Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
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Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
Byers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) -- History; Warner, D. S. (Daniel Sidney), 1842-1895
Was out much of the day talking with brethren on perfect love,
etc. The brethren from Stark circuit again called me out and
consulted me about taking their circuit. I told them if they could
stand perfect holiness and all the counsel of God preached, they
might apply for me, and I would leave it all with the Lord and
the Eldership. This eve I gave a concise account of my experience
of justification and sanctification. At a late hour the Eldership
closed with a report of the Stationing Committee. I was assigned
to the Stark circuit, consisting of Canton, New Berlin, Middle
Creek, and Stump's Bethel. Thank the Lord! His ways are not our
ways. I had built much on free missionary work, but he knows best.
I committed it all to him, besought him to prevent my appointment
to a circuit if he did not wish me to take one, even by cutting
off my license if no other way; and now I receive this appointment
of the Lord, and by his blessing and power I hope he will make his
Word to run and be glorified in the salvation of hundreds of souls.
Following this decision of the Stationing Committee, Brother and
Sister Warner had the task of changing their place of abode, which
in their work they had so many times to do. Their belongings were
certainly not many, nevertheless the work of packing and the
obtaining of some means of conveying their goods to the station was
left generally for them to attend to. His literary society about this
time gave an entertainment at the College, but he with Sister Warner
preferred to attend a holiness meeting about four miles distant. Of
this meeting he thus speaks:
=3.= Met Brother Ackers, from Bucyrus, whom I had not met before.
He is a wonderful specimen of God's great salvation, raised from
the delirium tremens to perfect holiness and mighty faith.
=7.= Brother Ackers testified for God that the happiest moment he
ever saw was when he found he had lost all his property and had not
a dollar left, though he had been a wealthy merchant in Bucyrus. I
was led to testify how the Lord had taken me through some storms in
great calmness. Eve, the church and the large schoolhouse on the
same corners were both filled. I delivered a short sermon in the
former on perfection, then went over to the other house and gave an
exhortation to sinners.
Before leaving for Canton, Brother and Sister Warner decided to visit
the latter's former home near Upper Sandusky. From that place he went
to visit his father, at Bridgewater, Williams County.
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