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
Bro. Isaiah Reid told Brother Sherman he did not want anything in
his paper that would indicate that the holiness people were not all
right; he was planning to have the Highway as a support for his old
age. A year ago he called for a thousand "firemen" in the holiness
work as the only thing needed. He has spent his energies this
year in regulating the fiery come-outers from wrecking the train,
and evidently wants the oaks of Bashan slashed down with a little
hatchet, and not with a broadax. Rams' horns, goad sticks, and the
unsectarian "jaw-bone of an ass" Philistine-killer, he evidently
does not take much stock in. Brothers Inskip and Macdonald are not
square on the Freemason question and are churchy. While the shell
remains in part of radical holiness, that only is the real thing,
much of the spirit is gone. You may call it fault-finding, sour
godliness, or whatever you please, these are God's facts about your
case. You know the whole batch of you are afraid to throw red-hot
truth uncompromisingly everywhere. We except from this catalog
Baker and Arnold of the Free Methodist, Warner of the Trumpet,
Johnson of the Stumbling Stone (if he had the Holy Ghost), and the
Sword, and some others.
Now Brother editors and evangelists, suffer the word of exhortation
from a "jaw-bone," break up your fallow ground, do your first
works, burn up Haney's chapter on dress, not resolve against it;
pay your debts, or go and acknowledge them at least; cease to print
such dawdle as Brother Bryant's church holiness writings; seek for
and get the Holy Ghost again; and lead the people up into the land.
--Vanguard.
Satanic forces were arrayed against the reformation work in every
conceivable way, not only by mobs and undisguised, professional evil
(though this form of attack was usually instigated by the sectarian
element), but also by deception--by teachers and editors who were
apparently right on some main question in order to deceive, but wrong
on some other vital points. A writer in the Trumpet points out one of
these destructive agencies.
A DESTRUCTIVE HERESY
By D. W. M'Laughlin
There is an eternal antagonism between true holiness and fanaticism
in all its phases, and the individual possessed of the fulness of
the Holy Ghost will be able to detect fanaticism in others whether
it be in outward act or deportment or in the more subtle form of
heretical teaching. The Spirit and the Word agree, and the Holy
Spirit moves and works in harmony with the written Word and never
contrary thereto.
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