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
We are happy to greet your ears once more, beloved, with the sound
of the trump of God. The devil has spent all his infernal powers
in vain to crush this work of God. We have thoroughly learned
his attitude toward us. In his hellish clamor about us for many
days, saying, 'You must give up the Trumpet,' he has clearly
committed himself against this cause, and all who are against this
dissemination of the light of God we know are on the devil's side,
either wilfully or ignorantly. Oh, how hell has poured forth upon
us! Night after night we had to leave our bed at two, three, and
four o'clock, and go to the office and cry unto God to drive away
the hosts of hell that had encamped against us. And every time the
power of God dispersed these infernal spirits of darkness, the Lord
recommissioned us to blow the Trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm
on his holy mountain, and we were made joyfully conscious of his
approving smile for not having backed down before the legions of
hell. But the devil having drawn to his side the best agents he
could ever expect to use against us, was fierce and determined to
hush the trumpet-sound of freedom from all sin and Babylon yokes.
Oh, halleluiah!
During this terrible combat with the powers of darkness, we had
to do more fighting than working, hence the work went on slowly.
We were ready to print about the first of February, then the
Lord called us by telegram to Kalamazoo, Mich. The next day our
printer accidentally spoiled the rollers, so that he could not
print. So the work lay until our return. After looking to the
Lord until he assured us that the office would be cleared from
the mortgage, we ordered new rollers, and went to work again in
the name of the Lord. About the time we were ready to print, God
sent Bro. Thomas Horton, from Williamston, Mich., who paid off the
five hundred-dollar mortgage, some other debts, chartered a car,
loaded us up, and moved office, household goods, Master Willie, and
ourself to this place. Wife and child having remained behind to
visit with friends. Moving just at the time caused a few days delay
in this issue, but now we expect to greet you regularly. Praise
the Lord! "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed
be the name of the Lord!" So said Job. If it was the devil that
took it away, he had to get a permit from God before he could
do it, therefore it was of the Lord, and "blessed be the name of
the Lord"; for when he permits the devil to take anything away he
has given to his children, he always returns fourfold. We have
understood this principle long ago, and have thrown it in the face
of the devil every time he has shown his teeth at us. Blessed be
God forever and ever! And thus hath God done unto us again. We left
an office where we were hampered up in 14 × 26 feet, and here has
God furnished a building two stories high, 28 × 84 feet, all of
which is dedicated to the Lord.
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