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 is not at all to be wondered at that those who have obeyed God
and come out of all human sects should have a superior degree of
God's grace and Spirit with them, who are free from the oppression
and interdiction that we hear so much of in all our holiness
papers. Yes, God is now raising up that holy army who stand free
in Christ, bound only by the truth and the love of God. From the
above, we see, as well as from the testimony of hundreds in this
country, that the assertion that coming out of sectism results in
spiritual death is a groundless falsehood. The result is always
the opposite, unless it be in some instances where souls have been
overwhelmed with the hellish rage and deceitful, persecuting spirit
of the sects, which has induced a superindignation.
Brother Warner's separation from the Northern Indiana Eldership was
the subject of comment by his contemporary editors and others. His
reply to a letter on the subject of his leaving the church is here
given.
A dear brother writes to us as follows: "I think you have erred
in leaving the Church of God, and yet God is blessing you and the
Trumpet."...
To talk about "leaving the church of God and yet receiving the
blessing of God," is Babylon confusion. There is absolutely no way
given under heaven and among men whereby we can leave the church
of God but by ceasing to live by faith in and obedience to Jesus
Christ, or falling into and continuing in sin; in which case God
does not and can not continue his blessings upon that soul as
before. Therefore, when certain preachers in Ohio published that I
had left the church (which was false, for they themselves cast me
out of their synagog for the crime of preaching real experimental
holiness), they declared the fact that what they worship in the
name of the "Church of God" is only a "creature" of men, to which
they invite members and report "accessions" through a different
process than that of regeneration, which is the only means of
accession to God's church. And when people talk of our having left
the church, because we withdrew last fall from a human corporation
called the "Northern Indiana Eldership of the Church of God," they
simply show that the devil's counterfeits still pass current with
them; they call that the church which does not answer the Bible
description of the church. Oh, how hard it is to get rid of the
marks of the beast, and the number of his name!
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