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1:2

@@@^Soon after our work began, we found that the greater number of Rodists were underground readers and believers. And though those who came out openly for the @9Rod@7 and were consequently cast out of the churches, yet they, too, are still in the churches, walking side by side with the members! These lines, therefore, are addressed to you because we feel sure that you are mindful of God’s voice and are anxious to do the right thing at the right time in coming up to the help of the Lord.

6:2

@@@^“If the Loud Cry message is an addition to the Third message,” they declared, “then why are we not expecting it and praying for it? Why are we not searching for it? And how shall we find it if we do not even so much as look into another man’s work, especially when it springs up right from the midst of us, and in the name of the Lord? The ‘addition,’ we ought to know, will not come down to us in a parachute, no, no more than the first part of the first angel’s message came down in a parachute. It is to come through some individual for sure. Such an have-need-of-nothing attitude as ours, cuts off Heaven’s communication line, and makes absolutely impossible God’s messages ever reaching us. Pray, pray, but think and study too.”

7:2

@@@^“’The rebuke of the Lord will rest upon those who would bar the way, that clearer light shall not come to the people. A great work is to be done, and God sees that our leading men have need of more light, that they may unite with the messengers whom He sends to accomplish the work that He designs shall be done...’ — @9Gospel Workers@7, p. 304.

7:4

@@@^By another group we were told: “The cry that we have all the Truth to carry us to the Kingdom, and our stubborn position that we have need of nothing more, notwithstanding the grim fact that we are unable to meet the pestering @9Rod@7, and that we run away from It even though we are the ones who carry a big stick on our shoulders, is the best admission that we are badly in need of something which we do not now possess; that if we do not get hold of that something, the @9Rod@7 will soon have us all bowing down to It while we hoodoo and boodoo at it day and night. In such an event if the @9Rod@7 is from the Devil, then the Devil will have us all in hell; and if the @9Rod@7 is from God, and if It takes us while we war against It, then It will condemn us and send us all to hell! From this irrefutable logic, it is positive that we are fighting a losing battle, be the @9Rod@7 right or be it wrong.”

9:2

@@@^“No one should claim that he has all the light there is for God’s people. The Lord will not tolerate this. He has said, ‘I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.’ Even if all our leading men should refuse light and truth, that door will still remain open. The Lord will raise up men who will give the people the message for this time.

9:3

@@@^“Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength. We should never refuse to examine the Scriptures with those who, we have reason to believe, desire to know what is truth. Suppose a brother hold a view that differed from yours, and he should come to you, proposing that you sit down with him and make an investigation of that point in the Scriptures; should you rise up, filled with prejudice, and condemn his ideas, while refusing to give him a candid hearing? The only right way would be to sit down as Christians, and investigate the position presented, in the light of God’s word, which will reveal truth and unmask error. To ridicule his ideas would not weaken his position in the least if it were false, or strengthen your position if it were true. If the pillars of our faith will not stand the test of investigation, it is time that we knew it. There must be no spirit of Pharisaism cherished among us” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 107

11:1

@@@^Even a greater number than the group just referred to, and with still more emphatic talk, commented: “Disregarding Inspiration’s warnings the church is without even a thought vehemently driving out those who would dare to read @9The Shepherd’s Rod@7 literature.” We were also told that the church is “acting worse toward the Rodists than did the Jews toward the apostles; that by driving them out from among us for their teaching the purification of the church exactly as the Spirit of Prophecy teaches it, we make ourselves inconsistent unless we throw out the Spirit of Prophecy also. “Do you not see,” we were asked, “how inconsistent we are, and how devilish our spirit is in this respect? Do you then expect a just God to bless our unjust deeds? @9Testimonies@7, Vol. 5, p. 80, says that the purification is ‘hastening on apace.’ Are we looking for the Lord to come soon? Then we must look for the purification of the church to come sooner.”

12:2

@@@^“...The call to this great and solemn work was presented to men of learning the position; had these been little in their own eyes, and trusted fully in the Lord, he would have honored them with bearing his standard in triumph to the victory.... They did not keep pace with the light...” — Testimonies, Vol. 5, pp. 82, 80. “If they have not kept pace with the light, then how are they to give the light? they asked. “Then, too, those who tell us to listen to none but them, are doing the very thing that Christ condemned when He said: ‘Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.’ —Luke 11:52. God has told us over and over again in His Word to investigate for ourselves.”

13:2

@@@^“...Some of our leading brethren have frequently taken their position on the wrong side; and if God would send a message and wait for these older brethren to open the way for its advancement, it would never reach the people....” — @9Gospel Workers@7, p. 303.

13:3

@@@^“The Lord often works where we least expect Him; He surprises us by revealing His power through instruments of His own choice, while He passes by the men to whom we have looked as those through whom light should come. God desires us to receive the truth upon its own merits, — because it is truth.” — @9Testimonies to Ministers@7, p. 106. “.

14:2

@@@^“In every age there is a new development of truth, a message of God to the people of that generation. The old truths are all essential; new truth is not independent of the old, but an unfolding of it. It is only as the old truths are understood that we can comprehend the new. “— @9Christ’s Object Lessons@7, p. 129.

14:3

@@@^“Can we honestly assume,” they asked, “that the Lord can possibly finish His work on earth with us Laodiceans as long as we stay blind? And who shall open our eyes if not the Lord by fresh ‘eyesalve’ (Rev. 3:18)? Has the Lord no fresh Truth — no ‘meat in due season’ — to meet the needs of His people at this particular time? Has He forsaken the earth? And how will He judge the living without a message declaring that their cases are now to appear before God? Since we have a message for the Judgment of the dead, is it not logical and even more essential that we should have a message for the Judgment of the living? Is not the latter more important than the former? And how will we know when it comes if we keep our eyes and ears closed? If we do not change our present state of mind, how shall we believe even if we should accidentally hear that the message is come?”

15:1

@@@^Still another group asked these questions: “If God leaves His church ignorant of the greatest event of all time (the Judgment of the living), what truth shall she proclaim during that hour of need? The Judgment of the dead, you certainly know,” they said, “could not then be present Truth any more than Noah’s announcement of the flood could be present Truth now. Would the Judge of Heaven condemn one without trial? And how shall He judge him without summons?”

17:1

@@@^Then they followed with these comments: “Since we cannot conscientiously deny any of his, why, then, are we driving out the @9Rod@7 believers for calling our attention to these things? Are we not defeating our own purpose and refuting our own message? And are we not making impossible our ever teaching the Judgment of the living? May God have mercy on us for our having allowed the spirit of the Devil to rule in our hearts and lives.

19:1

@@@^We hold that the Denomination now numbers nearly a million members, and we have set our goal to double the membership. We brag about our achievements with emphasis that God is blessing us. It all sounds good and makes us feel happy. Too, the whole Denomination admits that the greatest part of the work is yet to be done — that there are millions upon millions even in the United Stales itself, who have not as yet heard so much as the name Seventh-day Adventist, leave alone “the everlasting gospel.” Plain it is, therefore, brethren, that at the present rate of growth, when the work is finished and Jesus comes to take His church to glory-land, the Denomination by then will number several millions.

21:1

@@@^We, the committee, now personally know and have seen with our own eyes, though, that there are many who are not so badly fooled, who have not bowed the knee to Baal, who have not permitted themselves to be locked in corrals as it were like sheep and cattle, by impostors who are controlling and feeding the flock of God with the lowest grade of husks they can possibly fetch. We hope these husk-feeders for their own good will soon give up this devilish work. All such who have gone before them, never did; they died in their foolishness.

23:2

@@@^Their taking in outright unauthoritative doctrines and private (uninspired) interpretations of the Scriptures, such as these blind teachers teach concerning the 144,000, is incredible indeed. They should know that all such perpetrators are certainly agents of un-Adventist activities. The saints know that though Jesus comes in a time of trouble such as never was, yet He delivers everyone whose name is written in the book, and that all God’s people who are at that time in Babylon, the world, and thus subject to the plagues, are called out, and as they all come out of her, they all escape the plagues (Rev. 18:4); none have to die for any reason. They all know that if they are good enough to come up in the first resurrection, they are good enough for translation.

25:1

@@@^Thanks be to God that the 144,000 are not all the living saints, that they are but the “first fruits” (Rev. 14:4) of the great harvest. Moreover, they are not from all nations, but only from the twelve tribes of the children of Israel (from the church at the commencement of the harvest — Judgment). The great multitude, though, which John saw immediately after the sealing of the 144,000, are “from all nations” (Rev. 7:9). They are therefore the second fruits, those who are not harvested from the church, but from all the nations over whom Babylon then rules (Rev. 17). Thus they are called to come out of her (Rev. 18:4).

28:1

@@@^All of us felt positive that if the laity allow these blind and hostile but pious men to go on with their foolishness and blasphemies they will prove no less detrimental to the church at this time than did the pious priests in Christ’s time by their foolishness prove detrimental to the Old Testament church. Yes, as surely as God lives, the foolishness and self-will of these heresy teachers will prove no less detrimental to the Denomination than did Hitler’s foolishness and his false philosophy prove detrimental to Germany.

28:2

@@@^Brethren, this alone is enough to convince any open-eyed Adventist that the Denomination is certainly at sea “without chart or compass.” But thanks be to God that the @9Rod@7 has found both the “chart and the compass,” and that we can have them back if we want them.