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
It may look foolish to many thus to blow the trumpet of the Lord
around the high and massy walls of sectarian glory and selfishness,
but the power of God with the faith and shouts of the "holy
people" will surely bring them down. Though the heaps of sectarian
chaff have reached the magnitude of mountains, God has some wheat
scattered through them, and he will have it separated for his
garner. Therefore he says to Jacob, "Fear not ... thou shalt thresh
the mountains, and beat them small, and thou shalt make the hills
as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind shall scatter them."
The pure elements of God's church possess a wonderful inherent
attraction and cohesion; but the devil neutralizes the divine
cement by mixing in his chaffy and sloughy trash, thereby effecting
divisions; therefore, the Lord restores union by the "removing of
those things that are shaken, as of things that are made" by the
enemy, thus removing discord and schism. Glory to God! Little Jacob
has barely commenced threshing and separating. Soon we shall see
clouds of chaff driven by the "mighty rushing wind from heaven."
Says Bro. I. Reed, in his paper, The Highway: "The great holiness
movement is shaking harder than ever. It is to be a real moral
earthquake yet. We have nothing to fear in that direction. We
have allied ourselves to the Power that does the shaking, and
feel a kind of holy joy at the falling walls, reeling Babels and
ecclesiastical fortifications that can not stand the grand holiness
shock. In anticipation we enjoy the grand smash-up of things
semi-religious--this half and half, linsey-woolsey type of 'Good
God, Dear Mammon,' kind of fashionable moral froth, too often
called 'religion'--that is coming some of these days. It is coming.
We hear the tread of the mighty army."
Amen. Let the conflict come. God will have a pure church. He will
shake the chaffy works of the devil out of his kingdom, though all
hell be moved in rage; though Gog and Magog surround the camp of
the saints on the breadth of the whole earth.
Dear reader, I am aware that I have here written things that will
be unwelcome to many, truths that will assail and stir up many
prejudices; but in doing so I have determined to cast from me the
fear of man, and clear my conscience in the sight of God.
It is, indeed, my honest conviction that the great holiness reform
can not go forward with the sweeping power and permanent triumph
that God designs it should until the gospel be so preached and
consecration become so thorough that the blood of Christ may
reach and wash away every vestige of denominational distinction,
and "perfect into one"--yea, one indeed and in truth--all the
sanctified.
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