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
You admit there is but one church of God, still you think hard of
me for not allowing that all your "churches" are of God. This is
God's truth and you can not deny it. You say that sects are wrong,
but advise God's children to continue in the wrong. I claim that
sects are wrong, and therefore say, Come out from among them, as
saith the Lord. Men professing godliness should act consistently
with their belief.
If you believe that Christ is divided and there are many folds,
many bodies, many Lords, many faiths, instead of "one fold," "one
body," "one Lord," and "one faith," then you may consistently
with your faith antagonize the Gospel Trumpet; but you must abide
the consequences of fighting against God's Word. And remember
this, that in the day of judgment it will do you no good to have
put false colors on the truth you are opposing. You will not
plead before the bar of God that I taught "no-churchism," "no
organization," etc.
If you are ignorant of the Trumpet's teaching, you will be
condemned before God for opposing and speaking evil of the things
you do not understand. You should hold your peace until you know
what you are talking about.
If you do know what we--myself and contributors--teach, you know
that every paper insists on organization, the very organization set
forth in the New Testament, and you do know that we all advocate
the church, and never have encouraged anybody to leave her; but we
chose to learn from the simple Word of God what the church is, and
not from your Dark Age creeds and confused tongues. Now, all you
who have lifted up your heel against Christ and his body, the only
true church in heaven and earth, have done so because you have some
sect idol in your heart and can not receive the truth or endure
sound doctrine, or else you have not the moral courage to assault
the devil in his stronghold of divisions. What does Satan care for
your clamor against the "sin in the sects" so long as you give him
the best means of bringing God's house or kingdom to naught--the
sin of sects? I pity your sad confusion. May God give you all
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.
An editorial in the July 25 number answers an objection by the editor
of the Sword.
THAT'S RIGHT
Brother Dolan makes a sweeping cut with his Sword like this:
"Sectism is of the devil, and no-sectism is of the devil."
Amen. That's true. An ism spirit may attach itself to any
principle, false or true.
As many sects have been developed by making a center of some
subordinate point of the Christian system as by rallying upon some
mere human tradition.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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