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
Well, Brother Warner may have failed in many respects; but no
man that reads the Trumpet can deny the fact that God and truth
have most gloriously triumphed. And the Trumpet, too, through the
God-approved truth it holds forth, has proved a glorious success,
notwithstanding the different measures Satan has devised to hedge
up its way. One poor whited sepulcher had the impudence to say
with a satanic chuckle, "We will crush the Trumpet" and "take all
Brother Warner's subscribers." A gentleman in this city when asked
to take the chaff, and baby-soap, sheet, remarked, "If you succeed
with this paper will it not break down the Trumpet?" and received
the following reply: "That's just what we want to do." He told a
brother this, and said he did not think there was much holiness
in that, and did not want the paper. Yet one, M. L. Haney, who
was canonized at the Jacksonville convention as "the Patriarch of
Holiness in the West" and everywhere else, is so blind that he has
twice presumed to intimate that that enterprise might be of God,
saying "If your paper is of God." Nearly all the professed holiness
periodicals have been hauling barrels of water and pouring on the
altar of God's truth and filling up the trench round about; but God
is all the more glorified in this test between the Trumpet and the
prophets of sects. Praise his name!
The Gospel Trumpet has proved Satan false in more than one way. In
all love, we suggest to all those papers and preachers that have
been in the habit of telling the people that "separation from the
sects invariably results in spiritual death" to read the Trumpet,
then shut their mouths, and cease their lying against the truth.
There is not a sect-endorsing paper in the land that presents as
strong array of testimony to clear definite holiness, Holy Ghost
power, wonder-working faith, and fruitful lives. And we have
abundance of live, glowing reports and experiences that we have
not had space to use, and nearly all have spared us the necessity
of telling you that the writers are without the camp of creed
factions. We have published numerous expressions of appreciation,
because, by their strong relish for the truths of the Trumpet
coupled with their vigorous spiritual health and usefulness in
Christ, they condemn all who reject the food we issue, as perverted
and spiritually diseased. To the former class the Trumpet is
heavenly music; but to the latter, it is an annoying sound, because
their hearts and ears are not sufficiently circumcised to endure
sound doctrine. The Trumpet has demonstrated the fact that God is
able to carry a war against the devil in his strongest, last, and
most desperate fortress.
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