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DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: 1 am sated
through the blood of Christ, and Sa* ii=.
tified, and I do praise God far is
goodness and saving and healio
power. I was instantly healed bile-male
trouble and, nervousness.
I had a sevefaattack of sore
somethingliketensilitis and typho
fever, I was' prayed for andianante- dt'
and was instantly healed.
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ver came back, and I got up and went
across the room and knelt down, awl
asked Gea, - ito ? take the fever and pain
away, audit vA 	 s done at once. 01 11-
praise God more and more every
hour! I praise him for his safe keep-inwant
healing power. I am : welt
pleased with God's work in my sov,
Dear ones, i , ask you all to pray ter
me that I, maykeep humble at Jesus,
feet. God= bress all the . saints even. -
whete... " ailed sister • in
Christ, 	 M. CORDER;
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62.) perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment: be-cause
as he is so are we in this world."
Dear ones, there is an awful day a-waiting
us one and all: that is the
day when this world will be called to
stand before God in judgment, to be
judged every man according to the
real contents of his heart, by that
God who knows the heart and tries
the reins and will judge every man
according to his works. And be sure
he is no respecter of persons but
will look deep into every heart and
will judge from the contents of the
same. Yea, he will judge you by
that word which he says " is quick
and powerful, and sharper than any
two- edged sword, piercing to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart, and neither is
there any creature that is not mani-fest
in his sight: but all things are
naked and open to the eyes of him
with whom we have to do."— Heb. 4:
12, 13. Dear ones, this being true,
let us look deep into our hearts and
see if under the searching 1 . ght of that
word we are ready to meet him; and
let us, as the Word says, say, " Search
me, 0 God, and know my heart; - try
me and know my thoughts; and see
if there be any evil way in me, and
lead me in the way everlasting."—
Psi. 139: 23, 24.
0 dear people, and especially you-that
claim to be out in this straight
way, let us look deep into our hearts
under the searching light of the
Spirit and word of God and see if we
have the real experience of the Word
in our hearth'. And let us look at
the word of God where he speaks of
that awful day when God will call all
this world before him, to render the
decision by his word that will forever
settle oui- doom. Oh for the love
of your soul, look deep into your
heart and do not be deceived; you
will never have another chance; this
. will forever seal your destiny. Look
at Matt. 25: 31- 46. Here he gives a
description of the judgment day.
Here is one class of people that feed
Christ when he is hungry; and give
him drink when he is thirsty; and
clothe him when he is naked; take
him in when he is a stranger; visit
him when he is sick and in prison.
And they ask him when they did
these things to him; and he says,
" Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye
did it unto me." And he says, " These
will go into everlasting life." But
here comes up another class, and
Jesus says, " I was hungry and you
gave me no meat; thirsty and you
gave me no drink; a stranger and
you took me not in; sick and in orison
and you visited me not." And they
will say, " When saw we thee sick, or
' hi prison, or hungry, or naked; and
did not minister unto thee?" And
Jesus will answer them, " Inasmuch
as ye did it not to one of the least
of these, ye did it not to me, and
these shall go away into everlasting
punishment; but the righteous into
life eternal."
For the sake of your souls, dear
ones, I beseech you to look at this
lesson: because this alone will for-ever
seal your doom if you do not
heed it. I feel that these are some
things that God's people must wake
up on, or some will surely hear the
awful sentence, " Depart froni me,
ye cursed, into everlasting fire."
Such as feeding the hungry, and
clothing the naked, and visiting the
sick. God help you, brethren, you
need not tell me that you have the
love of God in your heart when you
have plenty of everything around
you, and your brethren in need of
something to eat and wear, and you
do not supply their need, I do not
believe it.
Read Isa. 58: 6,7. " Is not this the
fast that I have chosen, to loose the
bands of wickedness, to undo the
heavy burdens, and to let the op-pressed
go free, and that ye break
every yoke? Is it not to deal thy
bread to the hungry, and that thou
bring the poor that are cast out to
thy house? When thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and
that thou hide not' thyself from
thine own . fl esh ?"
Listen, brethren, what will follow
then? " Then shall thy light break
forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily;
and thy righteousness shall go be-fore
thee; the glory of the Lord shall
be thy rereward. Then shalt thou
call, and the Lord shall answer; thou
shalt cry and he shall say, Here I am."
This will explain why some do not
get along better in their experience.
Remember, dear ones, that awful
day is coming when Jesus will come
in flaming fire, taking vengeance on
them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel. When he comes
this way, he says they will calf for
the rocks and mountains to fall on
them and hide them from the face
of him who sits on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb. " For
the great day of hiz wrath is come,
and who shall be able to stand?"
Our text tells us just who will be able
to stand; namely, " Herein is our love
made perfect, that we may have
boldness in the day of judgment, be-cause
as he is, so are we in this world."
We see here that it will take
the perfect love of God to en-able
us to stand in that day.
Dear ones, I am fully convinced
that nothing but a soul that is as pure
as Jesus Christ will be able to stand
that awful crisis. This is going to be
far more awful than many think it is.
Therefore cry aloud! Awake, 0
souls! For this awful crisis will soon
be upon you, and there will be no
time to prepare for it then. And
without you stand clean and pure
from every spot, you will melt be-neath
his awful presence and will be
driven back to hell as a refuge from
his awful glory. The supreme purity
and glory of Christ will make every
thing wither and melt and flee away
from his awful presence, that does
not bear the stamp and image of his
own glorious character. For this
reason we are to be made perfect in
love and partakers of the divine na-ture
so we can stand his awful pees-ence.
Sometimes people get into a-camp
meeting or some other meet=
ing where the word- of God is going
forth with great power, and ' the. 4vit.-;,
ful presence Hof - God is felt a
buke upon every sinful; t • -
they begin to want to get away be-cause
they feel so uncomfortable.
Dear ones, if God's presence makes
it uncomfortable here, what do you
think it will be when you stand
before him in judgment?
Our text at the head of this article
is very comprehensive in its scope.
It will first take in our love to God,
and this underlies all the rest. And.
where this is perfect, all the rest will
be perfect. But where it is lacking
all the rest will be lacking. We say
the love of God underlies all else.
Jesus says, " He that loveth me not,
keepeth not my sayings."— Jno. 14: 24.
The very basis upon which it be-comes
possible to love our neighbor
as ourselves is to love God with all
our heart. If there is a failure on
any point, it is because there is a
failure here. Experience teaches us
all along the line of life that the
more we love a person the more we
delight to please him. So it is with
reference to our God; the more we
love him the more we delight to
obey him. And perfect love to him
will insure perfect obedience to his
word. " For , this is the love of God,
that we keep his commandments."
— 1 Jno. 5: 3. And again, ' He that
hath my commandments and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me."— Jno.
14: 21. Again, " Jesus answered and
said unto him; If a man love me, he
will keep my words."— Jno. 14: 23
That means, if we love him, we will
do what he tells us to do. So settle
it in your heart if you find it hard to
obey God in anything, it is because
you do not love him as you should.
Therefore the first and great com-mandment
is, " Hear 0 Israel: the
Lord ' our God is one Lord.: and
thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind." " And
these words which I command thee
this day shall be in thy heart."
Here is the secret of the thing.
These words are to be in our hearts.
That is, we are to have the real ex-perience
of these words in our hearts,
and not the mere theory of it in our
heads. This must be just as real in
us as it is in Jesus. Ashe says in Jno.
17: 26, " And I have declared unto
them thy name, and will declare it;
that the love wherewith thou hast
loved me, may be in them, and I in
them." Here we see that he means
that the lame love with which the
Father loved him, is to be in us.
Dear ones, let us lay the truth. to
heart here, and see if the love with
which the Father loved the Son, is
in us as a real experience. There
are many in the world to- day just
like Jesus said in his day: " This
people draw near me with their
mouth and honor me with their lips
but their heart is far from me."—
Matt. 15: 8. This means they will
talk a great deal about him and tes-tify,
as they think, in honor of him,
yea, as the prophet says, " With their
mouth they shew much love. [ Ezek.
33: 21,],- And they come unto thee as
the people cometh, and - they sit be-lore-
thee as my people, and they
lieariOlvords, but they will not do
, thera:',; q4 I beseech rap, clear souls,
tO stir: yoiirself up and - look at this
matter
In Matt 23: 37- 4o Jesus said unto
him, .!. T: hou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all
thy soul and with all thy- mind. This
is the trst . and great commandment.
Ana the- second is like unto it, Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
N- ow, xliar ' ones, let us look deep into
OUT marts and see if the real expe-rience.
of this is as deegin_ our hearts
a theory of it iSin. our heads,. I
y.... convinced that _ there is
more in this than many of us have
got into yet. God waked me up on
this line some time ago, and made
me realize that I had to go deep on
this point. But I feel there is away
to get at this point so we can see
whether we are where we ought to
be. Here is a good test, in Matt. to:
37- 39. " He that loveth son or
daughter more . than me is not
worthy of me; he that loveth father
or mother more than me is not
worthy of me." Here is a lesson on
which God waked me up. I have
two little boys and I love them
much; and as they would play
around me I was very conscious of
the strong love that bound them to
me; and then the question would
come, " Are you as conscious of the
love you have for God as you are of
the loovvee you feel for that child?"
Some of you may say, " I am sure I
do not love my child or father or
mother more than I love God," but
let us look at it and see. Here is
where God stirred my soul in me.
I would sometimes pick. my little fel-lows
up or Watch them as they would
play around me, and it would seem
that my heart was so knit to them
that they seemed to be a part of my-self;
and I was vividly conscious of
the strong love that existed in my
heart for them. Then the question
would come to me, " Are you as viv-idly
conscious of the love that binds
you to God as you are of the love
you have for that child?" No doubt,
you have felt the strong emotions of
love for a son or daughter, or a
father or mother, or a brother or a
sister, and you were very conscious of
the love you felt for them. Now
then, think of the strong affection
you " feel for them, and ask yourself
the question, Am I as conscious of
the love I have to God as I am of
the love I have for them? And re-member
the Word says, " He that
loveth .. these more than me is not
worthy of me." I really believe
there is something in this that a
great many do not consider.
GEO. P. KEELING.
Three Things Needful.
HERE are three things given in
the economy of grace, that
every child of God should seek,
obtain, and utilize to the highest
advantage, everywhere and at all
times. They are knowledge, wisdom,
and prudence. Knowledge without
wisdom profiteth - not, neither can
wisdom manifestly display her glories
without prudence. Upon these three
treasures rest the- security and
prosperity of all the elict: Aherefore
diligence backed by moral courage,
with the heavenly tools of faith, trust,
and patience, should by truth's Liver
dig away every object that hides
these precious riches.
Knowledge is the first to be sought.
And the word of God, is the great
mine where is buried deep, not the
knowledge to which the world
aspires, but an everlasting gem that
brings to us the comprehension of
facts relative to salvation and life
eternal. 2 Tim. 3: 15. To have
knowledge is to comprehend facts.
And the intelligencezained from the
Word by careful search, is facts con-cerning
man, his origin, present duty,
and future destiny.
With this knowledge only, man
would be a miserable existence. He
could see his present wretched state,
know his hopeless future, without
the power to act, either in doing
something for his promotion or
undoing the chains of_ slavish de,
pend. enat by which he has been
bound. The allwise Creator, knowl,
ing this, sent wisdom to assist man.
Wisdom is the right application of
knowledge, or " the use of the best
means for attaining the best ends."
It is the principal thing. Prov. 47-
Therefore search for her as you
would for hid treasures. Prov. 3: 4•
Knowledge with wisdom to prop-erly
apply it, is not sufficient yet to
save man; because ' wisdom dwells
with prudence.'— Prov. 8: 12. Pru-dence
looks ahead, foresees the evil
( Prov. 21: 3), and secures herself
from it until wisdom comes to her
assistance, by applying knowledge,
the best means to the best and
wisest end. That brings victory, en-abling
the soul to face every foe and
surmount every difficulty without fear
of being overcome by some wrong
element or influence.
By knowledge then we acquire a
comprehension of facts, wisdom uses
this knowledge to the best advan-tage,
while prudence prepares the
soul to escape the deceptions of the
devil, by hiding away in God in
trustfulness, keeping it from any
rash or premature conclusion, until
wisdom settles the question by the
use of knowledge.
Let us all expand more in the love
of God until we possess more of
these indispensible graces. When
we get them as God intends, as long
as they are in use, backsliding is an
impossibility. W. A. HAYNES.
Testimonies.,..
PRINCE, MISS.
DEAR READERS OF THE TRUMPET:
May the God of all mercy and holy
love ever bless and keep you contin
ually sheltered under the wings of
care and protection. I do praise
the Lord forever for salvation that
keeps me continually hungering and
thirsting after righteousness more
and more. I know he heals my
afflictions, and when trouble and
grief press my soul I fall on my knees
and plead for help, he comforts me.
Glory to his name! I write to " ask
some of God's ministers in the North
to come South. I have just read
Brother E. E. Byrum and Wm. G.
Schell's testimony, saying after
spending a few days in Ohi9 they
expected to come South. I do: pray
God to send them to MissisSippi.
Oh may the Lord direct them- to
Prince, Miss. just as soon as He wills,
and I think that will be some'time
between now and the first of January,
Your sister in the love and fear'ef
God, E. J. - EBEIC
TO THE PROFESSOR.
0 ye souls who are professors,
Are you walking in the light?
Has the blood of your Redeemer
Cleansed and made you fully white?
Cso.— Woe to them that are at ease in Zion!
Arise and Christ will give you light!
Buckle on the holy armor,
And be ready for the fight.
Is the peace of God within you,
Which gives you a perfect rest?
Or does guilt and condemnation
Fill and reign within your breast?
In the service of the Master,
There's a high and holy way;
And all those may walk within it,
Who are willing the price to pay.
See! the remnant are returning
To the high and holy way,
With their songs of joy and praises,
As they walk the narrow way.
Mrs. James Pool.
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Prepare to Meet God.
as a man be 	 s in the Lord Jesus
Christ, he is n outcast, and his own
people cut off all communication
with hire. I know a brother whose
father did not speak with him for
nineteen years although they saw
each other. Oh what a wonderful
Savior is our Jesus! He is and can
be everything to us! Receiving him,
we can forget eve ry one ard every
thing else. Praise the Lord! Yeurs
lovingly in Christ, 	 A. D. KIIAN.
THE GOSP TRIT PET.
An assembly meeting vid. 1 be held at
Crowland, Ont. commencing Jan. 2, 1897.
J. A. Dillon and Co.
The church of the living God will hold
an all- day meeting in Encampment Hail at
Tichoute. Pa., on Dec. 13th, commencing
at ten o'clock A. rd. The ordinances of
God's house will be observed in the eve-ning,
Lord willing. Let there be
a
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al turnout ot the saints and truth-seLkers.
Come and have a glorious feast
with the Lord. L. A. Wallace.
Assembly meetings will be held as
follows:
Hutton Valley, Mo. Dec. 9- 14.
Myrtle, Mo. Dec. 16- 21.
All the saints, and especially the
Lord's holy ministry in reach of any or
all these meetings are requested and
invited to attend. Yours. wholly the
Lord's, A. B Stanberry, Vi, let Hill, Ark.
There will be an assembly meeting at
the meeting- house ten miles north of
Brownstown, Ill., to commence Dec. 25,
and last as long as God wills. We expect
some more ot God's ministers to meet us
there. Those ceming on the train, can
write to me at Funkhouser, Effingham Co.,
111.. or Samuel Wrice, Brownstown, 111.,
and one of us will meet you at the zr. ein.
Pray for this meeting. Your brother in
Christ, R. L. Parsons.
There will be a general assembly of the
saints of God of Texas, to te held at
Ft. Worth. Will commence Dec. 24.
The brethren extend a general invitation
to all the people of God. far and near, to
attend. Come prepared to take care oi
yourself as far as possible. ' 1 he workers will be cared for. Brothers Byrum z. nd
Schell are invited to come, and others
that are led to come. For further infor-mation
write J. W. Pine, Ft. Worth, Tex
ASSEMBLY MEETING. HARTSELLS, ALA,
The Lord willing, there will be an as-sembly
meeting at Zion, about four miies
east cm. Hartsells, Ala., beginning Dec. 12, and continue- a week or more. Bros.
E. E. Byrum and W. G. Schell expect to
be there, also Bro. Otto Bolds. Let as
many of the satnts- as possible attend.
- Every lover of the truth . invited. For farther • information address. Bro.
D. - a Fidler, or J. Shaneyfelt.
befere meetii g began. I do not men may strive with each other in
mean you should not feel at liberty a pu h iliAic way, and beat each other,
to talk to each other. Only let your and if it does not result in the death
conversation be as becometh the either they have not sinned, be-gospel
of Christ. cause they have not broken either
There is something more. Often- 10f the ten commandments. A man
times in visiting the children of God may look on a woman to lust after
here will be manifest a real talking! and he is guiltless, because this
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4, R P - I have a favor to ask in behalf of my
husband. 	 He has faith 	 that God can
heal him, and wished me to ask the saints
to pray for the healing of his body of
Bright's disease. 	 The name is Mr. Henry
Baker. 	 Pray Dec. 13.
To THE SAINTS: 	 Hear a mother's pray-ers
in behalf of her boy dying with con-sumption.
	 Very bad case. 	 Pray that he
may be healed, he is the last one. 	 I need
him; he is the widow's onl y son. 	 Do pray
for him. 	 Harriet E. Huff, Osseo, Mich.
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Calls for Mce, u, ngs..*
HOPE, ARK.
DEAR SAINTS: 	 We have been earn stly
praying for some of God's true children.
that are able to teach the whole counsel of
God, to come to this 	 place. 	 Have also
made two requests through the Trumpet
but as yet no one has come 	 Dear ones,
take it to the Lord in ea, nest prayer, and
see if the Lord would have you come to
this Icing neglected place 	 Come if pos-sible
betore Christmas. 	 We would like
for some one to come at once. 	 I have no
money to pay for expenses. 	 We are poor,
and the people are all bound down with,
sectish yokes, without salvation. 	 We do t
pray God to send v. hom he will right
away, for the rescuing of per, shing souls,
to work for God here and about Sardis,
We will help all we can in the cause. and
you are welcome to our home, four miles
south of Hope. 	 Yours in the love of
Jesus, 	 E. Hunt.
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GOSPEL TRUMPET. Renfroe, Lrake Co., Miss., beginning Dec.! A Letter From Tibri.
[ or woman either] shall speak he commandments.
shall give account thereof in the day 0 shame! on the propagators of a
of judgment." Better let • your doctrine that makes a man innocent
worldly friends feel the influence of when he has done that the New
God's Spirit while you sit in silence, Testament pronounces murder and
than to put forth so much effort to adultery. See 1 Jno. 3: 15; Matt.
be thought agreeable that you bring 5: 28.
leanness to your soul. Mr. Tibri insinuates that no power
" Beloved, we are not of the world," on earth could convince him that the
and therefore the world may as well ten commandments are abolished.
know it. You need not be cold or This is doubtless true, for we have
impolite but God will help " you o
There will be an assemb'y meeting at:
22. Bros. E. E. Byrum and Wm. G. Schcll
are expected to be there, and we want all
the preachers who are in reach of this
. meeting to be sure to come, for we indeed
feel it to be of the Lord. Renfroe is
eighteen miles south of Kosciusko, which
is on the Illinois Central Branch R. R
Those coming from the north will stop at
Kosciu- ko and go to Hinze Hotel and re-main
there tilt convey - nee comes. Those
coming that way wi. I please write Bro. J.
L Harris at Renfroe. Miss., stating what
day they wish to be met. All who can,
please come prepared to take care of them-selves
as far as possible.
R. H. Owens, Freeny, Miss.
y ar or n s eart the
to all," but not that we chatter about greatest antipathy against his fellow
things of no profit. Jesus tells us, man and he has nut sinned, because
that " for every idle word a man he has not broken either of the ten
t had te. olished them, even yet in my old
age I would give free vent to the feelings of m„).
carnal nature, and eat. drink. and be merry. be-cause
to- morrow we die. And if the ten cow-mandments
are abolished, men cannot sin an
more.
These words of Tibri show the
graceless condition of his heart. He
would give free vent to the feelings
of his carnal. nature, if he were con-vinced
that the decalogue were
• abolished. So he still has a lustful,
dissipitated nature concealed under
a cloak of religion, and is only held
within the bounds of decency and
respectability by his fears of burning
Horeb. Poor soul! if he would but
give his heart to the Savior, the
atoning blood would purge away his
farms, their merchandise, and of sinful nature, and give him grace to
high and low prices, and hard times. live holy, from a principle of love to
Is it not so? Did you not often God and his fellow man.
spend fifteen minutes or half an hour But he cannot obtain salvation in
' n such a manner? Christ so long as he clings to the
That was before you knew the law of Moses; for the inspired apos-wonderful
love of God in its fullness. tie tells us, that - Christ is become of
Well how do you do now? Do you none effect unto you, whosoever of
do the same things? Pause a moment you are justified by the law; ye are
and look back. How is it any way ? fallen from grace."--- Gal. 5: 4.
Then you had to wait for the Like law teachers in general,
preacher to begin the meeting, now Tibri says, " If the ten command-you
have the blessed privilege of ments are abolished, men cannot sin
[ allowing the leadings of God's Spirit; any more;" as though tht re were. no
and yet how often do we find the standard of uprightness outside of
children of God, when they come to- the ten commandments. Sach Ian-gether,
back in the old rut, talking, guage is an outrage on the New
and talking, and waiting for the Testament, and an exhibition of the
preacher to say, Let us sing, or, Let grossest ignorance; for the New
us pray! Have you not seen it so, Testament sets forth many heinous
and has nut your soul felt lean and crimes that are nut condt. mned in the
spiritless after half an hour of such decakgue. Now supposing we ad-tal
? I have known whole meetings mit, for the sake of argument, that
to be dull and spiritless si mply Tibt i's doctrine is true, that there is
because those who came tcgether no sinning but by disobeying one of
to worship did too much visiting the ten command
OR some time the subject of
talking has been in my mind,
and I believe God will be pleased to
have me write a few lines on this
subject. Now dear ones, those of
you who came out of sects will re-.
member when you went to your sect
meeting, if you were a little early,
or the preacher a little late, how you
spent the time. Was it not in visit-ing
with those around you in talk-ing
of this one's bonnet or that one's
dress, or of the latest bit of scandal.
The brethren would talk about their
Talking.
death.
We admit that it was the Jewish
Sabbath of which Jesus spoke in the
above prediction, but Tibri is quite
mistaken when he says Christ estab-lished
seventh- day- keeping in the
above text. He was talkirg about
the safety of the Christians in their
flight, and not of the desecration of the
seventh day. He commanded them
to pray that their flight would not
be in the winter, because a flight
unto the mountains would be accom-panied
with great hardships at that
the plain statement of scripture, in
the third chapter of second Corin-thians,
that that which was written
and engraven in stones is abolished
and done away. And a man who
ill not receive what inspired lan-guage
teaches without the aid of
comments, we believe to be obsti-nate,
and like Ephraim of old joined
to his idols.
Mr. Tibri further says:
Christ did not change the
w
Sabbath. In his ,
prediction of the downfall of Jerusalem, 	 b
occurred seventy years afterards. he instructed
his people to pray that their flight be not in win-ter,
', tither on the Sabbath day. By this he . a
established the Sabbath seventy years after his
shown him in our former answers
- Another surprising thing to me is. that there
any who are contending that God's ten
mandments are abolished. If there was any
er on earth that cou. d convince me that
NCE the publication of " Ques-tions
and Answers on the
Sabbath" hi. the TRUMPET, we re
ceived a letter from " Tibri," in
which are some things, which with
the hopes of enlightening other souls
who may be in the same condition
we will consider under the light of
God's holy wcrd. Says Tibri:
ments. Then two
SECOND LETTER.
CALCUTTA, INDIA, Sept. 23, 96.
Iv VERY DEAR BROTHER: I am
sure the conversion- story of a
Mohammedanboy who has just come
out for the Lord, leaving behind all
his own people, would be very inter-esting
to you, and with this hope I
am giving it below.
Ore. the thirteenth of September.
96 I received a letter from a mis-sionary
friend of mine of Mymeusing,
Eat Bengal. asking my prayer on be-half
of a Mohammedan boy of about
fifteen or sixteen, named Kahn
uddin Ahened. By the way, I ought
to tell you that this is the place
where I first heard the calling of my
Lord and was brought into his fold..
There it is tnat my own people are
yet hying. Now I was interested in
this boy myself, for while at Mymeu-sing,
he used to come to my Bible
class, and often in my house, when
would give him my books and papers
to read. My missionary friend also
asked me to write a few words of
encouragement and advice to him
DEAR REAPERS OF THE 	 ET:
We have been in the gospel field
since our last report. Have been
having some prt cious advanct meet
prayer- meetings. A revival of spirit-uality,
brotherly. love, and points of
truth were gained as a result; also,
some souls were made free in Jesus.
From Crothersville, Ind., we came to
this city, several of the brethren
accompanying us, where we shared
the fruitions of a glorious assembly
meeting. The brethren moved
southward into other fields of labor,
and: we remain here to continue the
meeting and scatter holy literature
over the city so long as the Lord
wills. We contemplate going to
Floyds Knobs, Ind., after the Mas-ter
is through with us here. We
can respend to calls for the gospel,
north and east of us or elsewhere.
Write us. Your brother and com-panion
in the work,
B. E. WARREN AND CO.
at this time when he was very near T. CLA/ R, TENN., Noy. 27.
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However, I
FROM INDIA.
ote to him immedi
ately as the Spirit gave me words
and he wrote in reply; but it is worth
noticing that he had spoken to hi
father about the Savior two day
previous to this, tthereupen tht y al
reproached him and strictly enjoinet
upon him not to go to the iniisio
house again. But this morning ( 1St
Sept.) as he was reading the lette
he wrote for me, some of them sus
pected and began to treat hinl
harshly, upon which he left th
house, and after wandefing abou
nearly an hour went to the missio
house. There also his friends an
relatives followed him, but he wa
safe. His father sat there continu
ally for over three hours, and at las
he was ccmpelled to leave by lega
authority, because they nearly be
seiged the mission house, so to speak
Then came the glorious victory,—
the boy was baptized in the after
noon. But his people were so much
excited that it has been though
wise to remove him somewhere for
a time. So it was decided that he
should go to Dacca to stay with the
brethren there for a few days
This place is aboutseventy- five miles
south of Mymeusing; and it takes
nearly five hours to reach it by rad
way journey. Happily, the graciou
Lord sent a Salvation Army officer
to help the missionaries on this occa
sion, and he volunteered to take
our new brother with him to Dacca
But on their arrival to the Mymeu-sing
railway platform thereaopeared
quite unexpectt dly some fifteen men
having sticks ( big ones) in their
ands. They got hold of our
rother and would have taken him
ffi
y force, but for the undaunted cour-ge
and bravery of the S. A. ccer
Mr. Watkins. However, the Lord
gave them a great victory here again
and they reached Dacca all right, and
thanked the Lord.
Our brother says in his letter from
an assembly of the saints A - number of saints from southern In-
' diana were also present, and truly 1 we had a profitable meeting, and
• the name of the Lord glorified in the
S salvation of a few souls and believers II wbeaiynsg omfo trhe eti : Lmo! ) r 	 d. There weinr eth ae
h number of sick and afflict( d healed h through the prayer of faith and the
3la) ing on o
f 	
hands.
- One aged sister who applied for
healing and received aceordieg to
C her faith was made every whit
whole. She testified that she had
h been bound down by diseaae for d eighteen years, but was instantly
S made well, when the spirit of infirm-
- ity was rebuked. t Others were delivered from the I curse and binding powers and in-
' iluence of spiritual: sm, from which
' they had suffered the buffetings of
Satan for many years. We never
felt more like crying out against the
soul• destroying doctrines of spirit- t ualism and satanic powers on various
lines of deception.
We found here a number of
precious children of God who were
▪ earnestly contending for the faith
once delivered to the saints, although
an antichrist spiiit was at work a-
- gainst them and had tried to work
S division in their midst, and draw
disciples away from the truth. As the
- word of God was set forth, all could
discern the line between truth and
• error, and the antichrist spirit was
exposed and re. buked, It is the
business of the enemy to impoiP
upon the children of God anything
oheftphoes 	 c. a n to hinder the progress
work
these da: is to
sight of God
, snares of the
needed wisd
spirits and
ene\ Trey. left
evening and
mained to con: inue the meeting.
Wednesday we arrived at this place
and began meeting at night, and we
are expecting a precious time in the
name of the Lord. We find manY
calls for meeting here in the South,
and many hungry for the truth 111
Itntered at the Post Office of Grand Junction. Mach- as
and class matter-
THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1896.
UST OF MONEY LETTERS MIT OTHERWISE CREEIPTED
a Swentzell. Lena Cooper. August Samuel-son,
H. E. R 1gPrs, H. N. Hicks. N. Lovelads,
Mrs. R. E. Corkwell. J L. Mitchell, Amos
Lowder, EmilyRarden, J. R Spangle, N. H.
Maigan, Kate Huston. T. R. Holleman.
A WEEKLY HOLINESS JOURNAL.
know how much talking to do.
Neither need the brethren, or sisters
be entertained by ceaseless talk. It
may be they enjoy communing with
the Lord. If they do not, let them
see by your example that you do.
One thing more, and it appears to
be a real snare of the enemy. That
is foolish talking and jesting. Young
people are apt to fall into this habit.
They begin by saying little " cute"
things to get others to smile at their
wit. Bt fore long they joke just a
little and think there is no harm in
having a little fun. Sometimes, a
bit of slang seems to them to be very
necessary to finish out some things.
Young people are not the only ones
who indulge in foolish talking
Older people, too, like to be thought
smart and witty, and they fall into
the snare of the devil.
We have talked about talking, now
let us see what the scripture saith.
Eph. 5: 3, 4. Here is something for
the young people. See I Tim. 4: 12.
I Peter r: 14, 15, 16. EPh- 4: 29,. 32.
Warn- saved sister,
G. C. ELLIOTT.
[ time of the year. He commanded
them to pray that their flight be not
on the Sabbat-, because the Jews
who would still be keeping the sev-enth
day, would have the gates of
Jerusalem, and of all the cities of
the Holy Land through which they
should be obliged to pass on their
flight to the mountains, closcd upon
that day; which would render it dif-ficult,
if riot entirely prevent their
flight. Would seventh- day- keepers
to- day consider a flight upon the
seventh day to save life, a desecra-on
of that day? Wm. G. SCHELL.
Dacca that ' indeed the Lord has
been with them." Is not this some-thing
like believing with Abraham,
dear brother? I mean following the
Lord, not knowing whither he lead-eth,
leaving his parents and all his
own people behind. This can be
saidto e a common thing for each every direction. eFruly them is
native convert in India, that as soon need of workers who can co
It is very necessary in
live very humble in the
in order to detect the
enemy and have the
ore to withstand false
the oppression of the
that place on Tuesday
Bro. B. E. Warren re-
TEHACII4Pti'CO
DEAR BRoT. 	 HER_ 	 s A. NP. STitat
WINSLOW, ARK.
DEAR SAINTS OF THE LIVING GOD
I feel led to write my testimony to
you, also to ask prayers while we
stay in this wicked place. We pro-pose
to stop here a while, trusting
that Father keep us the short time
we wish to stay here. As we have
four children we can't be out very
much in the winter. This place was
alive for God, but it seems that the
devil has almost gotten the victory.
But pray much that God may keep
his chosen few. We expect to pro-ceed
in the work as soon as Father
Opens the way. Dear ones, if you
know that God wants you to come here
to preach the gospel, oh do not neglect
your duty. Your sister saved and
sanctified, 	 J. A. COURTNEY.
ATTICA, ARK.
DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: I believe
it to be to the glory of God to tell
what the Lord has done for me. He
keeps me saved every day and I just
praise God for salvation that saves
to the uttermost. I had a goiter on
my neck that had been there for
thirty years, and it got so bad Leonid
hardly talk or swallow. A few weeks
ago the elders prayed and anointed
me according to James 5: 14, 15, and
glory to God it has been going away
ever since. I want you all to pray
when you read this that it may go
away entirely. The Lord has also
freed me from the use of coffee and
tobacco. To him be all the glory.
Your saved sister, ARENA ROSE.
EUGENE, IND.
DEAR TRUMPET READERS: May the
dear Lord bless you all in every
good work. My soul does magnify
the Lord. He has done so many
great things for me. He saved my
soul five years ago and healed me of
an affliction in my feet and ankles
that I had doctored about three
years with no relief. That was one
year before I heard the evening
light preached. Since I accepted
the whole truth, I have been healed
of a bad spell of fever. Praise our
Godl he is able to heal both soul
and body. Pray for me that I may
indeed be an example, that any one
may safely follow me as I follow
Christ. Your sister in the one body,
saved by the precious blood of
Christ, 	 TILLIE CRAFT.
FINDLAY, 01110..
DEAR SAINTS OF GOD EVERYWHERE:
I greet you in the name of Jesus.
My testimony is that I am saved and
settled and satisfied with Jesus, and.
am free from all sectism and stand
alone on the Word. My soul says,
Praise the Lord! I do the trusting
and Father doe's the keeping. Wife
got saved at our meeting at Findlay.
Praise God! There are ten of us
here, but some are not willing to
give up all for Christ as yet. Breth-ren
and sisters, hold them up before
God in earnest prayer that they
may see their real condition. I
have taken Christ for my physician.
He has wonderfully healed My body,
for which I give him the glory. Wife
was wonderfully healed. What a
great God we have! He supplies all
our needs.
M. R. AND E. J. LONGBRAKE.
ATTICA, ARK.
DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: I believe it
to be to the glory of God to write a
few lines and tell what the Lord has
done for us. A few weeks ago our
little girl, three years old, was bittefr
by a snake or a tarantula, on
foot, aanndd in three or four hours _ Was.
almost into fits, and her foot_ ad
turned black and her leg was fiwol.-
len to her body. But glory , to God,
when we sent for the elders „ And
they prayed for her and anointed-.
her according to James 5: 14,15, , nile
went to sleep and rested welleall'
night, and the next morning: was all
right. To God be all the glory
Pray for us that we may -- hoe_ ' a
deeper sinking down in- GI: 4s_ itwei
Your saved sister, 	 Araczt kOst.
MOORLAND, MICH., Nov. 25.
To THE SAINTS OF GOD, GREETING:
As it has been a long time since I
have testified through the TRUMPET,
I feel that the Lord would be
pleased to have me write and tell
what the dear Lord has done for
me.
For twenty- two years I was trou-bled
with bronchitis. At camp
meeting, June 17, the Lord wonder-fully
healed me, for which I give
him all the glory. From camp meet-ing
we went in company with Bro.
Speck till near the assembly in, et-ing.
While at the Clark Co., Ohio
meeting during the wet weather, the
devil afflicted me with rheumatism,
which was the greatest trial of faith
I ever had. Vk as anointed repeat-edly
and would receive a benefit for
a while, then it would come back as
bad as ever. We kept inquiring of
God why I could not get a perma-nent
cure. The Lord showed us
that I was not patient enough, hut
was too anxious to get well. When
we could say, Lord, not my lk ill, but
thine be done,, the Lord gave us the
victory, and we are praising God for.
victory over the devil.
After the assembly, the Lord led
us here to Moorland, sixteen miles
rom Muskegon, and we began
meeting in the name of the Lord;
and held three weeks and two days.
t is a Free Methodist neighborhood,
and we had quite a fight with the
ect spirit. They said when we be-gan,
thafthey would walk in all the
ight the Lord let shine on their
athway, and would stand by us as
ong as we sta. yed in the Word. But
here were truths little Word they
Id not know were there, and when -
I: began to come, they stepped out
nd would not keep their promise.
There w, re three consecrations, two
or pardon, one for: sanctification,
nd other dean § oigs, convicted.
Quite_ a.. curnber Vitro v, onvince4 of
life. Now I feel to praise God for
what he has done; he saves me and
heals me.
I promised God if he would heal
my body I would give him all the
glory, and now he shall have it. I
was healed of an invisible affliction,
at the camp meeting which was held
this summer near New Carlisle, O.
Remember, dear readers, it was not
the preachers that did the healing,
as some poor blind people think and
sometimes say when some one is not
healed. They will say, " See there!
Why did they not heal this one or
that one?" Just think, in this day
and age where the people seem to
be so well learned, and still they are
so blind in the Bible that they can-not
see that we cannot be healed ex-cept
we have the faith in God, and
he is the only one that can heal both
soul and body. The Word says the
prayers of a righteous man availeth
much. I have found it so,
I am still saved and healed and
kept by the mighty power of God.
But my little blind boy has not been
healed, although he said he could
see a little better. We took him to
the Emlenton camp meeting and
bad him anointed with oil, according
to James 5: 14,15. There he said he
still received more sight. We let
him go back to the blind school at
Philadelphia. again in September,
and there is where he is at the pres-ent
time. We received a letter from
him a short time ago. He says in
his letter, " I can see better than I
could when I left home."
Oh how I feel like praising God
for - his healing power! We have a
precious promise left here in God's
word, where it says, " Whatsoever ye
desire when ye pray, believe that ye
receive what ye ask, and . it shall be
given to you." If it is not given at
that moment; keep on importuning
and believing without a doubt; for
he that doubteth in his heart is not
likely to receive anything from , the
Lord. Praise God, his grace is able
- to bring me through all things.
Dear saints, pray for me that- God
may usenne to his own glory. Your
saved sister,
MRS. MARY WEIN GARD.
settle down in communities until the
work is thoroughly established. We
expect to go to Tullahoina, Tenn. in
a few days. Pray much for us,
E. E. BYRUM AND WM. G. SCHELL.
REPORT FROM MEXICO
DEAR SAINTS: We praise the
Lord that in his loving and tender
mercies he has brought us to this
field of labor here in Mexico. In
this town of more than two thousand
inhabitants there is not the sound of
the preaching of the gospel in a
language understood by the people.
Lately three Catholic priests have
come from Rome. They speak the
Italian language and I suppose say
mass in Latin. One of them is to
remain here. Outside of this there
is no religious service.
We arrived here a little over a
week ago. As yet we have no- place
of service. Our souls are crying to
God to open up our way for a place
to hold meetings. There is much
prejudice against us, as nearly all are
Catholics. Rooms large enough for
meetings are very scarce and rent .14
quite high. Everything that can be
had for that purpose is rented for a
saloon. There is a small building,
centrally located, which is in charge of
the American consul, the owner of
which does not care to rent it fora
saloon. The rent is fifteen dollars,
Mexican money, per month. In
American money it would be eight
dollars per month. We also need
some benches and lamps.
The Lord has graciously opened
a way for us to earn our necessary
food by working with our hands at
making baskets, which we shall con-tinue
to do unless we see it is more
to God's glory to devote all our
time to the ministry of the Word.
Lately we have been reading Paul's
letters to the churches about giving,
and at the time did not fully realize
what the Lord had in it for us. We
thought perhaps he was stirring
us up more on the line of giving, but
for the past few days we have been
more and more convinced it would
be to the glory of God and the
advance of the work to give others an
opportunity to help carry on the
work. We are giving our all in the
work and are willing to go through
on the self- supporting plan, if nec-essary,
but if the Lord sees fit to lay
it on the hearts of others tb help the
work along with their means, we are
willing to share the Lord's blessings
with them. It will relieve us of these
burdens and help us to advance more
in the ministry of the Word.
We feel led to devote our time
especially to the Spanish, as we
speak and preach in the Spanish
language. We mention this as some
who are not acquainted with us
might not understand the nature of
our work. We are trusting in him
who makes a way where there is no
way; who opens up a highway in a
desert. But we feel that some of the
dear ones would regard it a privilege
to help pay the rent of- a mission
down here in Mexico, where the pure,
clean gospel of the Lord Jesus would
be preached every day.
We will report to each one send-ing
us money the amount received
from all, so that they may know how
the needs are met. In sending
money get a draft on a San Francisco,
Cal. bank and send to us, or send to
Trumpet Office to be forwarded to
us. Yours all for J, sus,
B. F. A. 1\ 13 G C. Enniorr.
Ensenada, •
Lower California,
Mexico.
	 Testimonies,
: HUTTON VA! LEY, MO.
DEAR SAINTS: I praise God to- day
for salvation that saves and keeps
from all sin. He has heal- d me. I
have been afflicted for twelve years.
Praise his holy name! Pray for me,
dear saints, that I may sink deeper
in the love of Jesus, and that I may
know his whole will. Your sister, ever
abiding in the love of Jesus,
MRS. INDIA- N LIVINGSTONE.
can testify to tliesaving grace of God
: and his keeping power. Thank him
for the great plan of salvation that
keeps us each day. Blessed be God!
With Paul, I can say that I die daily
to the things of this world and that I
do glory in tribulation. Amid all of
my trials I find myself growing
stronger, and more determined to
work for the advancement of God's
cause, as it seems to please God for
one to sow and another to reap. As
we are separated most of the time
from any of the saints, I find that all
we can do is to scatter the seed. I
was saved six years ago away down
in Mc Doneal Co., Mo., in one of the
Rev. Mrs. C. A. Sunderland's meet-ings.
Since that time I have had
peace with God. During my stay in
Los Angeles this summer, I met with
a dear sister who was taking the
TRUMPET, and I got to read it, and it
seemed so reviving to my soul that I
had to subscribe at once for it. I
feel led by the Spirit to call upon
each of you that read this to pray
for the healing of my eyes. I feel
that God wants to heal them, and I
am ready to meet his conditions. So
do not forget me. My eyes are not
sore but so dim I can scarcely
see. Pray for me that I may always
prove true to the one body. I remain
your sister,
BERTA Row.
DEAR ONES IN CHRIST: I take
pleasure in writing my. testimony.
" Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy , moun-tain."—
Joel 2: 1. Praise the Lord! I was
saved by the power of God through
faith, at the Open Door Mission,
Chicago. Having served the devil
faithfully for a number of years, I
got weary and heavy laden, and
with sorrow in my heart, I sought
repentance at the feet of Jesus.
Hallelujah! I was marine engineer
on the lakes for several years, and
like the majority of seamen, had
become addicted to the frequent use
of liquor and tobacco, and become
so in bondage thatit was a part of
my existence, and I thought I could
not live without it. But thanks be
to God, what a change took place!
When he came into my heart he
took the very desire away. I became
the temple of God. " Know ye not
that ye are the temple of God, and
that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you " If any man defile the temple
of God, him shall God destroy."—
I COr. 3: 16, 17.
I have been in the work most of
the time since I got saved, and they
are the most happy moments of my
life when I see souls saved. We
are just through with meetings in
Bourbon, Crawford Co., Mo. Five
saved and one followed the Lord in
baptism; twelve took Part in the or-dinance
of feet- washing, and partook
of the Lord's supper. This is not
many considering the number that
heard the gospel. But since little
things are always claiming our atten-tion
we must do them, as they come
from a great motive, for the glory
oi God, to win his smile of approval
and to do good to men, and be con:
tented to be a fountain in the midst
of a - wild valley of stones, nourishing
a few . lichens and wild flowers, or
now and then a few thirsty sheep, and
to do this always, and not for the
praise of man, but for the sake of God.
Youtfully saved brother and sister,
-:-" THOMAS AND RISSA. LEONARD.
TIONESTA, PA. f
DEA* _ TRUMPET READERS: I am
still praising God for salvation. I
Stgaii_* ould be to the glory of God I
to: tell: what he has done for me and
my family. First, he has led Some s
pf, hisaMessengers to this part of the
..,, u. try„ where the ' whole wo d of I
God had not been held up to the p
people. Then he gave me a - tkilling I
minct.* Q go, and hear the preaching t
' 4 found out right away that it, d
was the only pure gospel that had4 i
= ever been preached around here. It a
did not take me long to see that eg,..
cept- I- woUld come at the foot of tbp f
cross and have Jesus cleanse tur
° shill sin I could not have eternia
the truth, and as this was a., setd-sowing
time, we hope in the near
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May the Lord keep tbpse.. who
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the Lord. We expect to
Filhour in a meeting at Hart, - then
go wherever the Lord leads.. Your
brother and sister in the gospel
fight, saved and sanctified,
LEROY AND DELLA SHELbON.
- A Obituary.
TIFF CITY, Mo.
CRUZ kN.— Father J. W. Cruzan departed
this life Nov. 11, 1896, aged eighty years and
nine months. His death was caused by a
fall. He lived in the service of the Lord
over fifty years and left a bi igh t testimony
of being prepared to go. On Sunday night
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the meeting we had at my- house and helped
sing one song, and testified of his future
hope. He bore his sickness with all patience.
He was a kind father and a good neighbor
and left many friends to mourn their loss.
But their loss is his eternal gain. Praise the
Lord! Funeral service by the church at this
place. 	 M. T. CRUZAN.
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was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day?' — Rev. 1: 1o.
John nowhere tells us what day of
the week he here designates by the
appellation " Lord's day," but it is
very evident that he refers to the
day recognized by the Bible as the
Sabbath in the new dispensation. The
first day of the week is always called
the Sabbath in the Greek and Latin
Testaments, also in Luther's German
version, and in many of the English
versions. And as the seventh- day
Sabbath of the old dispensation is
declared to be blotted out, in COI. 2:
14- 17, it is evident that John was in
the Spirit on the first day of the
week.
Another evidence that our position
is correct, is the fact that Jesus is call-ed
Lord in the New Testament, and
he is the maker of the New Testa-mmeenntt..
The first day of the week is set
forth as the Sabbath in the New Test-ament,
hence the first day of the week
was made the Sabbath by Jesus the
Lord and is the Lord's day.
ilivillo 	 1A
Know Your Priolleges.
same disease and was very low and
life was almost despaired of, but the
Lord has healed her and she is
rapidly recovering. Mother Hazlett
was also taken sick with the same
disease and overmuch watching, but
the Lord did not allow her to go
down, and she is now going about her
duties about the house.
Our little child also was attacked
severely with erysipelas but by
anointing and prayer, she was
permanently healed.
The Lord has permitted us to be
severely tested in the line of faith, but
we are " more than conquerors
through him that loved us." May God
bless the dear ones who have en-couraged
and assisted us inour trials.
Yours, contending for the faith,
A. T. RowE.
" There are in all fifteen epistles
which bear the name of Ignatius.
These are the following: ONE TO THE
VIRGIN MARY, TWO TO THE APOSTLE
JOHN, ONE TO MARY OF CASSOBELAE,
ONE TO THE TARSIANS, ONE TO
HERO, A DEACON TO ANTIOCH, ONE TO
THE PHILIPPIANS, one to the Magnes-ians,
one to the Trallians, one to the
Romans, one to the Philadelphians,
one to the Smyrnsesns, and one t
The Lord's Day,
carp were fellow- disciples under St. EDGEWOOD, IOWA,
John, is a tradition by no means in- DEAR SAINTS OF GOD: I feel like
consistent with anything in the praising God, for I am so glad that
epistles of either."— Same preface. I saw the evening light. I am truly !
The latest of Ignatius' epistles glad to get the TRUMPET and read
could possibly have been written no the testimonies. It does my soul
later than eleven years after John good, when I have such peace in my I
wrote the book of Revelation. soul. Praise God that I am permitted
The testimony of writings of this to write. I am praying God to send
date, by a true saint and fellow- laborer some of the dear saints this way.
of the very inspired author of the text There are some souls here I would
under consideration, ought to be re- like to see saved. And now as I
ceived. write my eyes fill with tears of grati-
■ sit
him onlyshalt thou serve. Matt. 4:
to. Dear saints, is it not partaking of
their evil deeds? Now dear brethren,
I do not wish to try to lead any one,
but only write this to the glory of
God, as it seems to me to be the
appearance of evil. Well, praise the
Lord for salvation that makes us
all one. Pray for me that Father
may use me to his own glory in
everything. From your brother in
the one body,
SYLLOGISMS.
The first day of the week is the
Sabbath of the New Testament.
Jesus made the New Testament;
hence, Jesus made the first day of
the week the Sabbath.
The day which Jesus made the
Sabbath is the Lord's day; hence,
the first day of the week is the Lord's
day.
Seventh- day- keepers arguing this
subject fly to Mark where Jesus
says, " The Sun of manic Lord also of
the Sabbath;" then we hear them re-cite
syllogisms as follows:
The Son of man is Lord of the
Sabbath.
The seventh day is the Sabbath;
hence, the Son of man is Lord of the
seventh day.
The day of which he is Lord is
the Lord's day; hence,. the seventh
day is the Lord's day.
These syllogisms are logical and
would have formed a bulwark of
argument in the old dispensation.
But as Jesus Christ is the originator
of a new dispensation and a new
Sabbath, their syllogisms need
revision as follows:
The Son of man is Lord of the
Sabbath. The seventh day was the
Sabbath of. the Old Testament;
hence, the Son of man was Lord of
the seventh day in the Old Testa-ment.
The day of which he was Lord
was the Lord's day; hence, the
seventh day was the Lord's day in
the old dispensation. The first day
is theSabbath of the New Testament;
hence, the Son of man is Lord of the
first day in the New Testament.
The day of which he is Lord is the
Lord's day; hence, the first day is
the Lord's day in the new dispensa-tion.
If we are to accept the testimony
of a minister of the gospel whose
life was contemporary with the life
of the apostle John, and who is said
to have been a convert and co-laborer
of him; we have plain state-ments
that the first day of the week is
the day which the apostolic church
called the Lord's day.
The life of Ignatius, in the preface
to his epistles in the American re-print
of the Edinburgh edition of
" The Ante- Nicene Fathers," is dated
A. D. 3o— tos. " That he and Poly-
E desire to testify through the
TRUMPET to the goodness of
God and his healing power. In July
my wife became afflicted with a very
serious affliction following childbirth,
and for a time she was very low and
we saw something had to be done
soon. So we took her case to God
in prayer, and after anointing with
oil and offering the prayer of faith,
she immediatly arose, dressed her
self, and was well from that hour,
insomuch that she began taking care
of the child and has not had the
Ieastsymptoms or attack since, of the
same disease, for which we give God
- glory.
Since that time; immediately after
the Emlenton C. M. the hand of
affliction was laid upon us by way of
typhoid fever. First, Sister Zalda
Hazlett ( my wife's sister) was taken
down with it, and despite our prayers
and faith she kept getting worse and
worse. She had no appetite and
lost strength rapidly, until she was
unable to help herself; and finally
hemorrhage of the bowels set in and
continued almost two days, she hav-ing
in all at least fifteen hemorrhages.
We could not see for a time why she
was not healed at once, but the Lord
was going to get glory out of it in
his own way.
During all this time all surround-ing
circumstances indicated that it
was impossible for her to get well.
Yet God witnessed clearly to our
souls that she would be healed; and
although she was delirious she never
gave up the struggle, but kept pray-ing
fervently to God and rebuking
the power of the enemy. Some
sectarians came in and said it was a
shame to h t her die without a
physician, As the hemorrhage- con-tinued
we were strongly impressed
to telegraph to the Trumpet Office
for prayers, which we did. We then
came home and after prayer we
anointed her according to Jas. 5: 14,
15, and from that hour the amount of
hemorrhage began to diminish, and
near the middle of the afternoon it
was completely stopped.
The humane agent at the other
end of the telephone line got hold of
the message and took authority upon
himself to compel us to have a doc-tor.
He accordingly sent us a mes-sage
to that effect, which we, not
knowing our privilege ( according to
law) supposed we must obey, and we
called a physician. He came ( being
a sectarian) and prescribed some
medical treatment, which was admin-istered
as best it could be done, it
being difficult owing to her hatred to
medicine.
Meanwhile we set about to learn
what our privileges were in this re-spect
and found to our joy that there
was no law to compel us to take
medicine, and we knew we could not
be prevented from praying. We
immediately stopped giving her
medicine and the doctor was
dismissed, after having come
nine trips. We want it understood
that the hemorrhage was completely
healed before the doctor came and
he expecting it to return left medi-cine
to use in case it should. But
the Lord had permanently healed it.
Under the doctor's treatment she
seemed to get worse instead of better,
and as soon as he was dismissed she
took nourishment, which she had
before refused to do on account of
having to take medicine right after
nourishment. She began to rapidly
amend from that hour. Meanwhile
bronchitis had laid hold upon her in
a very bad form; and the doctor
said, when dismissed, " I thought on
Tuesday she would get well; but now
I don't know how it will be." And
after showing that he lacked pru-dence
very much, by his abusive talk
to the father of the g rl, he. left.
Despite her weak condition she
recovered rapidly and is at present
able to attend meeting.
My - wife was also taken with the
Polycarp."
" It is now the universal opinion of
critics, that the first eight of these
professedly Ignatian letters are
spurious."— Same preface quote
above.
We have placed in small capitals
in the above list, the epistles that are
considered spurious, so the reader
can at a glance draw the line between
the spurious and genuine epistles of
Ignatius. The reader will observe
that the epistles to the Magnesians
and the Trallians are among the
genuine.
The following are quotations from
these epistles. " And after the ob-servance
of the Sabbath, le
every friend of Christ keep the
Lord's day as a festival, the resurrec-tion-
day, the queen and chief of all
days ( of the week]. Looking for-ward
to this, the prophet declared,
' To the end, for the eighth day,' on
which our life both sprang up again,
and the victory over death was
obtained in Christ."— Magnesians
chapter 9. " On the day of the prep-aration,
then, at the third hour, he
received the sentence from Pilate,
the Father permitting that to hap-pen;
at the sixth hour He was cruci-fied;
at the ninth hour He gave up
the ghost; and before sunset he was
buried. During the Sabbath he con-tinued
under the earth in the tomb
which Joseph of Arimathtea had
laid him. At the dawning of the
Lord's day he arose from the dead,
according to what was spaken by
himself, " As Jonah was three days
and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the Son of man also be three
days and three nights in the heart of
the earth.' The day of the prepara-tion
then, comprises the passion; the
the Sabbath embraces the burial; the
Lord's day contains the resurrection.
— Trallians chapter 9,
We consider the above sufficient
proofs to convince teachable men
and women that John in the Isle of
Patinas, was in the Spirit on Sunday
morning.
Testanoni, s.
CHESHIRE, MICH.
DEAR. SAINTS: I praise the Lord
this morning for salvation full and
free, for the saving, keeping and
healing power. No tongue can ex-press
the wonderful dealings of God
with his children. I ask all the
saints to pray earnestly for me and
mine. JESSIE SINKLER.
tude to God, who has done so much
for me. Yours in Christ,
MARTHA KIDNER,
DAWSON, PA.
DEAR TRUMPET READERS: I feel
led to write my testimony. This
morning finds me saved and trusting
in Jesus for all things. I never can
tell of all the goodness of the Lord
to me. I was wonderfully afflicted
with nerve trouble and inward weak-ness.
I sent a request to the Trum-pet
family, as we were weak in the
faith, and, there were no elders in the
community. Praise God! he healed
me. This is a very dark place, with
many opposers of the truth. Pray
for me, that I may let my light shine.
Truly God is good to us and keeps
us each moment and day of our life.
Praise God forever! Amen. Your
sister in Christ,
MRS. MINNIE L. HONE.
RICHMOND, IND.
DEAR SAINTS: I feel that it has
been a long time since I have written,
but God has been wonderfully keep-ing
me, and I give him all the praise.
I do know that I am his child, and I
find him a perfect Savior and a help
in every time of need. I do ask
the prayers of all of God's children;
for I feel the need of your prayers,
as I live in a place where they never
heard the pure gospel preached
by God's holy ministers. Pray that
God may open up a way that the
truth may be preached in Richmond,
and that God may work through me
that I may be instrumental in his
hands in saving some poor soul
Your brother, saved, sanctified and
kept by the power of God each day,
JOHN J. ELEV.
DAWSON, PA.
DEAR TRUMPET READERS: I feel
led to write my testimony this
morning. I can truly say that the
Lord saves me, and by the second
work of grace sanctifies me to do
his whole will. Praise God! When I
started to serve the Lord I started
to go through, and by the grace of
God I mean to do it. Truly the
Lord is advancing my soul. We
have taken the Lord as our
family physician, and he has proved
himself to be true. He has healed
my wife of her afflictions, and he
has also healed our child of the piles,
for which we give him all the praise.
The people here are great opposers
of divine healing; but we pratice it
as well as preach it. One woman
said she could not help but believe
it since she saw so much of it. Dear
ones, pray that I may let my light
shine here in this dark place. Yours
all on the altar,
HARRY L. HONE.
H. W. W TE
- 1 Advancemcn
Duties of Eluers.
elder, properly speaking, is a
leader of the people of God.
It is, therefore, his duty to go before
the people in every advance move-ment.
It is natural and scriptural for
the saints to look to their _ elders to
take the lead in every good work.
And as a general rule they do not
advance in spirituality faster than
their elders. The elders are, there-fore,
responsible to a great extent,
for the spiritual advancement of the
churches. Let us, therefore, who
have been placed by the Holy Spirit
into the eldership, seek to walk so
close to God that we will feel the
burden of our responsibilities, and
make the progressiveness of holiness
real and practical in our experience.
And then, as true ensamples to the
flocks, we will be qualified to teach
advancement in example as well as
Precept.
Theoretical teaching on spirituality
will never beget an experience of
real spirituality in the hearers. " The
keeper of the vineyard must first be
partaker of the fruit." ' Therefore,
beloved brethren and sisters in the
ministry, ( God help us all to feel the
weight of these words!) God requires
us to first seek the real humility,
meekness, sobriety, etc.,
of Christ, and such a
the power of the Spirit, that when
we stand before the saints to preach
true spirituality unto them, the
power of God will so rivet the truth
upon their hearts, that they will be-come
convicted for true advance-ment,
and be enabled to make a real
forward move in their experience.
It is within our power, dearly be-loved,
to raise the church universal
in a very short time to a higher plane
of spirituality than we have ever
reached before. But we must do
much fasting and praying and seek
a closer walk with God.
An elder is also an overseer. There-fore
as elders, we should see that
the congregations over which the
Lord has placed us are advancing.
We must not only teach by precept
and example, but by personal admo-nitions,
and by visiting the brethren,
and praying with them in their
houses. When a brother or sister
confesses a need of advancement on
some line, either have the whole
church pray with them publicly, or
call upon them at their home, and
there wrestle with God in fervent
prayer until a benefit is received.
When a brother or sister absents
himself from the public assembly
once or twice, the elder should cal; e n
him, and inquire into his spirhual
welfare. If it be found that his soul
is drifting from the true standard of
God's grace, the elder should pray
with him and encourage him until
his soul has regained its firm grasp
upon the throne of grace. Many
souls can in this wa y be prevented
from entering a backslidden state,
and the churches may be kept in a
good state of spirituality. God make
us elders indeed!
Wm. G. SCIIE L.
EAST DENNIS, MASS.
DEAR ONES IN CHRIST: I want to
testify to the work God has done
for me in saving, sanctifying, and
keeping me. Praise his name! I
have just returned from Federals-burg,
Md., where I attended the as-sembly
meeting, where God showed
his power in healing the afflicted,
saving sinners, and sanctifying be-lievers.
Truly it was precious to my
soul to be with them. May God
keep them all true, is my prayer.
Pray for me, dear ones, that I may
ever be kept in all meekness and love
to do God's will. Amen.
O. F. Swowe
LOWNDES, MO.
DEAR SAINTS AND TRUMPET
READERS: It is with joy that I write
my testimony once more to the
GOSPEL TRUMPET, hoping it will be
edifying to the church; for it does
my soul good to tell of the wonder-ful
dealings of God with us. Praise
his holy name forever! he does bless
us so wonderfully. Amid all this
spiritual darkness Father just keeps
us saved, for which we give him all
the glory. But oh the sin and
confusion among the people- politics,
worldly lust, picnics, and everything,
it seems, that the devil can get them
into. Now brethren, it- seems to me
that it is not to the glory of God to
go to elections. Itiswritten, " Thou
shalt Worship the = Lord - thy Gott, and
Speak not evil one of another,
brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his brother, and judgeth his brother,
speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth
the law: but if thou judge the law,
thou art not a doer of the law, but a
judge.— James 4: tx.