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Page 82 of 147Amos 16:2
@@@^However, this monthly visitor promises to answer questions on such passages of Scripture only as have been divinely revealed and authoritatively proclaimed—bearing the positive mark of truth. Therefore, it will either give a correct answer to the questions, or else confess its ignorance by saying, “I do not know.”
Obadiah 2:3
@@@^@0Digest thou not this symbol’ code? @0Make Present Truth thy lone abode, @0And gather up the victuals past, @0Then make ne’er more such light repast!— @0Behold the woman starry crown’d; @0Herself in light resplendent gown’d @0Be thou one of this woman’s seed, @0Thou must be true in word and deed. @0Behold, the locust come to see @0If victory’s seal doth rest on thee, @0Lest soon the sting of scorpions tail @0Convulse thy soul and make thee quail @0With racking, lancinating pain @0To torment mad thy throbbing brain, @0Then heaven’s horsemen tread thee down, @0Bereft of life’s eternal crown! @0And under dank eroded sod, @0A thousand years thou lie a clod. @0Then up from hell’s grim charnal store, @0In foul habiliment of yore, @0Thou rise to slave yet five score “Day” @0To Gog and Magog, for the fray @0When fools rush forth with mad intent @0Upon a fool’s endeavor bent— @0But, lo, instead of the Peerless Groom @0In dreadful wrath call down thy doom; @0And quenchless fire thy knell doth toll, @0And up in choking smoke, oh soul, @0Up, up, and up, and ever so, @0Thou go, O soul, thou go, thou go! @0Quick then, repent! Board “No. 8,” @0The Blessed-Hope Line’s home-bound freight!
Obadiah 3:1
@@@^The Symbolic Code believes that the poem, “No. 8,” will spur the minds of Shepherd’s Rod believers, both young and old, to ferret out its meaning, and that the mental activity thus stimulated will, for all participating, necessarily result in a much enhanced perspective on the great work of the message of Present Truth. To subserve further this worthy end, the Code solicits from its every reader his interpretation of the poem.
Obadiah 3:7
@@@^Life’s experience teaches that no matter how perfectly one tries to perform any given work, one can never, in respect to it, hope to please everybody. Even the Christ, Himself, all perfect as He was, could not, in respect to His divine mission, please many. Hardly then could we, with any degree of wisdom, be so sanguine as to expect a reformatory work such as ours,—none too popular at very best—to meet the approval of very many. And by the same token, neither can we, in respect to any certain procedure in connection with the work of Present Truth, very well expect to please all its professed believers. Hence, it was not in the vain hope of pleasing any man, but solely with the desire and purpose of pleasing God, that we framed and sent out the recent “Statistical Reform Survey” blanks to be filled in and returned.
Obadiah 3:8
@@@^But just as post-church history prove has always been the case, we find that those, walking in the full light of Present Truth, were, of course, pleased with the Survey, and thankful to have it; in fact, some faithful ones to whom we unintentionally neglect to mail blanks, and who in one way or another learned about them, wrote in, requesting them; others among this same earnest class, even betrayed a bit of hurt to think we had missed them. Whereas, those not walking in the full light of the message, but running ahead of or lagging behind it, or treading on its side edges, were, of course, not so pleased with the Survey, perhaps because it naturally brought to view their failure to regard some of the reforms which God is calling for at this time.
Obadiah 3:10
@@@^This, various and disunited reaction to the Survey, whose chief mission was to remind all Present Truth believers that the message of reform calls them to come up to a higher level of Christian living, is, as to spirit, one with the criticism expressed in the following piece:
Obadiah 4:8
@@@^These facts are significant, and force the sorrowful admission that they allow of no other conclusion than that there is an element of professed Present Truth believers not fully in step with the message. They profess to be, but they walk in the sparks of their own kindling. They are a reproach to the cause as long as they remain a part of it, and the main source of its limited power. These brethren are portrayed in the Poor Preacher’s Answer, quoted above, in paragraph 4.
Obadiah 5:1
@@@^Seven years experience in this message has repeatedly proved that Present Truth believers have not yet fully recovered from the “sad deception”; especially is this the case of parents and guardians. They seem utterly unable to look with wise, unbiased, unimpassioned judgment upon the problem of their children, for which they themselves are responsible. Satan seems almost completely to have blinded them with parental sentimentalism, until at last we are duty bound to lift warning voice, lest parents and children together perish in their deception.
Obadiah 7:7
@@@^The only way we can possibly accomplish this tremendous feat is that each Present Truth believer experience “an awakening to neglected opportunities,” and that he be “faithful in giving back to God His Own in tithes and offerings,” and making good his vows, for God has not only been robbed “in tithes and offerings,” but also “there are many neglected vows and unpaid pledges, and yet how few trouble their minds over the matter; how few feel the guilt of this violation of duty. We must have new and deeper convictions on this subject. The conscience must be aroused, and the matter receive earnest attention; for an account must be rendered to God in the last day, and his claims must be settled.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p, 468.
Obadiah 7:8
@@@^The Lord further says: “In order to advance the cause of God, means are necessary.” However, “it is not the plan of God to rain down means from heaven in order that His cause may be sustained,” (“Testimonies for the. Church,” Vol. 2, p. 660), but rather that all “shall arouse, and lay their prayers, their wealth, and all their energies and resources, at the feet of Jesus, . . .” Then “the cause of truth will triumph.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p. 475.
Obadiah 8:1
@@@^“The call for means to advance the cause of truth will never be more urgent than now. Our money will never do a greater amount of good than at the present time. Every day of delay in rightly appropriating it, is limiting the period in which it will do good in saving souls.” “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 4, p. 81. “Remember Lot’s wife.”—“But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.” (Num. 32:23.)
Obadiah 8:6
@@@^“Those who have the truth in their hearts are always open-hearted, helping where it is necessary. They lead out, and others imitate their example. If there are some who should have the benefit of the school, but who cannot pay full price for their tuition, let the churches show their liberality by helping them.
Obadiah 8:9
@@@^“The Lord would have painstaking efforts made in the education of our children. True missionary work done by teachers who are daily taught of God would bring many souls to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus; and children thus educated will impart to others the light and knowledge received. Shall the members of the church give means to advance the cause of Christ among others, and leave their own children to carry on the work and service of Satan?”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. 6, p. 217.
Obadiah 9:9
@@@^Hence, unless parents, guardians, and all Present Truth believers, herewith resolve that they will come up to the help of the Lord by making a covenant by sacrifice, thus placing themselves squarely under the burden not only of relieving the school of its present indebtedness, but also of maintaining it in the future, the management will have no alternative but to proceed according to the instruction set forth in the foregoing quotation from the Spirit of Prophecy, which would mean that a number of worthy students now enjoying the advantages and benefits to be secured at no other school than Mt. Carmel would have to leave because of an inability to meet the increased expenses.
Obadiah 10:2
@@@^Now in the time of the blazing of the light, of the sounding of the trumpet even those who profess to be awakened from their Laodicean “sad deception,” are, when it comes to the matter of reform and of the great need to support the cause of God, still soundly asleep. There are hundreds of professed Present Truth believers who barely pay their tithe, and still others who pay neither tithe nor offerings, yet all of whom profess to be reformers, and expect to participate in all of Mt. Carmel’s benefits!
Obadiah 10:3
@@@^Several faithful sisters have offered to loan us a little money, of which, however, we have not availed ourselves because of the fact that the total sum is not sufficient to meet our wants. Therefore, we are extending the opportunity to all Present Truth believers to come to the help of the Lord. By starting a systematic free will offering, and by loaning us some of their savings, all can have a part in this grand and glorious work. The money loaned to the cause of God will be far safer than in any worldly treasure house. In the following paragraphs, we shall present our needs, and those who are moved to come up to the help of the Lord now in a financial way, may do so by applying their means as the Lord may direct within the scope set forth.
Obadiah 11:3
@@@^Many Present Truth ministers have made the grave mistake of leaving for a new field of interest before a solid foundation has been laid in their old field of labor. Thus, interests have been left to die out, and the work of God has been just that much retarded. This is not in God’s order, for, as is set forth in the following statements from the Spirit of Prophecy, He required His ministers to do their work with thoroughness, leaving their work effectually bound off.
Obadiah 11:5
@@@^“Too often the work is left in an unfinished state, and in many such cases it amounts to nothing. Sometimes, after a company of people has accepted the truth, the minister thinks that he must immediately go to a new field; and sometimes, without proper investigation, he is authorized to go. This is wrong; he should finish the work begun; for in leaving it incomplete, more harm than good is done. No field is so unpromising as one that has been cultivated just enough to give the weeds a more luxuriant growth. By this method of labor many souls have been left to the buffeting of Satan . . . and many are driven where they can never again be reached. A minister might better not engage in the work unless he can bind it off thoroughly.”—“Gospel Workers,” pp. 367, 368.
Obadiah 12:4
@@@^@^Dear Sister————-:@^“For some time I have been reading and enjoying Present Truth literature. Especially do I enjoy The Symbolic Code and so far as I have read, I am very much in harmony with all that it and the other publications teach.
Obadiah 13:4
@@@^There is but one way of knowing that we are being led, by Christ our Lord, in the straight path to the pearly gates, and that is, by neither adding to nor taking from the Word of Truth, but by carefully following in the way of light, going not a step ahead of it, lingering not a step behind it, nor walking along its side-edges, but by following right in the middle of the road. Hence, let not your zeal for progress drive you ahead of the light and make you to walk in the darkness; neither let your caution against running too far ahead cause you to drop back and lag behind; nor yet let carelessness verge you toward the edges. Stay in the center of the road, where the light shines the brightest. Do not follow ideas which stand upon implications, upon enlargements, upon diminishings, of the meaning of authoritative statements. Says Christ: “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life.” (Rev. 22:18, 19.)