The Gospel Trumpet - 26:07

              AND HE SHALL SeND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET AND THEY SHALL GATHER
TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER. MAT,24:81.
fO WILL' .'fEEK OUT MY SHEEP, AND WfLL DELIVEB THEM OUT OF ALL PUCES WHERE THEY HAY!
BEEN 8CATTERED fN THE CLOUDY AND DARK DAY. EZEK.84:12. JER.82:89.
VOLUME NO. XXVI. MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA., U. S. A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906. NUMBER 7.
MY PRECIOUS SECRET.
I've a secret in my bosom
That the world can never know,
In each trial reassuring,
As the moments onward go.
Only those who do His will can its priceless value
tell.
Round me sweep the waves of sorrow,
And their surgings press the sonl.
With this secret still before me
Tempests 'rise and billows roll.
Secret of undying love lifts my heart to worlds
above.
At our comrades' fading sunset,
When their spirits pass a'way,
But for this most precious secret,
Here my soul could scarcely stay.
fn accents sweet I then can hear, "He thy nlansiou
will prepare."
J!'at1e life's transient dream of splendor,
Let Illy soul in Him confide;
For I kilO\\" no hand can serer
If this secret in me 'bide.
Keep my heart and I shall be, "Thine through
all eternity.
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HOW TO OBEY.
THE only way to know the cOlllmand" of
God is throngh his ·Word. There are some
lleOllle who seem to be anxious to be right.
bnt when they hear the ,Yord of God
preached, they do not ,rant to obey. The
fact is ill such cases that they do not ,vant
to obpy God ns llluch as thl'Y thought they
did. Jesus said, "If ye Ion' mp, keep my
commandments. " Therp llla~' he an intel­lectual
desire in sOllie henrt tll nbt',\' God.
but when the actual test emnes, there proves
to be more lo,e for SOllll'thing l'lse than fur
how sensitive tlw Holy Spirit is. He may
be easily grieved and so repeatedly in thea0
little things that he may at last take his
departure from the heart. Oh, let us tak,~
heed that we grieve not the Holy S.pirIt by
these little acts of disobedience that will
rob us of the grace of Goel. ·Whole-hearted
obedience is our only safety. "Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken
than the fat of rams." J. w. B.
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:BINDING AND LOOSING OF THE DRAGON.
BY C. W. NAYLOR.
(Continued from last "Iced:.)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
IT is a peculiar fact that while the drag­{
In orig'inally was openly and ontwardly
arrayed as autichl'istiall. ill lllany of its
lllodern forllls, it appears in a Christian
garb. amI. eaIling itself Christain, is ac­eepted
as snch by the tolerant, compromis­ing
~l'darians. The main Or central idea of
Clll'istiull Science-the unreality of matter
nlHI tIll' .. allness" of mind, is borrowed
hc{lil~' from the old dragon religiun of the
II imloO!';; and upon it :\lrs. Eddy has built
lwl' conglomerated structure of nonsense.
AfhT a careful consideration of "Science
:mll Health." "'hich might be called the
.. Bible of Christian Seil.'l1ee." I pronounce
it neither scientific 1101' Christian. And
thongh it has SOllle beautiful ideas and
thonghts. and some phases of it are based
on known f,1(>t8, yet in the main. it is only
a systelll of del'l'ptinn totally subwl'siYe of
all the central tl'utlls of Christianity and
is simply a revjyal of the old dragon the­ory
in a form to deceive those who are
well-known, but the forces behind these
forms are little understood by the masses,
or rather they fail to see that they are iden­tical
with the modern forces manifested in
different outward forms. ,Yhile hypno­tism
and mesmerism are natural psychic
powers which most people possess in a lim­ited
degree and use unconsciously; the spe­cial
development of these powers by culti­vation
has given some persons great con­trol
over their less-developed and passive
fellows and their use of these powers is
very often evil. Even when not so intend­ed
by the users, the results are often se­riously
injurious to the nervous systems of
the subjects and some have been perma­nently
injured by this means. If these pow­ei'S
are in this enlightened age so myste­rious
to the people and they look with awe
upon their practise, how much greater their
effect in connection with spiritualism, when
used by the pagan priests upon the super­stitious
and ignorant people of the past.
.From time immemorial these have' been
practised in pagallism, notably in India.
and their present-day prominence in our
land is simply another form of the dragon's
work manifested. Yea, the dragon is loosed.
He now goeth about, not as a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour, but clmning­ly
in a pleasing garb, seeking wholll he may
cleceiye. The binding powers of Catholi­cism
have been broken, Protestantism has
ceased to protest, aDd the old dragon goeth
"'here he listeth.
·WHAT IS HIS PURPOSE?
"_.\.nd when the thousand years are ex­pired,
Satan [the dragon] shall be loosed
out of his prison, and shall go out to de­ceive
the nations which are in the four
spiritually l111Plllightened. It is antiehris-
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ti:m 1I1 ('very sense ('xeept its morality. It
quarters of the earth, gog and magog, to
gather them together to battle: the number
of whom is as the sand of the sea. And
The only way to obey Clod is with the
whole heart, which attitude will bring heay-en
down iuto our hearts and supply aJ.Hlll­dance
of graee to oyereOl1le ewry trial.
There are SOUle people that Ill'vel' seem to
have power to overcome sin. yet profess to
be lovers of God. There is sOlllething wrong
in their obedience. Whole-hearted llbedi-ence
will certainly bring grael'. 'Ve can
make God responsible for our salvation by
giving him our whole heart and keeping in
snch an attitnde toward him. The repent­ant
sinner who yields llilllSl'lf unconditioll-they
went up on the breadth of the earth,
and compassed the camp of the saints
about, and the beloved city: and fire came
down from God out of heaven, and de-teaches
a good moral life through self-cul­ture,
while Christianity teaches and pro­duces
good morals through a blood purifi­cation
uf the heart. which Christian Science
strongl~' denies. While :\Irs. Eddy loudly
claims to teach Christianity. and the only
'1 . , . voured them." Rev. 20: 7-9.
true l 11'1stwmt?·, she totall~· denies all its
The Christian sects have become so tol­essentials;
and instead of teaching it, is
erant that they not only call each other
simply spreading heathenism oyer the land,
"sister churches." but, reaching out, they
and everyone who tolerates. sanctions, or
have begun. as at the Chicago World's Fair,
accepts her teachings is helping to loose
to receive the various other religions, and
the old dragon again to pre?' on the souls
'we now hear of the "brotherhood of relig­of
our fellowmen. Beware of Christian
ally to God to every klllnvn CU11l1lHmtl and ions." These all tolerate one another. But
Science: it is a delusion and a snare and
with a heart-felt promise to 'ralk in all his ODe tIling is offensive to all. One thing
"'ill as rCYealed to him in the future ob- belongs to heathenism, and no one adhering-' they can not tolerate at all, and this is the
to its teaching will trust in the salvation
tains a heart full of grace in the pal'Ullll of uncompromising truth of the Xcw Tcsta-his
sins. 'l'he justified believer who makes of Jesus, since it denies his atonement and ment. which, preached by the Holy Ghost
the perfect Bible consecration obtains the denies sin, Satan, salvation, and the ,v-hole sent down from heaven, does llot tolerate
cleansing and infilling of the Holy Spirit, system of Christian doctrines, and substi- sectism any more than- it does heathenism,
on is loosed, but, as our ancient brethren,
we may fight and overcome him 'by the
blood of the Lamb and the word of our tes­timony.
' Let us keep the blood upon our
hearts and a definite testimony sounding
forth from our lips and lives against ail
these things, and they can never overcome
or deceive us. "But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ."
THE END.
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NOT ANYTHING.
"Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one"; are "one" as the Fa­ther
and the Son are one. "He that is
joined unto the Lord is one spirit." "We
are laborers together with God." "It is
God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure." 1 Cor. 3: 8;
John 17~ 17-21; 1 Cor. 6: 17; 3: 9; Phil.
2: 13. We have a high calling and an
honorable office as ministers of the New
Testament, but it is God who needs all the
glory. "He that glorieth, let him glory in
the Lord." (; So then neither is he that
planteth anything, neither he that water­eth;
but God that giveth the increase." 1
Cor. 3: 7. "I am become a fool in glory­ing;
ye have compelled me: for I ought to
haw been commended of you: for in noth­ing
am I behind the \"Cry chiefest apostles,
though I be nothing." 2 Cor. 12: 11.
It is a good thing that we keep in sight
of ourselves. Paul never lost sight of him­self.
He saw himself "not an:rthing" and
to be "nothing," even though he did see
that God had used him to as great a de­gree
as he had any of the apostles. His
own testimony to the Galatians was: "I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
liw: yet not I, Christ liveth in me: and
the life which I now live in the flesh [body]
I live by the faith of the S.on of God, who
loyt'd me and gave himself for me." Gal.
~: 20. Paul was crucified. The "old man"
was dead. Chri'lt lived in him. "For me
to live is Christ." If Christ lives in us,
that is enough. We do not and can not
liYe ourselves. It is a fact peculiar to this
faith that Christ and the "old man" never
liTe together in the same personage.
. It is a sad, but a true story, that when
preachers get to placing estimation upon
themselves, and their success upon their
natural abilitites, they lose the grace of
God. It does not matter if we hav~ been
used of God in planting churches in every
direction, we are "not anything;" If we
have been used of God in watering
and if he now continues in this grace with tutes for them, on the authority of one and they now join protestant, papist, and churches, we are "nothing." We do not
perfect obedience, he will be kept by the woman, mere vague, meaningless, empty pagan in one accord against this glorIO. US attribute the work to oursel ves, nor 'praISe
po·wer of God, and the joys of heaven will ideas unsupported by evidence or reason. reformation. Everywhere the standard of others for what God had done through
flow like a living spring into his heart. Obe- Beware of it. Remember the dragon was New Testament holiness is preached, cold them. Paul praised neI. th er himself nor
dience brings the grace into the heart, and to go about to deceive the nations. This professors, spiritualists, hypnotists, secret Apoilos to the Corinthian church. God
is one of his deceptions. Avoid it.
obedience keeps it there. society members, Christian Scientists, and gave the increase and God was given the
It has been the experience of many that THEOSOPHY. ail the hosts following the beast, the dragon, glory. Paul said he labored more abund-the
joys which at first flowed so freely and The phase of Theosophy of which Anna and the false prophet (Rev. 16: 13-17) antly than they all, yet not himself, but it
gloriously have gradually diminished their Besant was chief leader for many years, is raise their protest against it, and are in was the grace of God in him that did it;
tlow and almost if not altogether ceased, If another marked example of the dragon be- sentiment and spirit, as they will be later hence, "God which worketh."
in such hearts the true secrets were known, ing loosed. She with others introduced al- in form, bitterly opposed to it. As the de- If we do anything at all for God, it is
there would be found some disobedience most bodily into this c€luntry one of the mand for holiness and unity is pr~ched his grace that does it through us. If we
somewhere. Perhaps not any great act, but religions of India, and began seeking pros- and the" signs follow," and the intolerant, do little in his name, it is by his grace; if
just some little thing which seemed so small elytes to it, and it now has a good many exclusive gospel of Christ makes its power we do much it is by him, so he gets the
that it did not matter much. There was followers; with some of ",;hom I have met felt against all these things, the same con- glory. Shall we rob God of his own glory?
at the first thought a conviction against the and conversed on the subject. It is pagan- fEet, though probably in a different man- The one who does the most for God must
act, but when reason began to work, tbe i ism throughout, in origin and effect. ner,.will be waged between real Christiani- be the least, or "less than the least" in his
little act could be done without any more HYPNOTIS:nl AND MESMERISM. ty and fals'e Christianity united with all own sight. There is one thing certain, if
conviction, For a time there may not have In studying the dragon, is must be re- false religions, but thank God! victory shall we work the works of God, we have ceased
been any consciousness of diminishing .lcy membered that its loosing is not the revival \ be the Lord's. Just as they expect to over-j from our own. We can neither give nor
in the soul, but little by little it berm"!'c of old fonns, but the revival of the powers. come the truth, the parted clouds will re- ' receive honor from men. Those who make
perceptible, and perhaps, by that time the that operated through and in connection I veal the glory of the King of kings as he the saddest wreck of faith, are those whom
mind has forgotten the conviction thnt had with these forms. The old forms would de- I comes in flaming fire to destroy them by God has used abundantly; who, being lifted
been felt some time ago. It is wonderful ceive scarcely· anyone, because thel' are too the brightness of his coming. The old drag- up, think something of themselves and