THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL
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In the near past when calls were made for the
boys at the front and for the Red Cross how many
responded with large sums having like all otheryorld-
ly enterprizes, not the fullest assurance in the world
as to whether the money would be used for the purpose
for which it was donated or not.
Now we have a far more important work before
us. Let us take the matter seriously and see if we
can’t doygle well. Let us all give a lift according to
our mean@letween now and the first of the year and
see what ¢ e done.
In giving#us this, the most important truth the
world has ever known, the Lord has placed upon us
the great burden a&f bearing it to others.
~~ Now the quegiion with each individual is this,
Will I prove faithiW@® to the trust the Lord has given
me and go through with his people to the Kingdom of
God? or will I shrink from the burden and be lost
to his cause?
The Lord’s blessing will surely be upon all those
who use their might and means to forward this mes-
sage to the world.
M- »bell, Colo.
SOME CURIOUS THINGS.
I have just read in the October issue of one of
the monthlies printed, an article wherein the Editor
writes to prove that not all of the writings of Mrs. E. G.
White are not divinely inspired. He quotes from a
certain book and page where Mrs. White taught a
certain thing for twenty-six years and sold many
hundreds of the publication and later the publication
was changed and a certain paragraph was left out in
the new edition, thus showing that the position first
taken as all who read knows now it was an error as
first taught by her. He thus proves to our mind and
every other fair minded person that her writings were
not inspired of God. For God makes no mistakes
through his chosen prophets. If it were so whauwould
know what to believe in the Bible to be true and what
not to be true? This Editor then states (which is
true that scores of such mistakes exist in Mrs. White’s
writings.
Now the point with us is this, The writer says her
writings are not all inspired. This statement is made
several times in the Editor’s article. What shall we
understand by the statement, They are not all inspired ?
I would conclude the Editor accepts the position that
many others hold, that some are inspired and some
are not. Further, so far as I know (and I have known
the writer of these articles for some years personally),
to this time I don’t know what his positions are, or if
he has any or what he wishes us to know as to his
real position on this subject. Is he afraid to tell it?
Is there some policy in not telling it? Is he astride
the fence and don’t know which side to fall on? Or
is he hoping that some time to be in the denomination
again and does not now care to take too strong a posi-
tion on the question. He says not all inspired. I like
frankness. I will say further this is not the only
Editor who keeps this personal idea on this question
in the background. I would like for them to speak
plainly as to where they stand and no doubt hundreds
of others would like the same. Do they, or do they
not, believe any are inspired when they say not all?
Does God give and use a prophet to give messages to
his people who are not reliable? 1 answer, No,
emphatically. If God’s word stands on that plat-
form then I for one am at sea and do not know what
to believe. It is true false prophets say many good
things. Baalem did so, Satan himself told the truth
in some cases, but a lie was always there too.
This position that all of Mrs. White’s writings are
not inspired, to my mind is too much like the old
woman’s fruit jars. She marked one certain kind
‘“tis,” the other kind she marked ‘“tisent”’ and set them
up. When she came to open them she had forgotten
which was ‘“’tis” and which was ‘“tisent.” So the
one who says they are not all inspired is fixing an
escape when caught teaching from the testimonies
that which is. wrong. Well, he says, they are not all
inspired. But théy will say to fix it up Sister White
was a good woman, and the Lord used her as his
special agent. Mr. Hastings, a great opposer of infi-
delity, answered the infidel when the infidel said
Christ was a good man, of course. Mr. Hastings re-
plied by asking what the infidel’s standard of goodness
was when he said Christ was a good man? Mr. Hast-
ings then referred to Christ’s teaching where he claim-
ed to be the son of God and that he came down from
heaven and so on. Now you say he was not what
he claimed, you make Christ the biggest liar we have
any record of. Is that your standard of a good man,
as you say Christ was. If your claims are true h ewas
the biggest fraud the world has known and yet you
say he was a good man. So if Mrs. White has taught
so many errors as it is easy to see she has taught, can
I say or you say in truth that any of her writings were
inspired of God? Nay verily. Show me where any
of the prophets of the Bible teachers erred, if you can
I lose my interest in them. They are God’s witnesses,
they are to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. That is my standard of a prophet. If
you have any other please tell it to those whom you
teach. Tell it plainly without equivocation. This is
no disrespect to her personally or her followers. One
thing is evident, her mistakes are many in the teaching
of the Bible. As to her personal standing God alone
must settle with her the same as when I or you make
a mistake. One thing is certain, none of her writings
were inspired. She never had a vision from the Lord.
Now while speaking on this I wish to ask those
who have left the denomination, Do you still hold the
two thousand and three hundred days ended in 18447?
Do you still believe the S. D. A. position on the three
messages of Revelation 14? Is it correct as taught by
the S. D. A. people? Do you still hold their position
to be true as they teach Daniel 7, 8, and 9 chapters?
I notice that most of those who come out from the
denomination keep silent on the very vital points that