
Ruth 9:6
@@@^The prophet of God informed Saul, saying, “Because thou hast rejected the @9word of the Lord@7 (message), He hath also rejected thee from being a king” (1 Sam. 15:23.) Though Saul pleaded and “said unto Samuel, @9I have sinned@7: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord. And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel....The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day,...for He is @9not a man that He should repent@7.” (1 Sam. 15:23-26, 28, 29.)
Ruth 9:7
@@@^The reprint of the “Jones Letter,” as I see it, proves nothing. The weightiest item “The Gathering Call” has in it is that Sr. White did not reply to the letter. However true that may be it does not prove her wrong. They must have been debating over those controverted points for some time before that particular letter was written, and God only knows the number of letters and counsels Jones had received treating on these points before he wrote that particular letter. Evidently she saw no reason why she should waste her time any longer in an unprofitable way, for those men, like “The Gathering Call,” were determined to destroy the faith of the people in her writings. The writer, himself, many letters has not answered, not because they could not be answered, but because they were not worthy of his time.
Ruth 9:9
@@@^In a letter under date of April 4, 1933 to a certain sister, the editor of “The Gathering Call” says, “...No one can get the truth of God’s Word until he abandons the inspiration of Mrs. White. One that follows her teaching will always be in darkness.”
Ruth 10:6
@@@^God has never yet revealed the whole truth to any one person. But He expects us to keep pace with the ever increasing light, and though each advancing truth at first dawning seem more or less hazy as to its real essence and magnitude, we shall see it more and more in its true character the nearer we come to it, for the prophecies of the Bible stand as a road map to the kingdom.
1 Samuel 1:3
@@@^“God is grieved as He sees the lack of self-denial and perseverance in His servants. Angels are amazed at the spectacle. Let workers for Christ study His life of self-sacrifice. He is our example.”–”Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 7, p. 254.
1 Samuel 1:8
@@@^The present rule of the conferences is not only contrary to the Master’s instructions but also responsible for not having “many self-sacrificing workers,” for from all who enter into the work by faith, bearing their own expenses (receiving no pay from the conference but simply the hospitality of those who are convicted to receive instructions from God’s messengers), the conference demands all the tithe and offerings from the interest they develop.
1 Samuel 2:12
@@@^We thank God that He mercifully gave us willingness and courage to read and investigate for ourselves after we had set our hearts against His message. Praises be to Him for His goodness and for present truth. We expect to put ourselves and our all into this work. @3(Signed) Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Wessel@4Charleston, S. Carolina
1 Samuel 3:4
@@@^May God bless you and all those connected with this great work. Let us have courage, for victory is sure, and that right soon. I never have felt the Lord so near, nor never have I felt so full of courage as now. Praise His name! @3(Signed) Wm. Edwards, @4Hartford City, Ind.
1 Samuel 3:7
@@@^When the reform message came to me it found me for one thing heavily in debt. Immediately I began to ask the Lord to take care of this debt for me in such a way as to satisfy my creditor and leave us on friendly terms. This He straightway did, and now I am in a much better position to fulfill the admonition, “Whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1 Samuel 3:12
@@@^We have been Adventists nearly 16 years and are stronger in the old truth than ever before. Soon after coming into the church in Charleston, S. Carolina, we found that the church was not much different from the world. From that time on we have been mere mental Adventists. But now, thanks to the SRod, we have regained our first love. Praise God! I could shout for joy! @3(Signed) Mrs. W. L. Harper@4Richmond, Va.
1 Samuel 4:3
@@@^The Lord has been very merciful in showing me my true condition that I might repent and make sure my salvation. I had been working at a hospital where I had to be 5 or 6 hours on the Sabbath, but now I have given up my work and have closed my account with the world. And now God has given me a little season for study and self preparation to get ready to help finish the work and meet Him when He comes for His faithful servants. @3 Signed) Mrs. M. L. Hodgen@4Greeley, Colo.
1 Samuel 4:6
@@@^I have long wanted to get to a post office to send this letter. Sometimes I do get discouraged at the way things go, then I think how God has the work in hand, and how He removed those who were enemies to present truth from this place a few days before I moved here.