Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Religion
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
Of course the woman could not have published any sin of the man
of God, nor would it have been necessary. All that she would have
needed to do would have been to renounce him and the "come-out
movement" that he was engaged in under God, and remind them that
she "had been connected with the movement from its beginning, as
you all know, and at the very head of it," and then throw out a
few hints that she had "suffered" a great many things, and that
"circumstances and the manifestation of the spirit of this movement
have been such for several months past that I fear further delay
on my part would be disastrous to the cause of Christ and my own
soul." This were sufficient to confirm all the vile slanders that
Satan had sent out against her husband, with all who hated the
truth he taught. Oh, yes, that would settle the matter. Yes, yes,
you know all the terrible things that are reported of this awfully
deluded man, and now his wife comes out against him, which proves
that these things are true. And if the devil were as smart then
as he is now, he would have led the poor apostate guilty woman
to put on a very lovely aspect in her public comforters, to the
idolaters of those times, in order to have the more influence.
Yea, doubtless, while selling her husband to the devil for the
friendship of his enemies, and selling Christ, whose truth he dared
to speak, she would have hypocritically said, "I love my husband,"
and "Jesus sweetly abides in my heart." Oh, what a record the day
of judgment will unfold! But God be praised that Bunyan was blessed
with a true companion; but let him whose lot is otherwise "bind
this to him as an ornament," as Bunyan did the vile slanders heaped
upon him.
After a few years there appeared in the Trumpet, in the issue of Jan.
7, 1892, the following statement, from a person who knew Mrs. Warner
from her youth and who here speaks of her divorce and remarriage:
Nothing has ever been more surprizing to me than the steps she has
taken. It may not be generally known that she got a bill through
the court at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The grounds upon which she filed
her complaint betray a dreadful absence of conscience and the fear
of God, stating that she had "been a faithful wife to him ever
since married," and that "he had been wilfuly absent from her for
over three years"; when the facts are, she had wilfully abandoned
him over six years before, during which time he twice visited her
and wrote many letters kindly urging her to return and that without
any conditions. And she was so far from being a faithful wife that
she did not even answer his letters.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account