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
While it is our duty to reprove all outward sin, we must keep the
fact prominent that all reform must begin at the heart, which God
only can change; inward transformation is only upon the condition
of faith, and, therefore, must be definitely presented in the
Scriptural order of pardon and adoption to the sinner, and entire
sanctification to the believer. We regret that some attempt to
beat down the ice-mountain of sect by the hammer of the Word,
without the melting fire of the Holy Spirit. Getting people out of
the sects any other way than by leading them to Christ for heart
purity and the reception of the Comforter, which leads the soul
from all sects and into all truth, is but enlisting men into carnal
crusade against Babylon, and can result in little good, and has,
in some instances, hedged up the way and turned back the tide of
God's truth more than it will be able to advance it. Because the
Bible experience of entire sanctification is the true objective of
Christ's atonement and shed blood, and because thorough holiness
destroys sects and denominations, as frost would disappear under
the beams of the June sun, and as the promotion of true holiness
is the only remedy for schisms and every other form of sin in the
body of professed Christians, therefore the Gospel Trumpet shall
continue to "praise the beauty of holiness" and proclaim the power
of the blood of Christ on the gospel line of definite holiness and
perfect heart-purity. We ask the cooperation and prayers of all
true saints of God, who love the freedom of Christ Jesus our Savior.
The truths of the reformation were disseminated largely by the Gospel
Trumpet, and in many parts of the country there were those with whom
its teachings found a hearty welcome. A few bits of correspondence
addressed to Brother Warner and taken from the Trumpet of early in
1882 are here presented.
I like the Trumpet very well; hope it may sound out long, loud,
and clear to call the people back to the old paths, the good way.
Yes, truly it is the good way, the strait and narrow way, the new
and living way, and the high and holy way. You may count me a
subscriber as long as the Trumpet sticks to the Bible. Your brother
purified and being tried,
E. B. B.
He keeps them that put their trust in him. I pray God the time may
soon come when Christians shall be united as one in Christ Jesus,
the living Head, and throw away all divisions, taking Christ for
their head and having their names enrolled on God's book in heaven.
May the Lord bless all the saints. May God bless you, Sister
Warner, in giving up part of your house in order that the Gospel
Trumpet may still be printed. Oh, we can't give up the Trumpet! Oh,
that I could do something! I will do what I can to help you. The
Trumpet must go on. Enclosed find the widow's mite.
L. B.
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