,,transcriber',s ,,note ,italic text is denoted by underscores4 ,bold text is denoted by equal signs4 ,for consistency1 all bible references have been made to have no spaces in the numbers1 for example ',thess4 #b3c1d' or ',rev4 #ag3d-f'4 ,obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources4 ,more detail can be found at the end of the book4 ,illustration3 ,dr4 ,warner ,birth of a ,reformation or ,the ,life and ,labors of ,daniel ,s4 ,warner ,by ,a4 ,l4 ,byers ,illustration ,it shall come to pass1 that at evening time it shall be light4 ,,faith ,,publishing ,,house ,p4 ,o4 ,box #gac ,guthrie1 ,oklahoma #gcjdd ,to the ,generations ,following ,publisher's ,preface ,year #aiff ,this volume1 a reprint of the book originally published in #aiba and out of print for many years1 is in response to a long felt need that this biography of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 along with a brief mention of a few of his associate ministers and gospel workers1 should be available to the readers of the present generation and those to follow1 should the ,lord extend time4 ,the original book is herewith reproduced without alteration or change1 except a very few minor omissions1 and accounts of events and conditions existing after the period of ,bro4 ,warner's life4 ,the reader should bear in mind that ,bro4 ,warner's coming out of sectism was a gradual process over a period of time leading to the climactic step1 and any improper or questionable action on his part while involved in sects was merely a result of his lack of clear light and understanding of ,god's ,word4 ,after the light broke through1 he himself renounced these practices4 ,in #ahgh ,d4 ,s4 ,warner wrote3 ,the ,lord 444 gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living ,god4 ,bro4 ,warner and his associates1 discerning the impossibility of the true church existing within the framework of denominationalism1 declared their freedom from the sin of sectism and division and instituted the evening light restoration movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century in direct fulfillment of ,bible prophecy4 ,see ,zech4 #ad3g4 ,these vital ,bible truths1 especially on the line of holiness and the nature of the church1 which those reformers proclaimed1 are imperative today in preserving the church after the apostolic pattern4 ,many reformations have come to the religious world since the decline of the apostolic church from its pristine glory of the first century4 ,yet the nineteenth century reform is more complete1 radical and fundamental than any previous movement4 ,a historian has penned this significant observation3 ,no sooner had ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and others begun to preach as men had not preached for time out of mind than men saw in their message the grandest truths the mind of man is capable of receiving4 ,they saw the church built up by ,christ1 led and organized by the ,holy ,spirit1 the names of whose members are in the ,lamb's book of life1 which takes the ,scriptures as its only discipline1 and fellowships every blood-bought soul4 ,here is real ,christian unity4 ,despised and rejected in 'religious' circles1 these men preached more real ,bible truth in one sermon than one would expect in months of the ordinary kind4 ,they preached profound truths2 and it created a furor wherever they went4 ,thousands received ,scriptural light4 ,many joyfully embraced the great truths they heard and spared neither pains nor money to spread the message everywhere4 ,in his book1 ,the ,cleansing of the ,sanctuary1 ,bro4 ,warner wrote thus on the subject of exclusiveness3 ,christ is an exclusive ,christ2 there is none beside him4 ,the faith that he gave us is an exclusive faith2 no other saves the soul4 ,the truth of ,god is exclusive in its nature2 everything contrary to it is false4 ,the kingdom of ,christ is exclusive4 ,it is a stone that breaks everything else to pieces4 ,the one church that ,jesus founded and named1 and which is his own body1 is also exclusive1 for there is only 'one body in ,christ4' ,during the reign of pagan persecution the rulers offered to stop the bloody martyrdom and allow the ,christians to worship ,god in freedom1 if they would confess that the pagan idols were also real ,gods4 ,this they could not do1 but chose rather to die4 ,and on this very point of exclusiveness is the present offense of the cross4 ,people would not seriously object to ,god's ministers setting forth the church as contained in the ,scriptures1 if we would recognize their earth-born institutions as being also ,god's churches4 ,but this we cannot do and be honest before ,god and faithful to his ,word4 ,there is but one household of faith4 ,christ does not have a plurality of wives4 ,he has but one bride1 and she has no sisters4 ,thus saith her husband1 ',my dove1 my undefiled is but one2 she is the only one of her mother4' ,s4 of ,sol4 #f3i4 ,three score and ten years ago ,bro4 ,warner's earthly career in the service of the ,master was ended1 yet ,god in ,his infinite plan has preserved a holy remnant through the intervening years which has retained and maintained those precious original reformation truths4 ,the two witnesses 7,rev4 #aa3aa7--the ,word and the ,spirit--have resumed their rightful positions as ,governors of the church in this evening time of the gospel day4 ,jesus ,christ will find ,his ,church without spot or wrinkle when ,he comes again for ,his ,bride4 --,,the ,,publishers ,may1 #aiff ,author's ,preface ,year #aiba ,a quarter century has elapsed since the passing of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner from the scenes of his earthly activity1 and full forty years have gone since the beginning of the great reform of which his labors constituted so large a part4 ,while there are many still living whose personal knowledge of him and his ministry will suffice to them for an encouraging testimony of ,christian attainment and of ,god's marvelous use of human instrumentality when permitted to have his way1 the time has come when the absence of any published account of this remarkable man begins to be felt4 ,the rising generation and the generations that follow should have access to a study of such an example of ,christian devotion and usefulness1 as well as of ,god's faithfulness to one who will fully trust him4 ,when it was announced that a biography was contemplated1 the proposition at once met with hearty approval and encouragement4 ,that due to the lapse of years there should be some difficulty in securing the necessary data with reference to his early life is of course consequential4 ,his brothers and sisters are all deceased4 ,a nephew and a niece and some of his earlier acquaintances were interviewed1 and correspondence was had with other relatives and acquaintances4 ,the most valuable acquisition1 however1 was the use of his diaries1 kindly granted by his son1 ,d4 ,sidney ,warner1 now living in ,canton1 ,ohio4 ,these diaries do not cover all of his early ministerial career1 but the quotations from them will reveal the ,christian character of the man as well as show considerable of his itinerancy and of the facts of his life4 ,as to the source of information respecting the latter period of his ministry1 when his work took the character of a reform1 recourse has been had to the files of the periodicals he edited and also to the personal recollections of some who were pioneers with him in the movement4 ,of these may be mentioned as giving particular information ,mrs4 ,allie ,r4 7,fisher7 ,allen1 ,lansing1 ,mich42 ,william ,n4 ,smith1 ,north ,star1 ,mich42 ,david ,leininger1 ,akron1 ,ind2 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,j4 ,n4 ,howard1 ,nappanee1 ,ind42 ,mrs4 ,anna ,j4 ,slagle1 ,bucyrus1 ,ohio2 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,b4 ,e4 ,warren1 ,springfield1 ,ohio2 and ,mrs4 ,frankie ,warner1 ,anderson1 ,ind4 ,it was my privilege to have a personal acquaintance with ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and to be more or less closely associated with him during the last five years of his life4 ,to one who never knew him personally no printed account can afford an adequate conception of what it was to come in contact with this wonderful ambassador of ,god1 whose presence wrought conviction in the unregenerate1 and inspired confidence and courage in the hearts of believers4 ,the divine manifestations in his preaching1 his prayers1 and his ministrations can not be told4 ,many very striking instances of physical healing which we have not space to speak of attended his ministry2 but that these pages may reveal1 if in no other light than the historical1 that here is an example of true consecration1 devotion1 courage1 diligence1 humility1 faith1 patience1 kindness1 self-denial1 and the ,christian graces generally1 that is worthy of being followed1 is the earnest hope of ,,the ,,author4 ,year #aiba --,,andrew ,l4 ,,byers ,,contents ,,chapter ,,page ,i4 ,,introduction #ae ,a glance over ,christian era--,early church divinely governed--,spiritual decline--,a false church--,reformations--,sixteenth century reformation--,human rule--,characteristics of true church--,a final reformation--,evil of sects--,protestantism in ,revelation--,wondrous times upon us--,god's call to his people--,d4 ,s4 ,warner a reformer--,the correct attitude--,counterfeit movements4 ,,ii4 ,,ancestry ,,and ,,early ,,life #cd ,emigration westward--,settlement in ,ohio--,david ,warner family--,born a weakling--,paternal and maternal influences--,tributes to mother--,location in ,crawford ,county--,a chosen vessel--,his boyhood character--,removal to ,williams ,county--,a school teacher4 ,,iii4 ,,conversion1 ,,college1 ,,and ,,calling #dd ,the question of religion--,a ,catholic and ,lutheran community--,tries to be an infidel--,conviction by the ,spirit--,attends dances--,conversion--,attends ,oberlin ,college--,preparation for ministry4 ,,iv4 ,,church ,,of ,,god 7,,winebrennerian7 #ea ,the ,scriptural name--,winebrenner's view of the church--,organization of ,elderships--,growth and extent westward--,winebrenner's failure4 ,v4 ,,first ,,years ,,in ,,ministry #ei ,gifted as an evangelist--,marriage--,death of wife and children--,his physical description--,new ,washington revival--,diary accounts--,prejudice against sanctification--,meeting at ,basswood--,a presentiment of death--,standing committee--,rebukes youthful tobacco-user--,converses with infidel--,reflections at end of year--,appointed to ,nebraska mission--,lessons on the church--,a farewell meeting4 ,,vi4 ,a ,,nebraska ,,mission #gh ,the ,nebraska field--,the journey--,nebraska scenes--,reflections on his bride-to-be--,builds house--,returns to ,ohio--,marriage--,resumes ,nebraska work--,all night in dugout--,outlook temporarily reversed--,long trips over prairie--,wife lonely--,visit to ,indian camp--,fast in snow-drift--,birth of a daughter--,break in diary account4 ,,vii4 ,,back ,,in ,,ohio ,,fields #aaj ,on ,ashland circuit--,news of mother's death--,visits penitentiary--,a course of studies at ,vermillion ,college--,embraces the cause of holiness--,seeks and obtains the experience4 ,,viii4 ,,the ,,holiness ,,awakening #abe ,doctrine of sanctification--,widespread interest in the subject--,prominent leaders--,holiness bands--,doctrine opposed--,its advocates recede on the church question--,a remnant who walk in the light--,holiness editors--,jacksonville convention4 ,,ix4 ,a ,,preacher ,,of ,,holiness #acg ,a rather new field of activity--,writes for publication--,meets with opposition--,tirade and charges by fellow minister--,canton camp-meeting--,eldership meeting at ,smithville1 faces charges--,assigned to ,stark circuit--,visits father and place of conversion--,locates at ,canton--,writes covenant with ,god--,return to ,upper ,sandusky--,revival at ,findlay--,reflections on ,new ,year's ,day--,expulsion from ,west ,ohio ,eldership--,meetings at ,dunkirk--,increasing vision of apostolic church--,a peculiar test--,work opens in ,indiana--,death of father and daughter--,attends ,ohio ,holiness ,camp-,meeting--,brought low with affliction4 ,x4 ,,northern ,,indiana ,,eldership #aia ,opposition to ,freemasonry--,new ,eldership formed--,becomes an associate editor--,herald of ,gospel ,freedom4 ,,xi4 ,,editor ,,and ,,author #aif ,locates at ,rome ,city1 ,ind4--,writes book--,attends various camp-meetings--,mob at ,upper ,sandusky--,remarkable healings--,eldership seeks union with ,mennonites--,close of diary account--,becomes editor of ,herald4 ,,xii4 ,a ,,spiritual ,,shaking #baj ,prophetic description of reformation movement--,old ,testament figures--,shakings incident to divine visitations--,new covenant complete in entire sanctification--,prophecies that apply to these times--,separation of wheat and chaff--,arguments against sects--,entire sanctification a remedy--,unity the hope of ,god's people4 ,,xiii4 ,a ,,prophetic ,,time #bda ,many world events foreshadowed in prophecy--,god has a design with man--,events of the world grouped in periods--,the four world empires--,the fourth given particular attention--,the little horn of ,daniel #g--,time periods of ,romanism and ,protestantism--,corresponding prophecies in ,revelation--,what ,babylon is--,god's people called out of her4 ,,xiv4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,trumpet #bea ,consolidation of ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom with the ,pilgrim1 forming the ,gospel ,trumpet--,rome ,city its birthplace--,move to ,indianapolis--,difficulties and privations--,paper issued irregularly--,printed on hand-press--,move to ,cardington1 ,ohio1 and later to ,bucyrus--,to ,williamston1 ,mich41 in #ahhd1 and to ,grand ,junction in #ahhf--,substantial progress4 ,,xv4 ,,the ,,crisis #bga ,unity effected only out of and away from sects--,no other alternative for ,god's people--,brother ,warner a reformer--,his stand meets ,satan's opposition1 but vindicated by ,spirit of ,god-,extracts from ,gospel ,trumpet--,declares himself free from ,northern ,indiana ,eldership--,same stand taken by ,michigan saints--,counterfeit doctrines--,trying time at ,bucyrus1 ,ohio--,his wife's estrangement--,comments by contemporary editors--,trouble over donation by a ,mrs4 ,booth--,letters of sympathy and encouragement--,work spreads into various ,states--,emma ,miller's healing of blindness--,other marvelous healings--,defection of ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher--,how the reformation is distinguished from all other movements4 ,,xvi4 ,,evangelistic ,,tours #cce ,trip into ,pennsylvania--,various healings--,attacked by intoxicated man--,woman delivered from devils--,visits ,winebrennerian camp--,an incident of ,beaver ,dam assembly--,company of singers formed--,wonderful meeting in ,indiana--,storm stayed in answer to prayer--,mob near ,rising ,sun1 ,ohio--,a ,western tour--,strange manifestations at ,st4 ,james1 ,mo4--,to ,denver--,meetings in ,canada--,in the ,southern field--,mob element in ,mississippi--,visits ,mammoth ,cave--,visits the church in ,california--,scenery of the ,rockies4 ,,xvii4 ,,the ,,ministry ,,of ,,song #djg ,adaptation of existing hymns--,occasions that suggested various hymns--,instances of the effect of song4 ,,xviii4 ,,poetic ,,inspirations #dbb ,gifted as a poet--,a book of poems--,various examples of poems4 ,,xix4 ,,last ,,years #ddc ,hoped for long life--,difficulty in combining writing with evangelical work--,could not remain long out of the field--,begins to write a book on prophecy--,third marriage--,ohio ,river campaign--,last ,new ,year's greeting--,a school on the camp-ground--,last sermon--,end of the journey4 ,,xx4 ,,as ,,others ,,knew ,,him #def ,statements of various individuals--,author's statement--,reflections at his grave4 ,,supplement for this reprint edition #dgh ,illustration3 ,,andrew ,l4 ,,byers1 ,author of this ,book ,office ,editor ,,gospel ,,trumpet4 ,music3 ,the ,evening ,light4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 7,,zech4 #ad3g47 ,h4 ,r4 ,,jeffrey4 #a4 ,bright-er days are sweet-ly dawn-ing1 ,oh1 the glo-ry looms in sight6 #b4 ,mist-y fogs1 so long con-ceal-ing ,all the hills of min-gled night1 #c4 ,lo6 the ran-somed are re-turn-ing1 ,robed in shin-ing crys-tal white1 #d4 ,free from ,ba-bel1 in the ,spir-it1 ,free to wor-ship ,god a-right1 #e4 ,hal-le-lu-jah6 saints are singing1 ,vic-t'ry in ,je-ho-vah's might2 ,for the cloud-y day is wan-ing1 ,and the eve-ning shall be light4 ,van-ish1 all their sin re-veal-ing1 ,for the eve-ning shall be light4 ,leap-ing shout-ing home to ,zi-on1 ,hap-py in the eve-ning light4 ,joy and glad-ness we're re-ceiv-ing1 ,oh1 how sweet this eve-ning light6 ,glo-ry6 glo-ry6 keep it ring-ing1 ,we are saved in eve-ning light6 ,,chorus4 ,oh1 what gold-en glo-ry streaming6 ,pur-er light is com-ing fast2 ,now in ,christ we've found a free-dom ,which e-ter-nal-ly shall last4 ,i ,,introduction ,the life and labors of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner are so closely associated with a religious movement that any attempt at his biography becomes in part necessarily a history of that movement4 ,i have therefore chosen the term1 ,birth of a ,reformation1 as a part of the title of this book4 ,brother ,warner 7to use an appellation in keeping with the idea of universal ,christian brotherhood7 was doubtless chosen of ,god as an instrument for accomplishing a particular work4 ,what that work was1 why it may be called a reformation1 and why1 in particular1 it may be considered the last reformation1 a few words of explanation by way of introduction are offered the inquiring reader4 ,it will be necessary to take a brief glance over the ,christian era and review some of the important events and conditions4 ,we note the characteristics of the church in the days of the apostles1 which1 by reason of its recent founding and organization by the ,holy ,spirit1 is naturally regarded as exemplary and ideal4 ,it had no creed but the ,scriptures and no government but that administered by the ,holy ,spirit1 who 'set the members in the body as it pleased him'--apostles1 prophets1 teachers1 evangelists1 pastors1 etc4 ,thus subject to the ,spirit1 the early church was flexible1 capable of expansion and of walking in all the truth and of adjusting itself to all conditions4 ,it was in very essence the church1 the whole1 and not a section or part4 ,the apostles and early believers did not restrict themselves and become a ,jewish ,christian sect or any other kind of sect4 ,peter's way of thinking would have thus limited him1 for as a ,jew he declined any particular interest in ,gentile converts2 but the ,lord through a vision changed his mind and advanced his understanding to include the universality of the ,christian kingdom4 ,the ,holy ,spirit in the heart was necessary1 of course1 to the successful government of the church by the ,spirit1 otherwise he could not have been understood4 ,there were no dividing lines1 for it was the will of the ,lord particularly that there be one fold and one shepherd4 ,jesus had prayed in behalf of the disciples that they all may be one2 as thou1 ,father1 art in me1 and ,i in thee1 that they also may be one in us3 that the world may believe that thou hast sent me 7,john #ag3ba74 ,these conditions of being subject to the word and ,spirit1 of leaving an open door through which greater light and truth might enter as was necessary1 and of possessing the love and unity of spirit that cemented the believers together and carried them through all their persecution1 constituted the ideal and normal status of ,god's church on earth as he gave it beginning1 of which it was ordained that there should be but one1 only one1 as long as the world should endure4 ,there is one body1 and one ,spirit1 even as ye are called in one hope of your calling 7,eph4 #d3d74 ,,spiritual ,,decline ,it was possible1 of course1 for the church to decline from her state of purity and thereby to forfeit her standing as the church4 ,so long as her conflict with paganism lasted and the various forms of persecution tended to bring into exercise those principles and qualities which distinguished her from the world1 she practically kept her first estate4 ,when1 however1 the tide turned1 persecutions ceased and ,christianity came into favor and to be made the state religion of the ,roman ,empire1 there were presented conditions favorable to every form of spiritual decline4 ,christians1 instead of being longer persecuted1 were protected1 and to profess ,christianity became popular and easy4 ,the divine features of the church1 by which she had been known for more than two hundred years1 were lost4 ,every form of corruption came in4 ,human rule supplanted the divine1 ,holy ,spirit1 rule almost universally1 both in the ,east and the ,west4 ,the bishop of ,rome1 in particular1 rose in prominence until he was made supreme head--pope--of the ,holy ,roman church4 ,the reader of church history knows of the long eclipse of ,christianity that followed1 of the darkness and ignorance that reigned and gave to that period the name1 ,dark ,ages4 ,the true church1 impossible of representation by such a colossal counterfeit as then appeared in her place and became in turn a persecuting power1 could continue only in fragmentary form1 in obscure places in the wilderness of the ,roman ,empire4 ,she could not be manifest in her evangelizing capacity1 but was persecuted4 ,millions of ,god's people1 who refused allegiance to this false system of ,christianity1 were slain as heretics during this period4 ,thus1 in the historical foreground we see1 not the pure woman representing the church of ,god1 but we see an apostate woman seated upon a scarlet-colored beast1 the ,roman state4 ,and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color1 and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls1 having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication3 and upon her forehead was a name written1 ,mystery1 ,babylon the ,great1 the ,mother of ,harlots and ,abominations of the ,earth4 ,and ,i saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints1 and with the blood of the martyrs of ,jesus 7,rev4 #ag3d-f74 ,the ,word and the ,spirit1 the two divine authorities1 were set aside4 ,in the place of the former were the traditions of the ,roman ,church1 and for the latter was substituted human rule and authority4 ,these two divine witnesses prophesied in sackcloth during those long centuries1 until such time as they should again function in their proper sphere in the church--,i say until such time3 for we are not to assume that in the design of ,god this state of affairs should always continue4 ,true ,christianity was not to perish from the earth4 ,the book of ,daniel prophesies of the papacy1 ,and he shall speak great words against the ,most ,high1 and shall wear out the saints of the ,most ,high1 and think to change times and laws3 and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time 7,dan4 #g3be74 7,see the time-periods of the various epochs of the ,christian era in our chapter ,a ,prophetic ,time47 ,for this vast agency of unrighteousness the time should come when the cup of iniquity should be full and the judgments of ,god should be executed and his people delivered4 ,when ,christ comes1 his bride will have made herself ready1 which implies that ,god's people will have been gathered out of spiritual captivity and brought again to ,zion4 ,light and truth and the ,holy ,spirit rule will have been restored as at the beginning4 ,,reformations ,now the rise out of apostasy was expressed by a series of reformations1 not by gradual ascent corresponding to the decline4 ,the mystery of iniquity1 which crystallized in the blasphemous man of sin1 had already begun to work in ,paul's day1 and the drift into spiritual darkness on the part of the professing church was without specific opposition4 ,but1 on the other hand1 to break away from conditions apostate always means war with infernal powers4 ,the wrong is endured until a rising sentiment of protest breaks out with stern denunciation4 ,god raises up instruments for this purpose4 ,john ,wyclif1 in the fourteenth century1 denounced the errors of the so-called church and the conduct of the monks and also had sufficient light to see the papacy as the man of sin foretold by the apostle ,paul4 ,his reform efforts1 however1 centered mostly in the translation of the ,bible into ,english1 which work1 in spite of the attempt by ,rome to destroy it1 ,god graciously caused to be preserved4 ,john ,huss1 a little later1 took ,wyclif's attitude against the corruptions of the church and was burned at the stake as a heretic4 ,his martyrdom furnished the occasion for him to utter this prophecy3 ,you are now going to burn a goose ,huss meaning goose in the ,bohemian language1 but in one hundred years there will arise a swan whom you can neither roast nor boil4 ,true to this prophecy1 in one hundred years came the intrepid ,luther1 under whose leadership history records the great reformation of the sixteenth century4 ,church and state were at this time united1 which gave this reformation a political prominence1 as it resulted in the change to ,protestantism of two strong nations1 ,germany and ,england4 ,what the sixteenth century reformation accomplished spiritually was1 among other things1 the bringing to light of the ,scriptural doctrine of justification by faith in ,christ instead of by priestly absolution4 ,it could not have been expected that all the ,scriptural truths and principles should at any time or by any one reformer be recovered from the rubbish under which they had been buried for a thousand years4 ,there have been numerous reforms1 bringing out various truths that had been obscured by the apostasy4 ,thus ,truth in her progress upward to the ,scriptural level1 has arisen only by successive steps1 ,god having to use human instrumentalities that were limited by the prevailing tendencies and beliefs of the times4 ,each reformer naturally dealt with conditions that were most conspicuous from his view-point and was exercised in questions of truth that applied only to such conditions4 ,his reform work was not final in character1 inasmuch as it left some errors still uncorrected4 ,hence the progress upward was by a succession of reforms1 each1 as a general thing1 springing from a higher level of truth and spiritual attainment than those preceding4 ,with the great decline into apostasy now in the past1 the church of ,god was disposed to rise out of confusion1 her destiny being the attainment of her original standing1 when it could be said that her sun should no more go down4 ,,human ,,rule ,,instead ,,of ,,divine ,the apostasy of the church1 as one writer has expressed it1 came by ecclesiastical ambition and degeneracy4 ,the human element got in the way where there should have been only the divine4 ,there is necessarily the human element in the work of ,god1 for ,christian work is ,god and man working together2 but in the true relation man is ,god's instrumentality and is altogether in subjection to the divine ,head1 who rules over all4 ,when the human element supplants1 gets in the way of1 or acts in the place of1 the divine1 we have a fundamental error that always results in apostasy4 ,this human ecclesiasticism1 always more or less intolerant1 reached its autocratic perfection in the hierarchy of the ,roman ,catholic ,church and constituted the man of sin who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called ,god1 or that is worshiped2 so that he as ,god sitteth in the temple of ,god1 showing himself that he is ,god 7#b ,thess4 #b3c1d74 ,the spirit of human government in church affairs has shown itself in1 or has followed in the wake of1 every reform movement of the past4 ,the ,spirit of ,god worked in the movement to accomplish good1 but was always checked by this baleful element4 ,luther meant well but was himself dogmatic and intolerant4 ,he held to many doctrines of ,catholicism whose wrongs he could not see4 ,he did not make proper allowance that others besides himself might be right1 or at least have some truth4 ,neither did he or his associates or followers leave the way open for ,god to lead into more truth1 much less the whole truth4 ,thus the reformation of the sixteenth century1 while it recovered from the debris of apostasy the doctrine of justification by faith1 became the occasion for ,protestant sects1 human-ruled institutions1 and these were succeeded by other sects4 ,some of these have been as intolerant1 inflexible1 and as unlike primitive ,christianity as the ,roman ,catholic ,church itself4 ,church government1 as humanized in the sects1 has taken forms other than the hierarchic4 ,we have the episcopal1 or rule by bishops2 the presbyterian1 or rule by presbyters2 the congregational1 or rule by the local brotherhood4 ,our object here is1 not to discuss which of these forms most nearly resembles or is most different from the ,scriptural1 but merely to show that man rule has manifested itself in various ways4 ,,characteristics ,,of ,,true ,,church ,the true church of ,god1 comprising all ,christians1 has in her normal state under her divine head certain essential characteristics which make her exclusively the church1 the whole and not a part4 ,these might be expressed as follows3 #a4 ,possession of divine spiritual life4 ,if the church does not possess this she is not ,christ's body and therefore not the church4 ,she must know the ,spirit of ,god4 #b4 ,disposition to obey all ,scripture and to let the ,spirit have his way and rule4 ,this constitutes her safety in matters of doctrine and government4 #c4 ,an attitude receptive to any further truth and light4 ,this safeguards against dogmatism and a spirit of infallibility and intolerance1 against interpreting ,christianity in the light of traditions and old ideas4 #d4 ,acknowledgment of good wherever found and the placing of no barrier that would exclude any who might be ,christians4 ,this makes salvation1 a holy life1 and a ,christian spirit the only test of fellowship1 and disapproves all human standards of church membership and fellowship4 ,we repeat that these constitute the ,scriptural standard of the church and characterize her in her unity and integrity4 ,it is by lacking in one or more of these essentials that a sect is a sect4 ,in the rise of the church out of apostasy any reformation that does not develop to the full the essentials that characterize the church in her wholeness and completeness must necessarily fall short of being the final reformation and must leave a cause for further reformation4 ,this is the explanation of the existence of the so-called ,christian sects1 viewing them in the most charitable light4 ,the ,wesleys and their early associates sought for deeper personal spirituality as well as better spiritual association than was afforded in the state church of ,england4 ,they brought to light and gave particular prominence to the doctrine of sanctification by faith and the witness of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,their work was a reform2 but as in that day the question of division among ,christians was not prominent1 nor was the question of the one true church understood or appreciated1 their work took definite form in a body humanly organized and called ,methodist4 ,the ,campbells had considerable light on the unity of the church1 and proposed the ,scriptures alone as a basis on which all ,christians could unite4 ,but they blindly shut themselves in on a point of doctrine by associating entrance into the kingdom or church with the act of immersion in such manner as to make a wall between them and other ,christians who should give evidence of having received salvation and therefore church membership1 otherwise than through baptism4 ,thus they made themselves a sect4 ,john ,winebrenner had the correct idea of the church as comprising all the saved1 and his work was on an unsectarian basis4 ,lacking1 however1 in the quality of letting the ,spirit of ,god rule1 eldership organizations were soon set up1 a man rule came in1 and they also became a sect4 ,inflexible as to doctrine1 they closed the door of progress on themselves1 rejected the truth on holiness1 and became one of the most narrow of sects1 though bearing the ,scriptural name1 ,church of ,god4 ,a ,,final ,,reformation ,it must follow1 and the assumption is already established1 that a reformation which takes in full the characteristics defining the church in her wholeness must thereby reach the ,new ,testament standard and therefore be the last1 or final1 reformation4 ,no reformation can make good such claim if it does not proceed on whole-church lines or principles4 ,if a reform does progress on those universal principles1 we need look no farther for1 nor await future years to reveal1 the final reformation resulting in the restoration of all things to the ,scriptural ideal4 ,the errors of the religious world are1 and have been1 the failure to so preach salvation truth that people may obtain and enjoy full deliverance from sin2 failure to conform to the divine standard on all lines2 the human ecclesiastical system1 which hinders ,holy ,spirit organization and government2 and separation of ,god's people into parties1 thus making true church relation impossible4 ,a movement that comprehends a correction of all these1 and meets the ,scriptural standard1 must therefore fill the measure of reform4 ,reader1 it is claimed for the movement represented in the teaching and labors of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 that it possesses these elements of finality1 that by it ,god is bringing his people out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day of ,protestant sectism1 and is restoring ,zion as at first4 ,it is not assumed that ,brother ,warner was right on every point of doctrine or in every application of a ,scriptural text1 but that the movement1 in addition to being based on correct ,scriptural principles otherwise1 possesses that flexibility and spirit of progress by which it adjusts itself as ,god gives light4 #a4 ,it teaches the ,scriptural process of salvation1 by which people may obtain a real deliverance from sin and have the ,holy ,spirit as a witness to their salvation4 #b4 ,the truth only1 and obedience thereto1 is its motto2 and it recognizes the rule of the ,holy ,spirit in the organization and government of the church4 #c4 ,it does not assume to possess all the truth1 but stands committed thereto1 holding an open door to the entrance of any further light and truth4 #d4 ,the spirit of the movement is to acknowledge good wherever found and to regard no door into the church other than salvation and no test of fellowship other than true ,christianity possessed within the heart4 ,thus its basis is as narrow as the ,new ,testament on the one hand1 and as broad as the ,new ,testament on the other4 ,may it ever go forward on this line in the spread of the truth to all the world4 ,,another ,,view ,,of ,,sects ,in order to a clearer understanding of the reformation which took definite form in the work of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 as well as why he denounced the sectarian spirit in such scathing terms1 let us take further notice of the evil of sect institutions4 ,in the first place1 sects are confusing in that1 while necessarily bad as factions1 they are associated more or less with good4 ,many of them in their origin followed reform movements which apparently had divine sanction and were progressive in ,christianity1 and many of them have upheld truth which when preached was productive of good and brought salvation results4 ,but here it should be noted1 that whatever of salvation work has been accomplished has been directly by the ,spirit of ,god in individuals1 quite apart from any sectarian agency4 ,it must be said1 too1 that whatever has resulted from ,christian endeavor or influence and expenditure of means1 whether in home or foreign lands1 would have been in greater degree had the church back of these efforts been one spiritual whole instead of many sectarian divisions4 ,so1 when we come to apply analysis to this question of sects1 we find that they are in no sense good4 ,that they are called churches is but the part of confusion1 for in the popular mind and in actual practise it tends to identify sects with the divine church1 whereas in ,scripture church always means something other than sects4 ,bodies that are differentiated by the isms of men are not1 and never can be1 ,scripturally churches1 for except in the local geographical sense the church takes no plural form4 ,there is a distinction between the true people of ,god as constituting the divine church and the human institutions called churches that have divided them and placed them in unnatural and unscriptural relations4 ,the true church of ,god1 by virtue of comprising all the saved and therefore being a unit1 places sects in comparison only as false churches4 ,a commentator truthfully remarks1 ,false ,christendom divided into very many sects is truly ,babylon1 that is1 confusion4 7,jamieson1 ,fausset1 and ,brown's ,commentary47 ,thus sects1 because they are a hindrance to proper ,christian activity and because they present a spectacle of religious confusion1 professing to be churches when they can only be false1 are bad4 ,this is no disparagement of the many noble men and women of ,god who have been connected with sects and have gone on to their heavenly reward1 whose accomplished good was from the divine source and not from the sectarian4 ,they may have honestly loved their sect1 but in this they were honestly misplacing their love4 ,it was the religious association with their fellow ,christians that they loved1 and this1 had they only known it1 was not enhanced but rather hindered by the sectarian distinction4 ,they will not find these distinctions in heaven4 ,if they really loved the sect1 they had to leave that love behind1 for it could not be included with such ,christian excellence as entitled them to heaven4 ,thus our good parents and grandparents and the long line of reformers and ,christian worthies receive their heavenly reward quite independent of the sectarian institutions that divided them here4 ,,evil ,,of ,,sects ,,in ,,positive ,,light ,we have shown why sects are bad in rather a negative light1 as being confusion and therefore a hindrance to proper ,christian representation in the world4 ,they are evil in a more positive sense1 and it was because of this that ,god prompted ,brother ,warner and others in the reform to utter such sharp judgment against them4 ,any body of ,christian people that arises and fails to qualify on all principles that mark the church of ,god as a whole1 that proceeds to human organization and rule instead of recognizing only ,holy ,spirit organization and government1 at once limits itself and becomes thereby a sect1 a false representation of the church4 ,as a false church it is soon a corrupt institution in which human pride and every element contrary to ,god may exist and become active4 ,the human will1 intended for the rule of our bodies and things terrestrial1 things which belong to man's province1 becomes sadly out of place when exercised in any sphere or capacity that belongs to ,god4 ,in such sphere it becomes a rival of ,god1 a monster evil of great proportions1 a distinctive satanic spirit1 always opposing the true work of ,god4 ,,beastly ,,character ,,in ,,prophecy ,this man rule in a province to which ,god alone has rightful claim 7for indeed it exercises the prerogative of ,god when it presumes to direct ,god's work and people7 has characterized all ,protestant sectism just as it did ,roman ,catholicism1 only in milder aspect4 ,man rule is represented in prophetic symbols by beastly character1 whether it applies to political or ecclesiastical government4 ,thus in the #gth chapter of ,daniel we have the symbols of four great beasts1 representing in their respective order four universal kingdoms1 as follows3 ,babylonia1 ,medo-,persia1 ,greece1 and ,rome4 ,these were temporal powers that ruled the world4 ,when a mere temporal power is indicated the prophetic symbol used is a dumb beast4 ,if a beast or any part of such symbol is represented as speaking or exercising human propensities1 then the thing indicated is also an ecclesiastical power4 ,thus the fourth beast in ,daniel #g1 which represents the ,roman ,empire1 exercises first as a dumb animal2 but directly a particular horn appears among the horns of this beast1 and is given eyes to see and a mouth to speak great things1 which indicates ecclesiastical exercise1 so that we have here ,rome first as a heathen power1 and then as a so-called ,christian power speaking great things1 making war against the saints1 etc4 ,in ,revelation #ac we find this same ,roman ,catholic power represented by a beast to whom was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power to make war with the saints and to overcome them4 ,these anthropomorphic qualities given to a beast indicate man rule in ecclesiastical matters1 a thing which is at once blasphemy in ,god's sight1 utterly obnoxious and foreign to him4 ,,protestantism ,,in ,,revelation #ac ,beginning with the #aath verse of ,revelations #ac1 directly after the prophecy of the ,roman ,catholic hierarchic power1 we have the spectacle of a second beast1 having two horns like a lamb but speaking as a dragon4 ,the fact that he speaks gives him the quality of ecclesiastical rule4 ,in this beast we have man rule in the form of ,protestantism4 ,he has a lamb-like aspect instead of the vicious1 threatening character of ,rome in the days of her power2 but he has the voice of a dragon1 which betrays his diabolical spirit4 ,he exercises as much power in the world as ,roman ,catholicism did before him4 ,he deceives by doing great wonders1 displaying spiritual manifestations4 ,he causes people to worship the first beast 7,catholicism7 by copying its standards and doing reverence to a human ecclesiastical system2 and an image to the first beast is made whenever a sect is organized4 ,he causes the image to speak 7exercise man rule7 and to persecute those who1 instead of bowing to the sect image1 are disposed to exercise in their spiritual freedom and give allegiance alone to ,god4 ,thus we see so-called ,protestantism as a particular form of beast religion1 a distinctive spirit that animates and dominates the sectarian system4 ,the beast element is the man rule4 ,we are not speaking merely of human instrumentality1 which ,god certainly uses in his church when the will is wholly submitted to him and susceptible to his ,spirit1 but of that exercise and dominance in ecclesiastical matters which1 as apart from ,god1 is distinctly human4 ,such prevails more or less as a system in all sects1 gives occasion for jealousy1 pride1 and emulation1 wants to be let alone1 and opposes any reform that threatens it4 ,this is the element which naturally becomes disturbed at the preaching of the truth that exposes it1 and which became a persecuting power against ,brother ,warner and all who executed the divine judgment against false religion4 ,in this deceptive form of evil covering almost four hundred years ,satan has had his seat4 ,when the present reformation shall have resulted in bringing ,god's people out of sectarian divisions and placing them on the whole-church basis1 ,satan1 driven to some new project1 will muster the ,gog and ,magog forces in a last conflict against the saints1 which shall end with the utter destruction of those forces by the judgment fires4 ,we have1 then1 ,protestantism represented in two aspects3 #a4 ,as a period during which truth by a succession of reform movements has to a considerable extent been recovered from apostasy and restored to ,god's people4 #b4 ,as a system of false religion1 a form of spiritual ,babylon that is pervaded by a satanic spirit that deceives the world and opposes any effort to restore the church of ,god to her ,scriptural unity1 since such effort naturally threatens the ecclesiastical element lying at the base of organized sectarianism4 ,a ,,dispensation ,,of ,,god ,we apprehend1 then1 that wondrous times have come upon us4 ,great ecclesiastical systems are crumbling and are being left destitute as ,god's people make their escape4 ,this movement proceeds with no show of prominence in the world4 ,it causes no political disturbance1 but works only in the province of genuine ,christianity1 silently1 effectively1 as the leaven in the meal4 ,it is altogether a spiritual movement and its discernment can therefore only be spiritual4 ,it may appear outwardly as only one religious body among many2 for it is only when judged by the spiritual standard of ,god's word that its character is seen4 ,it is a call to those who are willing to be led of ,god4 ,the dispensations of ,god are in their beginning often insignificant and despised in man's eyes4 ,god chooses things that are not1 to bring to naught things that are4 ,the fact that ,brother ,warner's work was done in comparative obscurity counts for nothing against its being the work of ,god4 ,it is quality that counts4 ,brother ,warner had the right spiritual quality1 the secret of which was letting ,god have his way4 ,his entire abandonment to ,god in a complete consecration1 together with his adaptable temperament and gifts1 made him suitable for ,god's use in this great work1 and ,god chose him4 ,the time was at hand4 ,others1 contemporary with him and leaders in the holiness movement1 saw the evils of sects and deplored them1 but when it came to renouncing their sectarian affiliations and coming out of the spiritual ,babylon in obedience to ,god's call1 ,come out of her1 my people1 that ye be not partakers of her sins1 and that ye receive not of her plagues1 they drew back4 ,this point of leaving the sects1 abiding in ,christ alone and allowing ,god to reestablish his church on the primitive basis1 was the real test4 ,they longed for the time when ,god's people should all be one1 but chose to believe that the time was not yet4 ,and so they have been believing for forty years1 and are today in the greater confusion4 ,they lacked the spiritual equipment4 ,one of ,brother ,warner's special endowments was that of considerable light on the prophecies4 ,he saw that the sectarian denominations were of the true spiritual ,babylon in which ,god's people were being held captive4 ,he also had in the ,spirit the prospective vision of the pure church unruled by man4 ,his contemporary leaders who opposed him were too blind spiritually to have such a vision2 or1 if they had it1 were disobedient to it4 ,but there were those1 the humble ones1 who were willing to let ,god have his way4 ,at the sound of the trumpet1 which ,god was giving through ,brother ,warner1 thousands have rallied to the standard of truth1 and through them the truth has been and is being vindicated4 ,if ,god has his way all ,christians will be led out of sects1 all justified believers will be led into sanctification1 the church will be perfectly organized and governed by the ,holy ,spirit1 the whole truth will be preached uncompromisingly1 full salvation will be held out to the world1 and all will be led to cooperate and do their part4 ,this is the full measure of ,christianity today1 and is ,god's design with his people4 ,here is true ,christian unity4 ,such unity can come only by absolute abandonment to ,god1 for he must be the one-making agent4 ,men may attempt a unity through some ,interchurch ,world ,movement or other plan1 but no plan can represent the true ,scriptural unity unless ,god does the work himself4 ,he must have the full right of way in human hearts4 ,brother ,warner's mission was strictly that of a reformer4 ,it was his part to venture boldly with the truth ,god had given him1 with a willingness to run the gauntlet of persecutions that were sure to greet him on the right and left4 ,his severe denunciation of all things sectarian was consistent with his pioneer position4 ,there first had to be an awakening1 a breaking up of old conditions1 particularly of the recognition 7into which the minds of people generally had settled7 of the sects as being the church of ,god4 ,his work was the initial1 or birth1 stage of the reform4 ,following the initial stage has come the constructive1 which comprehends the reformation in the local sense1 the sense in which the ,christian life and true ideal of the church must be exemplified in the community as something more than theory1 something that will appeal as being better than what is represented in the sects4 ,the constructive stage calls not so much for continual denunciation of sects as for manifesting those essential principles that characterize the church in her unity and entirety4 ,the responsibility is to make good the claim1 and this means much4 ,any tendency to establish traditions1 or to regard a past course as giving direction in all respects for the future1 or to become self-centered and manifest a we are it spirit and bar the door of progress against the entrance of further light and truth1 or in any way to refuse fellowship with any others who may be ,christians1 would itself be sectarian1 altogether unlike the true reformation1 which1 if it be final1 must necessarily be a restoration and possess universal characteristics4 ,for proper representation everything depends upon the understanding of1 and the attitude toward1 this great movement4 ,for any body of people to hold that the reformation is entrusted to them1 or that they have become the standard for the world1 is a self-centered attitude1 vastly different from that which regards the reformation as something prophetically due1 as having come independent of man1 and as being greater than the people who have been favored with its light1 and that it is their part to conform to it in principle1 doctrine1 and everything4 ,the great movement is in the world1 and any attempt to corner it or to limit it to a particular body of people could only result in making that body a sect1 or faction1 while the movement itself would proceed independently4 ,the true spirit of the reformation will be1 however1 with those who measure to its standard1 whether they be few or many1 and ,god will manifest himself accordingly4 ,satan has tried to becloud and defeat the movement by counterfeit factions--bodies of people who profess to be on the reformation line1 but who misrepresent the truth by denying some part of it1 as1 for instance1 the doctrine of entire sanctification in this life1 or of the ,christian ordinances1 or who misrepresent it by advancing erroneous doctrine1 such as the continuation of the ,old ,testmental law and ,sabbath1 or the speaking in tongues as a necessary evidence of having received the ,holy ,ghost4 ,many are the counterfeit movements today4 ,one must ignore every influence of man and then rely on the witness of both the ,word and the ,spirit in order to be guided aright4 ,brother ,warner was a remarkable example of a man possessing the ,christian spirit and the ,christian graces wonderfully developed4 ,while he could rebuke evil and deceptive influences in the strongest terms1 he was one of the meekest and kindest of men4 ,christ-like1 he loved all men1 even his persecutors4 ,as a husband1 father1 ,christian brother and friend his love and respect were genuine and reached to the very soul4 ,and yet the responsibility of his calling as a ,christian and as a minister of ,god's truth as it applied to his time1 he held more dear than all else1 and to it he was wholly devoted4 ,not with any object of exalting the man1 but to illustrate what ,god can accomplish in and through one who is so devoted1 we introduce him to our readers4 ,,ii ,,ancestry ,,and ,,early ,,life ,among those who fought in the second war against ,great ,britain was one ,adam ,warner1 who was born in ,virginia1 and whose father was ,christofel ,warner4 ,in this period of our national history a great tide of emigration from the ,atlantic ,states was spreading itself over what is now the ,middle ,west4 ,adam ,warner seemed to catch the spirit of the times1 and accordingly1 in #ahae1 he set out with his family for the new country beyond the ,alleghanies4 ,he settled in ,stark ,county1 ,ohio1 where1 about the year #ahde1 he died1 at ninety-three years of age 7a history of ,williams ,county1 ,ohio1 says ninety-eight1 and that he had a sister who lived to the advanced age of one hundred and three74 ,it is probable that before moving west ,adam ,warner lived for a while in ,frederick ,county1 ,md41 for there is where his son ,david was born1 ,june #f1 #ahjc4 ,david ,warner1 after moving to ,stark ,county1 was married1 in #ahbc1 to ,leah ,dierdorf1 who was born in ,york ,county1 ,pa41 ,feb4 #f1 #ahje4 ,in #ahcj he moved to ,wayne ,county1 ,ohio1 and a little later to ,portage ,county1 then back to ,wayne ,county in #ahcf1 to a place then called ,bristol1 where he kept a tavern for eight years4 ,of the parentage of ,david and ,leah ,warner1 at their humble abode at ,bristol1 on ,june #be1 #ahdb1 amid the environment of tavern life1 was born ,daniel ,s4 ,warner1 destined to be one of the principal instruments in ,god's hands to produce a shaking in the ranks of spiritual ,israel1 and to lead the hosts of the ,lord back to ,zion from their wanderings in the wilderness of denominationalism4 ,the children of ,david and ,leah1 in order1 were as follows3 ,adam1 ,lewis1 ,joseph1 ,john1 ,daniel1 and ,samantha4 ,john died at the age of twenty1 leaving but the five children4 ,all are now deceased4 ,a granddaughter says that the family was ,pennsylvania ,german4 ,evidently the mother was4 ,the father1 as already noted1 was a ,virginian4 ,it was the misfortune of ,daniel ,s4 to be frail1 sickly1 and to a great extent unappreciated1 from his very birth4 ,his lungs were weak and he was denied that stock of vitality with which every child has the right to begin life4 ,intoxicants were freely used in those days1 and ,david ,warner had fallen an easy prey to intemperance4 ,if the affliction of this infant may not be ascribed to paternal indiscreetness1 possibly inebriety1 it is not because such instances were uncommon4 ,into how many homes has the demon of strong drink entered to bring sorrow to the wife and mother and to curse the unborn with the blight of its baneful effects6 ,in this case1 at any rate1 the father was rough1 and inconsiderate of his offspring4 ,while he exercised toward his family a degree of temporal care1 it seemed that the very frailty of this child1 which should have awakened compassion1 met only his frown and disfavor4 ,in later years ,daniel1 in reflecting on the circumstances attending his birth and childhood1 wrote the following lines1 which are a part of his poem on ,innocence3 ,conceived in sin1 to sorrow born1 ,unwelcome here on earth1 ,the shadows of a life forlorn ,hung gloomy o'er my birth4 ,a mother's heart oppressed with grief1 ,a father's wicked spleen1 ,who cursed my faint and gasping breath1 ,combine to paint the scene4 ,but life held on its tender thread1 ,days unexpected grew ,to weeks1 and still he lived-- ,why1 ,heaven only knew4 ,he lived1 though life was bitter gain1 ,his youth a flood of tears1 ,his body doomed to cruel pain1 ,his mind to nervous fears4 ,in contrast with this paternal attitude1 however1 was the constancy of a true-hearted mother4 ,blessed with this and endowed with indelible memories of a mother's devotion1 what child growing up to cope with life's obstacles may not1 after all1 hold a chance of succeeding1 however handicapped otherwise8 ,if ever any planting bears fruit in the human breast1 or becomes a latent force tending to guide one steadily through life's dangerous rapids1 it is that of a mother's love4 ,especially is this true of the love of a ,christian mother1 coupled with her prayers4 ,mrs4 ,warner was an excellent woman4 ,her patient and gentle bearing under disturbing conditions1 her disposition to make the best of disappointment and discouragement1 left an impress1 not only upon the family1 but upon the neighborhood4 ,her kindness is referred to in two other stanzas of the poem ,innocence3 ,if angels blessed his thorny path1 ,it may be said in truth1 ,but two e'er showed their smiling face ,in all his suffering youth4 ,one was his mother1 ever kind1 ,a blessed providence2 ,the other1 pure and lovely friend1 ,was angel ,innocence4 ,it has been true generally that great men have first had great mothers4 ,but what is a mother's greatness1 after all1 but simple1 unalloyed1 ,christian motherliness8 ,i should have become an atheist but for one recollection1 and that was the memory of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers and cause me on my knees to say1 ',our ,father1 who art in heaven4'--,john ,randolph4 ,illustration3 ,parents of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner4 ,the father holds a whisky-glass ,illustration3 ,mother of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner ,all ,i am1 all ,i hope to be1 ,i owe to my angel mother--blessings on her memory6 ,i remember my mother's prayers4 ,they have always followed me4 ,they have clung to me all my life4--,lincoln4 ,if my mother could rise in the dead of the night and pray for my recovery from sickness1 my life must be worth something4 ,i then and there resolved to prove myself worthy of my mother's prayers4--,garfield4 ,it is to my mother that ,i owe everything4 ,if ,i am thy child1 ,o my ,god1 it is because thou gavest me such a mother4 ,if ,i prefer the truth to all things1 it is the fruit of my mother's teachings4 ,if ,i did not perish long ago in sin and misery1 it is because of the long and faithful years which she pleaded for me4 ,what comparison is there between the honor ,i paid her and her slavery for me8--,st4 ,augustine4 ,one more tribute4 ,in his book ,bible ,proofs of the ,second ,work of ,grace1 published in #ahhj1 ,daniel ,s4 ,warner places the following dedicatory note3 ,to the sacred memory of my sainted mother1 whose tender affections were the only solace in my suffering childhood1 and whose never-failing love1 and whose pure and innocent life were the only stars that shone in the darkness of my youth1 this volume is respectfully dedicated by the author4 ,from ,wayne ,county1 ,david ,warner brought his family1 in #ahdc1 to a farm of #adj acres near ,new ,washington1 ,crawford ,county1 ,ohio4 ,the house1 built partly of logs1 stood three fourths of a mile southwest of the village4 ,it was here that ,daniel spent his childhood4 ,of this period he writes3 ,it seemed the special pleasure of ,another certain one ,to quite demolish everything ,he set his heart upon2 ,to chafe his spirit and extort ,the flow of bitter tears ,out of a soft and pensive heart1 ,through all his tender years4 ,he never knew that ,father was ,a sweet1 endearing name2 ,its very mention was a dread1 ,his life's most deadly bane4 ,the demon of intemp'rance there ,infused the wrath of hell1 ,and most upon this sickly head ,the storm of fury fell4 ,like chickens when the mother bird ,gives signal of a foe1 ,the little peeps are quickly hushed1 ,all chicks are lying low1 ,so1 when returning from the town1 ,the dreaded steps we heard1 ,all ran and quickly settled down1 ,and not a lip was stirred4 ,o horrors of the liquor fiend6 ,we've seen thy hell on earth4 ,thy serpent coils around us twined1 ,the moment of our birth4 ,o ,rum6 thy red infernal flame-- ,i witness to the truth-- ,filled all my mother's cup with pain1 ,and swallowed up my youth4 ,the ,warner family1 though clever1 straightforward1 and strictly honest1 were but a simple rural folk and not inclined to religion4 ,that such a bright spiritual light as was afterward exhibited in ,daniel could come from such a family1 is one of the puzzling questions of blood relation4 ,was it that in the family blood there was latent quality which in his case only was near enough to the surface to be called into action and developed by higher influence8 or should it be said that he represents a variation in the strain1 such as is sometimes seen in biological observation8 ,if the latter1 the mystery remains2 for why do such things occur8 ,aside from natural phenomena1 we believe that ,brother ,warner was a chosen vessel unto the ,lord4 ,he possessed such a combination of qualities as made him capable of high development in the divine graces4 ,he was a ,christian than whom perhaps none other ever lived who was more reverent1 spiritual1 and devoted2 and ,god had a special work for him4 ,,boyhood ,,characteristics ,in his boyhood ,daniel early displayed a gift of entertainment and of public speaking4 ,the school in his district was ungraded4 ,on occasions of entertainment1 such as the last day of school1 after the younger children had spoken their pieces and the program began to grow monotonous1 a call would be made for ,dan ,warner4 ,then he would take the floor and soon would have them convulsing with merriment4 ,mischievousness and clownishness were traits4 ,the trouble he sometimes caused the teacher was frequently such that the latter could not locate it nor determine just who was to blame4 ,when he would be stood on the floor he would soon have others with him4 ,on one occasion he did something for which he was sentenced to a scourging4 ,when he appeared at school the next morning he was prepared for this contingency by having on two or three coats4 ,he was1 however1 bright in his studies and in a general way sociable and well liked4 ,the community in which he lived was strongly democratic in politics4 ,his father1 a staunch democrat1 actually had a degree of pride in his boy when the latter would make stump speeches during a campaign4 ,it was natural for ,dan to mount a storebox on the street or anywhere and address a crowd on the issues of the day4 ,in later years1 however1 when he became a minister and his oratorical abilities were directed in the channel of preaching the gospel1 his father was not pleased4 ,among the sports in which he indulged was coon hunting4 ,on finding a coon tree at night he and his companion would cover themselves with a coon robe and lie under the tree until morning4 ,he got to be rather wild1 and took particular delight in the dance1 but never indulged in the lowest forms of sin4 ,these are but brevities of his boyhood career4 ,it is difficult to prepare an account of this part of his life that would be to any considerable degree full4 ,one accident1 by which he was maimed for life1 should here be noted4 ,he attempted to remove a bunch of grass that had clogged the sickle of a mowing-machine4 ,as he was in this act the team started and the ends of two of his fingers1 the middle ones of the left hand1 were suddenly clipped off4 ,fortunately the loss of these members did not hinder him in writing nor was it a disfigurement usually noticed in his preaching4 ,there was one more move for the ,david ,warner family1 and this was to ,williams ,county1 ,ohio1 the northwest corner of the ,state1 where1 in ,bridgewater ,township1 about four miles north of the town of ,montpelier1 farm life was resumed4 ,here the parents spent the rest of their lives4 ,the removal to this place was made in #ahfc1 during the ,civil ,war4 ,joseph ,warner was drafted for the army4 ,being a man of a family1 he desired to arrange for a substitute4 ,for this ,daniel offered himself1 and accordingly became a private in ,company ,c1 #aieth ,regiment1 ,ohio ,infantry4 ,little is known of his army experience4 ,it is said that he found favor with the ,captain and was made his clerk1 or secretary4 ,at the close of his term he was honorably discharged4 ,while living in ,williams ,county1 the occupation of teaching school appealed to him1 and for several terms he was an instructor of the young in matters of common-school education4 ,he was now in his early twenties4 ,but here we shall close this chapter1 and introduce him in our next in a different aspect4 ,,iii ,,conversion1 ,,college1 ,,and ,,calling ,it is natural that the question of religion should present itself to a young man or woman when approaching maturity4 ,it is then that life is full of prospects1 when one plans and builds for the future4 ,it is then that opinions are formed1 and there is an inclination to reach some kind of decision1 for the time being at least1 regarding every issue4 ,one reaches this parting of the ways and the question comes1 ,which road shall ,i take8 ,the answer1 so far as religion is concerned1 depends to some extent on what one has observed in those who make a profession1 though it is true that the influence of the ,holy ,spirit alone--that monitor who makes his appeal to the inner consciousness--sometimes decides the question4 ,the community at ,new ,washington1 where the ,warner family lived1 was strongly ,catholic and ,lutheran4 ,there was too much whisky and tobacco and too little of genuine ,christianity for a convincing testimony in favor of the latter4 ,as for ,dan ,warner1 he thought to decide the question of religion by trying to be an infidel4 ,but of course he had not considered that ,god might speak to him and convince him against his will4 ,he naturally possessed a tender conscience1 a capacity to exalt righteousness and a susceptibility to right spiritual influence4 ,and so we find him on reaching the age of maturity trying to believe there was nothing in ,christianity2 but at this his success was poor4 ,there were certain persons within his field of acquaintance whose ,christian piety made its impression4 ,then again1 there was the influence of song4 ,he had a good voice and found enjoyment in engaging in song with the young people4 ,on a ,sunday afternoon1 at a neighbor's1 where a number were gathered and were singing gospel hymns1 he became greatly affected4 ,god spoke to his conscience4 ,his conviction was so strong as to cause him for several months to lose his love for the dance and to reflect seriously on his course of life4 ,it was his turning-point so far as infidelity was concerned4#a ,but after a few months1 when the conviction had worn away somewhat1 he began to renew his attendance at dances and apparently to be more reckless than ever regarding his spiritual well-being4 ,his heart1 however1 was yet tender from the wound made by the spirit of conviction4 ,one night during a severe illness of his sister he attended a dance4 ,after he had returned home at two o'clock in the morning1 his mother went to his room and expostulated with her boy regarding his sinful career4 ,here again is where a mother's part played effectively4 ,as she reasoned with him on his wrong conduct1 his going to a dance while his sister--his only sister--lay at the point of death1 and his offence against a just ,god1 before whom he must one day stand in judgment1 the depths of his heart were broken up and he fell on his knees and called for mercy4 ,from that time he was deeply convicted though to his companions he gave no evidence of a changed life1 as he had not received the new birth4 ,with some young friends he began to attend a protracted meeting in a schoolhouse not far from his home4 ,the meeting was one of power1 and sinners were made to reflect on the question of their souls' salvation4 ,on their way home one night his companions were expressing their opinions as to religion1 what it was1 etc4 ,one of them1 addressing ,dan1 said1 ,what do you think it is8 ,he replied1 ,i am going to find out4 ,knowing him to be prankish the others supposed he meant to play some trick1 and as they separated wondered to themselves what ,dan could have up his sleeve4 ,not until he had gone forward to the altar the next evening and they had seen him rise a changed young man with the peace of ,god in his countenance did they take his words and actions seriously4 ,the date of this1 his conversion1 was ,february1 #ahfe4 ,he refers to the event some years later as follows3 ,passed once more the old schoolhouse where ,i gave my heart to ,god 7,february1 #ahfe74 ,thank ,god for that step6 ,oh1 how glad ,i am it was ever my lot to become a ,christian6 ,another item of interest relating to this time was his engagement to ,frances ,stocking1 reference to which in his diary for ,june #aa1 #ahgd1 the reader will find on another page4 ,one quality that was manifest in ,brother ,warner's early religious life as well as throughout his entire career was earnestness4 ,he was sincere and intense in his devotion and his ,christian work4 ,we shall find as we read the notes from his diary that his words breathe a spirit of love and devotion1 evincing a deep spirituality4 ,when he yielded to ,god1 he meant it as the decision of his very soul1 and his conversion was for him an actual change for time and eternity4 ,old things were passed away4 ,new propositions and prospects arose to occupy his thoughts4 ,illustration3 ,d4 ,s4 ,warner a student at ,oberlin ,college ,,attends ,,oberlin ,,college ,what ideals and plans were his immediately after his conversion we do not know4 ,it was not long1 however1 until he decided that a more advanced education was needful4 ,nothing will give a young person nobler ambitions and greater desire to rise to all that is good and associated with usefulness than ,christianity4 ,on the #eth of ,september of the same year of his conversion he started to school at ,oberlin ,college and enrolled for an ,english preparatory course4 ,the details of his study at ,oberlin and just how long he remained have not been learned4 ,an old memorandum of his accounts indicates that he attended there only two months at first1 and then taught school through the winter at ,corunna1 ,ind41 returning to ,oberlin in the spring1 and that he started again with the new school year in ,september1 #ahff4 ,it is known1 however1 that his excellency of character shone while he was at school and was the subject of remark4 ,he did not attend college as long as he had expected to2 for it was while he was there that he began to feel ,god's hand upon him for the ministry4 ,when he saw how long it would take to complete his college work and the need of laboring in the ,lord's harvest while it was day1 he felt impressed that ,god wanted him to cut short his college course and to prepare at once for the ministry4 ,he accordingly went home1 arranged for a room in his father's house1 and spent one season there in applying himself to prayer1 ,bible-study1 and those other things which he believed were directly necessary to his ministerial preparation4 ,preparation for the ministry is more successful when1 along with it1 there can be more or less of actual practise4 ,we can believe that ,brother ,warner was spiritual enough to keep in touch with ,god and to discern the divine leading in the important matter to which he had committed himself4 ,at any rate1 in connection with his work of preparation he began to engage in ministering the gospel4 ,he preached his first sermon on ,easter night1 #ahfg1 in a ,methodist ,episcopal protracted meeting in the ,cogswell ,schoolhouse1 not far from where he lived4 ,text1 ,acts #c3ah--;,but those things1 which ,god before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets1 that ,christ should suffer1 he hath so fulfilled4 ,,footnote3 #a ,the use of tobacco1 was very common among the professors in his community4 ,it is related that he received an impression of the evil of this habit when on attendance at a prayer-meeting he saw one of those present attempt to take a chew secretly1 by hiding his face behind a chair4 ,,iv ,,church ,,of ,,god 7,,winebrennerian7 ,at the time of his first effort in the ministry1 which occurred more than two years after his conversion1 ,brother ,warner had not as yet given his name to any religious society4 ,to join a sectarian denomination is never by divine prompting1 but is urged from human source4 ,a young convert possessing the spirit of ,christ is naturally at home in the ,lord and with ,christians anywhere4 ,it is foreign to that spirit for one to limit oneself by subscribing to any particular creed of men4 ,accordingly1 our young brother was only acting natural when he manifested no particular anxiety to join the church4 ,representatives of the denominations in his neighborhood proposed to him and presented their articles of faith4 ,the fact that he referred the great question to the ,scriptures and could see no authority for joining anything not recognized in the ,scriptures shows that he was already poor material for sectarian construction1 at least so far as the common arguments for sects go4 ,there was one society1 however1 by which he was persuaded4 ,the followers of ,john ,winebrenner called themselves the ,church of ,god4 ,as they professed to hold to no creed but the ,bible1 repudiated sectarianism1 baptized by immersion1 and observed as an ordinance the washing of feet in conjunction with the ,lord's ,supper1 all of which seemed good to him1 and especially as they had the exact ,new ,testament name for the true church1 he was constrained to unite with that body4 ,the mark of fellowship which differentiated them from other ,christians and constituted them a sect1 was not apparent to him1 and so1 even during the many years of his earlier ministerial career1 he identified this body with the true church4 ,he said in later years that he had more liberty as a minister before he took that step than he had during the years he belonged to the denomination1 which after all was but a sect4 ,the ,church of ,god1 spelled with a capital ,c1 and more fully denominated ,general ,eldership of the ,churches of ,god in ,north ,america1 was founded by ,john ,winebrenner1 in #ahcj4 ,winebrenner had been baptized and confirmed in the ,german ,reformed ,church 7now the ,reformed ,church in the ,united ,states71 and was given the pastorate at ,harrisburg4 ,he was a good man and the work of the ministry became the uppermost desire of his heart4 ,he sought to raise the standard of true piety4 ,his earnest preaching resulted in a revival in which he opposed theaters1 dancing1 gambling1 lotteries1 and racing4 ,revivals of religion were new experiences in the churches of that region1 so that his ministry awakened strong opposition1 which resulted in official charges against him4 ,he severed his relations with the ,reformed ,church but continued his ministry1 extensive revivals following4 ,dr4 ,c4 ,h4 ,forney1 in his ,history of the ,churches of ,god1 says1 ,winebrenner did not entertain the purpose of founding a new denomination4 ,these bodies he stigmatized as sects4 ,professor ,nevin called the ,united ,brethren and like bodies rolling balls1 and accused ,winebrenner with putting in motion a similar ball1 which continues rolling to this hour 7#ahdb71 not without abundance of noise4 ,winebrenner denounced this as gross misrepresentation4 ,but1 sir1 ,i did not retire for the ignoble purpose1 as you have intimated1 of putting another sectarian ball in motion4 ,no1 not at all4 ,i had seen1 through mercy1 the great evil of these rolling balls1 put in motion and kept in motion by the cunning craftiness of men and devils1 and how by their repeated and unhappy collusions they hindered and marred the work of ,god in the earth2 and1 therefore1 ,i resolved to fall back upon original grounds--to stand aloof from all these sectarian balls1 and to do the work of an evangelist and minister of ,christ by building up the church of ,god 7the only true church7 according to the plan and pattern as shown us in the ,new ,testament4 ,this is the high and firm ground we take4 ,our ball1 therefore1 is not like your ball1 nor similar to other human balls4 ,ours is the ,lord's ball4 ,it was not cut out of the ,romish ,church by the hands of ,calvin and others as was yours4 ,but it was 'cut out of the mountain without hands4' ,the ball commenced rolling upwards of eighteen hundred years ago1 and it continues rolling to this hour2 yea1 and it will never cease rolling till every other man-made ball shall be either crushed or rolled up by it1 and until the sound of it shall be 'like the sound of many waters1 and as the voice of great thunder4' ,on the subject of organization the same writer continues1 ,winebrenner was indisposed to begin the organization of churches4 ,the uniform testimony of his contemporaries is that he had not at the beginning the remotest idea of organizing a distinct or separate body of people4 ,but driven out of the pulpit by the ,reformed ,church1 ostracised and persecuted1 he was led to a closer personal investigation of church polity4 ,he went to the highest source for light4 ,he applied himself with singleness of purpose to the study of the ,word of ,god4 ,the result was a material modification of his former views on ecclesiology4 ,as he himself testified later3 ,as the writer's views had by this time materially changed as to the true nature of a ,scriptural organization of churches1 he adopted the apostolic plan1 as taught in the ,new ,testament1 and established spiritual1 free1 and independent churches1 consisting of believers or ,christians only1 without any human name or creed or ordinances or laws4 ,the local church was the unit4 ,it possessed perfect autonomy4 ,it was wholly independent of every other unit4 ,each such unit possesses in its organized state1 as ,winebrenner expressed it in #ahbi1 sufficient power to perform all acts of religious worship and everything relating to ecclesiastic government and discipline4 ,every individual church is strictly independent of all others as it respects religious worship and the general government of its own affairs4 ,fellowship between these free and independent units there would be1 but no higher organization was then recognized by ,winebrenner which could limit the powers of the local church4 ,each of these local organizations would accept no human name1 creed1 nor ordinances2 but would adopt the divine name and creed and ordinances4 ,in his broad platform he saw a basis of the union of all ,christians and churches4 ,and so the imperative duty of cultivating union between all believers was strongly urged4 ,these views prepared the way for ,winebrenner to fall in with the growing demand for local church organization4 ,for the multitudes of converts had conceived the idea of1 and began to talk about1 organizing themselves into churches founded on ,bible doctrines and principles even before ,winebrenner had determined in his own mind to do so4 ,thus there were independent local churches organized in and around ,harrisburg1 which ,winebrenner denominated simply ,churches of ,god4 ,each assumed the name of ,church of ,god at ----4 ,the members of these churches had equal rights1 and elected and licensed men to preach4 ,,organization ,,of ,,elderships ,there was as yet no common bonds1 no general organization or directing authority4 ,in order to effect this and adopt a regular system of cooperation1 a meeting was held at ,harrisburg in ,october1 #ahcj1 attended by six of the licensed ministers4 ,of this meeting ,winebrenner writes1 ,thus originated the ,church of ,god1 properly so called1 in the ,united ,states of ,america1 and thus also originated the first ,eldership4 ,this organized body assumed no other name than ,eldership1 though later the term ,general ,eldership was used to distinguish this body from the eldership of the local church4 ,the term ,general ,eldership was1 however1 applied at first only to the presbyteries or ,elderships of sections or ,states1 which held their sessions annually4 ,in ,october1 #ahdd1 ,winebrenner proposed a ,general ,eldership for the transaction of all business of a general nature affecting the various annual ,elderships4 ,it was provided that this ,general ,eldership should hold its meetings triennially for the first twenty years and after that every five years4 ,thus we see that by this time ,winebrenner's views of church government were still further modified4 ,the work continued to grow and spread to adjoining counties and to ,maryland1 western ,pennsylvania1 and ,ohio1 where ,elderships were organized4 ,each local church elects its own elders and deacons1 who with the pastor constitute the church council and are the governing power1 having charge of the admission of members and the general care of the church work4 ,the churches within a given district are associated together for cooperation in general work4 ,the pastors and other ordained ministers within a district1 together with an equal number of lay members1 constitute the ,annual ,eldership1 which appoints the ministers of the various charges4 ,each local church votes for a pastor1 but the ,annual ,eldership makes the appointments within its own boundaries4 ,these ,annual ,elderships elect an equal number of ministerial and lay delegates1 who constitute the ,general ,eldership4 ,the ,churches of ,god1 as already stated1 have no written creed but assume to accept the ,word of ,god as their only rule of faith and practise4 ,they hold the doctrine of the ,trinity1 believe in human depravity1 the atonement of ,christ1 justification by faith1 the resurrection1 future punishment1 and are1 in general1 orthodox4 ,through these articles of their faith1 and the fact that they took the ,scriptural name1 ,church of ,god1 the followers of ,winebrenner made their appeal to ,d4 ,s4 ,warner4 ,but they were lacking in some very important particulars1 without which they could not possibly be1 as was claimed1 identical with the ,new ,testament church4 ,winebrenner started out well1 but on the subject of ,holy ,spirit organization and government he was not sufficiently illumined to avoid more or less of the human ecclesiastical authority which crept into the body of his followers and constituted them a sect4 ,when holiness came they repudiated it1 thereby revealing their position as outside the ,holy ,spirit control of believers4 ,however1 their teaching on the church question was correct as far as it went1 and it took years of actual practise of obeying the lead of the ,spirit to discover to ,brother ,warner and others the clash between the ,holy ,spirit rule and the rule of human authority4 ,illustration3 ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and wife 7,tamzen ,kerr7 ,v ,,first ,,years ,,in ,,ministry ,brother ,warner had the right view of ministerial qualification4 ,he realized that in order to succeed he must have the spiritual anointing1 and that since it was ,god's work it was needful that he be in that divine relation by which it would be ,god in him accomplishing the result4 ,he held education to be very useful and it was his endeavor throughout his life to add to his knowledge2 but he regarded the spiritual qualification as paramount4 ,he soon proved to be gifted as an evangelist and engaged much in evangelistic work4 ,before proceeding far in active ministerial work he was married1 on the #eth of ,september1 #ahfg1 to ,tamzen ,ann ,kerr4 ,it is probable that he became acquainted with this young woman while he was teaching school in the vicinity of her home1 which was near ,west ,unity1 ,williams ,county4 ,she lived to enjoy his companionship and to share his labors only about four and one half years4 ,early in #ahgb she gave birth to triplets1 which lived only a few hours4 ,nor did the mother long survive the ordeal1 as she died on ,may #bf1 after a succession of spasms4 ,a family record in an old ,bible shows also the birth of a son1 on ,dec4 #bi1 #ahfh1 but fails to record his death4 ,brother ,warner refers to this son once in his diary4 ,he was granted a license by the ,west ,ohio ,eldership1#b which met in its eleventh annual session at ,findlay in ,october1 #ahfg4 ,his reference to this event in his diary is given in another part of this book4 ,in this chapter as well as in some of the succeeding chapters1 the copious extracts from ,brother ,warner's diary will give the reader a better understanding of his character1 his temperament1 his spirituality and devotion1 and his work1 than would description by another4 ,unfortunately these journal records for the first five years of his ministry 7for it is assumed that he kept such records71 which no doubt would be very interesting1 are not available4 ,all the information to be obtained covering this period is from those still living who had personal knowledge of the events1 and from references to this period in his later records4 ,in one of these he says he began traveling in #ahfh4 ,in another he refers to having labored the first year in ,hancock ,county1 at ,blanchard ,bethel1 in connection with ,findlay4 ,during the first six years of his ministry his activities covered practically all of northwestern ,ohio and a small portion of ,indiana4 ,persons now living who were present in some of his revivals during this period state that they were remarkable for manifestations of ,god's power4 ,hard-hearted sinners1 some of whom had not attended a meeting for years1 would get under conviction and cry audibly for mercy4 ,he ranked high as an evangelist--above the average of his day4 ,in physical appearance he was slightly above average in height1 rather slender and frail in build4 ,his temperament was sanguine-nervous1 eyes blue1 hair brown--a fine sensitive organization4 ,he wore a full beard1 which in later years he kept shortly trimmed4 ,he had the perfect bearing of a minister of the gospel1 and his speech and conduct were fully consistent4 ,his mentality was keen4 ,his lungs were weak1 but he wore well as a speaker4 ,his voice was musical and possessed good carrying quality4 ,one of his earliest revivals was held at ,new ,washington1 ,crawford ,county1 the home of his boyhood4 ,he refers to it under date of ,nov4 #bd1 #ahgb1 as follows3 ,this town had ever been abandoned to the mercies of ,catholics1 ,old ,lutherans1 and saloons1 all of which were equally destructive of all moral good4 ,no protracted effort had ever been made in the place4 ,no conversions had ever been heard of4 ,in the fall of #ahgj ,i was put upon the ,seneca circuit1 of which ,new ,washington was nearly in the center1 and knowing the debauchery and ignorance of the people in general1 ,i determined to lift up the standard of ,king ,immanuel in that place4 ,accordingly ,i settled in the place and rented a vacant building that used to contain a drug store and saloon4 ,the owner had speculative motives1 having asked quite a dear rent for the room4 ,but during the winter ,i and companion made special prayer to ,god for his conversion4 ,the meeting was begun on the #agth of ,february1 #ahga4 ,the night before the owner slept not for deep conviction4 ,as soon as ,i arose in the morning he came to me in tears and confessed his sins and asked my prayers4 ,i directed him to look to ,christ for immediate pardon and deliverance4 ,i gave him some of the great promises of ,christ4 ,and there1 standing in his own stable1 he looked to ,christ and experienced a full pardon of all his sins4 ,this settled the rent for the house4 ,the third night six came to the altar4 ,the meeting was attended with great power and produced a great stir among the people1 many of whom had never seen the like4 ,fifty-six were converted1 forty-six baptized1 and forty-six fellowshiped into the organization4 ,among these converts were a number of his school-mates1 old acquaintances1 and neighbors4 ,george ,pratt1 of ,nappanee1 ,ind41 an old schoolmate and a former resident of ,new ,washington1 makes this statement concerning this meeting3 ,the meeting was held in my father's drug-store building4 ,brother ,warner held the meeting unaided4 ,he stood there alone and preached while others threatened4 ,there were bad elements that rose in opposition1 the ,lutheran being the worst and the ,catholic next4 ,my father protected him4 ,it was a wonderful meeting and many were saved4 ,the earliest of his diary records so far available begin in ,november1 #ahgb1 as follows1 when he was on the ,seneca circuit and had his home with a ,brother ,wright1 in ,crawford ,county1 ,ohio3 #h4 ,brother ,p4 ,wright brought me to ,bucyrus4 ,staid all night with ,bro4 ,j4 ,g4 ,wirt4 ,the ,methodists had a festival4 ,i and a few members of the same church 7who repudiated these follies and inconsistencies7 met for prayer and the ,lord was with us4 ,these brethren were much dissatisfied with their church relation4 #i4 ,left ,bucyrus at #g ,a4 ,m4 ,reached ,lima at nine4 ,stopped at the ,burnet ,house till #a3bj ,p4 ,m4 ,wrote a letter to my brother and one to brother-in-law1 ,l4 ,w4 ,guiss4 #aj4 ,sabbath4 ,a4 ,m41 prayer-meeting at ,brother ,dague's1 ,p4 ,m41 heard a ,lutheran minister in ,milton4 ,evening1 preached from ,isa4 #bh3af1ag4 ,i occupied the ,presbyterian house4 ,i preached here some in the schoolhouse in #ahfh1 the first year ,i traveled4 #aa4 ,took the train at #g3cj ,a4 ,m4 for ,tontogany1 with the design of finding where ,god wishes me to labor as a missionary4 #j ,lord1 guide thy servant to the place thou canst best use him6 ,walked from ,tontogany to ,brother ,hardee's4 ,evening1 went to ,evangelical meeting4 ,brother ,w---- preached4 ,heard a great noise1 but to the congregation it appeared as a tinkling cymbal and sounding brass1 evidently having no effect4 ,nearly all blew loudly the horn of sanctification but manifested little of its fruits1 such as travail of soul for the sinner and sympathy for the one soul at the altar1 to whom none gave a word of encouragement1 but each in turn arose and boasted of his holiness4 ,oh the delusions of ,satan6 ,how manifold they are6 ,in the entry just quoted the reader will notice his prejudice1 existing at that time1 against the doctrine of holiness1 or sanctification4 ,how strange it seems to those who knew him afterward to be a whole-souled advocate of the doctrine of holiness1 that he should thus speak6 ,it was altogether a matter of light and understanding4 ,his heart was consecrated and he certainly was not unacquainted with the ,holy ,spirit during his early ministry4 ,but as a definite experience to be believed for and testified to1 he knew nothing about sanctification as yet4 ,also1 it is possible that in its advocates whom he had met thus far1 the doctrine and experience had not been rightly represented4 ,it will be observed also from these quotations from his journal that he meant to stand1 and believed he was standing1 free from sectarianism4 ,he had considerable light on the church question and spiritual ,babylon4 ,the place referred to in the following entry was near ,holland1 ,lucas ,county4 #ac4 ,visited ,father and ,brother ,john ,mc,nut and ,brother ,irvin4 ,eve1 preached in the brick schoolhouse1 on ,jas4 #a3bg4 ,here the ,church of ,god had long been slandered and persecuted1 principally by the ,united ,brethren ,church4 ,one of the epithets they had for years called us is1 ,johnny ,cake ,church4 ,bro4 ,henry ,s4 ,mc,nut lives here nearly alone4 ,he and his wife and their ancestors for generations past belonged to the ,united ,brethren1 but in the fall of #ahgj1 after a hard spell of sickness in which he feared that he should die and be lost for not obeying the truth1 he came to the ,west ,ohio ,eldership and received a license and began to preach amidst a storm of persecution from the ,united ,brethren ,church4 ,even his own companion1 though an amiable woman1 had been so poisoned against the ,church of ,god that she joined in to oppose him4 ,but he was firm and now commands the position4 ,every foe had fled and all that truly fear ,god join in to encourage the truth4 ,some will doubtless soon cut loose from sectarian bondage4 ,those that were the bitterest enemies now confess that we are right and they are wrong4 ,the ,church of ,god1 as we have seen1 repudiated sectarianism1 and the assumption by that church that it was the ,scriptural one was a strong underlying principle4 ,in some respects it held the correct idea of the ,scriptural church4 ,to some extent1 therefore1 ,brother ,warner's membership in that denomination afforded him light that naturally led to the full ,scriptural standard which he afterward taught4 ,his affiliation with that denomination in the first place was1 as we have seen1 because of a disposition to be ,scripturally right on this point4 #ad4 ,brother ,mc,nut and ,i went to ,toledo to look for a place in which to open a mission in that city4 #ae4 ,walked nearly all day in search of a place to open a mission4 ,no success4 ,may ,god soon open the way for the establishment of his church in this place4 ,in his diary ,brother ,warner recorded something for each day4 ,every time he preached it was noted and numbered and the text was given4 ,the ,eldership required each minister to give a report of his work4 ,it is not necessary to quote all the shorter entries and items from his diary1 which are much the same and generally speak of his visiting some one1 making some trip1 reading1 writing1 preaching1 praying1 fasting1 baptizing1 etc4 ,only the more interesting items1 or such as are the most representative1 will be given4 #bb4 ,returned to ,auburn4 ,meeting at ,basswood still in progress4 ,the young men who made a start the last night ,i was there have all found ,jesus their ,savior4 ,preached from ,mal4 #c3h4 ,a deep seriousness pervaded the minds of all4 ,the feeling of that night shall not soon be forgotten4 ,it was as solemn as the grave4 ,a sensation of dark and fearful forebodings of some approaching calamity ran through every mind4 ,bro4 ,h4 ,caldwell arose and said he had a matter revealed to him that he felt impressed to relate1 and that was that before tomorrow's sun should set some one in this community would suddenly be killed4 ,at his request we arose and pledged ourselves to offer one more fervent prayer that night in behalf of poor sinners4 #bc4 ,spent the day at home in reading1 meditation and prayer4 ,brother ,jenner preached in the evening4 ,i labored hard to bring penitents to the altar4 ,three came out1 two of whom were old acquaintances of mine1 for whom ,i had felt a deep interest4 ,one found peace4 ,after meeting was dismissed we heard that ,ezekiel ,r----1 an old man eighty-two or eighty-three years of age1 who lived one mile and a quarter east of the schoolhouse1 had that day been killed by the cars in crossing the track at ,shelby4 ,i knew the man from my boyhood2 he bought out my father in that country in #ahec4 ,he was very wealthy4 ,god had blessed him with long life1 prosperity1 and good health4 ,but he had no thanks to offer to his divine ,benefactor1 having set his whole heart upon the god of this world4 ,there was no place for ,christ in his heart4 ,he leaned toward ,universalism1 because congenial to the carnal mind4 ,he was filled with skepticism and was always in the habit of speaking lightly of preachers and professors of religion4 ,i visited him twice during the meeting at ,auburn last winter and conversed with him on the subject of religion4 ,he acknowledged that there is one thing in the ,bible that caused him to study a good deal1 and that is the new birth1 which he said1 was perfectly dark to him4 ,he told of having once gone to hear one of the greatest champions of ,universalism preach on the subject4 ,but1 said he1 ,i received no light whatever4 ,his case was a clear fulfilment of #a ,john #b3aa1 ,darkness hath blinded his eyes1 and #b ,cor4 #d3d1 ,the ,god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not4 ,he had a very large development of brain1 of which firmness was the largest developed organ4 ,what a pity that the devil perverted these faculties6 ,i was informed that he was going that day to close a mortgage and take a widow's farm from her4 ,his last words to his wife1 who cautioned him to beware of the cars at the crossing1 were1 ,i was not made to be killed by the cars4 ,this is like one who said to his soul1 ,thou hast much laid up for many days2 eat1 drink1 and be merry4 ,but ,god said ,thou fool6 this night shall thy soul be required of thee4 ,he said ,i was not made to be killed by the cars4 ,but ,god said1 ,thou fool6 this day shalt thou be killed by the cars4 ,his brains were dashed out and strewn along the road4 ,his body was much mangled4 ,but his poor soul has gone with all its guilt to where another rich man opened his eyes in torment4 ,the entry for the #bdth1 which was ,sunday1 records his preaching a farewell sermon to the congregation at ,new ,washington1 and also his reference to the revival held there in ,february1 #ahga4 ,he had had the care of the congregation there4 #be4 ,i and ,bro4 ,s4 ,kline came to ,conlay's1 near ,annapolis1 ,crawford ,county1 ,ohio1 and began my first protracted effort in the name of ,christ4 ,preached from ,psa4 #he3f1g4 ,a good interest was manifested4 ,oh that ,god would visit the place in power1 save many precious souls1 and raise up a people for his name6 #bg4 ,started early for ,bucyrus on our way to the ,standing ,committee at ,rock ,run4 ,took train at #aj ,a4 ,m41 arrived there at noon4 ,i was chosen to fill a vacancy on the committee4 ,upon us devolved the solemn and responsible duty of trying and dis-fellowshiping ,elder ,l4 ,e---- for immoral conduct4 ,oh1 what a pity6 ,may the ,lord have mercy upon him and help him to repent and be restored to the confidence of the people4 ,may he be saved in the day of wrath4 ,oh1 how careful the man of ,god1 especially the minister of the gospel1 should conduct himself in this wicked world6 ,lord1 deliver us from temptation4 ,the meetings referred to in the next few entries were a protracted effort at the ,conlay ,bethel1 near ,annapolis1 now called ,sulphur ,springs1 ,crawford ,county1 ,ohio4 ,dec4 #d1 #ahgb4 ,visited a sick saint1 ,j4 ,mc,entire1 who has been afflicted for many years4 ,he was near his last4 ,oh1 what a happy soul4 ,the night before he was almost gone4 ,said he1 ,i saw a convoy of angels around my bed waiting to carry my spirit home4 ,i thought ,i was going home4 ,here ,i am yet lingering on the shores of time4 ,then a brother came in1 to whom he remarked1 ,sister ,polly has gone home4 ,i thought ,i would beat her1 but ,i am left behind4 ,all summer ,i and ,cousin ,patrick and ,aunt ,polly have had a hard race1 but they have both crossed over and ,i am left to struggle on2 but every gale wafts my little ship nearer the shining shore4 ,oh6 said he1 ,it is all bright ahead1 not a cloud do ,i see4 ,after a little rest he remarked1 ,oh6 ,brother1 ,i know that my spirit will not go down into forgetfulness until the resurrection2 but ,i am going to ,jesus1 which is far better4 ,oh1 how sweet the name of ,jesus6 ,i spent the day with this brother1 sang and prayed with him4 ,eve1 preached from ,acts #c3ai4 #i4 ,spent the day in fasting and in much wrestling and prayer for poor souls under the guilt of sin4 ,preached from ,luke #ac3f-i4 ,one young lady came to the altar4 #aj4 ,under much discouragement during the day4 ,evening1 while singing the opening hymn ,i was greatly refreshed at the coming in of ,bro4 ,william ,burchard1 from ,auburn1 who was converted under my labors and baptized by me last winter4 ,he was a very wild1 wicked man1 but has become a model of piety and earnest devotion4 ,he has a brilliant intellect and has already made great proficiency in preaching4 ,thank ,god for such men of holy zeal4 ,he being tired with the walk of eleven miles1 ,i preached1 from ,ezek4 #cc3aa4 ,the penitent of the previous night came out and soon the good news went to heaven that another soul was saved by grace4 ,it was a glorious meeting4 ,one sister shouted4 ,i got a great victory and was very happy4 ,likewise testified the convert and all the rest who spoke4 #ag4 ,good day meeting4 ,rebuked a boy for trying to pollute the house of ,god by spitting tobacco juice and quids on the floor4 ,i said nothing to him1 knowing that ,i should be insulted in return4 ,but being filled with the ,spirit ,i tried to encourage the three little mourners 7girls who had come to the altar7 and then addressed the brethren upon the importance of laboring for the early conversion of children1 stating that it is enough to make the angels in heaven weep to see how the devil is leading even the children to wallow in sin and glory in their shame4 ,now1 look at that poor boy1 said ,i1 pointing to him4 ,ever since he came in here he has been doing his best to defile the house of ,god with his filthy tobacco4 ,it was once said that ',he that doeth evil cometh not to the light lest his deeds be reproved1' but the devil has so polluted poor souls that even children in broad day-light do not blush to do such evil and dirty work for the devil as that4 ,christ said1 ',that which cometh out of the mouth defileth the heart4' ,how defiled that heart must be1 all that stench having come out of his mouth6 ,a few nights ago a dog was accidentally shut in here and remained until the next evening1 but did not pollute the house one half as much as that boy has done in half an hour4 ,at this he grabbed his hat and1 being convicted in his own conscience1 went out4 ,god pity that boy and help older people to take a hint4 #ah4 ,a4 ,m41 wrote most of the time4 ,p4 ,m41 visited ,brother ,mc,entire4 ,found him much cast down and depressed1 being overanxious to be absent from the body1 in which 'tabernacle we groan1 being burdened4' ,i told him that he ought to wait patiently till his change cometh1 knowing when he got home once he would have long time to stay there1 even through all eternity2 and the longer he should be tossed about upon the dark and tempestuous sea of this troublesome life the greater would be his joy when at last he should land in the peaceful harbor of the great city of ,god4 ,after reading and singing and praying with him1 he had great peace and perfect resignation to ,god4 #be4 ,another ,christmas is here4 ,o thou ,child of ,bethlehem1 may we this day bring the offering of a grateful heart6 ,may every tongue on earth and all the angels in heaven join together to spread the glory of ,jesus' name6 ,dear ,lord1 we thank thee for the unspeakable gift of thy ,son to man4 ,oh1 may every heart prepare him room6 ,dear ,savior1 draw poor sinners to thee4 ,show them thy bleeding hands1 temples1 and side4 ,oh that the star of hope would this day guide many poor wandering souls to thee6 #bh4 ,came to the place of meeting4 ,distance thirteen miles4 ,schoolhouse was full4 ,good attention4 ,went to ,solomon ,b----'s1 an infidel4 ,talked till twelve at night4 #bi4 ,sabbath4 ,talked with ,mr4 ,b4 until #aj3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,he is a very smart man4 ,has his excellent memory stored with the writings of almost every wretch that ever dared to attack ,god and his holy religion4 ,he is one of the best readers ,i ever met4 ,what a pity that this noble intellect should be so basely employed6 ,his horrid utterances are enough to chill the blood and heart of man and cause the angels of heaven to weep4 ,he claims to be a smarter man than ,christ4 ,the devil is a gentleman compared with ,god4 ,your ,god is not fit to be worshiped by a dog4 ,all professors are either hypocrites or fools4 ,oh1 that ,god would pity that poor wretch who in the blindness of his depraved heart dares to rush with violence upon the ,almighty6 #cj4 ,spent the day in reading1 writing1 and prayer1 at ,brother ,conlay's4 ,eve1 preached from ,rom4 #b3d4 ,good congregation4 ,saw some omens of good4 #ca4 ,this is the last day of another year4 ,how swift the years roll around and each brings us nearer eternity6 ,lord1 help us to redeem the time and so number our days1 that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom1 that at last it may not be said of us that we spend our years as a tale that is told4 ,oh that each hour of my short life may bring some good account at last1 when life's conflict is o'er6 ,great and many have been the changes of the last year4 ,yea1 ,what countless millions of mankind ,have left this fleeting world6 ,they're gone1 but where8 oh1 pause and see1 ,gone to a long eternity6 ,one there was1 the dearest of my earthly friends1 who a year ago stood by my side1 the joy of my life1 the sweet1 innocent object of my fervent love4 ,but she is gone1 that dear companion upon whose rosy cheek and harmless lips ,i used to impress the kiss of burning1 never-dying love4 ,o ,tamzen6 thy heart and life1 as pure as the white and fleecy snow that this morning covers thy peaceful resting-place1 has reared an everlasting monument in the hearts of all that knew thee on earth4 ,i have now seen thirty years pass into eternity4 ,not quite eight years have been devoted to ,god4 ,the year has been one of ,god's goodness to me1 notwithstanding the loss of my blessed wife1 which is her gain and ,god's glory1 and therefore ,i am willing to travel on a lone pilgrim in search of souls for ,jesus' sake4 ',twas very stormy4 ,wrote and read4 ,preached from ,psa4 #ij3i1 ,we spend our years as a tale that is told4 ,tried to show the folly of living in sin4 ,jan1 #a1 #ahgc4 ,this is the first day of the year4 ,o my soul1 set out afresh for heaven6 ,lord help me to spend the year all to thy glory if we live to the end4 ,but if it is said of me1 ,this year thou shall die1 may ,i be ready to enter into rest4 #g4 ,preached from ,rom4 #f3a4 ,told my dream1 the subject of which ,i thought was in the way of a score of souls4 #h4 ,fasted today4 ,very solemn meeting at ,brother ,crim's4 ,all wept for poor sinners4 ,o ,lord1 hear the prayers and groans and bottle up the tears of thy children and bring thy salvation nigh6 ,preached from ,heb4 #b3c4 ,the meeting has received a great backset4 ,i fear the whole work is killed4 ,before ,i came here ,i had a peculiar dream in which ,i saw a face that was strange to me4 ,there was much confusion in those features1 as in the midst of a council it stood out conspicuous1 and there was something in the position of the person that pierced my heart4 ,last night ,i announced that ,i had recognized these features since ,i came here4 ,mr4 ,b41 the infidel1 arose and asked whether he were the man4 ,i said no4 ,tonight ,esq4 ,k41 a poor blind ,lutheran1 came to meeting1 and before ,i closed he arose and enquired if he were the man4 ,while ,i was talking1 ,i was powerfully baptized by the ,spirit of ,god and replied1 ,thou art the man4 ,he was daunted1 but stammered out a denial2 but before ,i had time to ask a question he confessed that he had forbidden his family to come out to the altar4 ,they are five young men and one daughter1 three of them were under deep conviction and others serious4 ,one of the boys is married and his wife and all their associates were serious and some anxious to come out1 but all were prevented from coming to ,christ by this poor wretch1 whose form of religion fitted him to do this work for the devil4 ,in this attack ,i realized the fulfilment of the promise of ,christ4 ',in that same hour it shall be given you what ye shall answer1 for it shall not be you but the ,spirit that speaketh4' ,i warned him of the fearful account he would have to give at the judgment-bar of ,god4 #i4 ,meeting at ,samuel ,shell's4 ,we were all cast down and felt the ,spirit of ,god had been grieved out of the community4 ,eve1 preached from ,jer4 #bh3af4 ,gave a farewell address and closed the meeting because1 first1 the work was so stagnated that nothing could be expected to be accomplished without a longer effort than ,i could devote to the place and1 second1 because it was highly probable that as soon as the work should break out again ,satan would stir up trouble again from some source4 ,i gained many warm friends and sowed seed which ,i trust will bring fruit to ,god4 ,some of the young men that desired religion ,i think will not give up the struggle4 ,they sent me some money and word that if ,i would hold a meeting somewhere in reach that they would attend and seek religion1 but there they had not the heart to come out4 #be4 ,visited ,brother and ,sister ,chapman4 ,she is an excellent saint4 ,found her much afflicted4 ,brother ,c4 had for many years been a skeptic and ,universalist1 but a year ago he came out at a meeting held by ,bro4 ,t4 ,james and me4 ,he is a faithful brother4 ,a neighbor of his by name of ,l----1 who was the means of breaking up the fore-mentioned meeting1 dropped dead in his tracks a few months ago4 ,feb4 #bh1 #ahgc4 ,good day meeting at ,brother ,mc,clintock's4 near ,larue1 ,marion ,county4 ,eve1 preached from ,eph4 #b3b4 ,four came to the altar and were blessed1 one of whom had been an avowed ,universalist4 ,others doubtless would have come out but the house was so densely filled that we could not crowd the people back to get more room for penitents4 ,mar4 #a1 #ahgc4 ,spent the day at ,mother ,melvin's4 ,wrote an article for the ,advocate4 ,brother ,burchard preached4 ,four at the altar4 ,all were blessed1 ,i think4 ,house crowded and many outside4 #b4 ,sabbath4 ,speaking at ten4 ,preached on ,church of ,god1 ,acts #bj3bh4 ,eve1 the house was packed and all the windows were crowded on the outside4 ,preached1 ,jer4 #ac3af4 ,by hard work we got a little space at the altar and four presented themselves for prayer4 #e4 ,meeting at ,brother ,deen's4 ,fellowshiped twelve4 ,p4 ,m41 because of the immense crowd that thronged the schoolhouse we divided the meeting4 ,i preached at ,windfall1 from ,job #bb3ae-ag4 ,several rose for prayers4 ,brother ,burchard preached at the ,ellen ,schoolhouse1 one and one half miles north4 #i4 ,sabbath4 ,brother ,small and ,i went to the ,shertzer ,schoolhouse1 where he preached at #aa ,a4 ,m4 on church matters1 after which we received in fellowship eleven members1 most by letter from the ,methodist ,episcopal and ,presbyterian ,churches4 ,after taking a hasty dinner we mounted our steeds and rode four miles1 partly through a woods1 in the midst of a rain and severe storm4 ,reached ,windfall at #b3cj ,p4 ,m4 ,eve1 preached on ,acts #bf3ah4 ,one at the altar4 #aj4 ,prepared a dam to baptize4 ,eve1 ,num4 #aj3bh4 #aa4 ,a4 ,m41 preached on sisters' right to speak and pray in meeting1 after which we had a speaking-meeting4 ,fellowshiped fourteen members4 ,house crowded and many on the outside4 ,one brother who was always opposed to women's speaking arose and confessed his error4 ,we then proceeded to the water1 where ,i baptized twenty-two converts in eleven minutes4 ,it was a glorious and beautiful baptismal service4 ,all came out shouting and praising ,god4 ,eve1 preached on ,luke #ac3f-i4 ,several rose for prayers1 some of whom were old in sin4 ,we had a speaking-meeting4 ,all that had been immersed said that it had been a happy day for them and that they had turned a new and brighter page in the history of their pilgrimage4 ,oh how good it is to obey ,god6 ,a good part of the number had been sprinkled1 some after making a profession of religion in adult years4 ,great ,god1 what a pity that the world is cursed by an unholy sectarian ministry who teach for doctrine the commandments of men6 #ab4 ,eve1 preached on barren fig-tree4 ,matt4 #ba3ah-bb4 ,four came to the altar1 one blessed4 ,went home with ,mr4 ,william ,riser1 who brought a horse for me to ride4 ,it was a beautiful light night1 and a ride of some two miles winding through the woods was somewhat pleasant4 ,did not retire until twelve o'clock4 #ac4 ,this morning ,i spent an hour rambling far out in the dense1 rolling forest to breath the pure air and to hold communion with my ,god4 ,at ten ,william ,riser's house was filled with brethren and sisters4 ,we had a glorious meeting4 ,all were happy1 many shouted4 ,it was something very strange to have a meeting in this house4 ,all remarked that it was something they had never expected to see4 ,mr4 ,r4 is a man of nearly fifty years and a great sinner4 ,his wife has been converted and ,i think the ,lord is striving with his heart and his brother's1 who is still older4 ,oh that ,god would raise them up as monuments of his mercy6 ,eve1 ,luke #ai3aj4 ,two at the altar4 #ad4 ,a4 ,m41 meeting at schoolhouse4 ,p4 ,m41 just before preaching ,i met with a few brethren who had been at variance1 and helped to form a reconciliation1 which was a perfect success4 ,preached on ,matt4 #bb3ba4 #af4 ,sabbath4 ,preached one and three fourths hours on ,ezek4 #dc3aj1aa1 after which we fellowshiped and then baptized three4 ,eve1 ,brother ,crawford1 ,baptist minister preached4 ,closed the meeting4 ,result1 thirty-five converted1 twenty-five immersed1 church formed of thirty-three members4 ,expect more additions soon4 #bj4 ,eve1 met the church at ,windfall4 ,decided to build a meeting-house4 ,preached on church officers4 ,elders and deacons elected4 ,apr4 #c1 #ahgc4 ,came to ,new ,haven ,huron ,county4 ,eve1 met a number of my dear spiritual children in prayer-meeting4 ,had a good time and they exhorted me to meet them in heaven4 #d4 ,beautiful day4 ,how bright the sun shines6 ,how the heart is gladdened at the return of warm and sunny days after such a long and hard winter as we have passed through6 ,oh1 how ,i appreciate the ,savior's beautiful metaphor in the ,song of ,solomon1 where the present state of the church is represented by the winter with its dark clouds and howling winds1 fierce with cold and hunger and hardship6 ,but glory to ,god1 the spring will come2 already the fig-tree is putting forth her leaves1 the turtle dove is heard in the land1 and soon we shall hear the voice of the bridegroom calling1 ,rise up1 my beloved1 my fair one1 and come away2 for the winter is past1 and behold1 thy beloved has come for thee4 ,what a happy time that will be when1 rising from the grave1 we shall meet our dear friends and our ,savior6 ,i am writing these lines in the beautiful cemetery near ,new ,haven1 ,ohio4 ,before me is the little mound which shows the resting-place of my three little infants who a little over a year ago passed in a few hours through this vale of tears1 and their little spirits are forever at rest with ,jesus2 and in one little box their bodies await the ,savior's coming4 ,what a glorious morning when all these graves shall burst open and the bodies shall come forth6 they that have done good to the resurrection of life and glory1 and they that have done evil to the resurrection of shame4 ,oh1 may ,i be among the former class6 ,lord1 make me a good man and keep me pure in heart4 ,farewell1 sacred spot4 ,farewell1 little tomb1 with thy three-fold treasure4 #af4 ,went to ,bryan ,williams ,county and ordered a tombstone for my wife's grave4 ,the one selected cost fifty dollars1 has a ,bible lying on it1 and ,i gave the following epitaph3 ,how sweet and pure in social life1 ,as daughter1 sister1 friend1 and wife6 ,now done with cares below the sun1 ,she shines before the snow-white throne4 #ah4 ,came home4 ,found ,father and ,mother and ,brother well4 #bc4 ,commenced an editorial on ,islamism4 #bd4 ,wrote and studied phrenology alternately4 #bf4 ,sent my article on ,islamism4 ,brother ,cassel and other preachers in ,illinois send an urgent invitation for me to come to that ,state4 #bg4 ,sabbath4 ,preached today from #b ,pet4 #a3aj in the ,cogswell ,schoolhouse near his father's home1 where ,i made my first effort to preach the gospel1 on ,easter night1 #ahfg4 ',twas in a ,methodist ,episcopal protracted meeting4 ,the text was ,acts #c3ah4 ,never preached there since4 ,in those six years ,i have preached all over northwest ,ohio and some in two counties in ,indiana1 in all #abda sermons4 ,the number of converts #ejh1 about the same number fellowshiped1 some less baptized4 ,thanks be to ,god for his blessings and his presence6 ,though always of weak lungs1 thought oft to be consumptive1 yet my health has been better since in the ministry than ever before4 ,bless ,god for his goodness6 ,i have never missed but one appointment on account of health4 ,the years have swiftly passed1 but1 thank the ,lord1 ,i have enjoyed great peace and many rich blessings from the ,lord4 ,may #ac1 #ahgc4 ,visited ,tamzen's grave4 ,disappointed in not finding the monument up4 ,visited ,d4 ,w4 ,dustin1 one of my scholars4 ,exhorted him to give his heart to ,christ4 #ae4 ,prepared a sermon on the evidence of the divine origin of the ,bible4 #af4 ,argument with ,mr4 ,butler on the soul4 ,he attended1 from the #bast to the #bcrd1 the meeting of the ,board of ,missions4 ,he does not indicate where this meeting was held1 but says in connection that he preached in the ,smithville ,bethel and had very poor liberty1 owing perhaps to the presence of many eastern ministers4 ,it was at this meeting of the ,board of ,missions that he received his appointment to the mission in ,nebraska1 of which he thus speaks3 #bc4 ,beautiful day4 ,business finished up at #e ,p4 ,m4 ,brother ,small was appointed to ,chicago1 ,i to ,seward mission1 ,nebraska4 ,again ,i lay all upon the altar of ,god4 ,it is very hard for me to leave my dearly beloved brethren of ,west ,ohio4 ,thank ,god1 for the great ,head of the church is with them and his cause is greatly prospering here1 and ,i must go help the cause in the far ,west4 ,we parted with tears and many farewells4 #bd4 ,brother ,small and ,i took train at #g3ad ,a4 ,m41 he for ,marion1 ,i for ,larue1 which ,i reached at #ab ,m4 ,received a letter from my beloved brother ,sol4 ,kline4 ,all our dear spiritual children are yet doing well on ,seneca circuit4 ,wrote two letters4 ,preached at ,windfall1 #b ,pet4 #a3ac4 ,great row after meeting4 #bh4 ,these days ,i have been low spirited and much cast down4 ,it is the first anniversary of the death and burial of my blessed companion4 ,how lonely ,i feel6 ,my bereavement comes with all its weight upon me4 ,lord1 be thou my comforter in all my loneliness4 ,in eve1 preached in ,larue on the ,church of ,god4 ,text1 ,eph4 #a3aj4 ,i treated it as follows3 #a4 ,notice the purpose of ,god4 #b4 ,one church4 #c4 ,extent--heaven and earth4 #d4 ,provisions for oneness3 7a7 ,one church typified4 7b7 ,one1 bought1 sanctified1 made1 built4 7c7 ,one faith4 7d7 ,one spirit to animate it4 7e7 ,one head1 ,christ4 7f7 ,one name1 ,church of ,god4 7g7 ,one law to govern it4 #e4 ,standard of oneness--,as ,i and the ,father are one4 #f4 ,time of this oneness4 #g4 ,to be visible1 ,that the world may believe1 etc4 #h4 ,object of oneness4 #i4 ,apostasy and restoration of the church4 #aj4 ,illustrations3 7a7 ,paths1 ,jer4 #f3af4 7b7 ,river4 7c7 ,house4 7d7 ,corner stone4 ,the ,lord gave me great liberty and boldness4 ,thank his holy name6 #bi4 ,staid last night with ,bro4 ,l4 ,orr4 ,sister ,o4 is afflicted2 prayed to the ,lord for her recovery4 ,preached in ,larue1 eve1 ,ezek4 #dc3aj1aa4 #cj4 ,it had been announced in the ,larue ,citizen that ,i would speak on the ,church of ,god4 ,this brought out quite a large congregation4 ,both nights ,i spoke plainly and boldly against the evil of sectarianism and other abominations4 ,many were ill at ease4 ,some preachers were present4 ,the ,lord gave me good liberty4 ,last night ,i diagramed my subject with chalk upon the blackboard4 #b ,p4 ,m41 took train for ,pentecost meeting at ,pleasant ,hill4 ,brother ,warner became a strong exponent of the prophecies4 ,note his reference to some reform near at hand4 ,this meeting was held at ,west ,auburn1 ,crawford ,county1 after his return from ,pleasant ,hill4 ,june #h1 #ahgc4 ,sabbath4 ,thank ,god for life and health and this beautiful day6 ,behold the throngs pressing toward the house of ,god6 ,speaking-meeting was to begin at half past nine4 ,ere the time the house was filled4 ,others kept coming in continually1 much to the detriment of the interest of the meeting4 ,after all were seated that could be and the aisles were filled1 there were numbers yet without4 ,the house had been purchased by the ,church of ,god from the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church and repaired in good style4 ,at eleven1 preaching began4 ,text1 ,haggai #b3i1 ,the glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former1 saith the ,lord of hosts4444 ,i then took up the text used in the forenoon and showed that the destruction of the ,temple and the ,babylon captivity typified the dark age4 ,the different attempts to rebuild typified the different reformations4 ,its final completion1 i4 e41 all the so-called churches arising in and growing out of the ,dark ,age1 including the sects1 in which are many of ,god's people1 who are1 however1 commanded of ,god to come out of her4 ,further showed that according to the type and other ,scriptures the church of ,god must arise to a glory excelling that of the first age1 and that1 owing to the fact that the world is near its end 7of which we gave some ,scripture evidence71 some great revolution must be near at hand to bring about this prophesied glory of the church4 ,some remarks were made on the ordinances1 after which we engaged in the ordinances4 ,had a glorious time4 ,a great many brethren and sisters were present to engage in following the ,lord4 ,oh how ,i love those dear people6 ,what a host of true hearts6 ,god bless them4 #ad4 ,traveled by buggy to the grove-meeting at ,windfall1 four miles south of ,larue4 ,brother ,burchard preached an excellent sermon4 #ag4 ,received letters from ,brother ,bolton requesting me to come soon to my mission in ,nebraska and one from ,brother ,shoemaker requesting me to stop and preach over ,sabbath in ,chicago4 #ai4 ,wrote out the record of the ,church of ,god at ,new ,washington4 ,eve1 preached at ,union4 ,here the church have a peculiar attachment to me4 ,all wept much at my departure4 ,a more true and faithful band is hard to find4 ,god bless them4 ,they are very dear to me4 ,about half of the church are my converts4 #bj4 ,visited ,brother ,e---- and ,sister ,p----4 ,they embraced religion under my labors1 and ,i joined them in marriage4 ,came home and packed for my journey4 #ba4 ,finished matters up to start4 ,received a letter from a kind friend4 ,went to ,new ,haven in the evening4 ,farewell meeting at ,new ,haven4 #bb4 ,sabbath4 ,thank ,god for a beautiful day4 ,many brethren came in from ,union1 ,new ,washington1 ,auburn1 and ,liberty1 and ,brother ,mitchell and others from east ,ohio4 ,we had a glorious meeting4 ,i preached on ,luke #ac3bi1 ,they shall come from the east1 and from the west1 and from the north1 and from the south1 and shall sit down in the kingdom of ,god4 ,after preaching1 ,brother ,jenner baptized four souls1 two of whom had been converted here at ,new ,haven1 the other two were from elsewhere4 ,thus out of eight souls converted only two were baptized4 ,this is the result of deferring to baptize for six months4 ,evening1 preached on ,john #f3ff-fh4 ,had a good time in observing the ordinances4 ,with many tears and farewell greetings1 we gave each other the parting hand4 ,oh what friends are these6 ,it tries the heart-strings to leave them4 ,what a glorious thing that there is a meeting that knows no parting6 ,what must it be to be there6 ,may we all meet at last1 when the storms of life are over4 ,before leaving for the ,west1 a correspondence was arranged with ,sarah ,a4 ,keller1 of ,upper ,sandusky4 ,she is doubtless the kind friend just referred to with emphasis4 ,out of this correspondence there soon sprang a glowing flame of love1 the beginning of a companionship that meant for him so much of both weal and woe4 ,,footnote3 #b ,dr4 ,forney1 in the account of the ,eleventh ,west ,ohio ,eldership in his ,history of the ,churches of ,god1 refers to ,d4 ,s4 ,warner as being later the leader in ,ohio and westward of a body of people who gave the brotherhood considerable trouble4 ,,vi ,a ,,nebraska ,,mission ,the denomination known as the ,church of ,god1 founded by ,john ,winebrenner in ,pennsylvania in #ahcj1 soon spread over western ,pennsylvania and ,ohio and gradually extended its missionary effort into the ,states farther west4 ,brother ,warner's field of labor in ,nebraska covered more or less the counties of ,seward1 ,york1 ,polk1 ,hamilton1 and ,fillmore4 ,we shall again let him speak for himself4 ,june #be1 #ahgc4 ,this is my birthday4 ,thirty-one years of my hasty life have passed away4 ,they have gone to eternity4 ,their record has all been entered upon the book by the ,scribe of heaven4 ,o ,lord1 whatever has not been set down to thy glory1 for ,jesus' sake blot out in the blood of ,christ6 ,only eight years have been devoted to ,god and they crowded with many imperfections4 ,great ,god1 ,i thank thee that we have an advocate to plead our cause and secure our pardon4 ,wash me1 ,lord1 and make me clean4 ,oh1 keep me pure in heart1 that the remainder of life may all be given to ,god6 ,took train at ,upper ,sandusky for ,chicago4 ,ate dinner in ,fort ,wayne4 ,stopped off at ,warsaw and went to ,new ,paris to visit my brother-in-law4 ,found him and family well1 thank the ,lord4 ,eve1 heard ,dr4 ,everitt lecture on phrenology4 #bf4 ,was examined by ,everitt and received a chart of character and instruction4 ,i heard him deliver a course of lectures in my schoolroom in ,corunna1 ,ind4 the fall of #ahfe4 ,he lectured in the evening on temperaments4 ,took notes4 #bh4 ,put in the day viewing the great city of ,chicago4 ,nearly all the burnt district is built again with enormous buildings4 ,it is wonderful to think that for miles we can walk streets built up on either side with magnificent buildings of brick1 stone1 and marble1 from three to nine stories high1 iron fronts1 etc41 all built since the fire4 ,it inspires the heart with wonder and admiration to behold externally and internally the enormous hotels ,sherman1 ,palmer1 ,tremont1 and ,pacific1 of which the latter is the largest4 ,it covers one half block and is nine stories high4 ,passed through under ,chicago ,river4 ,chicago is one of the wonders of the world1 a great city4 ,visited one of the parks4 ,i was much interested with all we saw4 #bi4 ,sabbath4 ,i preached in the evening from these words3 ,what do ye more than others8 ,matt4 #e3dg4 ,the day was pleasantly spent4 ,brother ,shoemaker has spent nine years in trying to build up a ,church of ,god here4 ,though the membership is yet small1 we have a good church property and some good brethren here4 ,i had the pleasure of seeing the wife1 two sons1 and one daughter of ,elder ,john ,winebrenner1 who are members of the church here4 #cj4 ,took train at #aj ,a4 ,m4 on ,chicago1 ,burlington1 and ,quincy ,railroad to ,nebraska ,city4 ,crossed the ,mississippi ,river4 ,july #a1 #ahgc4 ,in ,a4 ,m4 took train for ,danville1 distance thirteen miles4 ,stopped at ,bro4 ,r4 ,h4 ,bolton's4 ,found all well4 #b4 ,enjoyed my visit very much with this lovely family4 ,received many useful hints from ,brother ,b4 concerning the ,west and the great missionary work4 #c4 ,daylight found us at ,creston4 ,from there to ,red ,oak the country is a beautiful rolling prairie4 ,very little is cultivated1 all grass4 ,at ,red ,oak took branch road southwest to ,nebraska ,city through a beautiful prairie valley4 ,beautiful corn4 ,at ,hamburg1 eleven miles from ,nebraska ,city1 we came to a peculiarly formed bluff1 high and sharp1 from which we can see the city4 ,crossed the ,missouri ,river at ,nebraska ,city on the steamer ,lizzie ,campbell4 ,the river was high and ran swiftly4 #d4 ,this is a proud day for ,americans1 the anniversary of ,american independence4 ,there was quite an interesting celebration in ,nebraska ,city4 ,free dinner1 band1 thirty-seven young ladies dressed in white with badges bearing the names of the thirty-seven states1 also the goddess of liberty4 ,judge ,kinney delivered a good speech on the occasion4 ,a great crowd of people were in attendance4 ,the whole matter displayed skill and ingenuity in its design and execution4 ,arrived at ,seward at #i3cj ,p4 ,m4 ,walked out through the prairie two miles to ,bro4 ,william ,anderson's4 #e4 ,visited ,brother ,james ,anderson4 ,walked across the country4 ,how sublime and beautiful the rolling prairie6 ,there is a strong breeze here nearly all the time1 which makes the summer pleasant and agreeable4 ,the wind is from the east2 a good part of the time it is from the southeast4 #f4 ,sabbath4 ,at #d ,p4 ,m4 ,i preached my first sermon in ,nebraska1 in the ,anderson ,schoolhouse4 ,text1 ,isa4 #fb3f4 ,here we have to pass over a period of eight months4 ,it is unfortunate that we do not have all of the books1 forming a continuous diary account4 ,his notes written during his first winter on the ,western plain would have been interesting4 ,as it is1 we have to pass over the fall and winter of #ahgc and begin again in ,march1 #ahgd4c ,by this time it seems that he had taken up a claim at ,wayland1 ,polk ,county4 ,the ,advocate he refers to was the church paper1 published at ,harrisburg1 of which he was a correspondent4 ,this chapter includes a temporary absence from the ,state1 occasioned by his marriage and visit in ,ohio1 after which he returns with his help-meet to his ,western field4 ,his reference to ,sarah1 his bride-to-be1 are1 of course1 full of tenderness4 ,we shall give but brevities from the diary1 omitting many of the details of sermons and texts1 number converted1 etc4 ,the meetings first mentioned were held near ,seward4 ,mar4 #ad1 #ahgd4 ,this is a rainy day1 the first of any account since the #bbnd of ,november4 ,wrote two articles for the ,advocate and some letters4 #ae4 ,sabbath4 ,preached at eleven on the second advent of ,christ1 two hours4 ,eve4 ,brother ,robotham preached4 ',twas dry and dead enough to take all the life out of a meeting4 ,i tried to exhort the people4 ,jesse ,horton found peace to his soul4 ,thank ,god for the salvation of the old gray-headed sinner4 ,sister ,anderson left her husband who sat by her side1 and came to the altar in much earnest1 seeking the ,lord4 ,this is a noble example4 ,god bless the woman4 ,i think her husband will follow4 #af4 ,the air was damp today4 ,read ,nelson on ,infidelity4 ,prayed and meditated4 ,eve1 had some headache1 but thank ,god it did not grow worse and prevent my preaching1 as it sometimes does4 ,the night was dark and damp4 ,the congregation was much smaller than usual4 ,had good liberty4 ,a number of young people were present1 about all of whom were serious4 #ag4 ,had prayer-meeting at schoolhouse4 ,came home and wrote a letter to my darling ,sarah1 then went to ,seward4 ,received a letter from ,brother ,shuler1 treasurer1 with post-office order for fifty dollars4 #ai4 ,day meeting at half past ten4 ,p4 ,m41 mounted a horse and rode in company with ,brother ,figard to ,mr4 ,pense's1 two miles4 ,talked to them on the important subject of their souls' salvation4 ,returned with some headache4 ,was disappointed in not having some one else there to preach1 as ,brother ,combs1 of the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church1 had promised to be there for the last two nights4 ,thank ,god1 my headache abated and ,i spake with liberty on the text1 ,my ,spirit shall not always strive with man4 #ba4 ,started for ,fillmore ,county4 ,stopped a few minutes at a store at ,nickleville4 ,heard some poor sinners swearing horrible oaths4 ,oh1 how my heart was pained to hear them thus insult the ,author and ,giver of all their blessings6 ,came to ,brother ,witter's4 ,found all well and faithful to their ,savior4 ,they were much joyed at my coming4 ,the church has grown in grace and influence4 #bb4 ,sabbath4 ,beautiful morn4 ,met at #aj3cj ,a4 ,m41 heard a number of the brethren and sisters speak4 ,went to ,indian ,creek1 where ,i had the pleasure of immersing the following names nine persons4 ,it was a glorious time4 ,all were happy4 ,we felt that we were near heaven4 ,at #c ,p4 ,m4 started over to ,brother ,moffit's4 ,passed a pond of some ten acres on which were all of a thousand brants1 a species of wild goose2 they are white1 except a black streak across their wings4 ,reached destination4 ,here are good prospects for gathering a church4 #bc4 ,quite cold this morn2 #a have to drive about thirty-five miles against the wind4 ,it was a hard day's ride4 ,came on to the meeting and found that the work had not progressed in my absence4 ,i could not have remained1 but now ,i have only two nights and we must if possible see some poor sinners saved before ,i leave4 ,o ,god6 in mercy hear us and bless our efforts4 #bg4 ,had to go forty miles today to an appointment4 ,called on some of the brethren at ,wayland4 ,the day was cold4 #cj4 ,last night ,i had a precious dream of meeting my angel love1 ,sarah4 ,oh1 how happy ,i was to return to that kind family and my precious companion1 from whom ,i have been so long separated1 and with whom my soul longs to be6 ,now are only seven ,sabbaths until ,i start4 ,oh1 how our hearts yearn to be together6 ,lord1 speed the time4 ,never did woman have purer and stronger love for man than that of my dearest ,sarah for me--yes1 even me4 ,o ,lord1 what a blessing thou hast here bestowed on thy unworthy servant6 ,what a bliss to me1 that ,i should thus be loved1 and that1 too1 by the very creature that ,i would rather have love me than any fair female in all the world6 ,o ,lord6 this is thy doing and it is wonderful in our eyes4 ,how happy ,i would be this morning were my beautiful1 virtuous1 and loving companion by my side6 ,how hard it is to stay apart so long6 ,god give grace and strength of mind to endure this torture of separation4 ,apr4 #c1 #ahgd4 ,what a bright and beautiful morn6 ,i am surrounded by beautiful scenery4 ,the family live right on the bank of a stream1 tributary to the ,blue4 ,the house sits on the edge of a bank about twenty feet on the north2 on the south the stream making a loop comes around just far enough from the south side to make a nice little yard4 ,to the east is a beautiful large yard4 ,to the west is quite a picturesque scene2 the stream1 running very crooked1 doubles around with but narrow1 high banks between1 and all covered with timber1 some of the largest trees ,i have seen in the ,state1 some oaks four feet across1 yet not one of them enough to make a rail cut1 branching out a few feet from the ground4 ,the whole presents a romantic scene4 ,brother ,querry settled here five years ago1 when there were only a few families in the country4 ,the settling up of the country has far surpassed in rapidity the wildest imagination4 ,bro4 ,george ,fellows and ,i went out on a hunt for prairie-chickens and wild geese4 ,we went in the buggy1 by which we can approach nearer to the chickens than otherwise4 ,had a few shots at wild geese but killed nothing4 #e4 ,sabbath4 ,easter4 ,bright1 warm1 and beautiful morning4 ,preached at eleven on the ,church of ,god1 diagramed on black-board4 ,the truth was well received4 ,there is a fine prospect for the ,church of ,god4 ,dr4 ,stone who is no professor of religion but a thorough student of the ,bible1 and one whom ,i think will soon give himself to the ,lord1 is one with us in sentiment4 ,another good old ,methodist ,episcopal brother who preaches some sanctioned my sermon all through1 even my strongest denunciation of creeds1 sects1 etc4 ,brother ,stoner1 a ,disciple1 was well pleased with the church but took exceptions to feet-washing1 reception of the ,spirit by faith before baptism1 and the divine call to the ministry4 ,he invited me home with him and we talked over the matter and he conceded my position on all these points4 ,his companion before held with us on all these points4 #g4 ,came to ,brother ,hoffer's4 ,selected a place for my house and staked off a yard1 etc4 #aj4 ,wrote some letters4 ,this was a warm and beautiful day4 ,oh1 how lovely the spring after the long1 cold winter2 emblem of the time of the ,lord's coming1 the time of singing of birds6 ,the turtle-dove is heard in the land1 all to remind us of the ,lord's coming4 ,the approach of summer also gladdens my heart because it is bringing us near the happy time when ,i shall be joined in holy matrimony with the pure and warm-hearted ,sarah1 whose constant and ardent love is worth more to me than all the treasures and honor of earth4 ,could ,i hold converse with that bright luminary whose beams and gentle rays fall so graciously upon the earth today1 ,i would ask if the revolving earth brought another creature under his shining light so pure1 fair1 and lovely as my own blessed ,sarah4 #ac4 ,this morn is rainy4 ,drove to ,wayland1 fifteen miles1 and then worked all day at my house4 ,bros4 ,h4 and ,m4 ,hoffer and ,brother ,berry had just got the lumber hauled from ,seward on the ground and begun the work4 ,we worked through the damp weather and got it finished1 a stove up1 and a bed by #aj ,p4 ,m41 when the brethren left1 and ,i retired to sleep1 the first night in my life in my own house and on my own land4 ,thank ,god for these blessings6 ,may ,god help me to use it as not abusing it4 #ad4 ,returned to my house and made a stand4 ,p4 ,m41 went to ,barber's1 where ,i preached at night on the signs of the coming of ,christ4 ,had a house full of very attentive hearers4 ,spoke two hours4 ,all seemed highly interested4 #ae4 ,in the eve drove about seven miles over into ,york ,county and preached to a crowded house in the ,parker ,schoolhouse4 #af4 ,went to ,mr4 ,mahaffey's and had a good visit4 ,he is a lawyer1 a smart man1 well informed in the ,bible4 ,agrees with me on doctrine4 ,he promised that he would give his heart to ,jesus4 ,wishes to borrow some of my books to inform himself for the service of ,god4 ,i pray ,god that he may be soundly converted and become useful4 ,i had left no appointment1 but several came together and begged me to leave another appointment before going east4 ,i never saw people more eager for the gospel than here4 ,many have fallen in love with the ,church of ,god and desire me to form a church here4 ,p4 ,m41 went home and worked some at my house4 #bh4 ,drove to ,bro4 ,j4 ,a4 ,mark's4 ,the day passed off very pleasantly4 ,spent the time in meditation and singing praise to ,god4 ,drove about forty-five miles and reached destination about #f ,p4 ,m4 ,there seemed to be no fatigue to me nor to my steed1 ,mattie ,blaze4 ,the roads were beautiful and the day delightful4 ,how balmy the air6 ,there perhaps never was another such delightful country to travel in4 ,found no one at home at ,brother ,mark's4 ,put up ,mattie ,blaze1 compromised with the big dog1 ,watch1 and took possession of the house4 ,ere long the family came home1 having been at a neighbor's4 ,they were well and glad to see me4 ,may #a1 #ahgd4 ,came to ,grand ,island1 in ,hall ,county1 about fifteen miles northwest of ,brother ,mark's4 ,found ,bro4 ,john ,kramer and family well4 ,they are a very fine people1 firm in the principles of the ,church of ,god4 ,they have a beautiful place one and one fourth miles from the city4 ,all that is wanting is a ,church of ,god here4 ,i feel sorry that they can not be supplied4 ,but this is a hard place to do anything unless we have a house of worship4 ,brother ,k4 could find no place in the city to have an appointment1 so he has an appointment in his own house for ,lord's day4 ,sectarian bigotry abounds here in the ,west2 each sect1 fearing the rottenness of its own foundation1 is not willing to have it tried by the gospel4 #b4 ,wrote1 read1 meditated1 and prayed in a pleasant room at ,brother ,k's4 ,how pleasant it is to have a place of solitary retirement1 so seldom enjoyed in the small sod houses of this frontier country6 ,this afternoon there was a good deal of excitement in ,grand ,island on the occasion of breaking ground for a new railroad1 the ,st4 ,joseph and ,grand ,island ,railroad4 ,it is now in operation from ,st4 ,joseph to ,hastings4 ,grand ,island is beautifully situated on the ,union ,pacific ,railroad and on the north side of ,platte ,river4 ,it has a bright prospect for a large city and important railroad center4 #c4 ,sabbath4 ,rainy in ,a4 ,m41 hence no preaching4 ,spent the day pleasantly with the kind ,kramer family singing and talking on ,scripture4 #e4 ,started this beautiful morn to ,fillmore ,county4 ,took my dinner and fed ,mattie ,blaze on ,sec4 #ab1 ,twp4 #i1 ,range #f ,w4 ,two miles east is the nicest railroad section ,i ever saw4 ,i crossed the ,south ,blue ,river in a beautiful grove1 which was quite green4 ,the place was so beautiful that ,i could not resist the temptation to stop in the shade by the cool stream4 ,i wondered if ,i should ever have the pleasure of crossing through this beautiful grove with my lovely ,sadie1 who of course is always brought to my mind when ,i meet anything that is lovely and beautiful1 for she is the fairest and most lovely piece of ,god's creation4 ,two graceful ducks were swimming in the water4 ,this as well as the cooing dove near by brought forcibly to my mind my beloved1 who is far away4 ,the dove's cooing was an index to my heart1 that longed to be with her1 so dear to me4 ,even the beautiful stream suggested to me our two beings that were soon to blend fully into one to follow on in everlasting love1 like two streams of water that mingle together and flow on in the same channel4 ,these lines are being penned in this beautiful grove while many feathered songsters are singing their sweet songs over my head4 ,thank ,god for the beauties of nature and all that they have brought to my mind4 #f4 ,received a letter from ,bro4 ,j4 ,a4 ,shuler1 treasurer1 with an order in my favor for fifty dollars4 ,thank the kind ,lord and all who gave to this fund4 #h4 ,came to ,indian ,creek4 ,found all well and anxious for my coming4 ,all seemed faithful4 #aj4 ,sabbath4 ,sabbath-school at ten4 ,preached on ,gen4 #bh3ab1ac4 ,a strange brother arose and said he would like to speak a few words4 ,he remarked that for some time he had been searching for the truth and the old paths and that he precisely agreed with me that there is but one church1 i4 e41 the church of ,god1 so named by the mouth of the ,lord1 governed alone by the ,word of ,god1 including all who have the ,spirit of ,christ1 by which they are baptized into the body1 the church4 ,the brother talks some to the people and accepted an invitation to preach in two weeks4 ,thank ,god for more laborers to contend for the truth4 ,after this went to ,indian ,creek1 where ,i had the great pleasure of immersing names seven persons4 ,at last baptizing ,brother ,winters told me that he had been baptized by his parents when a child1 and now they were dead and gone1 and out of respect for them he would never be baptized again4 ,i told him to read his ,bible and see whether that satisfied the demands of ,god upon him4 ,i further reminded him that religion was a personal matter4 ,he acted upon these suggestions and the result was he was anxious to obey ,god4 ,oh how the commands of ,god are made void by the traditions of men6 ,the baptizing was one of great interest4 ,all were happy4 ,eve1 had a good speaking-meeting4 ,some said it was the happiest day of their lives4 ,preached on the ordinances and had a heavenly time in observing them4 ,bade the brethren and sisters farewell4 #ac4 ,was to have a breaking bee1 but it rained all forenoon4 ,p4 ,m41 worked on my claim4 ,eve1 preached from ,acts #bj3cb4 ,we got lost going home with ,brother ,hoffer4 ,got home by eleven4 ,it was raining and very dark4 #ah4 ,went to ,seward in the morning4 ,spent the day preparing for my journey4 ,eve1 preached in ,seward and returned home4 #ai4 ,the happy time has come at last that ,i start back to my beloved ,sarah4 ,may ,god's kind care be over me by the way4 ,took train at half-past nine at ,seward4 ,this is the morning ,i have been thinking about so long4 ,the hard labor of another year is over4 ,since last ,july #d preached one hundred and fifty-five sermons4 #bj4 ,nebraska ,city4 ,visited a beautiful orchard of eighty acres4 ,am enjoying my visit much with ,bro4 ,john ,f4 ,kimmel and family4 ,took a pleasant ride4 #ba4 ,today the ,board of ,missions meets in ,chicago4 ,wish ,i could be there to report in person2 but ,i sent out my report yesterday4 ,at #g3bj ,p4 ,m4 started on my journey4 ,came via ,hamburg1 ,st4 ,joseph1 and ,kansas ,city1 where ,i arrived at early daylight4 #bb4 ,took the ,missouri ,pacific through the ,state of ,missouri4 ,train stopped for dinner at ,jefferson ,city4 ,ran through tunnels1 under rocks4 ,many places the rocks stood a perpendicular wall one hundred feet on one side of the cars and on the other the ,missouri ,river4 ,missouri in some parts seems to be a beautiful ,state2 but taking it altogether it falls far short of ,nebraska as an agricultural state4 ,it is rather rough4 ,had three fourths of an hour in ,st4 ,louis4 ,purchased a suit for thirty-five dollars1 also a small present for my beloved ,sarah1 a collar1 #a4ej1 and cravat1 #a4ej4 ,took train on ,toledo1 ,wabash1 and ,western at #g ,p4 ,m4 ,crossed the ,mississippi on a transfer boat near the great iron bridge1 which is a wonderful structure4 ,took sleeping-car and lay down with a heart full of gratitude to ,god for his protection through the dangers of the day and humbly entreating his care through the night4 #bc4 ,reached ,fort ,wayne at #g ,a4 ,m4 ,staid over till #ab3cj ,p4 ,m4 ,then came on with a light heart4 ,arrived at ,upper ,sandusky at #d3ej ,p4 ,m4 ,rode out to ,brother ,keller's with ,brother ,hoffman4 ,and now the long contemplated time of meeting my beloved ,sarah has come at last4 ,thank the kind ,lord for his care and protection over us through these eleven long months that we have been so far1 far apart4 ,this eve went to see ,father ,shriner1 who is nearing the other shore to dwell with the spirits made perfect4 ,had a season of prayer4 ,returned with ,brother ,keller4 #be4 ,father ,shriner died at #d ,a4 ,m4 yesterday1 and at #aa ,a4 ,m4 today ,brother ,small preached the funeral1 followed by ,brother ,updike and me4 ,it was a very large funeral4 ,father ,s4 was an upright and godly man1 firmly devoted to truth and right4 ,well do ,i remember words that fell from his lips some four years ago when1 during his report1 he remarked3 ,brethren1 ,i have always tried to maintain a ministerial character4 ,these words1 backed up by his exemplary life1 had a great meaning and made a deep impression on my mind4 ,they inspired me with new determination to live out the same character by the grace of ,god4 #bf4 ,spent the day pleasantly at ,brother ,keller's4 ,oh1 how happy ,i am to have the blessed company of my dearly beloved ,sadie6 ,surely ,i should be a happy and grateful man1 having such a rich treasure4 #bh4 ,took train for ,crestline1 where ,i am now writing these lines1 waiting for the train to ,shelby4 ,but here it comes6 ,twelve o'clock1 aboard the train4 ,oh1 how convenient to the great cause of ,god is the railroad6 ,reached ,daniel ,baker's1 at ,shelby1 at #a ,p4 ,m4 ,we were happy to meet again4 ,nearly one year has passed since my last visit here in company with ,bro4 ,j4 ,l4 ,jenner1 who is now in eternity4 ,poor fellow1 he became insane last ,april and on the #beth cut his throat and abdomen1 from the effects of which he died some days later4 ,from the best information ,i could get his mind was overcome by an unwillingness to preach the whole gospel of ,god1 through a desire to gain the applause of man4 ,as ministers of ,god we should take warning and fill our high calling in the fear of ,god4 #bi4 ,came to ,w4 ,auburn1 where ,i met many of the dear brethren beloved as children4 ,preached from ,psa4 #add3ae4 ,how happy and grateful ,i am to meet with these beloved people6 #cj4 ,this morn ,i went up into my old room at ,bro4 ,peter ,wright's and looked over all my mementos of my dear departed companion and sonny4 #ca4 ,sabbath4 ,had a good speaking-meeting4 ,preached on the signs of the coming of ,christ4 ,the house was crowded4 ,eve1 ,brother ,awkerman preached on the ordinances1 after which we had a happy time in obeying them4 ,human language can not express my joy4 ,june #c1 #ahgd4 ,yesterday and today the women were busily engaged in preparations for our wedding4 #d4 ,this is the happy day to which my mind has so often soared ahead of time to embrace in sweet anticipation4 ,thank ,god that the onward flight of time has brought the day in which my angel ,sarah and ,i shall be joined in holy wedlock4 ,i was out early to breathe the balmy air4 ,at the rising of the sun there was a heavy fog which all disappeared in a very short time1 leaving the morning bright and lovely4 ,all nature seemed cheerful4 ,never have ,i heard the birds sing so sweet and melodious as this morn in the woods over the way from ,father ,keller's brick farmer's home4 ,it seemed that the dear little feathered songsters were congratulating me for the rich fortune the day brings to me4 ,went to ,upper ,sandusky in the morning4 ,weather hot4 ,here he mentions a list of the guests from ,auburn1 ,tiffin1 and elsewhere4 ,at four the ceremony was performed1 ,brother ,burchard officiating4 ,brother and ,sister ,tomlinson groomsman and groomsmaid4 ,all passed off pleasantly4 ,received many warm congratulations1 after which we proceeded to partake of the rich preparations in the dining room4 ,the evening was pleasantly spent sitting in the cool shade on the east of the house4 ,now a new leaf is turned1 a new era begun1 in the history of my life4 ,o ,lord1 how can ,i thank thee enough for the great gift of my own pure1 amiable1 fair1 and lovely ,sarah6 ,may ,god assist me to make her life happy as far as it is in the power of man to do so4 ,god bless our union and make us together happy and useful4 #e4 ,this morning still bright and clear4 ,we started for ,brother ,wright's4 ,stopped at noon at ,bucyrus4 ,reached my old home at ,w----'s about four4 ,our arrival was greeted with ringing bells and cheers from the boys4 ,a rich infare supper was prepared4 ,the evening was pleasantly spent singing and with music from two violins by ,brothers ,alvin ,burch and ,burchard4 ,illustration3 ,sarah 7,keller7 ,warner #g4 ,sabbath4 ,good speaking-meeting in the grove near ,new ,washington4 ,preached on baptism4 ,after speaking one hour a small storm arose1 which threw the congregation into confusion4 ,we dismissed the people to meet at three by the side of the ,maumee ,river4 ,there being a grove there ,i proceeded to finish my discourse and spake about an hour1 after which ,i baptized the following ten names omitted4 ,eve1 ,i spoke on the washing of the saints' feet1 after which observed the same4 ,this was a good meeting4 ,about a thousand people were present4 #h4 ,took train for ,bryan1 where we were met by my brother1 who conveyed us to my parents1 in ,bridgewater township1 ,williams ,co4 ,thank ,god for a safe return to my parents once more4 #aa4 ,visited ,brother ,joseph4 ,eve1 we took a walk to a beautiful cemetery on my brother's place4 ,a new grave was there that awoke a train of interesting thoughts to my mind4 ,it was the resting-place of ,frances ,stocking4 ,she was the object of my affections and attentions at the time ,i gave my heart to ,god 7,february1 #ahfe74 ,she was handsome and accomplished1 having a very strong mind and good education4 ,her father was skeptical1 and the dire disease was transmitted to ,frank and ,i think the whole family4 ,having talked matrimony together and supposing she and ,i had the proper affections1 ,i supposed it my duty to marry her notwithstanding her infidelity and her rapidly failing health4 ,out of sympathy for her suffering1 which she claimed would be removed by marriage1 ,i pledged her my heart and hand4 ,but ,i asked to defer our marriage until ,i pursued my studies a few years4 ,ere many months had passed ,i began to doubt the existence of the proper elements of union in our case4 ,i took the matter to the ,lord and was soon confirmed in the belief that our marriage was not ordained of ,god4 ,our attachments grew weaker and soon correspondence ceased and she became married to a rough young man by the name of ,baker4 ,they moved to the ,west1 ere long parted1 and she came back a year ago4 ,when at home ,i learned that she was a spiritualist and by spells was crazy1 in which condition she was hurried to the grave1 a poor wreck1 morally1 mentally1 and physically4 #ag4 ,passed once more the old schoolhouse where ,i gave my heart to ,god 7,february1 #ahfe74 ,thank ,god for that step4 ,oh how glad ,i am that it was ever my lot to become a ,christian6 ,a beautiful house of worship stands near the place1 belonging to the ,church of ,god4 #be4 ,this is my birthday4 ,thirty-two years have passed over my head4 ,how the time has flown6 ,oh ,god6 blot out of my past years all that is wrong and help me give all that remain to thee and thy cause4 ,july #h1 #ahgd4 ,this is my dear ,sarah's birthday4 ,she is nineteen years of age4 #bd4 ,bro4 ,lewis ,williams took us and our goods to ,new ,washington4 ,had a good talk at the depot with ,brother ,a----4 ,he seemed very much dissatisfied with my having organized a church in ,upper ,sandusky4 ,intimated that it would make me trouble4 ,oh that ,god would save his preachers from envy and vindictive cruelty in biting and devouring each other6 ,whatever the ,eldership may do in my case1 ,i am certain that ,i did what ,i have done through pure motives to the glory of ,god1 for the good of his cause1 and ,i believe with his approbation4 #cj4 ,this morn went to ,west ,unity1 thence to ,father ,john ,kerr's in ,fulton ,county4 ,eve1 went to prayer-meeting4 ,heard a good number of my scholars testify for ,jesus1 thank ,god4 ,meeting was led by ,bro4 ,g4 ,w4 ,dustin1 who is a noble young man4 ,since he attended my school1 ,i have felt impressed that ,god desired to make a minister out of him4 ,i pray that ,god may lead him into all truth4 ,august #aa1 #ahgd4 ,father1 ,mother and ,brother ,joseph brought us to ,bryan4 ,bade farewell to the friends once again4 ,reached ,goshen about four4 ,found ,mr4 ,guiss1 my brother-in-law4 ,reached his home in ,new ,paris about dusk4 ,my sister's health is poor4 #ae4 ,preached in ,new ,paris from ,matt4 #bd3c4 ,four young brethren and two sisters were there from ,syracuse4 #af4 ,brother ,keller came after us early this morning to convey us out to ,syracuse1 where ,i preached at #aj3cj ,a4 ,m42 ,psa4 #add3ae4 ,went home with ,charles ,strombeck1 whose companion is sick4 ,prayed for her4 ,she seemed strengthened4 ,four brethren each put a dollar into my hand4 ,returned to town4 ,eve1 preached on ,ezek4 #dc3aj1aa4 ,diagramed on the board4 ,house full4 ,a collection was taken up for me4 ,never did ,i find such overabundant kind and benevolent people4 ,they seem as near to me as though ,i had preached for years in their midst4 ,god will surely bless them and greatly reward their kind liberality4 #ag4 ,took train at #aj3bj ,a4 ,m41 reached ,elkhart at eleven1 laid over until #d3ac ,p4 ,m4 ,reached ,chicago #h ,p4 ,m42 ,brother ,shoemaker met us at the train and conducted us to his house4 #ah4 ,in company with ,brother ,s41 visited the scene of the late fire4 ,visited the great water-works1 also the exposition building1 the largest building ,i was ever in4 ,walked through the tunnel and visited the ,union1 ,michigan1 and ,jefferson ,parks1 where was much of interest4 ,traveled by street-car and on foot about ten miles4 ,took train on the ,burlington at #aj ,p4 ,m4 #ai4 ,reached ,red ,oak1 ,iowa1 #g ,p4 ,m4 ,put up at the ,tremont ,house4 ,a lady was shot in the place tonight by one whom she had opposed as a suitor for her daughter4 ,four balls were fired1 some of which took effect in the neck4 ,she may possibly recover4 ,the assassin was arrested and confined4 #bj4 ,took train for ,nebraska ,city4 ,western ,iowa is beautiful2 ,sarah much admires it4 ,reached the ,missouri ,river at ten1 and ,brother ,kimmel's in ,nebraska ,city at eleven4 ,took train for ,seward4 ,the country looks beautiful4 ,one thing strikes the mind as different from ,iowa and ,illinois1 and that is the great abundance of wheat on this side of the ,missouri ,river4 ,corn is raised in abundance in those ,states2 but little proportionately is raised here1 and will be almost an entire failure this year owing to the drought and grasshoppers4 ,as soon as we crossed the ,missouri we landed among swarms of those insects4 ,landed safely at ,seward at #aj ,p4 ,m4 ,thank ,god for his kind care over us1 permitting us safely to return to my field of labor4 #ba4 ,this morning ,sarah and ,i walked over the prairie two miles to ,bro4 ,william ,anderson's4 #bb4 ,p4 ,m41 we went out to visit a colony of prairie-dogs4 ,eve1 preached from #b ,pet4 #a3c4 #bd4 ,went to ,seward1 ,wife and ,i and ,bro4 ,j4 ,w4 ,k----4 ,he leaves on the train this morn for ,ohio to take a wife1 a dear sister1 ,eliza ,t----1 who was converted under my labors and is a special friend of mine4 ,about a year ago ,i introduced them to each other1 since which time they have corresponded and now have pledged themselves to live in unison for life4 ,i pray ,god that their union may result in unbroken happiness and usefulness4 #bf4 ,wife and ,i came to ,polk ,county4 ,wife is pleased with the home1 but fears we shall not be able to build4 ,i pray ,god he may send help from some source4 #bi4 ,drove about twenty-three miles1 to ,fillmore4 ,preached in the old sod schoolhouse4 ,the brethren and sisters were glad to see me1 as ,i also was to see them4 ,brother ,grigg has been preaching for them during my absence4 ,he does well and is sound in the ,scriptures4 ,i am glad that ,i found him out before ,i left4 #ca4 ,at #c ,p4 ,m4 started for ,seward ,county1 thirty-eight miles4 ,at sunset stopped and ate our supper by the way4 ,turned out ,mattie ,blaze to pick grass4 ,then came on4 ,the curtains of night were soon thrown about us4 ,it was cloudy1 and not being able to see my guiding stars we lost our way4 ,when ,i discovered the north star we traveled some distance by it with no road at all4 ,we went several miles out of our way and landed at ,bro4 ,j4 ,anderson's after twelve4 ,sept #d1 #ahgd4 ,drove twenty-six miles to ,polk ,county4 #e4 ,went over to our house and found our goods2 ,brother ,fox had brought them from ,seward4 ,found everything all right4 ,read in the ,testament4 ,finished it today4 ,had finished and re-commenced it last ,thanksgiving ,day4 ,oh1 that ,i had more time1 and would better improve in the future what ,i have1 to read the precious ,bible6 #aj4 ,started to ,york ,center4 ,rained4 ,turned in to ,bro4 ,samuel ,marble's4 ,no one at home4 ,soon he came4 ,left us in search of his wife4 ,did not find her till between three and four4 ,we spent the time pleasantly in his old dugout4 ,instead of being lonesome it was pleasant to be found alone--even in an old wet dugout and on a dreary day4 ,it appeared like a small taste of the bliss that a home of our own would yield us4 ,the greatest difficulty was something to eat4 ,plums were plentiful1 else we could find nothing4 ,when they returned they felt very bad that they happened to be away from home4 ,they spared no pains to make us welcome and comfortable4 ,supper was served1 after which the rain and darkening shades of night prevented our return4 #ab4 ,sabbath4 ,started early for ,polk ,county4 ,received some letters1 one from ,father and ,mother ,keller4 ,all are well but seem to have no sympathy for us here on the frontier1 not even a disposition to do justice by us4 ,lord1 forgive them4 ,we will suffer all things for thy sake4 ,o ,god1 my heart is bruised and crushed6 ,we seem to meet with no sympathy from friends or brethren4 ,many have grown cold4 ,brothers ,h---- and ,o---- would not go to meeting4 ,went on to the ,bense ,schoolhouse4 ,preaching time1 but no one there4 ,two neighbors came1 no member of the ,church of ,god4 ,o ,lord1 the waves are rolling over me6 ,all things against us4 ,some are offended because we will not recognize the devil's secret gods with which they have been polluted4 ,others are backslidden4 ,lord1 the troubles of my heart are enlarged6 ,it is more than ,i can bear4 ,i can not restrain my grief for the desolation of ,zion4 ,the people are now gathering1 but my tears prevent the reading of a hymn4 ,companion and a few brothers and sisters shed their tears with me4 #ad4 ,wrote for ,advocate4 #ae4 ,sister ,berry1 ,sarah1 and ,i went to ,lincoln ,creek4 ,got tub of plums4 #ah4 ,tried to get lumber on time1 but could not4 ,felt very much cast down4 ,no money yet from the ,board4 ,friends in the ,east have no sympathy for us4 ,brethren here have no means4 ,winter is coming on soon and no home for my dear ,sarah and me6 ,with a heavy heart we started out to ,bro4 ,j4 ,h4 ,anderson's4 ,heard he was not at home4 ,went on to ,brother ,green's4 ,as soon as he found ,i could not build they kindly invited us to move into their north room1 which is a pleasant room with bed-room above and cellar privileges4 ,thanks be unto ,god6 ,behind a frowning providence1 he hides a smiling face4 #ai4 ,sabbath4 ,eve1 preached at the ,osborne ,schoolhouse1 up ,lincoln ,creek1 a new point4 ,stayed at ,mr4 ,o----'s1 who is a ,campbellite4 ,had some talk1 but a few ,scriptures silenced his doctrine4 #bj4 ,gathered some grapes for ,sarah4 ,came home to ,brother ,green's4 #ba4 ,sarah and ,i went to ,polk ,county4 #bb4 ,spent in our house preparing to take things back to ,brother ,green's1 ,seward ,county4 ,sarah and ,i slept in our house all night4 #bc4 ,staid all day again at house4 ,bro4 ,j4 ,w4 ,figard came to take our things4 #bg4 ,came to ,seward ,county1 ,brother ,green's4 ,stopped at noon in the timber of the ,blue ,river4 ,oct4 #a1 #ahgd4 ,eldership meets in ,west ,ohio4 ,may ,god bless their deliberations4 ,worked till noon4 ,at #c3ae ,p4 ,m4 started for ,york ,county1 twenty-six miles4 ,could not reach it4 ,stopped at ,brother ,everett's4 #c4 ,about this time the ,west ,ohio ,eldership has passed through another session4 ,i now begin another year's work4 #e4 ,drove home4 ,found my dear companion well4 ,how happy we are to be alone this eve in our little home6 ,how sweet the home where love reigns6 ,oh the love that unites our hearts6 ,how pure and strong1 and still increasing6 ,how happy ,i am6 ,how blessed and favored6 #f4 ,worked at cupboard and helped my dear wash4 #g4 ,provided and arranged things for wife4 ,dear creature wept this morn that ,i had to be away again so soon and long4 #i4 ,came to ,brother ,berry's ,polk ,county4 ,p4 ,m41 in my house4 ,wrote some letters4 ,preached in the ,bense ,schoolhouse1 #b ,pet4 #b3aa-ad4 ,staid in my house tonight4 #aj4 ,visited and talked with nearly all the members of the church4 ,many are cold and indifferent4 ,many have strife and bickerings4 ,oh shame6 ,great ,god1 save this church1 of whose piety and devotion ,i have so often boasted4 ,some are spiteful at me because ,i touched the god of this world4 ,brother ,mc---- raved and foamed over at me4 ,god pity and forgive the poor graceless man4 ,thank ,god for grace to endure unruffled his abuse4 ,staid all night in my house4 #ab4 ,started for home1 anxious to see my blessed wife4 ,this is the longest we have been apart since our marriage--five days4 ,how long the time seems to me1 notwithstanding ,i have been very busy6 ,how lonely she must be6 ,god bless her4 ,came by way of ,seward4 ,dear ,sarah had been way out on the prairie waiting for me4 #bj4 ,started for the ,oliver ,schoolhouse1 about twelve and one half miles to the northwest4 ,dear wife felt so bad to see me leave4 ,the dear creature wept bitterly4 ,oh1 how it pained my heart to leave her feeling so sad6 ,green's folks were absent1 which made it more lonely4 ,o ,god1 must ,i tear myself away from the dear wife bathed in tears8 ,but 'tis the cause of ,christ and ,i must go4 ,o ,lord1 comfort her loving heart4 #bd4 ,started for ,fillmore ,county4 ,drove against a very heavy wind4 #be4 ,sabbath4 ,at #aa ,a4 ,m4 preached1 ,psa4 #dh3ad4 ,the old sod was full of hearers4 #bf4 ,drove to ,brothers 444 and gathered quite a good load of vegetables and feed that these good brethren gave us4 ,came to ,brother ,weeter's1 where the donation was increased and ,brother ,w4 having business at ,seward hauled it over for us4 ,god bless these kind people4 ,i fed and ate my dinner on the ,blue ,river4 ,reached home #c ,p4 ,m41 found dear wife well4 #ca4 ,spent the day at ,brothers ,m---- and ,b----'s4 ,busy studying sermon4 ,eve1 preached on ,isa4 #i3f1g4 ,studied till twelve at night on sermon for ,sabbath eve4 ,nov4 #a1 #ahgd4 ,sabbath4 ,this morn arose early and prepared a sermon on the subject of the ,sabbath4 #b4 ,at three started home4 ,arrived at dark4 ,dear wife was very lonesome and almost despaired of my coming home that day4 ,thank ,god1 we are blessed with a home and a thousand domestic comforts4 ,oh what a blessing is home when illuminated with the pure love of an affectionate companion6 #c4 ,went to ,seward1 where were two barrels of apples sent to me by a kind friend in ,ohio4 ,may the ,lord bless his soul and reward him4 ,he not only donated the apples but paid one dollar for the barrels and #a4be freight to ,chicago4 ,the cost here was #d4bj4 ,not having the money to lift them we let ,brother ,anderson have one barrel to lift them for us4 #f4 ,at #aa ,a4 ,m41 started for ,crete4 ,stopped in a deep draw at #a ,p4 ,m4 to feed ,mattie ,blaze and eat our dinner4 ,sarah and ,i ate a whole chicken1 some bread and butter1 and finished off with an apple apiece4 ,went via ,milford and ,camden4 ,passed through a very large colony of prairie-dogs4 ,enjoyed a leisure visit among this brisk and numerous little folk4 #g4 ,was glad to meet our dear and esteemed old ,brother ,moore1 of whom ,i had heard so much4 ,he is a very intelligent old pilgrim1 greatly in love with the doctrines of the ,church of ,god4 ,it was through his earnest appeals that missionaries were sent to this part of ,nebraska4 ,at #d ,p4 ,m4 we met in the ,bethel to take the preliminary steps to the formation of an ,eldership in ,nebraska4 ,organized by the election of ,bro4 ,k4 ,a4 ,moore speaker and ,brother ,mc,elwee and myself clerks4 #i4 ,met at #i ,a4 ,m4 for business4 ,the day was passed off very pleasantly4 ,love seasoned all our deliberations4 ,according to committee on program1 ,i delivered a discourse on church polity4 ,missionaries reported1 and other business transacted4 ,closed by a touching speech from ,brother ,moore and prayer by me4 ,the meeting was very edifying to us all and greatly strengthened the brotherly ties4 #aj4 ,met early this morning in the ,bethel for a social meeting4 ,good time4 ,brother ,moore left us for home4 ,god bless the old pilgrim and spare his life yet many years to bless his cause4 ,brother ,mc,e4 and ,i spent the day in transcribing the minutes of the ,eldership4 ,i preached in the ,bethel1 #a ,chron4 #bi3e4 ,god blessed my soul4 ,this afternoon ,i had a special season of secret prayer and communion with my ,god4 ,oh how near he came to his poor servant6 ,this eve ,i was unusually blessed in presenting the thoughts he had given me on the text1 ,and who then is willing to consecrate his service this day to the ,lord8 ,a deep interest prevailed4 ,a ,mr4 ,b---- living six miles from town went home with an arrow in his heart4 ,i expect to hear of his early conversion4 #ac4 ,made out program for ,ministerial ,association to be held next spring in ,seward4 #ad4 ,came home4 ,pretty cold4 ,captured a wild duck which had its wing broken that day by some hunter4 ,reached home at nearly dusk4 #ae4 444 ,this was an earnest day's work4 ,i pray ,god that it may bring forth fruit to his glory4 ,dec4 #be1 #ahgd4 ,this is ,christmas4 ,at eleven preached on the incarnation of ,christ4 ,returned to ,bro4 ,m4 ,hoffer's1 where the kindred1 companion1 and ,i partook of a good feast4 ,roasted fowls4 ,all passed off pleasantly and in a ,christian manner4 ,i was solemn and meditative4 ,we sang some4 ,eve1 spoke on ,john #ad3bc4 ,with solemn and feeling hearts and minds performed the ordinances of feet-washing and the ,lord's ,supper4 #bg4 ,sabbath4 ,i preached about two hours on the immortality of man4 ,read twenty-three ,scriptures speaking of the ,spirit and twelve of the soul1 all positively declaring the spirituality of man's nature4 ,also several places proving that the soul came forth from the body at death and is as much more important than the body as the man is than the tent in which he lives4 ,proved also the conscious existence of a soul in an intermediate state4 ,when through1 ,mr4 ,k----1 a poor silly ,adventist1 harangued some moments4 ,how confused the wretched ,adventist doctrine6 ,jan4 #a1 #ahge4 ,another year has rolled into eternity4 ,god is still favoring us with his kind care and preservation4 ,oh1 how many souls are in eternity today who with light hearts enjoyed friendly greetings and sumptuous festivities a year ago today6 ,some1 alas1 we fear1 have been cut down out of time1 who had no ,christ in the soul4 ,oh1 what a mockery are all the pleasures of the wicked6 ,true and warm hearts wished them a happy ,new ,year one year ago today2 but alas1 their sins have made it the year of their doom to eternal misery4 ,o ,god6 give us grace to enable us to spend our years to thy glory4 ,companion and ,i spent the day very pleasantly in ,seward with4444 ,the two ladies are sisters1 and old friends and acquaintances of ,ohio4 ,they had a sumptuous feast4 ,we sang a few hymns1 read a chapter1 and knelt in prayer to our ,father in heaven4 ,then came home4 #b4 ,took ,sarah to ,brother ,anderson's and started to visit the church in ,fillmore ,county1 a distance of about thirty miles4 ,stopped in ,nickleville and fed ,mattie ,blaze4 ,warmed and ate my dinner in a store4 ,reached ,brother ,weeter's a little after dark4 ,the brother was gone and ,i was so cold ,i could hardly put my pony away4 ,sister ,w4 soon got me some supper1 and after eating hastily ,i set out afoot one and one half miles to the schoolhouse4 ,found three brethren there4 ,no light4 ,gave them a short discourse from ,heb4 #aj3ce4 #c4 ,sabbath4 ,some brethren tried for two hours to get the old sod schoolhouse warm1 but the stove was so poor they failed4 ,they then came up to ,brother ,horton's1 where ,i spoke to a little band of brethren and sisters from ,heb4 #i3af1ag4 ,started for ,brother ,moffitt's4 ,quite cold and stormy4 ,stopped at ,bro4 ,p4 ,h4 ,griggs4 ,talked till a late hour on ,scripture4 ,the brother is troubled with the no-organization doctrine advocated by ,johnson1 editor of the ,stumbling ,stone4 ,the brother confessed that elders and deacons are authorized in the ,new ,testament as the completion of the local organizations1 and in short the polity of the ,church of ,god is ,bible4 #e4 ,went to ,seward4 ,got coal and a box sent by ,father and ,mother ,keller4 #g4 ,helped ,wife wash4 ,read ,moral ,philosophy4 #h4 ,made apple butter of the frozen apples in the box sent by father-in-law4 #i4 ,very stormy and cold4 ,improved the time in mental and religious improvement4 #aj4 ,sabbath4 ,strange to find myself at home with no appointment4 ,meditated what to do4 ,having appointments here a week from today1 ,i concluded not to go this week to ,york ,county1 but hoping we would be favored with good weather ,i dispatched ,brother ,green to circulate appointments for tonight and during the week at ,occidental4 ,eve1 pretty good turnout4 #ah4 ,helped ,wife wash4 ,read and wrote4 ,devotion was sweet and precious this morn4 #ai4 ,at #ab3de ,p4 ,m4 started for ,york ,county1 about twenty-six miles4 ,reached destination at #f ,p4 ,m4 ,small turnout4 #ba4 ,this morn realized a precious nearness of ,christ in family worship4 ,spent two hours in private room reading ,testament and in prayer and meditation4 ,it was a precious season4 #be4 ,praise ,god for the great triumphs in his cause6 ,i am spending many hours on my knees praising ,god and imploring mercy for sinners4 ,what a glorious work6 #bg4 ,started for home4 ,dear ,wife was much cast down owing to my stay being longer than ,i had intended4 ,dear affectionate creature6 ,my absence seems to rob her of all the happiness of life4 ,it would be none the less the case with me were it not for the absorbing cause of ,god during my absence4 #bi4 ,strong wind from the west1 and not feeling well ,i did not go to ,york ,county4 ,read and wrote4 #cj4 ,quite stormy4 ,can not go to the meeting today4 ,spent the day in reading and writing1 prayer and meditation4 ,feb4 #ab1 #ahge4 ,wife1 ,i and names several others went to visit about two hundred ,omahas1 camped on the ,blue two miles from ,seward4 ,they were on their return from their winter's hunt4 ,were well-laden with robes and furs4 ,it was an interesting visit4 ,the squaws were busily engaged in dressing and tanning buffalo robes2 the men stood and looked on4 ,poor creatures6 ,they seemed to be but servants for the men4 ,how wrong and cruel such a custom6 ,we went into their wigwams2 but few could1 or at least would1 speak ,english4 ,the little papooses were amusing themselves by loading each other down with bundles of weeds1 etc41 in imitation of their pack-ponies4 ,they also had a tent constructed out of blankets4 ,one girl about twelve had a little papoose but a few weeks old tied on a board and hung on her back4 ,sometimes she would lay it down face up in the sun1 other times she had it on her back engaged in play with other children4 ,i could see a marked improvement in the rising generation in the moral and intellectual organs4 ,their more frequent contact with white people and a general tendency to improvement in the tribe renders the children far superior to their parents4 ,some ,i noticed were as well constituted as many white children4 ,one boy of about thirteen could spell quite well4 ,may the kind providence of ,god yet elevate this poor distressed people to a higher plane of intellectual1 moral1 and religious enjoyment4 ,the ,omahas are among our most honorable and refined tribes4 ,bought a fine robe for ten dollars4 ,cost in ,ohio about nineteen4 #af4 ,brother ,mc4 and ,i came to the ,oliver ,schoolhouse4 ,it was nearly enough to break my blessed wife's heart to have me leave her4 ,oh ,lord1 comfort her heart6 ,were it not that necessity is laid upon me1 ,i could not leave her4 ,house nearly full4 ,psa4 #he3f-h4 ,came home with friend ,mitchel4 ,turned cold4 #ag4 ,the house being a small shell1 ,i suffered much last night with cold4 ,arose and got overcoat4 ,fared some better but ached much and slept little4 ,spent the day till #d ,p4 ,m4 at ,mr4 ,m's4 ,talked much on religion4 ,he acknowledged that he always read the ,bible to condemn religion till ,i preached here last fall4 ,he is not convicted4 ,hope he will soon yield to ,god4 #ah4 ,i find that ,i have taken a severe cold from my cold night's lodging4 ,after dinner examined ,brother ,hibbard's head4 ,a meeting two and one half miles south has been in progress some over two weeks and for a few nights there has been some interest1 hence ,i must go there4 #ba4 ,sabbath4 ,had good speaking-meeting4 ,preached on ,jer4 #f3af4 ,was sent for to visit a sin-sick soul one and one half miles south4 ,brother ,oliver and ,i went1 found him1 ,bro4 ,john ,cowan1 scarcely able to be up1 in great distress of mind4 ,we read the ,word1 talked1 sang1 and prayed until ,god blessed his soul1 and we all rejoiced4 ,his mother shouted and anon praised ,god for ,winebrennerian religion1 declaring it was the old kind and as good as ,methodist ,episcopal or any other4 ,it was amusing to see them all come down from deep-rooted prejudices4 ,the brother's feet and ankle-bones having received strength1 and he having eaten some1 came with us to meeting4 #bb4 ,had family prayer-meeting at #aa ,a4 ,m4 ,examined ,brother ,mitchell and gave him a phrenological chart4 #bc4 ,stormy4 ,a few of us met for prayer4 ,staid all day at ,brother ,hibbard's4 ,no meeting4 ,oh how ,i longed to be with blessed companion this dreary day and night6 ,through the night ,i spent hours listening to the muttering storm4 ,recalled all the draws between there and home1 wondered if any were filled so as to be impassable4 ,determined to go home the next day if the driving snow would allow me to see three rods4 #bd4 ,morning came and the storm nearly subsided4 ,started for home4 ,mattie ,blaze got into a snow drift in which she could not reach the ground4 ,could not go through4 ,had to get out and get her loose from the buggy4 ,took her to ,brother ,hafer's1 nearby4 ,warmed myself1 then drew the buggy back1 hitched up1 and drove out another way4 ,got home all right4 ,saw ,sarah's smiling face4 ,thank ,god1 the dear creature is well4 ,march4 #b1 #ahge4 ,we had a glorious day meeting4 ,how my heart leaped with joy to see my beloved ,brother ,anderson reclaimed again6 ,he has been a special object of my prayers4 ,he is a brother ,i dearly love4 #e4 ,good day meeting4 ,brother ,briggs related how his little step-daughter was blessed here yesterday4 ,she told her mother that she felt the ,spirit of ,god knocking at her heart4 ,then ,brother ,warner came and took her by the hand and said1 ',give your heart to ,jesus1' and she said to ,jesus1 ',take my heart4' ,then she felt so happy4 ,she got up and spoke like a little soldier4 ,sister ,anderson also told of her little girl's singing ,good ,news ,gone to ,canaan last eve and she got happy and clapped her hands for joy4 #i4 ,went home with ,bro4 ,james ,a----4 ,tried to show the domestic duties of religion4 ,it is a delicate task1 but the shepherd often finds families that need plain talk on duties to each other and to ,god in the family4 ,religion should find its most sacred altar in the family circle4 ,there should its holy affections glow with the greatest warmth4 ,if religion in all its tender affections and holy fruits does not burn on the family altar1 the world will fail to see its light4 ,god bless this family4 #aj4 ,last night and today a terrible cloud rested on us all4 ,we felt as though the devil had triumphed somewhere4 #aa4 ,staid at home4 ,read and prayed4 ,felt much depressed4 ,something is wrong4 ,satan has a victory somewhere4 #ab4 ,the dark cloud1 thank ,god1 is passing4 ,find what the difficulty has been4 ,some of the young men who have been at the altar have been loafing and visiting saloons4 ,last night after meeting ,sister ,rebecca ,anderson told them of their inconsistency1 which ,i think has broken the devil's chain1 hence we had a good meeting today4 #ad4 ,sabbath4 ,preaching at #aa3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,eph4 #c3ad1ae4 ,proved the oneness of ,christians2 the fact that this oneness is not manifest to the world2 that it should be2 and how4 ,after preaching ,brother ,s---- got up and harangued in favor of sects4 ,he said ,i had doubt of my sincerity4 ,he believed ,i was a true ,christian if there was one in the world1 but what ,i had preached got him down in the heels4 ,he made no attempt to prove nor even assert that ,i had preached anything false4 ,in fact1 he never called up the question whether ,i had preached truth or not1 only that my preaching made him and others feel bad4 ,i told him that ,i had no doubt of it1 for ,paul had told us long ago that the time would come when men would not endure sound doctrine4 ,told him that ,i sympathized very much with him1 that ,i had been in the same dread dilemma when ,i was not willing to accept the whole truth2 it always hurt me to hear it4 ,in answer to questions ,i made him acknowledge to the truth of all that ,i had preached before the congregation4 ,after meeting1 ,brother ,b----1 another poor sectarianized soul1 pitched into me4 ,the people crowded around4 ,i made him confess that ,paul forbade ,christians at ,corinth to divide into sects4 ,brother ,riley1 a fine man recently converted1 seemed highly elated to hear the glorious doctrine of the ,word defended4 ,he will soon come into fellowship with the church4 ,bro4 ,lewis ,anderson1 who has enjoyed the meeting very much1 staid away today and tonight4 ,how fearful is a disturbed conscience6 ,brother ,hafer1 who is a good man filled with the ,spirit1 remarked a few days ago to ,brother ,houck that we were having a good meeting but he feared ,brother ,warner would spoil the good feeling by preaching on the church4 ,brother ,h4 told him that he need have no fears4 ,if ,brother ,w4 preached the truth1 it should not hurt a ,christian2 if error1 it is too weak to hurt anything4 ,he advised him to come and hear for himself4 ,he did so1 sat with his head down1 doubtless felt the force of truth but was too honest to trifle with it2 confessed that ,i had preached nothing but ,bible4 ,oh that the world were freed from the curse of human creeds1 that men could be at liberty to obey ,god6 ,we had a good and pleasant meeting4 ,my heart flowed with peace4 #ah4 ,dear ,sarah very sick most of the afternoon4 ,confinement4 ,i too felt nearly overcome at her suffering4 ,had a season of prayer and was much comforted4 ,had the assurance that she would get along well from this time4 ,she was no more so sick4 ,at #f ,p4 ,m4 the ,lord delivered her of a large daughter1 #h pounds4 ,thank ,god for his goodness6 ,and now1 ,o ,lord6 another sacred charge is committed to our trust4 ,this day we acknowledge new responsibilities laid upon us4 ,thou hast committed to our care a pure and spotless soul4 ,give us grace and wisdom that we may bring up this dear child sound in body and mind1 pure and innocent in heart and life1 that thou1 ,o ,god1 its ,maker1 may be honored and glorified by its life and career on earth4 ,o ,god6 thou author of its being1 this night ,i bow before thy throne and consecrate this precious household gem to thee4 ,thou hast given it to us1 and we wait not for one sun to pass over its head until we lay it upon the altar of consecration to ,god1 that all its days may be thine4 ,o ,god6 we solemnly vow to rear this child for thee4 ,shouldst thou see fit to leave it to grow up under our care1 we shall bless thee for its angelic society2 and shouldst thou rather choose to take it to thyself in the dewy time of youth1 ,o ,lord6 we can not murmur2 for thine it is and only entrusted to our care till it seemeth good for thee to commit it to wiser and more worthy care in a more congenial abode than this dreary1 sinful earth4 ,god bless the dear little creature6 #ai4 ,took care of dear ,wife4 #bj4 ,after taking care of ,wife and child1 went to ,seward4 ,when starting home ,mattie ,blaze stumbled1 fell1 and broke one of the shafts4 ,took buggy back to shop1 left it1 and rode home4 ,eve1 preached at ,occidental1 returned at eleven greatly exhausted4 ,great weakness of back from stooping continually over the bed taking care of dear ,wife and babe4 #bc4 ,sarah feeling rather worse4 ,p4 ,m41 went to ,seward4 ,have taken a bad cold1 being up so much of nights4 #be4 ,am constantly taking care of dear ,wife and child4 ,they are getting along fine1 thank ,god4 ,quite warm4 ,birds are singing4 ,summer appears2 nature is awakening from her long winter slumbers4 #bg4 ,for some days ,i have had a severe conflict in my mind concerning my leaving to fill appointments in ,fillmore ,county4 ',twas hard to think of leaving dear ,wife yet confined to her bed1 as our girl has made no attempts to take care of her or child because ,i preferred to do it and she had no experience4 ,hard as it seemed for dear ,wife1 duty seemed all along to say ,i should go4 ,i determined to do so4 ,preparations were made to go1 but when the moment was at hand ,wife wept1 and fearing a want of care and too much anxiety might bring on a relapse ,i felt it my solemn duty to stay and take care of her4 ,p4 ,m41 went to ,seward and tried to get a place to preach ,sabbath eve1 feeling that ,i dare not spend the ,lord's day without doing something for ,christ2 but ,i failed to get a place to preach4 #bh4 ,this is ,easter ,day4 ,spent the day in solitude with dear ,wife and daughter4 ,wife feeling pretty well2 sat up much of the day for the first except a short time yesterday4 ,think this is the second ,sabbath in eight years that ,i have not preached the ,word of ,god4 ,the day was mostly spent in reading and meditation4 ,felt ill at ease that ,i could not be preaching somewhere4 #ca4 ,terrible storm all day4 ,about five inches of snow fell4 ,drifted much4 ,apr4 #b1 #ahge4 ,sister ,sarah ,anderson1 our girl1 became home-sick and would stay no longer4 ,could not leave to fill appointments in ,york and ,polk ,counties4 ,deeply regretted that ,i could not be with the dear brethren1 but could get no one to take care of ,wife and child2 besides1 the roads were almost impassable4 #c4 ,pitched into housework as usual4 ,did the cooking and washed dishes4 ,sarah quite sick this ,a4 ,m4 #d4 ,sabbath4 ,did up the work this morn1 and though late ,i started for prayer-meeting1 thinking ,i could get there in time to have at least one prayer with the dear brethren4 ,found they had just closed their prayer-meeting4 ,i read a chapter1 talked some1 and sang and prayed with them4 ,my heart was full4 ,having been kept at home from public worship for some weeks1 ,i felt as a bird set at liberty4 ,bless ,god for the privilege of appearing in his courts to offer our sacrifice of praise6 ,returned home4 ,found dear ,wife and child asleep1 both feeling very well4 ,the little creature slept right on till night4 ,sarah and ,i spent the time pleasantly reading and talking of our blessed hope of glory4 ,my heart was light and happy4 ,bro4 ,david ,figard today kindly invited me to move into his house4 ,thank ,god for this kindness4 ,the brethren know that we have not a very pleasant place to live1 yet ,i have no room for complaints1 but much occasion for thanks4 #g4 ,p4 ,m41 heavy rains4 ,about a mile to the southeast of ,seward there was a great waterspout extending from a black cloud to the earth4 ,it was a grand and sublime sight4 ,as it followed a high ridge on the opposite side of the ,blue ,river valley from us we had a beautiful view of it4 ,we could see the water strike the ground and a dense spray arise around it resembling smoke4 ,i have learned that it tore one house and a wagon to pieces4 #i4 ,drove to ,brother ,figard's via ,seward4 ,our ride of about seven miles was the first for our dear little ,levilla ,modest4 #ab4 ,about one last night ,i took quite sick with1 ,i suppose1 cholera morbus4 ,sick all day4 ,sorry ,i could not go to ,polk ,county1 but it is necessary that blessings disguised in affliction come at times as well as the almost constant blessing of health4 ,tonight1 ,i think1 is the third appointment in eight years that ,i have missed through my physical disability4 #ac4 ,drove to ,york ,county4 ,called at ,father ,fenton's1 a ,united ,brethren preacher1 who is poorly4 ,found also another aged pilgrim in the family1 who desired me to bring him some good books to read4 ,being anxious to bestow some kindness on this good old ,methodist father1 ,i left a book with him that ,i was taking home1 having had it lent for some time4 ,had a season of prayer and then some conversation on the hope of the saints4 #ad4 ,found that my appointment which ,i had failed to reach had proved a blessing after all1 for they had a good prayer-meeting4 ,appointed another for the following ,sabbath eve1 which was a success also and resulted in the organization of a ,sabbath-school1 which is under the officership of those who hold with the church of ,god4 ,prospects are good here4 ,a railroad-station is expected close by4 ,p4 ,m41 drove to ,fillmore ,county4 ,how beautiful and pleasing1 yea1 charming1 even to making happy1 the day and the landscape6 #ag4 ,brothers ,figard and ,j4 ,h4 ,anderson moved us today to ,brother ,f's4 #bj4 ,drove to ,polk ,county4 ,distance1 twenty-eight miles4 ,found the brotherhood well and hungry for the gospel4 #bc4 ,wife and ,i drove to ,indian ,creek1 ,fillmore ,county1 distance1 thirty-four miles4 #bf4 ,wife and ,i went to ,seward4 ,asked for the ,presbyterian meeting-house for ,ministerial ,association in case we are refused the ,methodist ,episcopal house4 ,found the latter wished to reserve some of the time hence accepted the ,presbyterian house4 ,had programs printed4 #bg4 ,drove to ,polk ,county and planted fruit trees4 #bh4 ,planted trees1 potatoes1 and garden seeds until after #d ,p4 ,m4 ,at five minutes past five started for ,wilson schoolhouse1 about fifteen and one half miles4 ,reached in time4 #a ,pet4 #a3ac4 ,this is a new point1 with good prospects4 ',tis only a half mile from where it is said there will be a station on the ,midland ,pacific1 which is now being extended to ,york ,center4 ,may #b1 #ahge4 ,sabbath4 ,stormy4 ,went home with ,brother ,price1 it being handy and the weather bad4 ,several came there to spend the afternoon4 ,the time passed off very pleasantly singing1 and ,i lectured some on moral and mental culture4 ,examined some heads4 #d4 ,a4 ,m41 wrote letters4 ,p4 ,m41 went to ,seward4 ,completed arrangements for ,ministerial ,association4 #e4 ,sarah and ,i drove over to the ,blue4 ,had a pleasant time fishing4 ,caught a mess4 #h4 ,visited ,brother ,mitchell's4 ,left ,wife there and drove over to visit ,brother ,lichty4 ,he was one of our seekers when ,i closed the meeting last winter4 ,i was anxious to see him2 but he being from home1 ,i was disappointed4 ,found them quite poor4 ,large family of children4 ,live in dugout4 ,mrs4 ,lichty quite unwell1 which added to the distressful appearance of things4 ,talked to the woman and children about ,jesus and heaven4 ,read1 prayed1 and sang with them4 ,distributed fifty cents among the children4 #ac4 ,studied for ,ministerial ,association4 #ad4 ,ministerial ,association began4 ,went early to town4 ,glad to meet 4441 but was very much disappointed to learn that 444 could not be with us4 #ae4 ,i discoursed on the polity of the ,church of ,god in lieu of ,brother ,howard4 #af4 ,sabbath4 ,this is ,pentecost day4 ,thank ,god for the beautiful weather4 ,all nature seems to be waking from its long winter slumber to praise ,god4 ,the beautiful prairie is green with grain and pastures4 ,the valleys are dotted with herds of cattle1 which1 as well as they on a thousand hills1 are the ,lord's4 ,the beautiful streams are lined with plum-bushes all in bloom4 ,the groves are preparing to cheer the heart of the prairie inhabitants with their pleasant shady foliage4 ,at eleven ,brother ,aller preached in the ,methodist ,episcopal house and ,i preached the ,pentecostal sermon in the ,presbyterian house4 ,acts #b3a-d4 ,at #c ,p4 ,m4 ,brother ,aller preached a glorious and lovely sermon on the brotherhood of the saints4 ,deep and lasting impressions were made4 ,how powerfully this dear brother preached for the unity of the saints of ,god1 with the eloquence of tears and overflowing love6 ,we parted with brotherly greetings at a quite late hour to meet at ,crete second ,tuesday in ,september4 #ag4 ,went to ,brother ,green's4 ,while there ,brother ,s---- came in4 ,we were just ready to engage in prayer4 ,the ,lord wonderfully blessed me in prayer4 ,i prayed fervently for him1 though he has been acting the part of an open enemy to me and the cause ,i represent4 ,went to ,seward4 ,received fifty dollars from the ,board4 ,called on ,bro4 ,j4 ,w4 ,figard1 who is applying himself vigorously to the pursuit of an education4 ,hope the ,lord will raise him up for an effectual minister of the gospel4 #ba4 ,made out report to the ,general ,eldership4 #bc4 ,sabbath4 ,this was a glorious and happy day's work in the vineyard of the ,lord4 ,the ,master was very near me all day4 ,oh what liberty in speaking6 what peace in my soul6 #bf4 ,up at daylight4 ,brothers ,figard and ,anderson moved our things to homestead4 ,we arrived about #a ,p4 ,m41 they in the eve4 ,unloaded1 took supper1 and staid all night in our house4 ,here the record of ,brother ,warner's labors in the ,western field must end abruptly1 as the succeeding portion was in a separate book that has not been found4 ,we leave him with his little family just moved into their own house in ,polk ,county1 having spent the winter near ,seward4 ,our next of the diary accounts begins in the following ,december and finds him back in ,ohio fields1 whither1 probably by decision of the ,board of ,missions or ,eldership he was called to labor again4 ,the daily accounts which have been omitted for want of space show him always active--traveling1 preaching1 visiting1 praying1 etc4 ,the selections that are given from his diary are chosen in order to display the various sides and aspects of his life and character4 ,we have noticed his great zeal for the work of preaching the gospel and caring for those under his charge4 ,the widely separated flocks meant much traveling and exposure in that new country4#d ,we note his attitude and teaching on the church question4 ,in a large measure he had light on the true ,bible church1 and he supposed he was not a member of any sect when1 as a matter of fact1 he was4 ,the benefits of his knowledge and teachings of the one church were directed in the interest of the so-called church of ,god1 which he was ignorantly laboring to build up4 ,it was not until he received the experience of perfect holiness and began to teach the truth on the subject that he was made to feel his limitations to human ecclesiasticism and thus discover the pen he was in4#e ,his teachings and applications of the ,scriptural church 7there is but one7 was possible only among the followers of ,john ,winebrenner or in some similar body supposing themselves to be that one true church4 ,it is an interesting fact that upon the fulness of time for ,god's people to throw off all human ecclesiastical bondage and sever themselves from spiritual ,babylon1 the lead was taken principally by those who had belonged to the ,winebrennerian following4 ,thus this denominational body may be regarded as a sort of preparatory medium1 or half-way step1 for the reformation which is now an established thing4 ,at any rate ,god had in ,brother ,warner raised up a man particularly disposed to emphasize the church question1 and the denomination mentioned seemed to be the only one he could affiliate with till more advanced light and truth forbade his remaining longer with them4 ,,footnotes3 #c ,dr4 ,forney1 in his ,history of the ,churches of ,god1 says of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner's mission work in ,nebraska1 that in ,february1 #ahgd1 he organized a church at ,fairmount1 ,fillmore ,county1 of twenty-four members4 ,also one at ,cropsey1 one at ,evergreen1 one in the ,anderson community1 ,seward ,county1 of sixteen members1 and one other4 ,he had fourteen preaching places4 #d ,dr4 ,forney says that in ,june1 #ahge1 ,brother ,warner organized a church in ,york ,county of thirty-one members1 and further says of his work in ,nebraska that to such an extent were the ministers and churches encouraged that1 they conferred together on the advisability of organizing an ,eldership in ,nebraska4 ,brother ,warner notes in his diary account for ,nov4 #g1 #ahgd1 that a ,preliminary ,eldership was organized at ,crete1 in ,saline ,county4 ,application was made to the ,general ,eldership1 which assembled in ,ohio in ,may1 #ahge1 and an ,eldership of the ,church of ,god in ,nebraska was chartered4 ,the first meeting of the ,nebraska ,eldership was held at ,cropsey1 ,oct4 #a1 #ahge4 ,among the fifteen names enrolled ,brother ,warner's does not appear1 hence we conclude that by that time he had left ,nebraska4 #e ,that his disposition to be freely led of ,god made him poor material for a human ecclesiastical machine is evinced in the account by ,dr4 ,forney of the ,eighteenth ,west ,ohio ,eldership1 for the year ending ,sept4 #cj1 #ahgd4 ,he says3 ,the beginning of trouble between ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and the ,eldership is foreshadowed in an action on the adoption of his report1 which stated that he had 'organized a church in ,upper ,sandusky contrary to the ,rules of ,cooperation1' and regarding this as a 'schismatic movement1' highly disapproved of his course in organizing said church4 ,,vii ,,back ,,in ,,ohio ,,fields ,in his resumption of the work in ,ohio we find ,brother ,warner in charge1 it seems1 of the ,ashland circuit1 with his home at ,hayesville1 ,ashland ,county4 ,here1 as was characteristic of him everywhere1 he was wholly absorbed in spiritual labor1 the salvation of sinners and the general spiritual welfare of people everywhere within his reach4 ,in his diary for ,dec4 #ba1 #ahge1 he says3 ,went out visiting and talking to the people4 ,my soul was so happy all day that ,i could hardly refrain from shouting4 ,oh1 how sweet it was to talk to sinners about ,jesus and his love6 ,found in shops and houses a number of precious souls that were serious4 ,i admonished them to repent4 ,some gave much hope of a start4 ,the closing moments of the year #ahge were devoted to a renewal of consecration of himself and others4 ,a few minutes before twelve we all bowed down and to the service of ,god consecrated ourselves and vowed fidelity4 ,god accepted the offering and sealed our vows to him by the gift of his ,spirit4 ,after affectionate ,new ,year greetings and congratulations1 we went to our homes to rest4 ,into his congregation at ,shenandoah an ,elder ,l---- had come and was poisoning the minds of the converts by teaching the ,campbellite doctrine of baptism as an essential condition to the pardon of sin4 ,he afterward held a public discussion with this preacher4#f ,feb4 #ai1 #ahgf4 ,drove to ,shenandoah4 ,found ,elder ,l---- having a good time deluding and baptizing sinners4 ,found the converts greatly strengthened by the wind of doctrine that had been assailing them4 ,however1 a few had been corrupted by the false doctrine and were inclined to go from the ,church of ,god1 being carried by the wind of doctrine4 ,with a mean1 sneaking look they applied for letters4 ,i told them that ,i had not taken them into the ,church of ,god and could not dismiss them from it1 and there was only one way to get out and that was through sin4 ,this they could not deny1 nor could they give a reason for their course4 ,about this time he gradually came into the knowledge of the truth respecting divine healing1 and we find in his accounts an occasional reference to his praying for the sick and of their recovery4 ,he was sent for by his father-in-law to come to ,upper ,sandusky1 where sectarians were making inroads among the converts4 ,april #b1 #ahgf4 ,the sectarians are making a stampede this morning4 ,they have been after about every convert to go to their church and now this morning they have their conclave outside and every convert is stopped and asked to join the ,methodists4 ,an excitement is raised and the people's minds are bewildered1 and some who had said they would stick to the ,church of ,god are now standing back4 ,before closing1 an old bigot1 belonging to the ,methodists1 took the liberty to get up and call for all to raise their hands who wanted to go to ,methodism4 ,some responded4 ,o ,sectarianism6 thou abomination of the earth1 thou bane of the cause of ,god1 when will thy corrupt and wicked walls fall to earth and cease to curse men to hell8 ,june #d1 #ahgf4 ,this is the second anniversary of our marriage4 ,thank ,god for connubial and domestic happiness4 ,may ,god continue to bless us with love1 peace1 and sacred union4 ,july #ah1 #ahgf4 ,received the sad and startling news of the death of my dear mother4 ,she died ,july #ac4 ,the days of her pilgrimage were seventy-one years1 five months1 and seven days4 ,hers was a life of trouble and care4 ,but1 thank ,god1 she has gone to her sweet rest in heaven4 ,oh1 how sacred the memory of thy pure and virtuous life6 patient in tribulation1 constant and untiring in thy kindness and care for all under thy roof4 ,oh1 what love like a mother's6 ,what mother like my own dear1 sainted mother8 ,in all the ordeal of life thy calm and peaceful spirit has never known a ruffle4 ,thy love has never once failed4 ,thy sorely tried patience never was exhausted4 ,dearest mother1 in childhood and youth thou wast my all4 ,and when maturer years had launched my bark in the midst of awful breakers1 dark clouds1 and tempestuous seas of corrupt society1 thy pure life was my only star of hope4 ,thank ,god1 thou shalt be honored in heaven with the salvation of one poor1 wayward son by thy holy influence4 ,praise the ,lord for a good and holy mother6 ,she was always strongly inclined to piety1 the fear and reverence of ,god4 ,in ,october1 #ahgj1 she was fellowshiped by the ,church of ,god at ,south ,bridgewater and the same day immersed by me in the ,st4 ,joseph ,river4 ,though she was feeble and the weather cold and the distance over three miles from home1 she chose to go home before changing clothes4 ,she was a happy soul1 and the next day seemed quite improved in health4 ,now she is gone4 ,one of the dearest ties that bound me to earth now attracts me to heaven4 ,i can not lament her departure4 ,i only grieve that ,i was not informed of her affliction that ,i could have been there to cheer her while approaching the river4 ,or1 had ,i only been apprized of her death that ,i could have seen once more the face of my own dear mother before she was laid in the tomb6 ,but ,i shall see her not again until the heavens are no more and the ,son of ,god shall come to call the saints from the dust of the earth4 ,farewell1 dear mother4 ,we soon shall meet again4 ,july #bi4 ,we visited the penitentiary in ,columbus4 ,over #a1cjj prisoners4 ,all at work manufacturing nearly everything in use4 ,the extensive work was interesting1 but the study of the heads and faces of the workmen was much more so4 ,one striking characteristic was1 almost invariably1 great firmness4 ,this being perverted enabled them to execute their dark crimes4 ,conscientiousness was low in every head4 ,this left them without moral restraint4 ,some ,i observed were very deficient in the social group1 especially was inhabitiveness almost entirely deficient4 ,this gave a rambling disposition1 hence irresponsible and exposed to bad society4 ,a large majority exhibited a very good intellect1 many even above mediocrity4 ,these intellectual powers1 which had they been sanctified to ,god would have been very useful1 being perverted were used only to devise crime4 ,oct4 #a1 #ahgf4 ,eldership meeting at ,findlay4 ,i was much overcome with emotion as ,i tried to speak of my meeting with the ,eldership for the first time in that house nine years ago4 ,never shall ,i forget the solemn feelings ,i experienced at that time4 ,i had not expected a license2 but how ,i trembled with fear and dread when ,i learned that a license and a field of labor were given me6 ,i thought it all a mistake of the ,eldership4 ,i repaired to the stable of ,brother ,f----1 where ,i poured out my heart to ,god in prayer4 ,bless ,god1 he heard me and comforted my agonizing heart4 ,i then received the assurance that he was directing my way4 ,my soul was unburdened and my peace flowed like a river4 ,and now my laboring soul and inmost heart would give thanks to ,god who has upheld me in the arduous labors of the past nine years4 ,having begun an invalid1 supposed by many to be a consumptive1 my strength has gradually increased through ,god's blessings and mercies4 #cj4 ,gathered some chestnuts this morning4 ,had a season of prayer in the woods4 ,nov4 #cj1 #ahgf4 ,this is ,thanksgiving ,day4 ,oh1 that the whole nation would indeed thank ,god for his goodness and mercy6 ,brother ,oliver and ,i each made a short discourse on the occasion4 ,p4 ,m41 read ,o4 ,s4 ,fowler's ,physiology1 ,animal and ,mental4 ,o ,god1 forgive me of the sin this book has convicted me of4 ,by the grace of ,god1 from this day forth ,i will reform in quantity1 etc41 of food as much as my irregular mode of life will allow4 ,how much ,i can improve the vigor of the mind and the fervor of devotion6 ,thank ,god for this volume6 ,oh1 that every one had it who is suffering for want of its instruction6 ,dec4 #ca1 #ahgf4 ,sabbath4 ,arose early to go to my appointments4 ,levilla ill4 ,mother ,keller very sick with headache1 unable to be up4 ,was compelled to stay at home4 ,oh1 what distress of mind ,i was in this day through the fearful conflict of duty to family and duty to the cause6 ,how wretched ,i felt all day6 ,the day was pleasant and ,i know there were crowded houses to hear the gospel4 ,how ,i longed to preach to them6 ,january #g1 #ahgg4 ,went to visit ,mr4 ,s----1 who is suffering awful distress4 ,was met by a young man who was coming after us4 ,we went with the hope that the poor1 dying man was eager to hear of ,christ and his salvation2 but oh1 horror of horrors6 ,when we approached the house we heard the poor soul hollowing out in wild strains3 ,i can't die2 ,i can't die4 ,i asked him if we should pray for him4 ,he hollowed out ,no6 ,but ,i thought he was delirious and concluded to sing and pray with him1 which ,i did with all my heart4 ,after prayer ,i talked with the family and learned that he had said he was a lost sinner1 that he could not be saved4 ,i asked him if we should pray4 ,he shook his head4 ,i talked to him of how ,christ died for sinners and how he loved and desired to save him2 but there was a hideous look in his eyes4 ,he looked frightful1 yet he was conscious1 answered every question we could ask him4 ,i called for oil and said ,i would do as the ,new ,testament directed4 ,so ,i bowed down1 anointed his forehead1 and was about to anoint his breast when he seized his shirt and drew it together4 ,i laid one hand on his head1 the other on his body1 and began to pray4 ,he drew his head forward and tried to get it under the cover4 ,he shoved my hand from under his head4 ,i could pray but little4 ,he told every one present that he did not want us to come back4 ,he said he would die2 was not prepared to die2 did not believe that ,christ died for him2 did not love ,christ and did not want to4 ,he showed every appearance of being possessed by the devil4 ,when we kept our distance he would turn and look at us with fiendish vengeance4 ,when we approached he would turn his face to the wall4 ,poor soul6 soon he will be in eternity1 ,i presume1 and yet raging mad against ,christ and his people4 ,i shall never forget the horrors of this day4 ,when we entered the first room we met several women weeping4 ,the old mother fainted away4 ,he was crying loudly in the other room4 ,in #ahgg1 while on the ,ashland circuit ,brother ,warner arranged1 in connection with ministerial duties1 to take some selective studies at ,vermillion ,college1 located at ,hayesville4 ,this was a ,presbyterian school of some note at the time1 enrolling three hundred to four hundred students4 ,it was founded in #ahde4 ,dr4 ,sanders ,diefendorf became its head in #ahdi4 ,brother ,warner and his wife were invited to occupy rooms in the building1 and they did so1 as they found they could live much cheaper there than in ,mansfield and would enjoy better privileges of study4 ,they engaged five rooms for the summer of #ahgg1 which cost them six dollars a month4 ,among ,brother ,warner's studies at this place were ,english ,analysis1 ,greek1 ,german1 and studies in the ,new ,testament4 ,he took an active part in the literary society4 ,the year #ahgg was a notable one in ,brother ,warner's life4 ,already accomplished as he was in deep spirituality and devotion1 it would seem that these graces were multiplied or intensified tenfold by an attainment that from this year became his permanent possession4 ,that attainment was the experience of entire sanctification as received definitely by faith and subsequent to regeneration4 ,he embraced the cause of holiness4 ,he had been for some years honestly prejudiced against the doctrine2 but he heard some truth by the holiness advocates that set him to thinking4 ,it was doubtless largely through the influence of his father-in-law's family that he began to be won to the doctrine4 ,they had become friends of the holiness cause and had received the experience4 ,his wife also was sanctified1 and the change in her was a test that he had no words to gainsay4 ,a holiness band had been formed at ,upper ,sandusky1 where his wife's people lived4 ,the one minister who perhaps more than any other led him into the experience of holiness1 was ,c4 ,r4 ,dunbar1 a ,baptist who was laboring in connection with the ,holiness ,alliance4 ,brother ,warner says of him1 ,he is a very able man intellectually1 but still more potent in faith and gospel1 ,holy ,ghost power4 ,he was the musical author of the song1 now so common3 ,i'll live for him who died for me1 ,how happy then my life shall be6 ,i'll live for him who died for me1 ,my ,savior and my ,god4 ,the great holiness movement was sweeping over the country at this time4 ,brother ,warner was too loyal to ,god and to the teaching of the ,bible ever to be classed among those who should reject holiness when brought face to face with the issue4 ,he and his wife gave their names to the holiness band at ,upper ,sandusky1 and he quoted the words of the ,psalmist3 ,i am a companion of all them that fear thee1 and of them that keep thy precepts4 ,at this time his impulsiveness led him to claim the blessing at once1 but he soon found that it could not be picked up so readily2 that for him1 as well as for others1 there was a consecration to make and self to be crucified4 ,a little anecdote in this connection is told by a brother who heard ,brother ,warner relate it of himself4 ,he 7,brother ,warner7 had been attending some meetings of the holiness people and had received some light4 ,on returning to his charge he preached a sermon on holiness without having obtained the experience4 ,two sisters who had received the experience knew that he did not yet have it and urged that he get it before attempting to preach it4 ,at the altar service that followed he got down as if to pray for others1 but first prayed privately for his own sanctification4 ,then audibly he began1 ,lord1 sanctify us1 whereupon one of the sisters said1 ,brother ,warner1 do not pray1 ',lord1 sanctify us'2 but say1 ',lord1 sanctify me4' ,at this he wilted and came right out with ,lord1 sanctify me4 ,we shall quote freely from his diary1 as his experience at this time is best expressed by his own words4 ,april #ac1 #ahgg4 ,had much talk with ,brother ,dunbar on sanctification4 ,i have always believed in a full salvation1 and agree that it is usually obtained after the justified state4 ,this was my experience as well as that of all advocates of holiness2 but ,i was inclined to attribute the deficiency of the justified state to infantile weakness1 which through outward sinful influence1 was not able to carry out the pure nature fully in practise4 ,but he and all sanctificationists attribute it to the remaining depravity of nature4 #af4 ,since ,i arose this morning my constant prayer to ,god has been that he will lead me in all things4 ,i pray ,god to take me like an old sack and shake me until entirely empty1 and then fill me with the fulness of himself4 ,o ,god6 turn out every nook and corner of my heart and purge me1 soul1 body1 spirit1 and mind4 ,i received a blessing about the time ,i entered the ministry that seemed to correspond with the experience of sanctified ones2 but ,i have not always kept that state of perfect love1 and my ,god knows that ,i need a fresh blessing of sanctification power4444 ,though ,i experienced sanctification ten years ago1 when entering upon the work of the ministry1 yet ,i want and need a renewal of ,god's power1 that my testimony for ,god may be more effectual4 ,also1 ,i know that ,i have not always lived in this glorious liberty4 ,i have this day examined my heart carefully and feel assured that ,i accept the whole will of ,god and now stand by faith upon the promise of ,god4 ,i leave myself and all my concerns in his hands4 ,by faith ,i say1 ,i am the ,lord's1 and he is mine4 ,here ,brother ,warner quotes the poem1 ,farther ,on4 ,how appropriate this was to his life at this point6 ,how much of his activity and accomplishment were enveloped in the farther on6 ,a soft1 sweet voice from ,eden stealing1 ,such as but the angels sing2 ,hope's cheering song is ever thrilling1 ,it is better farther on4 ,i hear ,hope singing1 sweetly singing ,softly in an undertone1 ,and singing as if ,god had taught her1 ,it is better farther on4 ,by night and day she sings the same song1 ,sings it while ,i sit alone2 ,and sings it so the heart may hear it1 ,it is better farther on4 ,she sits upon the grave and sings it1 ,sings it when the heart would groan2 ,and sings it when the shadows darken1 ,it is better farther on4 ,still farther on1 oh1 how much farther8 ,count the milestones one by one2 ,no1 no6 no counting1 only trusting-- ,it is better farther on4 ,april #be1 #ahgg4 ,i was dull today4 ,study was a drag4 ,i prayed to ,god that if ,i am pursuing these studies for his glory he should quicken my mind4 ,i was1 as oft before1 convinced that ,i ate too much1 which stupefied my mind2 hence resolved1 as oft before1 to quit gormandizing to gratify appetite4 ,i resolved in ,god's name and in his strength to do this thing4 ,i ate but a few spoonfuls of graham mush for supper4 ,felt cheered by ,god's presence in evening worship4 #bf4 ,my mind was active today4 ,lessons were easily learned1 spirits cheerful1 recitations more successful4 ,o ,lord1 keep me in the possession of a clear1 active1 and retentive mind1 a pure heart1 and a consecrated life1 devoted to ,god's service4 ,may #ai1 #ahgg4 ,had a very interesting meeting in the ,excelsior ,society4 ,m4 ,j4 ,boyd and ,i conducted the main discussion on the following question3 ,do ,we ,suffer ,more from ,real ,than ,imaginary ,evils8 ,i affirmed4 #bg4 ,sabbath4 ,beautiful day4 ,arose early and1 taking a testament with me1 ,i took a long walk1 enjoying the precious pure air1 the beauties of nature1 and communion with ,god through his ,word and ,spirit4 ,read and meditated upon several chapters4 ,precious season in family worship4 ,just when we were through with breakfast the boy raised the cry that the house was on fire4 ,we ran to the bedroom and found the curtains and clothing around the wall in a blaze4 ,great excitement prevailed4 ,but soon by means of a few pails of water and by throwing some of the burning fabrics out1 the fire was extinguished with the loss only of some clothing4 ,the fire was started by a small child1 who finding a match on the candlestick1 struck it and then dropped it on the end of the curtain that reached to the floor4 ,june #a1 #ahgg4 ,prepared and delivered a lecture before the ,excelsior ,society on the ,interrelation between ,mind and ,body1 and their ,mutual ,dependence4 #g4 ,built steps over the fence to avoid having the gate left open1 as much of my cabbage has already been destroyed4 ,as a consideration1 ,professor agreed to give me more ground to garden4 #h4 ,worked on an essay for the ,society tonight1 also on a composition for the ,board1 to be criticized4 ,eve1 met with the ,excelsior ,society and entered upon the duties of secretary4 ,there being few present1 all other exercises were dispensed with but a general discussion on the subject1 ,is ,force ,more ,effectual in ,government than ,persuasion4 ,i took the negative4 ,mr4 ,w4 ,diefendorf also spoke on the negative4 ,the vote was almost unanimous for the negative4 #ae4 ,a4 ,m41 recitations as usual4 ,p4 ,m41 prepared for ,society4 ,rained all afternoon and evening4 ,no ,excelsior meeting4 ,visited the ,philo ,society4 ,participated in general discussion on the following question3 ,is the ,fear of ,punishment a ,greater ,incentive to ,exertion than the ,hope of ,reward8 ,spoke on the negative4 ,large majority in our favor on the final vote4 ,july #e1 #ahgg4 ,met at half-past nine in the ,bethel4 ,after a profitable season of prayer1 reading the ,word1 testifying1 etc41 ,i presented myself at the altar to seek entire sanctification4 ,i enjoyed that blessing ten years ago1 but ,i had all this time repudiated the second work and accounted for the wonderful change that ,god had wrought in me at that time to my yielding to the call to preach the blessed gospel of ,jesus1 after being disobedient4 ,i had often been disgusted1 too1 with the fanaticism ,i saw mixed with the professors of the second work2 it had steeped me with prejudice through and through4 ,though ,i could not deny that the experience of these people was in perfect harmony with my own1 yet ,i strongly opposed their views1 claiming that ,god does not do his work by piecemeal1 but that he makes a full and complete finish of it at once4 ,i attributed the second experience to the fact that after conversion we are weak infants and not able to carry into action the pure nature that ,god has given us until we grow to that degree of strength that we can successfully cope with outer temptation1 and that holy nature given to us in regeneration reaches a degree of development in strength that it will no more be under subjection to sin in the world around us4 ,thus1 while ,i did not doubt the truthfulness of their testimony4 ,i thought ,i comprehended the whole matter and saw the slight mistake1 as ,i supposed1 in the basis of their experience4 ,but ,god having let ,father and ,mother ,keller and the whole family into this glorious experience1 with my dear companion1 ,i began to search the ,scriptures anew to see if ,i might not be mistaken myself4 ,i carefully reviewed my conversion and recollected that ,i sought and asked of ,god only pardon of my past sins and relief from my past guilt4 ,that in ten years labor1 in which some seven hundred souls came to ,christ1 ,i never knew one to seek for anything else but pardon for actual transgression2 and it is a fact that we do not ask of ,god that which we have not apprehended the need of1 and ,god does not give until we ask for a thing4 ,moreover1 it is claimed that justification is not a partial but complete work of itself1 and sanctification1 i4 e41 purification1 another4 ,since seeing every day the change in my dear wife ,i thought ,i was beyond doubt of this second work4 ,but1 ah1 the devil is rallying his forces against me4 ,am ,i making a fool of myself coming out here where ,i have invited and labored with sinners8 ,my old arguments would come up and ,i had powerful temptations to settle back upon them and forever repudiate the second work4 ,i obtained no light4 ,p4 ,m4 ,we met at half-past two and held meeting till nearly five4 ,i labored at the altar4 ,at night after ,brother ,burlison read a ,scripture lesson and talked for some time on holiness1 we all bowed around the altar2 but ,i could do nothing1 all was dark4 ,i came here fully believing in a second work of ,god in the soul2 but now1 as ,i attempt to seek it1 how thick the temptations of ,satan come up before me6 how all my old arguments and objections gather like rubbish1 obstructing the light6 ,sometimes ,i was about to conclude that this was all foolishness4 ,i was ashamed to bow at the altar and seek sanctification of soul1 body1 and spirit after ,i had invited sinners to and labored with them at the same altar4 #f4 ,arose early this morning and searched the ,scriptures and asked ,god for light4 ,i noticed whenever ,i felt resigned to ,god and was willing to make any sacrifice to know the truth ,i was strongly impressed to seek sanctification4 ,this morn ,i was directed to #a ,pet4 #e3aj and ,eph4 #c3ad-bj4 ,light is becoming brighter in the ,word4 ,thank ,god4 ,met at half-past nine4 ,the foundation of faith was now becoming strong in me4 ,i arose and read some portions of the ,word and boldly declared my faith in the second work1 and that ,i was resting in the promises of ,god to my entire sanctification4 ,met again1 at #b3cj ,p4 ,m41 having spent most of the interval in searching my heart1 and truly ,i found that it has not been as good as ,i before supposed4 ,oh how much self there has been in all my past labors6 ,god of power1 kill and cast out all of self4 ,i reviewed my observations of the past ten years' labor4 ,about seven hundred souls ,i have observed seeking salvation1 and ,i can not recall any who did not definitely seek for justification from past sins4 ,it appears that the condemned sinner can think of nothing else and does not possess a capacity to grasp the idea that ,god is able to destroy all evil in depraved humanity4 ,god1 forgive my past sins and help me in the future to keep from sin1 is about as great a blessing as the mind beclouded by guilt can conceive and ask for4 ,with a still more deep and fervent consecration ,i again sought the blessing of perfect holiness4 ,glory to ,god1 ,i was able to claim the blessing by faith1 though yet without the anointing of power4 ,after meeting ,i spent most of the time talking holiness to several brethren1 which ,i felt was pleasing to ,god4 ,eve1 ,brother ,burlison read #a ,corinthians #c1 and talked a little2 then1 an invitation being given1 a good many surrounded the altar1 several of whom were seeking the blessing4 ,thank ,god1 some professed to receive the blessing4 ,i am still standing1 yea1 resting sweetly in the promise of ,god for entire and constant salvation through the blood of ,jesus4 #g4 ,today we fasted all day4 ,met in the ,bethel at #i ,a4 ,m4 and held meeting until after #d ,p4 ,m4 without intermission4 ,this day ,i was the least conscious of a physical nature and my relations with a corporeal world of any day in all my life4 ,i seemed to be entirely unconscious of passing time4 ,only the spirit seemed to live1 stir1 feel1 and take cognizance4 ,glory to the ,god of wonders6 ,is this really but the foot-stool of ,god8 ,mother ,keller1 ,sarah1 and ,i went to ,brother ,l----'s for supper4 ,she 7,mrs4 ,l47 very soon began to pour out her bitter railing against holiness and holy ones2 but praise ,god1 he kept our souls in perfect peace4 ,after my communing with ,god in secret for some time1 the ,lord told me to go immediately to see a poor sick girl near by4 ,mother accompanied me4 ,found her barely able to sit up1 having been suffering for nearly one year4 ,she had exhausted in vain all available medical aid4 ,we spoke of the ,great ,physician4 ,she said she believed that he was able to heal her4 ,we called for oil1 anointed her in the name of the ,lord and laid hands on1 and prayed for her present restoration to health4 ,we entreated ,god with all the faith and earnestness of our inmost soul and then left her in the hands of ,god1 with a comfortable degree of faith that ,god would raise her up again4 ,eve1 met at a quarter to eight4 ,mighty power filled the house4 ,the altar was filled from one side to the other4 ,several were seeking sanctification4 ,glory to ,god1 this night he began to give me some of the evidences 7besides my hitherto naked faith7 that ,i had got out of the wilderness into ,canaan4 ,jesus1 my blessed ,savior1 just cut me off one bunch of the sweet grapes of this land4 ,oh1 glory to ,god1 once more ,i was a little child6 ,i felt the blood of ,jesus flowing through my entire soul1 body1 and spirit4 ,heaven on earth6 ,halleluiah1 it is done6 #h4 ,sabbath4 ,at five this morning a goodly number met in the ,bethel for prayers4 ,the ,spirit was with us4 ,returned to ,brother ,bell's2 ate a piece for breakfast1 as we all felt that bodily wants were simple and few while the soul was so dearly fed with the bread of heaven4 ,met at half-past nine1 and after many clear testimonies were given in for ,jesus ,brother ,dunbar preached the word of life with great power and sweetness4 ,text1 ,for ,god hath not called us unto uncleanness1 but unto holiness4 ,he read much of the ,first ,epistle to the ,thessalonians1 where this glorious second work is brought out so clear and forcibly4 ,my soul was never before so wonderfully fed by the gospel in any sermon ,i ever heard4 ,oh1 how sweet and glorious the word of life came to my renovated heart6 ,mother1 ,sarah1 and ,i went to ,brother ,furman's for dinner4 ,returned to the two o'clock meeting4 ,among many clear witnesses ,i testified today to the blood that cleanses from all sin and also uncleanness of nature4 ,the long altar was again crowded and several found sanctification in the blood4 ,some backsliders were restored4 ,god is wonderfully at work4 ,all glory to his name6 ,at six we met again in the ,bethel1 after spending a long time in the closet with ,god4 ,the ,spirit impressed me to talk to the people on the commands of ,jesus1 and in simplicity ,i did so1 using ,john #ad3ae as a text4 ,i read the word of the ,lord concerning the duty of washing the saints' feet4 ,then we proceeded to obey the ,lord4 ,god wonderfully blessed me in talking1 but my soul leaped for joy as ,i saw the dear sanctified ones come promptly to the bench and joyfully obey ,him whom they love4 ,god wonderfully blessed them1 as they all testified the next day4 ,many of them had never seen the holy ordinance of feet-washing observed before4 ,the ,church of ,god brethren had said that if these holiness people would obey these lowly commands then they would have confidence in them4 ,thank ,god1 true holiness needs but to be tested to be proved genuine4 #aj4 ,this morn had to miss prayer-meeting in order to take ,mother ,keller and our dear ,levilla to the train1 as they go to ,upper ,sandusky this morn4 ,we will go by buggy at the close of meeting4 ,sister ,bell and ,sarah went to the country today to get berries4 ,i wrote and prayed most of the forenoon4 ,then1 feeling very empty and destitute of the stirrings of the ,spirit1 ,i sought ,god earnestly in secret and then started out to work for him4 ,visited and prayed with two families1 but still felt destitute of the ,comforter4 ,met at #b3cj ,p4 ,m4 at the house of ,god4 ,several observed that ,i was being much tried4 ,but ,i was eager to defeat the enemy of my soul by testifying to the sanctifying power of the blood of ,jesus4 ,i did so1 declaring that the blood of ,jesus had washed from all sin4 ,while ,i was talking1 the ,lord showed me that ,i had now entered upon the path of perfect trust in ,jesus1 and that as faith was eternal and unchangeable1 ,i had forever abandoned the up-and-down road of feeling4 ,i also 7in an absent-minded manner7 made the remark that ,i had been cheated out of the morning prayer-meeting4 ,but quick as thought ,i saw that it was wrong1 for it was either complaining of or speaking lightly of ,god's providence4 ,this remark furnished a subject of meditation through the afternoon4 ,i see how entirely loyal to ,god's providence ,i now was4 ,i felt that the above remark and all similar ones1 so common and admissible in my past state1 were not only wrong1 but could not be true1 as ,i have given myself1 all ,i have1 to ,god1 surrendered all my ways1 time1 talents1 means1 influence1 name1 reputation1 and everything with which ,i am connected--wife1 child1 friends1 my destiny--all into the hands of ,god4 ,i glorify in the blessed truth that no being in the whole universe can cheat me out of anything or do me the least harm4 ,glory to ,god forever6 ,how happy ,i am in accepting all the will and providence of ,god6 ,from the time of my testimony ,i realized the glorious river of life flowing through my entire being4 ,what a sweet sense of perfect purity filled my mind and heart6 ,holiness was written everywhere4 ,my very body seemed sacred and pure1 a temple for the holy ,god4 ,glory to the cleansing power of the blood of ,jesus6 ,precious ,jesus1 thou hast saved me1 ,thine and only thine ,i am4 ,oh1 the precious blood has reached me6 ,glory1 glory to the ,lamb6 ,long my yearning heart was trying ,to enjoy this perfect rest2 ,but ,i gave all trying over1 ,simply trusting ,i was blessed4 ,glory to the blood that bought me1 ,glory to its cleansing power1 ,glory to the blood that keeps me1 ,glory1 glory evermore6 ,yes1 ,i will stand up for ,jesus2 ,he has sweetly saved my soul1 ,cleansed me from inbred corruption1 ,sanctified and made me whole4 ,oh1 ,i can no longer doubt it1 ,halleluiah1 ,i am free6 ,jesus saves me1 soul and body1 ,and he sweetly dwells in me4 ,,footnote3 #f ,brother ,warner was one of the principal debaters of the ,church of ,god4 ,dr4 ,forney mentions his debates as follows3 ,in ,august1 #ahga with the ,reverend ,mr4 ,baker1 of the ,disciple ,church1 the proposition being1 ,the ,church of ,god of which ,i am a member is the only church of divine origin4 ,in ,june1 #ahgb1 with ,leonard ,parker1 ,methodist ,episcopal ,church1 on the old subject of baptism4 ,on ,may #ae1 #ahgd1 near ,orton1 ,nebr41 he defended the perpetuity and public observance of feet-washing as an ordinance against ,e4 ,evans1 of the ,disciple ,church4 ,at the ,osborne ,schoolhouse1 near ,seward1 ,nebr41 with ,c4 ,l4 ,boyd1 ,adventist4 ,the proposition discussed was1 ,the first day of the week has been set apart by divine authority as ,sabbath or ,lord's day4 ,the discussion was the outcome of a series of addresses by ,boyd on the seventh day ,sabbath4 ,so well did ,warner defend the proposition1 says ,forney1 that at the close of the debate the congregation present voted thirty-six to sixteen that he had established it4 ,the debate continued three evenings4 ,,viii ,,the ,,holiness ,,awakening ,the decades of the sixties1 seventies1 and eighties of the last century witnessed a special revival of the doctrine of holiness1 or sanctification4 ,sanctification was held as being a work of ,god's grace wrought in the heart subsequent to pardon1 and accomplishing for the individual1 through consecration and faith in ,christ1 7#a7 restoration of the soul from innate depravity and uncleanness1 the destruction of that carnal element which antagonizes the godly purpose of the soul1 and 7#b7 the infilling and indwelling of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,in short1 it was the doctrine of ,christian perfection1 the state of loving ,god supremely and of living victorious over every form of sin4 ,this doctrine was nothing more nor less than one of the great ,scriptural truths that had been obscured by the apostasy4 ,it had been taught by the ,wesleys1 but through the denomination-building zeal of their followers it had become to a great extent a dead letter in their articles of faith4 ,the bright spiritual lights of the world throughout the gospel dispensation were generally individual men and women who believed in and possessed the experience of sanctification2 but now the time came1 in the unfolding of ,god's plan1 for holiness to be given specific attention on a scale amounting to a general awakening in religious circles4 ,the various ,protestant sects had about reached the heyday of their deplorable rivalry1 and it was but natural that the unifying influence of holiness1 appearing in striking contrast to such rivalry1 should appeal to all true ,christians4 ,the movement did indeed1 as a rule1 enlist the most spiritual members of the so-called churches4 ,this holiness awakening was a movement that should introduce a prophetic day4 ,it was of ,god4 ,it was not planned by human agency4 ,individuals here and there of the more earnest and spiritual class of ,christians were led into the deeper experience altogether independent of each other4 ,for some reason they felt impelled to give special emphasis to the doctrine of holiness4 ,these tiny flames were by some unseen hand fanned into a great conflagration destined to sweep the country4 ,a few paragraphs from ,m4 ,l4 ,haney's ,inheritance ,restored1 published in #ahhj1 are on this point4 ,a number of ,christian farmers feel strangely moved to aid in the salvation of the perishing1 and they plan a laymen's camp-meeting1 in which the fires of holiness break out4 ,this leads to the organization of a ,laymen's ,holiness ,association1 and results in bringing many hundreds to the joys of pardoned sin and the experience of holiness4 ,three or four ministers are mutually impressed with the necessity of holding a holiness camp-meeting4 ,the seal of ,god's approval of the service is so manifest that they are compelled to go farther4 ,an association is formed for the purpose of holding a number of camp-meetings for the promotion of holiness4 ,the work enlarges till many earnest inquirers look to them for specific instruction on the subject of holiness4 ,to meet this demand1 and remain true to ,god1 they are compelled to furnish these thirsting thousands with specific holiness literature4 ,thus the unexpected springing up of a monthly magazine1 with books and tracts1 all teaching the way of ,christ's cleansing blood4 ,one minister1 comparatively illiterate1 stands alone for years4 ,he preaches1 and prays1 and testifies1 and sings1 and shouts1 as here and there a soul is bloodwashed through his ministry4 ,he mourns the downward tendency1 as the sympathy of his brethren seems ofttimes withdrawn2 but at last ,god brings one of them to stand by his side4 ,another1 and yet another is added1 till ,god has bound three or four souls in bonds of perfect love4 ,the obligation to disseminate the gospel of holiness among the people of ,god in all the churches leads them1 after much prayer on the subject1 to publish a paper which shall be the medium of instruction on the special doctrine of holiness4 ,without a dollar1 or a subscription list1 with nothing at the base but unshrinking faith in the ,god who leads1 they launch a weekly paper4 ,but ,god touches the heart of a wealthy layman1 and gives him no peace till he pledges three thousand dollars for the support of that paper4444 ,god works in a mysterious way1 his wonders to perform4 ,when ,god determined to break the chains of slavery he revealed to no man the time or methods of its accomplishment4 ,in like manner1 in the holiness movement1 his faithful servants have gone out1 not knowing whither they went4 ,the way has been so rugged at times that many have turned aside2 but ,god has put two in the place of each faltering one1 and the ranks of the holiness army are steadily increasing4 ,we call attention to the remarkable fact that the holiness work has sprung up simultaneously in different parts of the earth2 in the east1 in the west1 in the north1 and the south2 in the old world1 and in the new2 among ,arminians1 and among ,calvinists2 in cities1 in towns1 and in country places2 indicating an unseen hand and guiding power4 ,a mechanic1 in ,pennsylvania1 receives a call from the chaplain of ,king ,william's court to come to ,germany and teach the church of ,martin ,luther the way of holiness1 and four hundred learned ministers sit at the feet of a ,presbyterian layman to learn of holiness in the city of ,berlin4 ,a young minister1 whom ,god hath baptized with the ,holy ,ghost and with fire1 completely girds the earth with holy song1 as he travels to regain his failing health4 ,one of ,wesley's mightiest sons1 is sent to the other side of the globe to receive this blessed experience1 under the instruction of a ,presbyterian minister4 ,suddenly an organized army springs up in ,europe to spread holiness1 and the power of ,satan is broken by its advancing legions4 ,a number of holy men and women are compelled by their convictions to make the circuit of the earth1 and are invited to preach1 and sing1 and testify to holiness in the shadow of the ,vatican4 ,reader1 who do you think has planned1 and whose hand is guiding1 this movement8 ,the truth is1 the holiness movement was a movement prophetically due at this time as the introduction to the great reformation 7restoration7 that now succeeds it1 in which ,god's people are not only embracing holiness1 but are taking their stand free and complete in ,christ1 distinct from all humanly organized bodies called churches4 ,the reader of church history will observe that the progress of ,christianity has not been by gradual1 steady increase of light and truth1 but by reformation after reformation in which some special truth is emphasized and men's hearts are stirred4 ,among the early leaders of the movement in this country were ,dr4 ,w4 ,c4 and ,phoebe ,palmer1 of ,new ,york4 ,mrs4 ,palmer1 especially1 was prominent in this respect4 ,she wrote a number of books on holiness and with her husband held meetings in various openings in the ,east and was otherwise very active in the cause4 ,william ,macdonald1 ,john ,s4 ,inskip1 ,daniel ,steele1 and ,j4 ,a4 ,wood were others who1 both by preaching and the press1 gave prominence to the doctrine of entire sanctification as a second1 distinct work of grace4 ,holiness societies sprung up1 books were written on the subject1 periodicals were started1 and holiness bands began to canvass the country4 ,well does the writer remember of seeing when a boy these holiness bands travel about the country in covered wagons4 ,they carried a spiritual fire that caught in the hearts of the more fervent ones who1 on the barren plains of sect religion1 were seeking for a higher and better ,christian experience4 ,the activity on this line was not on the part of the various denominations1 as such1 but on the part of earnest ,christians within the denominations4 ,illustration3 ,leaders1 authors and editors1 prominent in the holiness movement forty to fifty years ago1 contemporaries of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner4 7#a7 ,w4 ,c4 ,palmer2 7#b7 ,j4 ,s4 ,inskip2 7#c7 ,wm4 ,macdonald2 7#d7 ,daniel ,steele2 7#e7 ,geo4 ,hughes1 of the ,guide to ,holiness2 7#f7 ,isaiah ,reid1 of ,the ,highway2 7#g7 ,t4 ,k4 ,doty1 of the ,christian ,harvester2 7#h7 ,l4 ,b4 ,kent1 of the ,banner of ,holiness ,holiness1 it must be remembered1 is ,scriptural1 a part of ,god's will to his children1 and the movement must not be regarded as being something new1 but as a revival of truth intended for man4 ,since the attainment of this distinct higher experience requires a perfect consecration1 an entire abandonment1 to ,god1 it was but natural that the doctrine should be opposed by the pleasure-loving church members1 those who were ,christians only in name and did not care for any advancement or improvement of their spiritual status4 ,these1 of course1 were greatly in the majority4 ,the holiness advocates were at once opposed and often persecuted2 but silently and surely1 as leaven works in the meal1 the holiness agitation increased and spread throughout the country4 ,it was a very unwelcome and disturbing element among the cold professors4 ,they said that sinlessness was not to be attained in this life2 that we could not be sanctified till death2 etc4 ,but when shown by the ,scriptures that it is indeed ,god's will for ,christians in this life1 they would declare that it is attained by growth1 or perhaps would say they had received it in conversion4 ,they were opposed to having any further spiritual obligation placed upon them4 ,but it was not alone the advocacy of an advanced ,christian attainment that might well make the holiness movement distasteful to sect devotees4 ,holiness is unifying4 ,it makes ,christians one1 in accordance with our ,savior's prayer3 ,that they all may be one2 as thou1 ,father1 art in me1 and ,i in thee1 that they also may be one in us3 that the world may believe that thou hast sent me 7,john #ag3ba74 ,true holiness is destructive of divisional elements4 ,that is why the advocates of holiness in the different denominations lost to a great extent their sectarian bigotry and could join together in holiness associations independent of their denominations4 ,as a general thing the holiness editors and teachers spoke against sectarian divisions4 ,this brings us to the critical point4 ,would those espousing holiness dissolve their sect relations8 ,here is where many in the holiness movement compromised and would not follow in the onward march of truth out of all denominational confusion and into complete oneness in ,christ4 ,instead1 holiness associations urged and even required their members to maintain also a sect membership4 ,they seemed to believe sects were a necessary evil and they opposed the idea of coming out of sects4 ,this is as far as the majority in the holiness movement would go4 ,they deplored sects1 but seemed to think that to be outside of all sects would be to have no church relation at all4 ,had they walked in the light they would have comprehended the true body of ,christ and been led out of sectarian entanglements2 but failing to follow the true leading of ,god1 they receded1 and their holiness degenerated into what was mere sect holiness4 ,to this day they have their holiness associations and their conventions1 but fellowshiping as they do the sects and factions of almost every description1 they are left to grope in their own darkness and confusion1 still making an effort but accomplishing nothing toward ,christian unity4 ,their confusion on the church question is illustrated by the following quotation from the salutary address adopted by the ,general ,holiness ,assembly held in ,chicago in ,may1 #aija3 ,in respect to the matter of church fellowship we observe that the church is the institution of ,christ1 having many members in one body1 himself being the living ,head4 ,he has redeemed it with his blood1 and engraven it upon the palms of his hands4 ,membership therein is a precious privilege1 and always to be highly esteemed4 ,wherever practical1 every saved man and woman should be connected with some church4 ,the first two statements are clear in their reference to the true ,christian church as the one body of saved people everywhere1 redeemed by ,christ's blood4 ,but when in the next breath they urge that every saved man and woman should be connected with some church1 as if such were not already in the church through redemption by ,christ's blood1 they are talking about something else1 not the body of ,christ4 ,they perhaps do not realize their own blindness2 but to the one who spiritually discerns the true church and its sufficiency for all the people of ,god1 their confusion is very apparent4 ,the writer had an interview not long since with one of the holiness leaders who used to know ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and who still labors to bring about the unity of ,christians through a holiness that respects sectarian divisions4 ,this man was asked about the prospects for unity after so many years of effort4 ,his reply1 in which he complained of the bigotry existing among the denominations1 was anything but encouraging4 ,he seemed to have no knowledge of a way out of the trouble1 and regarded the present true church movement as only a sect1 or faction1 saying that a sect is any body of ,christians joined together in the same belief1 etc4 ,but suppose a number of persons come out from and leave the sects with which they have been connected1 and stand only on the ,bible1 independent of sects--suppose they assemble together in a body2 would they be a sect8 he was asked4 ,yes1 was his reply4 ,then what about the body of ,christ itself1 the whole1 of which sects are regarded as cut-off factions--is that a sect8 ,yes1 was his answer4 ,and then1 as if he could know nothing but sects1 he referred to ,paul as calling the ,christians in his day a sect1 and assumed to quote him thus3 ,for as concerning this sect1 we know that everywhere it is spoken against 7,acts #bh3bb74 ,he was told that these words were not spoken by ,paul1 but by his opposers4 ,well1 said he1 ,i will look that up4 ,thus his conception of the subject makes the true church impossible4 ,when men have been forty years in the ministry and in the holiness movement1 and are just as far from discerning the church as when they started1 and even suppose that ,paul called the ,christians a sect1 how blinding and confusing must be the darkness in which they grope6 ,having failed to follow in ,god's way when came the call1 ,come out of her1 my people1 they have been building with wood1 hay1 and stubble a structure that only awaits the consumption at the last day4 ,but not so all who were engaged in the holiness movement4 ,god had a remnant whom he was leading entirely out of spiritual ,babylon1 who were returning to ,zion over the highway of holiness1 with singing and everlasting joy in their hearts4 ,holiness led them to the threshold of a brighter day1 and they did not stop1 but passed over4 ,keeping in the light they retained true holiness and all that ,god had given them4 ,thus1 coming out of the holiness movement and embodying its true elements1 is a movement that not only upholds holiness1 but repudiates sectarianism and represents the true ,christian unity that ,christ prayed for4 ,it holds and knows ,christ as the only head of the body1 and as complete1 in all things1 to the church4 ,it was through the workers in the holiness movement that ,bro4 ,d4 ,s4 ,warner was made to face squarely the issue of holiness4 ,his rejection of holiness in his earlier ministry may have been because of its poor representation on the part of professors2 or1 in other words1 because his introduction to it was not such as would cause him to think seriously of its claims4 ,when he comprehended that it was the line on which ,god was particularly working1 he was not slow in being led into the light and experience and becoming an ardent advocate of the doctrine4 ,meeting with opposition from the so-called church of ,god1 to which he belonged1 and finally being expelled from the ,west ,ohio ,eldership1 his associations were to a great extent with the holiness bands and societies4 ,among these he stood prominent4 ,of the holiness editors who were contemporary with ,brother ,warner were ,john ,p4 ,brooks1 of the ,banner of ,holiness1 ,bloomington1 ,ill42 ,george ,hughes1 of the ,guide to ,holiness1 ,new ,york2 ,isaiah ,reid1 of the ,highway1 ,nevada1 ,iowa2 and ,t4 ,k4 ,doty1 of the ,christian ,harvester1 ,cleveland4 ,there were also a number of others4 ,brother ,warner himself came to be an editor and to have an acquaintance with nearly all the editors and prominent workers of his day4 ,as a delegate from ,rome ,city1 ,ind41 he attended the ,western ,union ,holiness ,convention1 held at ,jacksonville1 ,ill41 ,dec4 #ae-ai1 #ahhj4 ,george ,d4 ,watson1 who was a prominent holiness leader and author1 was president of the convention4 ,brother ,warner was appointed to the committee on program1 serving with four others4 ,he was slated for and delivered an address on the subject1 ,the ,kind of ,power ,needed to ,carry the ,holiness ,work4 ,at the close of the convention he was placed on a committee of seven to confer and decide relative to the calling of a future convention of holiness workers in the ,west1 with authority to issue a call for such a meeting1 if they deemed it necessary4 ,thus he stood prominent in the holiness movement4 ,music3 ,i ,ought to ,love ,my ,savior4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 ,j4 ,c4 ,,fisher4 #a4 ,i ought to love my ,sav-ior1 ,he loved me long a-go1 #b4 ,i ought to love my ,sav-ior1 ,he bore my sin and shame2 #c4 ,i ought to love my ,sav-ior1 ,up-on the cross he died2 #d4 ,i ought to love my ,sav-ior1 ,he par-doned all my sin1 ,looked on my soul with fa-vor1 ,when deep in guilt and woe2 ,from glo-ry to the man-ger1 ,on wings of love he came2 ,be-hold the world's ,cre-a-tor1 ,my ,god6 my ,god6 he cried4 ,then sanc-ti-fied my na-ture1 ,and keeps me pure with-in2 ,and though my sin had grieved him1 ,his ,father's law had crossed1 ,he trod this earth in sor-row1 ,en-dured the pains of hell1 ,oh1 lis-ten to these ac-cents ,of love di-vine so free2 ,he fills me with his glo-ry1 ,and bears my soul a-bove2 ,love drew him down from heav-en1 ,to seek and save the lost2 ,that ,i should not be ban-ished1 ,but in his glo-ry dwell2 ',tis fin-ished--my sal-va-tion2 ,thine shall the glo-ry be2 ,this world1 oh1 won-drous sto-ry1 ',tis love1 re-deem-ing love2 ,love drew him down from heav-en1 ,to seek and save the lost4 ,that ,i should not be ban-ished1 ,but in his glo-ry dwell4 ',tis fin-ished--my sal-va-tion2 ,thine shall the glo-ry be4 ,this world1 oh won-drous sto-ry1 ',tis love1 re-deem-ing love4 ,,ix ,a ,,preacher ,,of ,,holiness ,the attainment of the experience of perfect holiness led ,brother ,warner into a new and enlarged field of ministerial activity4 ,since the time had come for a reformation along the line of holiness1 when it was the divine plan that the subject be made prominent1 we should expect ,brother ,warner1 as one of ,god's ministers1 to make sanctification his principal theme and at once to begin preaching it4 ,he began writing articles on sanctification for the ,church ,advocate1 the denominational organ4 ,also he began writing with a view of publishing a tract or booklet on the subject of sanctification4 ,he was thus placed in a new field1 with a new issue to defend4 ,new lines were drawn in his ministerial relations1 as there was opposition from many along a line that had not existed before4#g ,as his diary covers the events of his life at this point we will let him again speak for himself4 ,the reader will remember1 of course1 that these are but selections1 as he wrote something for every day and the accounts are too full to quote in their entirety4 ,he was at this time on the ,ashland circuit1 with his home in the ,vermillion ,college building1 near ,hayesville4 ,he had been taking a special course of study at the ,college1 but as he beheld the need of the evangelistic field in greater proportion than ever1 he felt it his duty thereafter to give less attention to study and more to his ministerial calling4 ,july #ad1 #ahgg4 ,wrote1 meditated1 and prayed most all day with only the ,lord present4 ,commenced article for the ,advocate on sanctification4 #ae4 ,quite sick this morn4 ,as the holiness meeting near ,upper ,sandusky was interrupted by an appointment by a ,dunker preacher this ,a4 ,m41 we all went to ,rock ,run to hear ,brother ,smith1 but he absolutely required of me that ,i preach for him4 ,i was very weak2 but thinking it was of the ,lord ,i committed all to ,god and expected his aid4 ,text3 ,they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain1 saith the ,lord 7,isaiah #fe74 ,the ,lord helped me to show the dear people some of the ,scripture and reasons for the second work of grace1 and that as soon as we merged up into the holy mountain1 love1 union1 and peace prevailed without alloy4 ,may ,god bless the truth4 ,there was great attention4 ,some questions were asked at the close of discourse1 all pleasantly1 however4 ,oh1 that ,god would lead the dear people on to perfection6 #bj4 ,the ,ohio ,state ,holiness ,convention met last night in ,marion on the fair ground4 ,will continue several days4 ,i should be happy to attend1 but the ,spirit seems to direct us to return and lift up the banner of holiness on our field of labor4 ,hence we started this morn for home1 the weather pleasant4 ,having brought feed and dinner we stopped under a shade tree and ate our dinner and enjoyed a pleasant rest and communion with ,god4 #be4 ,at ,hayesville4 ,school begins today4 ,busy at domestic duties4 #bf4 ,wrote1 read1 and communed with the ,lord4 #bg4 ,still writing on sanctification4 ,the ,lord is giving me much light4 ,praise his name6 ,met with the ,excelsior ,society4 ,read a lecture on pneumatics4 #bh4 ,finished my second article on sanctification4 #bi4 ,sabbath4 ,arose as soon as daylight4 ,spent some time with the ,lord4 ,started about seven for ,mansfield4 ,met a few hungry souls4 ,the ,lord wonderfully baptized my soul from the time ,i entered his house4 ,glory6 glory6 glory6 ,oceans of love flow through my soul4 ,oh1 how inexpressibly sweet and joyful6 ,read part of ,acts #ba4 ,after giving myself anew into the hands of ,god ,i proceeded to talk from ,acts #ba3ad4 ,the ,lord so greatly led me out on his work in us that ,i did not get to the last two points1 namely1 his will done with us1 and his will done by us4 ,praise the ,lord1 he so abundantly fills my mouth with holiness that ,i can not get to anything else to say4 ,had a long talk with a sister of the ,church of ,god who was mortified over my going to the altar to seek sanctification4 ,she thought ,i must have been backslidden or something4 ,i told her that something was wanting1 but ,i knew very well what ailed me4 ,i had been in need of the sanctifying power of ,god and1 glory to ,jesus1 ,i have found it4 ,she thought that she was fully sanctified when she was converted4 ,i replied that if that were so her experience differed from that of the first converts to ,christ1 as well as that of the ,corinthians1 the ,ephesians1 the ,thessalonians1 etc4 ,to this she could make no reply but that it was to be attained by growth1 but ,i reminded her that ,god was to do the work4 ,aug4 #c1 #ahgg4 ,this morn went into the ,lord's camp4 ,dr4 ,steele1 from ,new ,york1 was reading his interesting ,bible lessons1 giving the benefit of the ,greek and ,dean ,alford4 ,very instructive4 ,was happy to meet several brethren of my acquaintance from ,crawford ,county and elsewhere4 ,thank ,god1 they are on the holiness line4 #d4 ,went out to camp at #e3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,prayer-meeting in the tabernacle4 ,stayed all day on the ground1 or until afternoon preaching by ,brother ,rice1 who 7probably unknown to the ,methodist ,episcopal ministers7 had his license taken from him two days before by the ,northwest ,ohio ,conference for preaching holiness4 ,he gave us a straight1 close-hewing sermon on sanctification4 ,he did not preach holiness for the glory of ,methodism1 as some others seemed somewhat inclined to do4 ,some were much displeased at his exposure of the opposition to holiness in the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church4 ,came home this eve4 ,found dear ,wife and child well4 #h4 ,sister ,ella ,snyder called on us4 ,she was visiting at ,brother ,mc,key's1 who1 by the way1 is a strong opposer of entire sanctification4 ,ella soon began talking on the subject and talking somewhat differently from what she did on last ,sabbath4 ,we think it probable that she had just been receiving the teaching of some one outside of the second work4 ,she treated the subject with much lightness4 ,before she left we bowed in prayer1 at the close of which she fell powerless on the floor4 ,i raised her head1 asked her if she was sick4 ,she said not4 ,looked strange and confounded4 ,prayed some and confessed that the hand of ,god was upon her4 ,wife asked her if she was now sanctified4 ,she replied that she knew not where she was4 ,she grasped my hand very firmly4 ,i raised her up1 asked ,sarah to support her2 but she would not loosen her hold4 ,as ,i endeavored to give her over to ,wife1 she gripped my hand the harder4 ,we raised her up but she could not stand4 ,we dropped her into a rocking-chair and soon kneeled again in prayer4 ,she prayed constantly to ,god for a clean heart1 sanctification1 etc4 ,her full consciousness had hardly recovered when she said she had to go1 as her party were waiting on her4 ,sarah accompanied her a piece and left her looking very solemn4 ,i pray ,god to lead her to the cleansing fountain4 #ab4 ,sabbath4 ,beautiful morn4 ,was up early and in counsel with the ,lord4 ,soon received my text1 #a ,thess4 #e3bd4 ,observed that this text forever took away all excuse of inability2 that it laid down a principle which converted all the commands of ,god into promises2 that every thing unto which the ,lord called us he would work in us4 ,applying the subject1 as the apostle did1 to entire sanctification1 ,i defended the distinct work by experience1 reason1 and thus saith the ,lord4 ,the ,lord powerfuly blessed the testimony of my dear wife before preaching1 and ,i believe that seed of truth has been sown in the hearts of the people4 ,went home with ,bro4 ,jacob ,freed1 ,brother and ,sister ,long1 and others4 ,we talked some on holiness4 ,brother ,long opposed it by denying inherited depravity1 which he did after my discourse today in the pulpit4 ,much of the afternoon was spent in the closet and private walks with the ,lord4 ,oh1 how much ,i prefer the company of the ,lord to any other6 #af4 ,at ,eldership convention4 ,place not stated4 ,met at half-past eight4 ,half hour devotion4 ,topic3 ,proper ,home ,influence2 ,duty of ,parents to ,their ,children4 ,the ,spirit of the ,lord deeply impressed this subject upon the minds of all4 ,hearts were melted4 ,tears flowed for unsaved children of ministers and members4 ,unconverted souls and backsliders were deeply affected4 ,the ,lord converted the convention wholly into an effort to save souls4 ,fervent prayers were offered1 exhortations and tears1 invitation hymns were sung 7the organ was forgotten71 and all the congregation was deeply stirred4 ,a few souls arose and asked prayers4 ,the unconverted children of ,brothers 444 were especially prayed for4 ,oh1 how ,i praised ,god that the dear brethren were willing to let the ,spirit lead the meeting6 ,the whole forenoon was given to devotion4 #ah4 ,spent the day in writing1 reading1 and prayer4 ,p4 ,m41 long talk with ,brother ,mitchell and ,sister ,shriner on sanctification4 ,brother ,m4 talks reasonably2 ,sister ,s4 is hostile to the blessed truth1 but of course it is through ignorance4 ,she thought ,i should leave the ,church of ,god at once and not destroy it by my doctrine of holiness1 having actual fears of holiness4 ,oh1 ,i hope and pray to ,god to lead my dear brethren on to this heart-perfection4 ,would to ,god they understood this blessed full salvation6 ,nothing but wrong notions of perfect holiness or an evil spirit can oppose entire sanctification1 as it does not in the least disturb or conflict with any doctrine of the church4 ,it allows all that the ,bible or any man attributes to regeneration4 ,instead of depreciating1 it has greatly magnified justification4 #ai4 ,sabbath4 ,at ten a funeral procession arrived from ,rome1 bringing a sweet little angel form1 ,bertha ,estella ,curtis1 the only child of ,z4 ,h4 ,curtis1 of ,van ,wert ,county4 ,as their parents reside at ,rome1 they brought the child back there for burial4 ,brother ,wilson preached an impressive discourse from ,job3 ,man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble4 ,we laid the little form away and tried to comfort the young parents and friends4 ,came to ,shenandoah4 ,brother ,burchard preached from3 ,christ has left us an example that we should follow his steps4 ,with his usual earnestness he urged all to live a whole-hearted ,christian life4 ,i wish the dear brother would learn to bring dear souls to the blood that cleanses from all sin1 instead of infusing strength and zeal to fight inbred corruption4 ,recently ,i talked with this brother on the subject of sanctification4 ,i had a conviction of mind that he knew something about it4 ,he confessed that after seeking for mercy for three days the load of guilt and condemnation fell from his heart and he testified to the pardon of his sins4 7,this ,i remember myself47 ,but soon he found himself wanting before ,god4 ,then began another struggle for deliverance from something 7he knew not what1 as he felt no more guilt7 that greatly disturbed his peace and shut out the smiles of ,god's face4 ,after one week's prayer1 and dedication of self and all he had to ,god1 he sank down in all the depth of humility and nothingness that was possible for him to conceive of4 ,god wonderfully blessed him with perfect light1 peace1 and love4 ,what was this but entire sanctification8 ,but for want of being better taught he calls this his conversion4 ,strange confused theology4 ,the idea of pardon one week before conversion6 ,i pray ,god to show this brother his mistake and renew him in the blessing of perfect holiness4 #ba4 ,sent out about twenty-five cards of invitation in the mail4 ,people began to come in to the reunion here at the ,college4 #bb4 ,college yard filled4 ,some good speakers1 but about all chaff and vainglory1 ministers and lawyers alike using their brains to evolve some trashy nonsense to tickle the ears of the foolish4 ,i was quite unwell4 ,eve1 much reduced1 but went out to ,vermillion1 where ,i met a few precious souls and preached that men should trust in the ,lord1 and in trying to do so myself ,i was blessed with strength to preach about forty minutes4 #bf4 ,sabbath4 ,the ,lord helped me to set forth his great power to save from all sin in this life4 ,went home with ,bro4 ,david ,donelson's4 ,conversed on holiness1 spent much time in secret prayer4 ,was impressed to preach on holiness1 yet felt sure that the church did not want to hear it2 but ,i knew there was some hungry soul there that did want it4444 ,the church here is quite strong numerically and there is much good material4 ,oh1 that all these vessels of the ,lord would be purged1 sanctified1 made fit for the ,master's use1 prepared unto every good work6 ,drove home1 arriving at nearly one o'clock4 #bg4 ,arose in good time1 feeling greatly refreshed in the ,lord4 ,helped to get ready to go to ,shenandoah4 #bh4 ,sister ,shriner is boiling over with railing toward ,god's pure little ones4 ,glory to ,god6 he has saved me from the strife of tongues4 ,christ kept me1 in imitation of his own example1 from answering a word4 ,it were folly indeed to try to talk holiness where there is no appetite but for carnal contention4 ,thank the ,lord for this wisdom4 #bi4 ,fasted and prayed today4 ,father ,n---- seems very cold and unsociable toward us4 ,probably the enemy has put something in his heart4 ,i sank very deep down in the great ocean of ,god's love and goodness this morning4 ,had inexpressible conceptions of the wonders of salvation4 ,visited at ,brother ,kline's4 ,i spent about all the time on my knees in prayer1 which ,i love most to do4 #cj4 ,sold my mare and colt to ,mother ,wolf for #acj4 ,sept4 #a1 #ahgg4 ,elmer ,wolf took me part of the way to ,mansfield4 ,i gave up the faithful ,mattie and little ,billy to him4 ,walked a few miles and was overtaken by a kind man who took me in his buggy to town4 ,called at a few places4 ,spent much of the time in prayer4 ,eve1 preached the gospel of perfect salvation4 #b4 ,met in a holiness prayer-meeting at #e3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,took some breakfast4 ,stayed much on my knees before ,god4 ,at #aj3cj ,a4 ,m4 met1 and tried to talk to the people from ,eph4 #c3bj4 ,then we went to a small stream at the west side of the city and had the happy privilege of immersing4444 ,they all enjoy entire sanctification4 ,never before did ,i feel the solemnity of the ordinance as now4 ,how unworthy ,i regarded myself to imitate my blessed ,master1 especially in immersing those whom he had led far out into the ocean of his perfect love6 ,we sang a hymn1 then knelt down upon the green sod and called upon the ,lord1 who was so very sensibly near to us4 ,the day had been very dark and dreary1 the sun not having shone through the clouds since early morn4 ,but now the gentle hand of ,god brushed the clouds aside and sent down upon us the most glorious and brilliant streams of light that ,i ever witnessed4 ,sister ,f---- was the last of the three4 ,she has been walking with ,god upon the strait highway of holiness for some years and her whole life is swallowed up in ,god alone4 ,though the sun was shining brilliantly1 yet as she arose from the water ,i was impressed that a light shone upon us above the brightness of the sun4 ,she stood calmly gazing upward for a moment1 with the light of ,god beaming from her face4 ,i gave way to the impression that the occasion and circumstances had made on my mind and spoke of the heavenly light1 which ,i still supposed was natural2 but she afterward informed me that it was more than sunshine--rays of glory4 ,the whole assembly was awed into reverence1 and a strange feeling of sacredness pervaded all our minds4 ,how applicable the words of the prophet3 ,arise1 shine1 for thy light has come and the glory of the ,lord is risen upon thee6 #c4 ,took train for ,perryville to begin a holiness meeting at the ,brubaker ,bethel4 ,a pretty good crowd assembled4 ,i tried to teach them their rights in the gospel1 taking special pains to admonish the brethren and sisters not to allow the enemy of their souls to stir up bitterness and hatred in their hearts against the way of perfect holiness1 assuring them that this way was so hated by the devil that if possible he would overthrow the best of ,christians and set them foaming and raging mad against the pure in heart and true holiness4 ,i was surprized to learn that since my last visit here the enemy had already begun to work1 fearing the destruction of his kingdom4 #f4 ,meeting nearly all day4 ,satan still angry4 ,small stones were thrown into the house from the door and windows4 ,two brethren ventured to speak4 ,the first took occasion to unload his mind of many grievous objections and charges against the holiness work1 and sat down much humiliated when he saw that his harsh speeches only elicited pleasant smiles and kind words from the sanctified4 ,the second said he did not endorse what his brother had said1 but still could not see this second work4 ,both asked for thus saith the ,lord4444 #g4 ,fasted and worshiped ,god all day4 ,met at #aj ,a4 ,m4 and continued until #d ,p4 ,m4 ,just before closing we engaged in prayer to ,god for my perfect healing4 ,i was wonderfully strengthened both in body and faith4 ,walked about one mile over hills to find places for ,god's little ones1 then drove to ,loudonville and ,brother ,l---- and ,i ate some refreshment1 about #e ,p4 ,m41 at the baker's1 ,i not having eaten anything since the day before at noon4 ,glory to ,god1 ,i felt no weakness4 #h4 ,drove back to the ,ridge4 ,found ,god's little ones there at noon and no food1 and no encouragement to go anywhere for dinner4 ,we sent to ,perryville and got some provisions1 but before it came we had begun afternoon meeting1 and cared but little for the bread that perisheth4 #i4 ,sabbath4 ,in the saving strength of the ,lord1 ,wife1 child1 and ,i walked to ,vermillion4 ,went the two and one half miles with scarcely any fatigue4 ,now began the eruption of a volcano in the form of a preacher1 even my beloved colleague ,w4 ,h4 ,oliver4 ,the red-hot lava of scorn1 scoff1 and persecution1 yea1 words of slang fit only for the worldly rabble1 poured forth about two hours1 all against those whom the blood had washed whiter than snow4 ,glory to ,god1 ,i only added that ,i thanked my holy ,savior ,i was counted worthy to suffer persecution and reproach for his name's sake4 ,praise ,god1 he keeps me in a storm as well as in the calm4 ,we came to ,brother ,ford's4 ,sister ,ella ,snyder came along1 and after she and ,sarah had a good talk1 we had prayer together1 and1 praise the ,lord1 he sanctified her soul and body4 ,i came to ,hayesville1 where an appointment had been announced for me at #c ,p4 ,m4 ,by the help of the ,lord ,i talked from #a ,thess4 #e3bd4 ,glory to ,god1 the truth went home to the heart4 ,rode most of the way back with ,father ,mc,q----4 ,poor old man tried to pick a quarrel with me on baptism4 ,i finally calmed his nerves by singing ,the ,precious ,blood ,has ,reached ,me4 ,shut myself up with ,god until meeting4 ,found the church mostly displeased with the harangue of the forenoon4 ,good speaking-meeting4 ,wife testified boldly to the second work and admonished the church4 ,sister ,snyder1 whom the ,lord smote down in my room some time ago1 and who entered into rest this day1 also testified to her entire sanctification4 ,i talked to the people about twenty minutes from ,acts #e3bh-ci4 ,oh1 how sweetly the ,spirit led me and talked through me6 ,some shouting4 #aj4 ,my soul was very happy today4 ,it appears that ,i only begin to realize the glorious work that ,god has done for me4 ,i do thank ,god for the test of yesterday4 ,o ,lord1 try me in every way and see if there is any evil way in me6 ,i do praise the ,lord that ,i can not feel the slightest ill will in my heart against the persecutor4 ,may the ,lord enlighten1 humble1 and save him4 ,i suppose he really thinks like ,paul1 the persecutor1 did1 that he is doing ,god service4 #ac4 ,i walked over to ,sister ,smith's and called to invite her to the meeting4 ,had a season of prayer with her and family4 ,as ,i was about to start she asked if ,i did not wish to sell my buggy4 ,i told her ,i did4 ,so she gave me a beast to ride to ,shenandoah and bring the buggy back on my return4 ,thank the ,lord1 this is his kind dealing with me4 ,eve1 abstained from supper1 as ,i commonly do when ,i have services4 ,good full house4 ,delivered my farewell discourse to the people of ,shenandoah4 ,acts #bj4 ,brother ,oliver was present1 and was so much annoyed when ,i addressed the few little ones whom the ,lord has perfected in love that he could not compose himself and sit in one position three seconds4 ,god pity any one thus mad against the work of ,god4 #ad4 ,met a ,brother and ,sister ,daily1 from ,morrow ,county4 ,i enquired of that country as a missionary field and heard of some destitute localities1 where the ,lord may send me to win souls for ,jesus4 ,came to ,shenandoah1 thence to ,brother ,m4 ,bell's1 south of town4 ,visited until #e ,p4 ,m4 ,poor man thinks it impossible to get rid of the ,adamic nature while we live4 ,so because of unbelief they entered not in4 ,had a season of prayer with the family and twice interviewed the ,lord in the pleasant woods near by4 ,glory to ,jesus1 he is near1 yea1 reigning in me most preciously today4 ,came over to ,paul's4 ,found that they had been in expectation of me all day4 ,prayed with and encouraged them to stedfastness4 #ae4 ,ate some breakfast this morn with the design of fasting the rest of the day4 ,desired much to visit some1 but felt the importance of shutting myself up with the ,lord1 so ,i did1 and was greatly blessed4 ,at #b ,p4 ,m4 we met in the grove and had a profitable little meeting4 ,brother ,oliver1 by my request1 again preached4 #af4 ,sabbath4 ,early this morn ,i went to the beautiful grove prepared for services4 ,spent a long time upon my knees there in prayer and reading ,his ,word4 ,at ten people convened4 ,had a good speaking-meeting4 ,then ,brother ,oliver preached on ,eph4 #c3ad1ae4 ,preached over an hour on ,christian union4 ,i am sick of hearing union thrown at the people with the sling of depravity4 ,might as well go into a drove of sheep and expect to get them all into a solid mass by pounding them around with a club4 ,it can but scatter more4 ,i took dinner with ,brother and ,sister ,ferguson on the ground1 then went off into the woods nearly a half mile and stayed with the ,lord alone until #b3cj ,p4 ,m41 the time for preaching4 ,the ,spirit directed me to read and talk upon #a ,corinthians #ac4 ,though ,i said scarcely anything but what every true ,christian can endorse1 yet ,brother ,oliver took occasion to put in about a half hour opposing holiness as a distinct work of ,god4 ,poor soul1 he is greatly disturbed with the subject of perfect love4 ,went home with ,brother and ,sister ,tomlinson and ,brother and ,sister ,crum4 ,they were anxious to learn of the way of holiness4 ,had prayer together and some supper4 ,i walked to the ,bethel1 found it full and ,brother ,oliver preaching4 ,brother ,o4 took me in hand on holiness2 asked me many questions1 made grievous charges1 and wanted me to leave what he termed my theory4 ,asked me if ,i was going to continue preaching as ,i have for the past months4 ,i told him that ,i would continue to teach all the light ,i had received and as much more as the ,lord would give4 ,i patiently heard his long heckling and thanked him4 ,as he finished he drew from his pocket a paper and handed it to me4 ,my first impression was that it was a note that someone had sent to me1 but as soon as ,i took it ,i felt the ,spirit of ,god go through my whole being and ,i knew that it was something from which ,god would bring great good to my soul and his cause4 ,i thanked him and put it in my pocket4 ,came to ,brother ,stoner's and got my beast and buggy and drove to ,brother ,wolfe's4 ,stopping for some things there ,i took a moment to read the portentous paper ,i had received4 ,i read as follows3 ,september #ae1 #ahgg4 ,the following charges are preferred against ,elder ,d4 ,s4 ,warner3 ,first4 ,for inviting a sect of fanatics calling themselves the ,holy ,alliance ,band to hold meetings in the local ,churches of ,god without consulting the elders or trustees or myself4 ,second4 ,for joining in with these said band and bidding them ,god speed and thereby bringing schism and division among those churches4 ,third4 ,for the accommodation of this professed holy band that he invited to hold a meeting of ten days in the ,church of ,god chapel in ,mansfield4 ,elder ,d4 ,s4 ,warner did on the evening of the #hth of ,july in less than one hour hold the ordinances of washing the saints' feet and the ,lord's ,supper attended to4 ,fourth4 ,for stating publicly in ,shenandoah1 about the #bfth of ,august1 that he had been preaching his own doctrine prior to seeking his so called holiness4 ,w4 ,h4 ,oliver4 ,i thanked ,god and put the paper away without saying a word4 ,bid all farewell1 including ,della ,oliver1 whom ,i invited to come and visit us4 ,i drove to ,sister ,smith's1 twelve miles4 ,the night was beautiful and light1 and my soul was happy4 ,i praised ,god all the way and was too happy to sleep when ,i retired about #ab o'clock4 ,of these charges ,i feel as ,joseph told his brethren3 ,ye thought evil in your hearts1 but ,god meant it all for good1 for you see how much people he hath saved from death by the famine4 ,to the first charge ,i say3 ,thank ,god that calling people hard names does not make them such1 but only shows the depravity of the accuser4 ,no band was invited1 but simply persons from different localities who enjoyed holiness4 ,second4 ,the charge of schism is without the least shadow of foundation4 ,through the mercy of ,god a few souls have been sanctified from their pride1 etc41 and qualified to be useful in the church4 ,the answer to the third charge is omitted from the journal4 ,perhaps an oversight4 ,fourth4 ,this is a mistake4 ,i simply said that on sanctification ,i used to preach what ,i believed1 but now ,i am able to testify that ,i know4 #ba4 ,at ,canton camp-meeting4 ,a4 ,m41 ,brother ,oliver tried to preach1 being very hoarse4 ,after preaching a brother presented a call for money for ,brother ,oliver's horse4 ,i joyfully took a paper and solicited for him with his paper of charges in my pocket4 ,thank ,god for entire sanctification4 ,p4 ,m41 ,i addressed the people from #a ,thess4 #d3a4 ,by the help of ,god a portion of the discourse was given to testifying and teaching entire sanctification4 ,brother ,petra followed in ,german with a cross-fire4 ,brother ,james followed him with his mixed talk1 part of the time seeming to endorse me and the other ,brother ,p4 ,oh1 how much waste of time for the want of seeking a definite experience and then being able to give the trumpet a certain sound6 ,brother ,james announced that in the evening he would preach from1 ,this is the will of ,god1 even your sanctification4 ,i prayed ,god to keep him from opposing the truth and1 thank ,his name1 he talked only to sinners and said little on the text4 #bd4 ,canton camp-meeting4 ,i thank ,god that ,i came to this meeting4 ,i have never in all my life met so much good1 old-fashioned1 plain1 humble1 ,holy ,ghost religion4 ,what a kind-hearted people6 ,god bless them4 ,after long time was spent in sobs and farewell greetings around a large assembly of people who were solemnly touched by the deepness of the feeling1 we marched around in single file again singing1 ,we are traveling to the ,new ,jerusalem4 ,then we gathered in front of the stand1 and as we stood singing1 the ,holy ,spirit came upon us and there was wonderful shouting in the camp by sisters1 about all young1 single ones1 who were carried entirely off in the ,spirit4 ,we did not get away from the sacred altar until about #b o'clock at night1 so greatly did the ,spirit rest on the camp of the dear saints4 #be4 ,arose greatly refreshed4 ,went to the camp for breakfast once more1 after we all bowed in the tent to worship ,god4 ,had a precious stroll and season of prayer out on the camp-ground4 ,returning1 met ,bro4 ,milton ,s----1 a very faithful young man4 ,i read in his face some very unfortunate misgivings1 and told him the same1 to his surprize4 ,i gave him nearly an hour's lecture on the evils of violating and perverting physical laws1 also on self-culture and mental improvement4 ,the dear brother was lost for language to thank me for the favor4 ,he was wonderfully teachable1 and urged me never to miss an opportunity to instruct and admonish persons in his condition4 ,brother ,james and ,i started for ,middle ,branch1 where ,i had an appointment4 ,we stopped with ,sister ,lucy1 ate a dish of peaches and cream1 and had a season of prayer4 ,rather small congregation1 and they rather sleepy from having been up so late last night at camp-meeting4 ,on the #bgth ,brother ,warner went to attend the ,eldership meeting at ,smithville4 ,he says that on account of insufficient pure air in the house he did not remain in much of the time4 ,he also says1 on the #bhth1 that ,brother ,james was taken into the ecclesiastical mill today4 ,on the third day of the session ,brother ,warner was called upon for his report of the year's work4 ,he reported #bjc sermons1 #fh converts1 #ff accessions1 #dj immersed4 ,there were #afd members in good standing1 whereas there were #ge when he took charge two years previous4 ,proceeding in his journal1 for the #bith he says3 ,reported that ,god had fully saved and sanctified me1 and that ,i was under the necessity to preach that precious truth to the glory of ,jesus2 that ,i desired to cooperate with the ,church of ,god2 could not exchange truth for truth but must walk in all the light of ,god4 ,the ,holy ,spirit rested on me in power1 and tears flowed freely all over the congregation4 ,praise ,god for his power and presence6 ,brother ,oliver then arose and made known to the body that he had charges against me4 ,the speaker appointed 444 a committee to investigate my case4 ,brother ,o4 subpend a large number of witnesses1 many of whom knew absolutely nothing about the case4 ,i told the body that ,i had never informed but three persons about the charges against me1 had asked no witnesses but had committed my whole case to ,god2 however1 if anyone felt directed by the ,spirit to appear in defense of the cause of ,god and holiness they should meet with us4 ,we went at once to ,brother ,z----'s office and began the investigation4 ,i felt greatly impressed with the need of prayer and hoped these dear old saints would not begin such a solemn work without invoking the ,holy ,spirit's guidance4 ,but ,i was disappointed1 as they opened the business at once4 ,even after investigation began ,i felt that ,i must go to ,god on my knees2 but ,i did not1 as ,i had no control of business4 ,yet ,i did wrong in not demanding the right of prayer4 ,i also lost power to conduct myself with that calmness and sweetness that ,i had been so ardently wishing from the ,lord1 though ,i felt no such thing as a roiled temper for one second for all the hard aspersions and carnal accusations thrown at me4 ,yet ,i did sometimes speak when ,i should have kept silent1 as my blessed ,master did4 ,what was my astonishment when ,elder ,o4 read letters from ,vermillion and ,brubaker's signed by about all the church1 charging me with insanity whenever ,i touched on sanctification1 also with causing division and schism in the churches and every evil work imaginable6 ,as ,i heard the names of the dear brethren read over that were appended to those letters ,i had strange feelings4 ,i truly felt myself in a queer world4 ,never in my life did my reasoning powers receive such a dreadful shock4 ,i felt myself sinking1 then looked to ,jesus and all was calm and peaceful again4 ,i asked ,brother ,o4 who had got up those letters4 ,they are headed respectively from the ,vermillion and ,brubaker churches to the ,eldership1 ,please tell the ,committee whether the elders have written them or who4 ,brother ,o4 looked very much confused and refused to answer4 ,i demanded an answer4 ,the ,committee sustained me4 ,then with shame and confusion he confessed that they were both written by him4 ,i told him that it was all right and thanked him for his trouble4 ,brother ,roller1 elder from ,vermillion1 who confessed to me that at the ordinance-meeting he was ashamed of ,elder ,o's two-hour harangue of abuse against the work of perfecting the saints1 being present1 was then called to the witness-stand4 ,after he stated in direct examination that ,i was insane on sanctification1 ,i asked him to inform the ,committee what the manifestations of my insanity were4 ,he gave the following three points1 which ,i record to his shame3 ,first4 ,you hesitated to proceed to preach once at ,vermillion1 stating that you wished to be led by the ,spirit in the selection of a subject and that if the ,spirit wished you not to preach you would read the ,word1 talk experience1 or be silent1 as the ,spirit directed4 ,second4 ,you do not act as you used to4 ,at our ordinance-meeting you sat back1 and ,i believe ,brother ,oliver had to invite you forward4 ,brother ,o4 concurred in this remark4 ,but ,i then appealed to them if it was not a fact that ,i came down from the pulpit immediately after closing my remarks and led ,in the preparation and observance of feet-washing4 ,then he remarked that it was at the ,brick1 on ,brother ,lynn's charge1 and ,brother ,o4 was not there at all1 and that it was after feet-washing ,brother ,lynn stepped to me and asked me to assist in the ,lord's ,supper 7which was perfectly proper for me--to wait for an invitation74 ,third4 ,you do not preach as loud on sanctification as you used to preach1 but you are more low and calm4 ,these were his only reasons for the assertion of my insanity4 ,brother ,mitchell only stated that some young people asked him what ails ,brother ,warner1 he does not preach as heretofore1 hence concluded that ,i was partly insane4 ,brother ,o4 said all he could to taint the character of the holiness workers4 ,many of his aspersions were never answered4 ,it is of no use to give particulars1 only this1 that ,i was grateful to ,god for these fiery ordeals1 and though the ,lord kept me from an evil thought1 yet ,i was conscious of great weakness and must say to my shame that ,i did not keep that perfect calmness and sweetness in the midst of the storm of unexpected accusation4 ,however1 ,i came out with another perfect evidence that 'the very ,god of peace had sanctified me wholly4' ,i was entirely free from the least hard feelings against any of my brethren4 ,glory to ,god1 ,i felt good toward them all4 ,looked upon their efforts to condemn me and the holiness cause as springing entirely from ignorance1 sin within1 and a blind zeal to protect the church4 ,i went to my room a happy soul4 ,related a few points of the many wonderful things developed before the committee and then we concluded that it did not minister grace to talk about them1 hence we had a sweet season of worship and lay down and slept sweetly until morn4 #cj4 ,sabbath4 ,arose early and sought the ,lord4 ,spent about all my time with ,god and my ,bible until #aj ,a4 ,m41 then went up to the ,bethel to speaking-meeting1 and heard ,elder ,t4 ,hickernel make a long speech of caution to brethren who seemed to have been flinging at sanctified ones4 ,he made this sensible remark3 ,you who claim to have been fully sanctified at conversion1 be careful that you do not prove your claims false by picking and persecuting those who have the second experience4 ,at half-past ten went to the ,methodist ,episcopal house of worship1 where a large congregation had assembled to hear me speak on perfect holiness4 ,i felt more like keeping quiet in some small corner4 ,a number of the brethren were present1 some to sit back and try to criticize4 ,yea1 these were preachers1 and about all of them left before the sermon closed4 ,but there were several others who came to learn and who gave close attention and were compelled to sanction the truth4 ,the ,lord wonderfully baptized my soul and all the lovers of truth and holiness4 ,i believe ,i never before spoke with such power and liberty4 ,glory to ,god1 he so freely poured his ,spirit upon us that it filled the whole house4 ,after services4 ,brother ,oliver's daughter came forward and told us that she enjoyed the blessing of entire sanctification4 ,she said she was wonderfully strengthened and wished that her father were fully saved4 ,we went to ,brother ,baker's for dinner4 ,brother ,torbet1 the ,methodist minister1 was also with us4 ,we enjoyed a good season in reading some good holiness works1 such as ,dr4 ,steele's ,love ,enthroned1 and prayer1 then came to meet at the ,bethel at #b3cj ,p4 ,m4 ,went to the home of ,brother ,oliver's daughter4 ,her father was to come also1 but seeing us go there1 or for some other cause1 went elsewhere4 ,the poor woman is very unfortunately married1 but ,christ is her only true companion4 ,eve1 ,brother ,updike preached with all his might 7his usual style7 on ,christ a teacher4 ,we then observed the ordinances4 ,oct4 #a1 #ahgg4 ,committee on my case reported charges sustained1 but recommended me favorably to the body for license with this restriction only1 that ,i do not bring holiness workers or any outside elements to hold a meeting anywhere in the ,churches of ,god without their consent4 ,this ,i readily consented to1 as a meeting thus appointed could do no good1 or but little4 ,i also1 unsolicited1 apologized for the appointment of some meetings in the past which to my surprize proved offensive to the churches4 ,the report was adopted and my license renewed4 ,thank the ,lord6 ,however1 ,i had perfect peace on the whole matter1 and had my license been withheld ,i would equally have given ,god thanks4 ,glory to ,jesus6 ,was out much of the day talking with brethren on perfect love1 etc4 ,the brethren from ,stark circuit again called me out and consulted me about taking their circuit4 ,i told them if they could stand perfect holiness and all the counsel of ,god preached1 they might apply for me1 and ,i would leave it all with the ,lord and the ,eldership4 ,this eve ,i gave a concise account of my experience of justification and sanctification4 ,at a late hour the ,eldership closed with a report of the ,stationing ,committee4 ,i was assigned to the ,stark circuit1 consisting of ,canton1 ,new ,berlin1 ,middle ,creek1 and ,stump's ,bethel4 ,thank the ,lord6 ,his ways are not our ways4 ,i had built much on free missionary work1 but he knows best4 ,i committed it all to him1 besought him to prevent my appointment to a circuit if he did not wish me to take one1 even by cutting off my license if no other way2 and now ,i receive this appointment of the ,lord1 and by his blessing and power ,i hope he will make his ,word to run and be glorified in the salvation of hundreds of souls4 ,following this decision of the ,stationing ,committee1 ,brother and ,sister ,warner had the task of changing their place of abode1 which in their work they had so many times to do4 ,their belongings were certainly not many1 nevertheless the work of packing and the obtaining of some means of conveying their goods to the station was left generally for them to attend to4 ,his literary society about this time gave an entertainment at the ,college1 but he with ,sister ,warner preferred to attend a holiness meeting about four miles distant4 ,of this meeting he thus speaks3 #c4 ,met ,brother ,ackers1 from ,bucyrus1 whom ,i had not met before4 ,he is a wonderful specimen of ,god's great salvation1 raised from the delirium tremens to perfect holiness and mighty faith4 #g4 ,brother ,ackers testified for ,god that the happiest moment he ever saw was when he found he had lost all his property and had not a dollar left1 though he had been a wealthy merchant in ,bucyrus4 ,i was led to testify how the ,lord had taken me through some storms in great calmness4 ,eve1 the church and the large schoolhouse on the same corners were both filled4 ,i delivered a short sermon in the former on perfection1 then went over to the other house and gave an exhortation to sinners4 ,before leaving for ,canton1 ,brother and ,sister ,warner decided to visit the latter's former home near ,upper ,sandusky4 ,from that place he went to visit his father1 at ,bridgewater1 ,williams ,county4 #aa4 ,this morning arose before daylight1 started quite early to ,loudonville4 ,brother ,eyer came to the station and brought a quilt for us and a small one for ,levilla1 which the sisters of the ,brubaker ,church had got up for us4 ,i spent some hours in packing things more securely to ship4 ,took train at #b3af ,p4 ,m4 for ,upper ,sandusky4 ,reached there after seven4 ,walked out to ,father ,keller's4 ,they had about given me up and were engaged in family worship4 ,with reverence and admiration ,i stood at the window and looked in at that dear1 affectionate family1 all made perfect through the blood of the everlasting covenant1 while bowed together in evening devotion4 ,father was praying with a beaming face toward me4 ,it appeared that the whole house was illuminated with the presence of ,god4 ,my heart was made to burn with love and the ,holy ,ghost4 ,when through with prayer1 ,i entered1 and then we had a moment of joyful greeting in the name of the ,lord ,jesus4 ,my full heart then suggested that we bow again in praise and thanksgiving to ,god1 which we all did4 ,oh how my poor heart tried to find utterance for its weight of gratitude to our ,god of wondrous love and salvation6 ,until quite late we talked of the kind dealings of ,god to our souls4 ,i praise thee1 ,o my ,god and ,father1 that thou hast ever connected me with this family4 ,through thy blessings1 we have been wonderful helps to each other4 #ac4 ,i took train at about half-past five for my father's in ,williams ,county4 ,lay over about an hour at ,toledo4 ,reached ,bryan about half-past one4 ,went up in the town and soon found a man by the name of ,faith1 who could take me within one and three fourths miles from ,father's4 ,talked with the poor man about his soul2 but he had taken an oath to stick to the ,lutheran ,church as long as he lived1 and that oath must be kept if he violates every obligation to ,christ and loses his soul4 ,called at ,brother ,dean's4 ,found the poor man much cast down over the death of his dear wife4 ,he wept as ,i alluded to her4 ,came on home4 ,found ,father pretty well and happy to see me4 ,as ,i came from ,brother ,dean's1 ,i passed the old schoolhouse where ,i surrendered to ,jesus4 ,it is no more used4 ,i revered the sacred spot4 ,approached the door and found that it was not locked4 ,i entered and kneeled as near as ,i could where ,i bowed at the altar a penitent sinner twelve years ago last ,february4 ,i poured out my full heart of gratitude to the ,father of mercies that he ever sent his spirit to convict me of my sins and show me my awful doom if ,i continued in sin4 ,i truly thanked ,god that he had there prevailed upon me to repent of all my sin4 ,i praised the great ,shepherd of my soul that his grace had kept me those years from the power of an enraged foe4 ,my thanks ascended to ,god for all the good he had done through this lump of unworthy clay4 ,there ,i reconsecrated to ,god1 after a careful examination of myself before him4 ,after some talk with ,father1 we bowed down together and ,i earnestly prayed ,god to save my poor father from the dreadful end of the wicked4 ,for some time ,i have been unusually burdened in heart for my poor old father4 ,i trust ,god in his infinite mercy will yet save him ere he goes to his long home4 ,before retiring1 in my bedchamber ,i continued long in prayer with my blessed ,savior4 #ad4 ,sabbath4 ,bro4 ,joseph ,neil and ,i went to ,madison ,bethel1 where ,brother ,coblen 7recently from the ,german ,baptists7 had an appointment to preach4 ,brother ,c4 spoke about thirty minutes on ,heb4 #b3b4 ,did well4 ,i then talked over thirty minutes1 mostly on the perfect escape from sin4 ,the church here are living in a high state of justification and spirituality4 ,they all sanctioned entire sanctification4 ,we then had a good speaking-meeting1 when some of them acknowledged their need of full salvation4 ,oh1 what a pity this church could not be led into the blessed land of perfect rest6 ,but perhaps the next preacher that comes along will try to turn them against the truth4 ,what a dreadful thing is an unsanctified minister6 ,o ,lord6 make haste to purge the sons of ,levi4 ,took dinner with ,brother ,troxel4 ,as soon as we arrived1 ,brother ,neil began to entertain some young people on the porch with stories1 while the disgraceful pipe protruded from his unsanctified lips4 ,i withdrew at once to the room1 read a few chapters1 then to the bedroom and communed with my ,god until dinner was about ready4 ,after eating1 the pipe presented itself again4 ,the ,lord led me to rebuke such filthiness of the flesh4 ,i told them that the use of tobacco was positively a sin3 ,first1 because it was the gratification of an unnatural and unholy appetite2 second1 it was offensive to all who were not therewith corrupted2 third1 it was a sinful appropriation of the ,lord's means2 fourth1 it disqualified for refined and pure society by its extreme filthiness4 ,brother ,neil then hitched up his beast1 drove to the front1 and called for me4 ,i told him to come in4 ,i read a portion of ,god's ,word and then engaged in prayer4 ,the ,spirit led me into some very solemn requests for my brethren1 and ,i trust they will hereafter have a more sacred conception of what it is to be holy in life1 heart1 and all manner of conversation4 ,came to ,father's4 ,had a long season of prayer in the chamber where ,i dwelt so much with ,god at the beginning of my ministration of the ,word4 ,then for exercise and meditation ,i chose to walk to the meeting-house1 about one and one half miles4 ,the house was densely crowded4 ,i was astonished that the word had spread so rapidly to such a great distance in every direction4 ,the ,lord gave me glorious liberty and power4 #a ,thess4 #d3a4 ,touched on sanctification1 and ,i saw in a moment that ,i had some hearers who were in the land and others seeking the crossing1 all members of the ,church of ,god4 ,the ,lord gave me a very solemn appeal to the sinner4 ,many wept4 ,my father was greatly melted down4 #ae4 ,father and ,i drove to ,brother ,joseph's4 ,i walked to the cemetery and communed with ,god beside the grave of my beloved and revered mother4 ,i knelt down there and thanked ,god for having been brought into the world by such a pure and beloved mother2 for her tender and never-failing care for me when in sickly childhood and youth2 for the hallowed influence of her constant life of love and patience and humble trust in ,god in the midst of constant wickedness in this world2 for her triumphant death and the hope of meeting her in heaven4 ,though ,i began in secret ,i soon forgot my surroundings and called loudly upon my blessed ,jesus1 not only in thanksgiving1 but for the salvation of ,father1 ,brother and friends4 #af4 ,arose early4 ,communed with the ,lord4 ,bathed1 as my custom is each alternate morning4 ,read a little tract on ,joshua's stopping the sun and moon1 written by ,d4 ,m4 ,bennett4 ,while reading the little bit of corruption the ,lord gave me wonderful light to expose it to my father4 ,these facts flashed across my mind3 #a4 ,the world was lost in ignorance of ,god and debased in sin4 #b4 ,the first thing necessary in human salvation was for ,god to make man sensible of ,his existence and power4 #c4 ,he had to take mankind in the condition sin had placed him4 #d4 ,man1 possessing very little mental and less moral elevation and energy1 would not have been impressed with awe and reverence before ,god had he manifested his perfections of wisdom and holiness1 any more than a base society would entertain peculiar respect for a man who appeared among them with superior intellect and morals4 #e4 ,as man's chief ideal of greatness consisted in valor1 heroism1 and physical achievements1 it is a fact that on this low plane only could man be led to recognize the true greatness and actual existence of ,god1 by the manifestations of his power in the manner he used in destroying those idolatrous nations4 ,p4 ,m41 ,father and ,i drove to ,montpelier on a little business4 ,father gave me five dollars1 and one dollar in silver for ,levilla4 ,he also gave me a small package of some of my revered mother's clothes4 ,how blessed her memory6 ,eve1 ,mr4 ,frisby 7married to my niece71 my brother1 and a large wagon-load accompanied me to ,madison1 where ,i spoke to a full house4 ,about the whole church received the light of holiness4 ,on the #aith he took train on his journey toward ,canton4 ,he stopped at ,loudonville and visited the church4 ,arrived at ,canton on the #bjth and proceeded immediately to visit congregations on the circuit4 ,sister ,warner and child arrived on the #bc;d4 ,the search for a house in which to live extended over a period of several days4 ,there were good1 faithful brethren who assisted them with provisions1 but yet to a considerable extent they were left to provide the necessaries of life themselves4 ,of his effort to procure wood and hay we observe1 for ,november #f3 ,cold4 ,snowed some last night for the first4 ,went to hunt wood and hay4 ,found no wood or hay to spare4 ,it seems hard that a poor messenger of ,god must expose himself to drive about sixteen miles through mud and very raw air to hunt those necessaries4 ,it seems a light thing nowadays to sow to the people spiritual things1 but a heavy thing to reap a few temporal things1 even when we try to live more simple and cheap than our poor4 ,oh1 how good it would have been for me to have had this day in the warm with the ,lord in my library6 ,but glory to ,jesus1 we still joy in sustaining sacrifice for his sake and feel content with our lot4 ,only1 dear ,lord1 give us a good supply of the spirit of love1 zeal1 wisdom1 and power4 ,meetings in town were held from house to house until a permanent place of worship could be opened4 ,it was not long1 however1 until they both felt the ,lord leading them to resign the circuit4 ,brother ,warner had accepted with submission and good grace the charge given him 7which1 after all1 was of man's appointment71 but as a preacher of holiness with an ever increasing interest in a wider field1 he doubtless felt that ,god wanted him to be free to go and do as the ,spirit directed4 ,the following is his entry for ,november #bc3 ,this morn before daylight1 when having morning devotion1 the ,spirit of ,god spoke to both ,sarah and me to fast today4 ,thank ,god for such a precious ,leader4 ,who would not obey such a wise ,counselor8 ,spent most of the day in reading the ,word1 singing1 and prayer4 ,at ten ,a4 ,m4 we were both before the ,lord in silent prayer when we were both directed by the ,spirit to resign this circuit4 ,still on our knees1 we made known the orders received4 ,we could but say amen1 and the refreshings from the presence of the ,lord came upon our hungry souls4 ,we engaged in prayer and praise1 when ,i was directed to proceed at once to write my resignation4 ,this tried me1 as ,i had never before been thrown among such very kind brethren and sisters4 ,it seemed hard that ,i must throw up the circuit without as much as consulting them4 ,but we dared not disobey ,god1 as some hesitancy to obey in the past had cost me much power and sweet rest in ,god4 ,praise ,god1 our hearts were much lightened and we felt that we had now got back at the beginning of the highway of holiness1 which we had to some extent missed4 ,we could now sing1 ,he leadeth us4 ,eve1 went up to the office and received a card earnestly calling for our services at ,columbiana4 ,of this call ,i had an impression before ,i went to the office1 and believe it of the ,lord4 ,glory to ,god6 ,my way has been hedged up ever since we came on the circuit4 ,at ,columbiana he found a number whose hearts were open to sanctification4 ,his work there resulted in ten persons receiving the experience and one sinner being converted4 ,returning to his house in ,canton on ,december #f1 he became impressed with the idea of writing out in somewhat itemized form the solemn covenant that constituted his consecration to ,god4 #h4 ,i fasted today4 ,remained up with the ,lord until after #aa o'clock at night4 ,i was led by the ,spirit to a deep self-examination4 ,i found myself utterly nothing in the sight of ,god4 ,i read with great interest the experience of ,bro4 ,r4 ,yeakel1 in the ,living ,epistles of #ahgc4 ,as ,i read over the solemn written covenant that this holy man entered into with ,god1 ,i was much impressed to do likewise1 but feared that my impressions came from a wish to imitate one of ,god's holy men rather than to follow the ,spirit4 ,went to the office this eve and received a letter from ,brother ,chambers1 chairman of the ,ohio ,holiness ,alliance4 ,as soon as ,i saw his name on the envelope the conviction of last ,sabbath that ,i should give myself up to be a holiness evangelist came strongly to my mind1 and as ,i walked home ,i promised ,god that ,i would not lie down until ,i had reported myself to ,brother ,chambers for this work4 ,the ,lord helped me to do so1 and as ,i wrote down my convictions and surrendered to the ,lord1 the ,holy ,ghost graciously fell upon my soul4 #ac4 ,the day was mild and fair4 ,took a walk in the woods to commune with ,god4 ,thought much of the words of ,god1 ,i will make a new covenant with the house of ,israel 7,jer4 #ca3ca74 ,in ,hebrews #h and #aj ,i read that this covenant related to the new dispensation1 and the apostle1 in ,hebrews #aj1 actually connects it with sanctification4 ,i felt like entering more personally and formally into this covenant with the ,almighty4 ,but ,i thought1 ,can such a worm enter into an everlasting covenant with the ,holy ,god of the universe8 ,god makes the proposition1 and with solemn reverence ,i venture to step out upon it4 ,and this ,i do in the name of the ,lord ,jesus1 my only righteousness4 ,a covenant is an agreement of two parties in which both voluntarily bind themselves to fill certain conditions and receive certain benefits4 ,god is the party of the first part of the contract1 and has bound himself4 #a4 ,i will put my laws into their minds and write them in their hearts4 #b4 ,and ,i will be their ,god4 #c4 ,they shall know me from the least to the greatest4 #d4 ,i will be merciful to their unrighteousness4 #e4 ,their sins and their iniquities will ,i remember no more4 ,o thou ,most ,high ,god1 thou hast left this covenant in thy ,holy ,book1 saying1 ,if any man will take hold of my covenant4 ,now1 therefore1 in holy fear and reverence ,i present myself as the party of the second part and subscribe my name to the holy article of agreement1 and following thy example will here and now write down the conditions on my part4 ,they shall be my people4 ,jer4 #ca3cc4 ,amen1 ,lord1 ,i am forever thine4 ,the vow is passed beyond repeal1 ,now will ,i set the solemn seal4 ,lord1 thou hast been true to thy covenant1 though ,i have been most unfaithful and am now altogether unworthy to take hold of thy most gracious covenant4 ,but knowing that thou hast bound thyself in thy own free offer to be merciful to their unrighteousness1 ,i take courage to approach thee and would most earnestly beseech thee to fulfil thy wonderful offer to ,,be ,,my ,,god2 and ,i do most joyfully yield myself entirely ,,to ,,be ,,thine4 ,therefore this soul which thou hast made in thine own image is placed wholly in thy hands to do with it as seemeth good4 ,this mind shall think only for thy glory and the promotion of thy cause4 ,this will is thy will1 ,o ,god6 ,the spirit within this body is now thine2 do with it as thou wilt1 in life and death4 ,this body is thy temple forevermore4 ,these hands shall work only for thee4 ,these eyes to see thy adorable works and thy holy law4 ,this tongue and these lips to speak only holiness unto the ,lord4 ,these ears to hear thy voice alone4 ,these feet to walk only in thy ways4 ,and all my being is now and forever thine4 ,in signing my name to this solemn covenant ,i am aware that ,i bind myself to live1 act1 speak1 think1 move1 sit1 stand up1 lie down1 eat1 drink1 hear1 see1 feel1 and whatsoever ,i do all the days and nights of my life to do all continually and exclusively to the glory of ,god4 ,i must henceforth wear nothing but what honors ,god4 ,i must have nothing in my possession or under my control but such as ,i can consistently write upon1 ,holiness unto the ,lord4 ,the place where ,i live must be wholly dedicated to ,god4 ,every item of goods or property that is under my control is hereby conveyed fully over into the hands of ,god to be used by him as he will and to be taken from my stewardship whenever the great ,owner wishes1 and it is not my business at all4 ,she whom ,i call my wife belongs forevermore to ,god4 ,use her as thou wilt and where thou wilt1 and leave her with me1 or take her from me1 just as seemeth good to thee and to thy glory4 ,amen4 ,levilla ,modest1 whom we love as a dear child bestowed upon us by thy infinite goodness1 is hereby returned to thee4 ,if thou wilt leave us to care for her and teach her of her true ,father and ,owner1 we will do the best we can by thy aid to make her profitable unto thee4 ,but if thou deemest us unfit to properly rear her or wouldst have her in thy more immediate presence1 behold1 she is thine1 take her4 ,amen and amen4 ,and now1 great and merciful ,father1 thou to whom ,i belong1 with all that pertains to me1 and thou who art mine with all that pertains to thy fulness and richness1 all this offering which ,i have made would be but foolishness and waste of time were it not for what ,i have in thee obtained to confirm the solemn contract4 ,for were it not that thou art my ,god1 my promises would be but idle words4 ,i could fulfil nothing which my mouth has uttered and my pen has written4 ,but since thou1 ,almighty1 ,omniscient1 ,omnipresent1 and ,eternal ,god1 art mine1 ,i have a thousandfold assurance that all shall be fulfilled through thy fulness4 ,my ignorance is fully supplied by thy own infinite wisdom4 ,my utter weakness and inability to preserve myself from sin is abundantly supplied by thy omnipotence1 to thy everlasting praise4 ,glory to thy holy name6 ,though ,i have solemnly pledged all things to thee1 yet1 as thou art my all and in all1 ,i have nothing to fear4 ,now1 ,o ,father6 my ,god and ,savior1 ,i humbly pray thee so to keep me that all my powers of soul1 body1 and spirit1 my time1 talents1 will1 influence1 words1 and works1 shall continually1 exclusively1 and eternally glorify thy holy name through ,jesus ,christ1 my ,lord and ,savior4 ,amen and amen4 ,in covenant with the ,god of all grace and mercy1 who has become my salvation1 my all1 and whose ,i am forever1 to the praise of his glory4 ,amen4 ,entered into by the direction of the ,holy ,spirit and signed this ,thirteenth day of ,december1 in the year of our ,lord ,eighteen ,hundred and ,seventy-,seven4 ,,daniel ,,sidney ,,warner4 ,i realized much strength by obeying the impressions of the ,spirit in writing out the foregoing covenant4 ,god seemed present as though ,i was making an agreement with a person whom ,i could see by my side4 ,eve1 ,romans #ab4 ,the ,lord was there to make truth effectual1 and after preaching succeeded in getting about all the members in the altar1 and we had a solemn1 heart-searching time4 ,then we had speaking meeting4 ,i urged the brethren and sisters to confess what they felt to be their true condition and their wants4 ,about all confessed3 ,i have an evil nature within me which ,i would like to get rid of if that can be4 ,i confess ,i have sin in me4 ,have carnality yet in me4 ,glory to ,god1 this brought the ,lord very near4 ,my soul seemed in heaven4 ,everything seemed melting down before ,god and yielding to his constraining love and sinners were serious4 #af4 ,sabbath4 ,preached on ,hebrews4 ,had a talk with ,bro4 ,william ,fuller on sanctification4 ,he was critical and talked for argument4 ,the ,spirit bade me leave him1 but ,i did not obey for some time1 wishing to show my regards for the young brother4 ,i have learned1 however1 never again to disobey ,god out of deference to man4 ,when ,god says cease an argument1 the cause of holiness can only suffer by disobedience4 ,i finally withdrew to the closet and confessed my disobedience to the ,spirit4 ,after coming out1 ,mr4 ,w----1 a poor sinner1 attacked me1 using some insulting language4 ,i read a little ,scripture and left him4 ,eve1 read #a ,thessalonians and #a ,john on perfect love4 ,the ,lord's ,spirit was there to melt hearts4 ,opposition began to give way4 ,brother ,fuller1 after meeting1 confessed that his eyes were being opened to the truth2 hoped ,i would return4 ,bro4 ,abraham ,whitmire confessed his convictions that unless this community accepted holiness the cause of religion would greatly suffer here4 ,others with tears asked our prayers4 ,glory to ,god1 good seed is sown here which will bring forth in the future4 ,on the #aith ,brother and ,sister ,warner began packing their goods to move to ,upper ,sandusky1 the home of the latter's parents4 ,they had received word that a holiness revival was desired in ,findlay1 where the seed had already been sown4 ,on arriving at ,upper ,sandusky they found that they were already engaged for ,findlay and were to go there the following ,monday4 ,of their work in ,findlay1 in which they were assisted by ,father and ,mother ,keller1 a few selected notes from the diary will give a sufficient account4 #bd4 ,reached the ,bethel in ,findlay before preaching4 ,found that ,god was wondrously at work here4 ,twenty-three sanctified4 ,some of the old members fighting the work4 ,the ,lord blessed me in preaching full salvation4 ,his power rested on the people and some came to the altar4 ,father and ,i went home with ,father ,sherick4 ,he had been opposed to holiness but1 thank ,god1 he is now yielding and begins to confess his need of full salvation4 ,he is eighty years old and probably fifty years a ,christian--but has never grown out of depravity4 #be4 ,today we celebrate the birth of ,christ4 ,arose before daylight1 as usual1 and after my daily bath ,father and ,i had a precious season of prayer and praises4 ,met at ten at the ,bethel4 ,had a prayer- and general experience-meeting4 ,the little ones testified straight and strong4 ,eve1 house full4 ,was asked to preach again4 ,felt much straightened4 ,the elders were to let us know about our having the ,bethel for a holiness meeting1 and it was expected that tonight the meeting should be conducted for sinners2 but last night ,god showed me after preaching that this must be a holiness meeting4 ,so ,i was hedged up by the church on one side and ,god on the other4 ,tried to preach some time to sinners1 but was absolutely abandoned to myself4 ,oh1 how empty and hollow all ,i said6 ,i saw that this would not do1 so ,i proceeded to full salvation for believers4 ,glory to ,god1 ,i had some unction then1 but felt the displeasure of some of the church4 ,two mourners and three believers presented themselves at the altar4 ,one soul sanctified4 ,after meeting a very intelligent and pleasant sister came forward and said1 ,god gave me the wonderful ,christmas gift of entire sanctification while you were preaching4 ,glory to ,god forever6 ,we announced meetings in the future on the holiness line4 #bf4 ,up before the family1 bathed and prayed4 ,a4 ,m41 wrote1 occasionally talked holiness to persons coming in seeking light4 ,all the city is in an uproar on holiness4 ,halleluiah6 ,at half-past two met at the ,bethel4 ,brother ,linsey led the meeting4 ,satan made a dreadful rally today4 ,all the old cold members got in the back part of the house4 ,bro4 ,samuel ,ferguson acted as spokesman for the devil4 ,he set out in a raging storm4 ,called this work the judgment of the whore1 the abomination that maketh desolate4 ,called ,god to rebuke it1 to smite it in the mouth until the blood should fly out4 ,he hollowed and stamped and foamed like a madman4 ,glory to ,god1 who kept his little ones in perfect peace4 ,god gave me great peace1 and ,i could but say thank ,god for the trial of his holy cause4 ,i proceeded in a calm spirit to show the people some of ,god's sacred truth that they were rejecting4 ,brother ,wilson arose on the opposition side and asked some questions1 threatening a call of the ,standing ,committee4 ,may the ,lord help him to seek the cleansing blood4 ,a young man1 member of the church1 by the name of ,teams stepped out in the aisle and began to yell and stamp and walk to-and-fro4 ,he consumed about fifteen minutes in silly harangue against perfect holiness by the blood of ,christ4 ,there was no reason1 sense1 ,bible1 or even apparent civilization in his aspersions4 ,all the little ones were kept in perfect peace4 ,eve1 ,brother ,updike preached his farewell sermon to the church4 ,he felt so directed because of the recent abuses of his wife by some of the church and because of the wicked opposition of the leaders of the church to holiness4 ,he declared his withdrawal from this charge4 ,the old and formal part of the church were aroused most furiously4 ,i followed by some remarks4 ,a few came out to seek purity4 #bg4 ,had meeting at #b ,p4 ,m4 in the court-house1 whither we have moved because of the constant disturbance in the ,bethel4 ,eve1 tried to preach to a good congregation at the court-house4 ,the ,lord was with us in sweet peace and power4 ,we felt we were in a purer spiritual atmosphere4 #cj4 ,sabbath4 ,met at ten4 ,heb4 #ac3bj1ba4 ,the ,lord helped me to show the people that perfection is commanded and attained now2 what it is and is not2 that it is not attained in conversion1 but by a second work4 ,at #b3cj ,p4 ,m4 met in the court-house in a temperance meeting4 ,brothers ,linsey and ,ackers both glorified ,god by testifying to their wonderful salvation from drink and tobacco1 both having had delirium tremens several times4 ,brother ,a4 called the tobacco habit a twin sister to strong drink and claimed that it was the cause of his becoming a drunkard4 ,after they spoke1 a ,lutheran minister arose and deprecated the springing of tobacco in the meeting and palliated this abomination as consistent with perfect consecration to ,god and piety4 ,shame6 ,shame6 ,a brother asked concerning our holiness4 ,so we bowed together and had a season of prayer1 and as we afterward began to talk he constantly interrupted me1 would not let me finish a point or connect the ,scripture proofs of the two works4 ,we bowed again in prayer and he led4 ,he asked ,god to purify his heart and take all the evil nature out of him4 ,after arising ,i remarked that as he would interrupt all my efforts to give him instruction ,i would now ask him some questions and learn4 ,i asked him what things we were allowed of ,god4 ,answer1 ,such things as he promises4 ,do you always pray for such only8 ,yes4 ,do you receive them8 ,yes4 ,then you have just now been sanctified1 made pure1 is it not so8 ,yes4 ,then you should hereafter not ask ,god to do what he has done6 ,but he contended that he should keep on making the same prayer4 ,brother ,larcomb suggested the equal propriety of continuing to pray to ,god to convert him4 ,oh what confusion and ignorance6 ,still they thought we had gone astray4 #ca4 ,a4 ,m41 wrote4 ,eve1 met at seven and continued the meeting until after twelve4 ,the house was crowded1 the isles standing full of people to the close of the meeting4 ,pretty good order for the throng4 ,brother ,updike preached4 ,after some altar work1 we had good testimony-meeting4 ,i then preached a short discourse on ,eph4 #d3bb-bd4 ,a few minutes before twelve the altar was again filled with seekers and little ones4 ,i read the ,christian consecration1 and all said amen4 ,the power of ,god came upon us4 ,many shouts4 ,a ,mother ,goodwin1 of the ,m4 ,e4 ,church1 was the subject of a wonderful work of grace tonight4 ,for eighteen years she had sought for this experience4 ,she had a dreadful death1 turned perfectly white and shook like a leaf4 ,she hesitated to believe through the temptation of unworthiness4 ,i asked her if ,christ was not worthy4 ,told her to believe for the glory of his name4 ,then she took hold4 ,she soon fully overcame by the blood of the ,lamb and the word of her testimony4 ,it was a wonderful work wrought by the power of ,god in one of the most intelligent and pious ladies of ,findlay1 of about fifty years of age4 ,she was filled with wonder at the great change and testified with a halo of glory beaming from her countenance4 ,how can such a marked work be doubted8 ,what a reproach upon the ministry that this dear saint should be kept eighteen years in the wilderness longing for some ,joshua to lead her over to the land of perfect rest of soul from all sin6 ,jan4 #a1 #ahgh4 ,praise ,god for the mercies of the past year4 ,i am so thankful that the old year witnessed the final death of the old man in me1 and now for the first time ,i enter upon the ,new ,year all renewed in the image of ,god4 ,glory to his name in the highest6 ,i am redeemed and washed in the blood of the ,lamb4 ,o ,canaan1 sweet ,canaan1 surely here flows milk and honey6 ,god is my everlasting all1 my satisfying portion4 ,oh1 wonders of redeeming love6 ,can it be that through the precious blood of ,christ ,i have entered into the holiest and am forever shut in with ,god1 and dead to the world6 ,o ,god1 ,i feel that ,i can stand in thy holy presence6 ,i tremble with awe and reverence4 ,o my ,god and ,redeemer6 keep me on thine altar and in spotless purity lest ,i offend thy ,holiness and die4 ,i shall forever dwell with thee1 and through the riches of thy boundless grace my whole being1 every thought1 word1 feeling1 emotion1 appetite1 desire1 wish1 purpose1 and action1 yea my whole life1 shall be a continual offering to ,god1 in the flames of his love4 ,amen4 ,almighty1 ,all-wise1 and ever present ,god1 fulfil this thy pleasure in me4 ,i am in thy hands4 ,amen and amen4 ,a4 ,m41 wrote some4 ,met at #aj ,a4 ,m4 and held meetings until #d ,p4 ,m42 the power of ,god rested upon us4 ,four1 ,i believe1 were sanctified4 ,the ,lord gave me much light on the sanctuary as setting forth the different degrees of grace 7,heb4 #aj3ai1bb74 ,in chapter #h the apostle compares the sanctuary and the temple service with the present spiritual house or church4 #i3i shows that the former temple service was typical of the church1 also #aj3aa4 ,now1 as the temple all through the ,bible typifies the church1 so also the tabernacle4 ,we must make some application of its departments4 ,this the apostle does for us4 ,the court represents penitence or approach to the church1 the sanctuary or holy4 ,from this we have access into the holiest4 ,in the sanctuary they are brethren and 7v4 #bb7 have their hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience4 ,were justified when they came into the holy1 and now are invited into the holiest1 not into heaven but into a state of purity through the blood of ,christ4 #b4 ,wrote some4 ,brother ,doty came today4 ,thank the ,lord4 ,eve4 ,brother ,doty preached on the difference between justification and entire sanctification4 7#a7 ,inbred sin is not cognizable to our consciousness when actual sin and guilt crowd the conscience4 7#b7 ,we need not lack wisdom1 for such is ,christ to us2 but may greatly lack knowledge4 7#c7 ,entire sanctification takes away all vain curiosity4 7#d7 ,makes us simple in giving1 etc4 7#e7 ,leaves natural appetites the same1 but removes unnatural4 ,two were most gloriously sanctified1 one an old mother over eighty years of age4 ,oh1 how wonderfully ,god blessed her6 ,she ran around as spritely as a young girl4 ,the house1 as usual1 was greatly crowded1 the space on the floor about all occupied by standers4 ,the whole city is stirred4 ,all the protracted efforts in the place are without interest4 ,all the elements are attracted here4 ,sinners want this kind of religion that saves from all sin4 ,glory to ,god forever6 ,some of the county officials1 ,i presume1 are getting uneasy1 hence concluded that we could no longer have the court-house4 ,received the promise of the ,reform house1 at least for the next evening4 #c4 ,god's power was with us4 ,three souls were sweetly sanctified1 one of whom1 a sister ,miller1 was converted to ,god from ,catholicism last winter4 ,they say her conversion was among the most bright of the #aej converts and her life has been true4 ,oh how calm and clearly she came out6 ,her testimony was sublime and more than human4 ,it was spoken by the ,spirit4 ,praise ,god6 ,another meeting was held in ,east ,findlay4 ,the ,lord was also there in power4 ,a brother in the ,church of ,god who had rashly denounced holiness was sanctified at this meeting4 ,eve1 the promised house was not opened4 ,the little ones were scattered each not knowing where to meet the rest1 and yet we felt a great desire to be together4 ,one company gathered and we went to a ,united ,brethren ,church4 ,as we passed along1 crowds gathered after us and asked where we were going to have meeting4 ,the people were much disappointed4 ,brother ,engle1 the pastor1 preached an earnest sermon to sinners from1 ,the way of the transgressor is hard4 ,i felt that the church was an iceberg between this sanctified preacher and the sinners4 ,we all prayed fervently for the efficacy of the word4 ,some twelve arose for prayer1 among the number was ,sister ,wert's son1 a very intelligent young man with whom ,i called today4 ,when ,i asked him concerning his soul's interests1 he said that he did not go much on religion4 ,i calmly replied that ,i presumed he had none to go on4 ,i added that ,i did not go on religion either before ,i had any to go on4 ,this was ,god-sent1 and he knew not how to express himself again4 ,i waited a few seconds then proposed prayer4 ,we all kneeled and ,i presented him to the mercy of ,god4 ,after holding his hand and giving him a few words ,i left him1 praying to ,god to bring him down to the cross4 ,praise ,god1 ,i saw him rise in the congregation4 ,brother ,linsey and ,i stayed up all night in prayer to ,god for ,findlay4 ,god rolled upon our hearts a dreadful agony for souls and gave us an awful sight of the wicked apostasy of the churches4 ,like the old prophets1 we groaned and cried to ,god for salvation to come out of ,zion4 #bg4 ,sabbath4 ,met at the ,united ,brethren ,church4 ,good testimony-meeting4 ,one sister said1 ,i do not believe in a second work2 would as leave you would hit me in the face as to speak of it2 it is like a dart to my heart to hear it4 ,just so the pure testimony put forth in the ,spirit cuts1 etc4 ,brother ,engle read a very interesting chapter of ,united ,brethren history showing the holiness revival in that church4 ,otterbein1 ,bishop ,edwards1 ,wilson1 and many others of the most eminent ministers professed and taught holiness as a distinct work4 ,at this point in his diary ,brother ,warner tells of his expulsion from the ,west ,ohio ,eldership1 and gives the subject a special heading4 ,,trial ,,and ,,expulsion ,,from ,,the ,,west ,,ohio ,,eldership ,,of ,,the ,,church ,,of ,,god ,,for ,,preaching ,,full ,,salvation2 ,,for ,,following ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit2 ,,for ,,helping ,,to ,,save ,,over #aej ,,souls ,,in ,,this ,,place #cj4 ,standing ,committee met in ,findlay today4 ,principal business to attend to was charges prefered by ,bro4 ,g4 ,w4 ,wilson against ,bro4 ,j4 ,v4 ,updike and me--against him for maladministration of the church here1 deserting it1 and turning church interests over to the ,holiness ,alliance1 etc42 against me for 7#a7 transcending the restrictions of the ,eldership1 7#b7 violating rules of cooperation1 7#c7 participating in dividing the church4 ,as to the first1 it relates to an action of the body last ,eldership in which ,i was prohibited from springing the holiness meeting on any church where they did not wish it4 ,this charge was not sustained by a single proof4 ,the facts are as follows3 ,father ,keller was led by the ,spirit to go to ,findlay to procure a place for a holiness meeting4 ,he found a meeting in progress in the ,church of ,god1 tried to get the house to begin as soon as they were through1 but they refused4 ,he then engaged the ,reformed house1 but left an offer still with the ,church of ,god to occupy their house if they concluded to let us have it4 ,when we received word that the meeting was about to close we went up and found it still in progress1 and as the holiness workers were there1 we wished to begin a meeting on the holiness line4 ,we gave the church the first offer to use their house1 and they consented to our using the house4 ,however1 this ,i think they did because they knew that if we went to another house we would carry all the interests from their house4 ,and when the whole counsel of ,god was presented they could not stand it1 but gathered in the back end of the house with wicked men and fought the work of ,god1 so that we soon saw that nothing could be done there1 hence we removed to the court-house4 ,i had nothing at all to do with the appointment of the meeting there and only did some of the preaching after ,father ,keller and ,brothers ,ackers and ,linsey had got the use of the house from the elders and trustees1 or a majority of them4 ,second charge1 ,violation of rules of cooperation4 ,the rule cited was like this3 ,no person shall go upon another's field of labor to hold meetings1 etc1 without the consent of preacher and church4 ,when we announced meeting at the court-house1 one of the elders announced preaching there at the ,bethel the next night4 ,brother ,wilson filled the pulpit and continued some four or five nights with no success and small congregations4 ,now1 because ,i assisted in the meeting at the court-house while these church services were continued in the same town1 ,i am thus charged1 when these meetings were really appointed after and in opposition to the real work of the ,lord1 where souls were daily being saved4 ,third charge1 ,dividing the church4 ,i showed that the only results of the holiness meeting were fifty-three sinners converted and #aah believers sanctified1 and that all the division and confusion was caused by the carnal and wicked opposition on the part of the rest of the church1 just like the envious ,jews stirred up the people at ,thessalonica and ,berea 7,acts #ag7 and interrupted the apostles in their peaceable work of leading souls to ,jesus1 as well as disturbed the peace of the city4 ,the apostles1 of course1 had to bear the blame1 and like everywhere else they went1 bonds and prisons awaited them2 and ,i1 too1 was ready to suffer affliction with the people of ,god for the sake of ,christ4 ,all ,adam became aroused1 so that ,i was stopped from reading other ,scriptures4 ,he had been reading and speaking from ,isa4 #cb3ae4 ,when for the sake of the dear people calling themselves the ,church of ,god ,i was studying how to compromise the two elements in the church here1 the ,lord gave me this text1 and the ,spirit led me to preach it straight1 although it conflicted with what ,i had cherished1 that is1 a hope of fraternizing the sanctified and the unsanctified4 ,eve1 ,brother ,updike's case was adjusted by the ,committee1 the elders1 and himself4 ,they tried hard to bind him down to abandon holiness as a definite work and to have no communion with holiness workers4 ,he agreed to some restrictions about preaching holiness where it was not wanted4 ,received his license and was placed on ,mc,comb circuit4 ,evidently they have some hopes of leading him to a recantation4 ,may the mercy and grace of ,god keep him from coming down from the highway6 ,brother ,chambers was at our meeting in ,north ,findlay this eve4 #ca4 ,was brought to the depot this morn in sled4 ,heavy snow falling4 ,after ,i had been riding some time in the train with him in conversation1 ,brother ,cassel1 one of the ,committee1 seeing that ,i was not enough concerned to ask him what disposition they had made of my case1 informed me that the ,committee had decided that the charges were sustained1 and that they had withheld my license4#h ,i thanked him for their decision and assured him that if ,i were to look upon the matter from the mere human standpoint and consider my attachment to the ,church of ,god and her principles1 ,i should regard their action a dreadful calamity and intolerable to bear2 but that ,i had now that charity which believeth all things and endureth all things1 and therefore ,i calmly rested in the promise of ,god that all things work together for good to me1 and the sweet assurance that my dear ,father1 to whom ,i belonged1 would turn this and everything else 7as long as ,i stay on the altar7 to my good and his glory4 ,praise his holy name6 ,reached home about #b ,p4 ,m4 ,up to the time of leaving ,findlay there were #ec converted1 #aah believers sanctified1 including about all the #ec converts4 ,many of them were sanctified at the next meeting after converted1 and a few the same meeting4 ,glory to ,god for full salvation6 ,following the effort at ,findlay1 a series of holiness meetings was held at ,upper ,sandusky in the early part of ,february4 ,brother ,dunbar and others assisted4 ,on the #ith1 ,brother ,warner was called to spend ,sunday at ,dunkirk1 and was kept there for several days4 ,while at ,dunkirk he was impressed by the ,spirit to announce that if any sick in the town would send for him he would go in faith to pray for them to recover4 ,a sister who had been afflicted for years with catarrh in the head1 which had spread to the throat and lungs so that she was consumptive1 thought much about being healed4 ,she had strong faith and came to meeting the next day1 and in answer to prayer was gloriously healed1 perfectly sound4 ,another1 a blacksmith in ,dunkirk1 was impressed to go and pray for the healing of a young colored sister on the verge of death from consumption4 ,she was wonderfully benefited1 as for six weeks she had to be lifted from her bed but now was able to arise and1 assisted by the hand of a sister1 walk across the floor4 ,she had been able only to whisper1 but now could sing praises to ,god4 ,brother ,warner felt that he should return to ,upper ,sandusky to assist in the meetings that were being held there4 ,in a day or two after returning he was called back to ,dunkirk to preach the funeral of the young colored sister4 ,the brother who had prayed for her and a sister who had strong faith believed that ,god would raise the departed sister from the dead in answer to their prayers4 ,brother ,warner announced the funeral for #aj ,a4 ,m41 if the ,lord did not direct matters otherwise4 ,he prayed and examined the scriptures relative to miracles and found that 7#a7 ,christ aroused and inspired faith and admiration in the people by miracles1 7#b7 the final commission teaches miracles1 7#c7 they were the means of the success of the apostles1 7#d7 the gift is set in the church4 ,hence1 he concluded that miracles were to be a permanent factor in the system of salvation4 ,he does not say that he was particularly impressed that ,god was going to work a miracle in this case4 ,he rather fell in with the idea as urged by the sister who felt so impressed4 ,at her home she and her husband and ,brother ,warner waited in prayer for some time1 then went to the house where the corpse lay4 ,the two brethren kneeled in prayer while the sister uncovered the body and commanded the departed to arise in the name of ,jesus4 ,their faith for some time was wonderfully strong and they confidently expected to see her arise4 ,they held on with unwavering faith for half an hour1 when they all felt relieved and that the will of the ,lord had been done4 ,brother ,warner preached the funeral the next day4 ,he writes that this incident seemed only to increase their faith and that he believed that ,god was well pleased with the effort to exert this faith2 that if not through them1 ,god would through some one else revive this element of apostolic power4 ,there was a report1 intended to ridicule1 and published by some who opposed ,brother ,warner1 that he with others tried to bring a dead body to life by standing it on its feet and commanding it to walk1 etc4 ,this of course was untrue4 ,remaining in ,dunkirk for a few days1 he held meetings which resulted in about twenty conversions4 ,he found himself much attached to the brethren and sisters here4 ,they had come out of the ,united ,brethren and ,methodist ,episcopal denominations and had formed themselves into a ,wesleyan body4 ,many of them1 however1 were not satisfied with a human church and creed and there was a strong tendency to come to the apostolic faith4 ,returning to ,upper ,sandusky he assisted in the meetings there4 ,in company with ,father and ,mother ,keller he visited the jail and prayed with the convicts4 ,one of those1 by name1 ,john ,bristol1 was gloriously converted4 ,bristol said he did not care a cent to get out of jail so long as ,jesus stayed with him4 ,he had been badly abandoned and had followed shows1 drinking1 balloon ascensions1 etc4 ,he once fell sixty feet from a balloon1 breaking an arm1 a leg1 splitting a hip socket1 etc4 ,the sparing of his life was only by the mercy of ,god4 ,for the #gth of ,march #ahgh we quote the following3 ,fellowshiped some fourteen souls in the ,church of ,god formed on a congregational basis1 with holiness the principal foundation-stone4 ,on the #cast of last ,january the ,lord showed me that holiness could never prosper upon sectarian soil encumbered by human creeds and party names1 and he gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living ,god4 ,praise his name6 ,i will obey him4 ,in ,march an evangelistic effort was made in ,tiffin1 but with difficulty4 ,the denominational houses seemed to be closed to holiness4 ,a few meetings were held in a private house and in a rented room4 ,he states that at this place ,sister ,warner was called to go to ,mansfield to assist in a holiness meeting4 ,this was a peculiar test and he thus speaks of it3 #bc4 ,sarah left today4 ,the ,lord tested our loyalty by requiring us to labor apart4 ,at first ,i disbelieved that it was the order of ,god and was decidedly opposed to her going4 ,so were ,father and ,mother ,keller4 ,i thought it would give place to the devil and hurt the sacred cause and endanger our domestic happiness4 ,but this morn ,i arose early and consulted the ,lord4 ,i laid down all my understanding and the many seemingly plain reasons for her not going and besought ,god to direct the matter1 and to my astonishment the ,holy ,spirit confirmed ,sarah's call by reminding me of my solemn covenant with ,god1 that there ,i had laid her on the altar and given her back to ,god to use her where and as he saw fit4 ,at the same time all unwillingness vanished from my mind4 ,in fact1 a desire was at once created within me for her to go4 ,o ,god1 thy ways are not our ways1 but we will walk in thy ways all the days of our life4 ,season sad4 ,here she is greatly needed2 there is a strong old band4 ,how would it look for me to work for ,god here and she whom the ,lord had joined to me go elsewhere8 ,were ,i at home1 not at all in a meeting1 then there could be no appearance of evil in her going4 ,but ah6 ,i now see there would then be no test1 which is just the thing ,god intended4 ,abraham's faith would not have been half so much tried and proved had not ,isaac been the heir of the promise4 ,father and ,mother still strongly opposed her going1 so that doubtless she would have shrunk with a burdened heart from the call had not ,god raised help in me4 ,on the #dth of ,april he received a letter from her stating that the meeting at ,mansfield was excellent for the establishing and strengthening of ,god's little ones1 and that she had gone home4 ,during this time ,brother ,warner was getting much light on the ,scriptures concerning holiness and was writing with the view of publishing a tract on the subject4 ,the matter he was accumulating1 however1 proved to be enough for a book1 which1 as we shall see1 was published two years later4 ,also1 he speaks of an effort at this time to obtain more of the manifestation of ,god in his soul4 #be4 ,i set out this day to seek a more full and conscious manifestation of the ,father1 ,son1 and the ,holy ,ghost in my heart4 ,spent much time in the closet4 ,visited and prayed with a few families4 #cj4 ,prayed much for a more perfect1 full1 constant1 and conscious manifestation of ,god in my soul4 ,had a glorious victory4 ,yesterday ,brother ,lee was about to start to walk home to ,nevada1 twenty-two miles4 ,i thought it was too hard a task with such muddy roads4 ,how ,i wished for the means to send him home by railroad6 ,recently1 being without means to send a letter1 ,i took it to the ,lord1 and before ,i had the letter written a kind sister gave me fifty cents4 ,i had a quarter left and ,i thought of giving it to ,brother ,lee if others would make up the remainder4 ,but then the tempter said1 ,you are dependent yourself and should not give to others that which the ,lord has sent to meet your wants4 ,i took it to the ,lord and the ,spirit said1 ,give and it shall be given4 ,i gave the quarter to ,brother ,lee4 ,the dollar needed by him was soon made1 and he was able to stay until this morn4 ,praise ,god1 this morn a kind sister called and said the ,lord had sent her to give me a dollar4 ,the ,spirit kept his promise and gave four-fold4 ,apr4 #c1 #ahgh4 ,god is daily giving me more of his great fulness and conforming me more and more to his glorious image4 ,this is because ,i am earnestly endeavoring to consecrate more perfectly every moment of my time to him and because ,i spend more time with ,god alone in the closet4 ,i have on several occasions besought ,god to conform me more perfectly to his nature1 and without any particular emotions that might indicate the answer ,i claimed the desire of my heart and by faith thanked ,father that he had granted my petitions4 ,to the glory of ,god ,i can say that as ,i went on my way ,i found from hour to hour that as my faith was so was it meted out to me4 ,oh1 how sweet it is to go to our heavenly ,father for all our heart's and soul's need1 and in the name of ,jesus ask for it rejoicing that we know we have the desire of our heart6 ,surely happy are the people that are in such a case2 yea1 happy are the people whose ,god is the ,lord4 ,on his return to ,upper ,sandusky on ,april #i he found some urgent calls to go to ,indiana1 and he felt that the ,lord was in it4 ,on ,sunday the #adth1 he conducted the services in ,upper ,sandusky4 ,the theme in the evening was1 ,salvation from ,church1 using #a ,pet4 #a3ah1ai and #b ,pet4 #a3c1d--;deliverance from all that is human and the reception of all that is of divine origin4 ,the ,lord blessed me and greatly awakened my own mind and ,i think opened the eyes of others to the importance of abandoning all human and party creeds1 party names1 party spirit1 and party interests in order to maintain a life of perfect holiness1 as well as to the duty of returning to the faith once delivered to the saints in its entirety4 ,it is interesting to note that at this time1 coincident to his receiving the call to ,indiana1 there came to his mind the idea of using the printing-press as a means of publishing the gospel truth he was so burdened to promulgate4 ,recently ,i asked my heavenly ,father to send means to meet our wants1 pay debts1 and as soon as ,i was ready to print my work on holiness1 to furnish the means4 ,i received gracious answers by the ,spirit1 and the following night while lying in meditation how ,i could better honor ,god in publishing full salvation1 the ,lord opened a new field for me4 ,the ,spirit suggested that my heavenly ,father would provide me with a small hand printing-press by means of which ,i could print my book myself and scatter many holiness tracts as leaves of salvation4 ,praise ,god1 today ,i received a most cheering letter from ,eld4 ,w4 ,w4 ,roberts1 of ,missouri4 ,he is in the land of ,canaan1 and having seen my articles and the ,standing ,committee's action in the ,advocate he writes to encourage me in the good work2 and though he knows nothing of my circumstances he offers to furnish me some money if ,i need it4 ,praise ,god1 who is faithful and always heareth his poor and needy little ones that cry unto him4 ,returning to ,tiffin with his father-in-law1 ,keller1 he found the little ones in good spirits4 ,all testified definitely and boldly4 ,he held three services there on the following ,sunday4 ,he found there had come to be a wonderful awakening in ,tiffin among the denominational churches on the subject of perfect holiness4 ,on the #bbnd he took train for ,new ,washington1 the place of his childhood home4 ,here seven years previous he labored alone in a revival that resulted in the salvation of about fifty souls4 ,for one year they did well4 ,a good house of worship was built and twice a week it was filled at prayer-meetings that were very lively and interesting4 ,but adversity came and there now remained but a small force of faithful ones to tell the story of salvation4 ,elder ,oliver1 who had preferred charges against him for the preaching of holiness1 was in charge of the work here and of course had greatly prejudiced the people against holiness4 ,two of the flock1 however1 had received the experience4 ,at this place1 through his brother ,lewis1 who lived in the vicinity1 he learned that his father was very poorly and he at once became much burdened for his father's soul4 ,may #e1 #ahgh4 ,sabbath4 ,met about #aj ,a4 ,m4 ,all the little ones testified boldly in the ,spirit to sanctification4 ,brother ,oliver and wife were much annoyed at the same4 ,brother ,o4 preached from ,rev4 #ba3bg4 ,a good text to enforce holiness1 but alas1 the time and opportunity were wasted in attacks upon the ,lord's work of full salvation4 ,how my heart was grieved that the dear brother was not led by the ,spirit of ,god6 ,what a favorable opportunity and text to set forth the necessity of holiness and the all-cleansing blood6 ,but alas1 how few unsanctified preachers know what spirit they are of6 ,oh1 how little they value the worth of souls6 ,how indifferent to the solemn responsibilities of the ministry6 #af4 ,at ,upper ,sandusky4 ,preached the funeral of a poor sinner who was accidentally shot dead with a revolver4 ,he died in fifteen minutes1 calling upon ,god for mercy4 ,he was married one week ago today4 ,life is but a vapor4 ,on the #afth he left for ,indiana4 ,he reached ,silver ,lake1 ,kosciusko ,county1 the next day and was met by ,bro4 ,f4 ,krause and conveyed seven miles through a heavy rain to ,beaver ,dam4 ,in spite of bad weather a fair congregation assembled that evening to hear him preach4 ,about all manifested their desire for sanctification by rising to their feet4 ,in his sermon on ,sunday he identified the inheritance in sanctification with the promise made to ,abraham4 ,at the afternoon service about fifteen were at the altar seeking full salvation4 ,in this section of the country ,brother ,warner found many warm hearts4 ,they had read his articles on holiness in the ,church ,advocate1 and had doubtless heard of his rejection by the ,ohio ,eldership4 ,he held meetings at ,beaver ,dam1 ,yellow ,lake1 and ,silver ,lake4 ,his diary gives the following account for ,sunday1 ,may #bf1 at ,yellow ,lake4 ,sabbath4 ,this day was put in for ,god4 ,from my waking moments this morn ,i began to plead with ,god for the salvation of the people4 ,had gracious answers to prayer4 ,was sure ,god would save a number of souls4 ,we had announced a fast all day1 and meeting to begin at #aj ,a4 ,m4 and continue until #d ,p4 ,m4 ,the house was filled4 ,had a lively testimony-meeting4 ,preached on the tabernacle 7,hebrews74 ,several at the altar4 ,but there seemed to be a dulness4 ,none grasped the blessings4 ,we had speaking-meeting1 but the interest seemed to be moderate4 ,i was impressed that the dear little ones were hungry1 and ,satan said we had better close4 ,but1 glory to ,god1 ,i knew that ,god would yet come and save souls1 as he impressed me in the morning1 hence ,i held on to him4 ,preached a short discourse on faith and gave another invitation4 ,several came to the altar for sanctification and soon the holy fire fell on us from heaven1 and all were sanctified4 ,some that were not at the altar received the blessing4 ,the ,holy ,ghost filled the house1 and there was great rejoicing4 ,a fellowship-meeting resulted from following the ,spirit2 and as the dear ones went about shaking hands many1 yea1 about all in the house1 were melted to tears4 ,i gave another invitation and then friend ,yocum came out1 also ,brother ,bear's daughter1 and another young lady for sanctification4 ,she soon received a glorious baptism1 and ,sister ,bear was converted4 ,came home with ,brother ,bear4 ,we did not get to close until nearly five o'clock4 ,spent much of the time until eve on my knees4 ,eve1 house crowded4 ,people were there from a distance of six and eight miles4 ,i preached mainly to sinners4 ,i had announced a few nights ago that ,i had an impression to preach to the unconverted1 but ,i now see my mistake4 ,i should have made no such announcement4 ,the ,spirit seemed to be baffled in giving me a subject4 ,i did more preaching myself tonight than ,i have for a long time1 was conscious that ,christ ,jesus was not preaching as much as usual4 ,thank the ,lord for the lesson learned4 ,three at the altar4 ,brother ,yocum was greatly smitten down by the ,spirit2 all physical strength was gone4 ,about #i3cj ,p4 ,m4 we dismissed the congregation1 but ,brother ,y4 would not leave the altar4 ,several of us stayed until after eleven4 ,he was measurably blessed4 ,he has been a very good moral1 benevolent1 and honorable man1 and thought heretofore that he had but little sin and could easily get salvation when he once came for it2 but he found himself a great sinner under the searching light of the ,spirit4 ,glory to ,god for this day's work6 ,it was a high day for my soul4 ,among the fourteen sanctified were two very fine young men by the name of ,smith4 ,they are brothers1 both school-teachers1 and ,i pray that ,god will make them both very useful4 ,he found a wide-spread awakening for holiness in this part of ,indiana4 ,the time for the annual ,eldership ,meeting of the ,church was at hand1 and he asked the ,lord whether he might not stay and attend the meetings instead of going to the ,eldership4 ,as there were others who could continue the meetings the ,spirit seemed to relieve his mind of all burden for that place1 and he felt it his duty to attend the ,eldership4 ,june #a1 #ahgh4 ,came home today4 ,found family well4 ,at the ,general ,eldership ,i found that the leaven of full salvation was working4 ,had many private talks4 ,found some in the experience1 but rather mute4 ,strengthened them4 ,many spoke of my articles in the ,advocate and said they were seeking light4 ,but the ,eldership possesses little of the power of godliness4 ,the first night it made me mourn for ,jerusalem4 ,here were assembled the best elements of the whole church1 and yet ,i could feel no ,god in her4 ,there was no spirit of devotion1 no communion with ,god4 ,pride and nearly every other manifestation of carnality were manifest4 ,god save the ,church4 ,thank ,god for the blessing of home and family4 ,dear ,wife met me at the train4 #i4 ,sabbath at ,findlay4 ,awoke before day4 ,was much pressed in spirit for ,brother ,burchard4 ,arose early and had a gracious season of prayer4 ,was led out much for ,brother ,b4 ,at #aj3cj ,a4 ,m4 heard him preach4 ,a dreadful death reigned over the congregation4 ,he spoke with a good deal of energy1 according to his pathetic temperament1 but he surely had not help by the ,spirit4 ,but ,i think he is honest1 and if he had the cloud of prejudice removed from his mind he would want full salvation and would be useful4 ,oh1 that ,god would lead him into the light6 ,feeling that he should visit his father1 in ,williams ,county1 he took train for ,bryan1 ,ohio1 on the #ajth1 arriving there late in the evening4 ,the account of the death of his father and of the events that followed are here given4 ,june #aa4 ,arose early4 ,after devotion and my usual morning bath1 ,i paid for lodging1 went to the baker's and got a loaf of graham bread1 and started on my way4 ,got to ride about five miles and footed the rest4 ,reached ,father's about half-past ten4 ,found him very weak1 and failing4 ,he was overcome by emotion when ,i came in4 ,his breathing is difficult4 ,i soon sought a private room and poured out my heart for his salvation4 ,brother ,joseph is staying with him all the time4 ,father can not last long4 ,oh that ,god would be pleased to have mercy upon his poor soul6 #ad4 ,father still failing4 #ae4 ,brother ,lewis reached here about #e ,p4 ,m4 ,eve1 went to the ,cogswell ,schoolhouse to hear ,bro4 ,henry ,barckley1 but he having gone from home did not appear4 ,i was asked to improve the time4 ,after prayer ,i began to look to the ,lord for a message1 but nothing came to hand4 ,soon young ,brother ,wallace came in4 ,he came by request to fill the appointment4 ,he had only once before tried to preach4 ,he was indisposed to go ahead2 but ,i told him that ,i thought it was the order of the ,lord4 ,he consented4 ,did well enough1 but needs the special unction of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,i talked some4 #af4 ,sabbath4 ,l4 ,w4 ,guiss came at four o'clock this morning4 ,father failing very fast this morning4 ,at #aj3cj ,a4 ,m4 met a congregation at the ,cogswell ,schoolhouse4 ,heb4 #g3be4 ,god blessed his precious word4 ,mr4 ,guiss1 my brother-in-law1 who has become a bold infidel1 was much affected by ,god's truth4 ,some wept for clean hearts4 ,i asked all who knew they were children of ,god to hold up their hands4 ,a good number responded4 ,i then asked all who could testify to perfect salvation from all sin to hold up their hands1 but there was no response4 ,but when ,i asked all who wished to be wholly the ,lord's to hold up their hands1 a number responded1 some with tears4 ,time would not permit altar exercise4 ,took dinner at ,brother ,joseph's and came back4 ,found ,father declining very fast4 ,poor man1 he is near his end1 yet unsaved4 ,o my ,god1 must my poor father go into eternity bearing all the sins of his past life6 ,oh the death of an immortal soul6 ,since ,god has converted my soul and called me into the ministry1 ,i have often seen ,father's heart touched by divine truth and the ,holy ,spirit4 ,tears flowed freely1 but he would not yield4 ,when ,i began to preach1 twelve years ago1 ,i spent a summer at home1 and he afterward told ,mrs4 ,rang that my constant praying gave him much trouble and that he was glad ,i was gone4 ,i marked the deep convictions that followed him all that summer and hoped he would soon be brought to ,god1 but he wore them away4 ,two years ago this coming ,july my beloved mother passed away gloriously saved4 ,she held his hand and exhorted him until he trembled4 ,not long after1 ,i came home and spoke in the ,dean ,church1 when he was greatly melted down4 ,i gave an invitation to come to ,god1 but again he refused ,christ4 ,since his last illness1 ,i have daily implored the mercy of ,god upon his poor soul4 ,since ,i have been with him ,i have talked to him about his soul1 but do not see that he was awakened to his condition4 ,i felt that all depended upon the blessed ,holy ,ghost to discover to him his sin and awful danger4 ,he asked my prayers and songs of salvation4 ,he shed tears over the wicked infidelity of ,g41 my brother-in-law2 but when he made any reference to his hope he based it all upon his principles of honesty and doing right and that he had favored a good many persons in his life1 etc4 ,he confessed some misgivings of conscience for not having been confirmed in the ,lutheran ,church as he had promised his parents he would when married2 but said he1 ,i always felt some way that ,i could not get religion4 ,when conscious of much distress he would wish he might die4 ,once he feared that he might have to lie a long time1 and when on a certain occasion his throat seemed to be closed against food1 he said1 ,i just believe that it is my doom to lie here and waste away2 that there is nothing grown for me to eat any more4 ,frequently he expressed a strong desire to get well2 but ,i never heard him say that if he did he would live a different life4 ,i went alone into the woods where so often ,i sought ,god and his grace when a young convert4 ,i had a long and precious communion with ,god4 ,returned4 ,father is very rapidly approaching his end4 ,he can not live through another night4 ,once while ,i was wetting his lips he looked very pitifully at me and said1 ,if you could only give me something that would make me well6 ,o my ,god1 how hard it is to close a life that was not given to thee6 ,but it is appointed unto man once to die1 and after this the judgment4 ,joseph feels this stroke very much4 ,i thought it best not to go to the schoolhouse this eve4 #i3cj ,p4 ,m4 ,father is gone4 ,he passed off with no struggles or convulsions4 ,his spirit has left the body4 ,probation is ended1 and a lifeless corpse only remains4 ,i sensibly feel the cords of love that bind my heart to my last earthly parent1 but the gentle breathings of the ,spirit of ,god seemed so graciously to sustain me that all was calm within4 ,i felt a perfect loyalty to ,god and all his providence that so sweetly over all prevailed and gave me such perfect peace that ,i could not even weep4 ,oh1 how tranquilizing to my soul was the deep assurance that ,god doeth all things well6 #ag4 ,brother ,joseph is almost down sick with sorrow and loss of rest4 ,poor father lies a corpse4 ,two brothers1 ,l4 ,w4 ,guiss1 and ,i wore away the long melancholy day as best we could4 #ah4 ,last night at twelve o'clock ,mr4 ,double awoke me and said there were some gentlemen without that had a telegram for me4 ,i arose and dressed1 feeling a very calm peace keeping me4 ,the ,holy ,spirit brought these words to me3 ,he shall not be afraid of evil tidings4 ,the following was the dispatch3 ,come home1 your child is very sick4 ,l4 ,w4 ,keller4 ,i came in1 examined the papers and my railroad guide4 ,found that a train left ,bryan at #h ,a4 ,m4 that made connection at ,toledo1 bringing me to ,upper ,sandusky at #a ,p4 ,m41 but if ,i waited for a later train ,i should not reach home until late at night4 ,what shall ,i do8 ,here lay my father cold in death1 to be buried this ,a4 ,m41 and should ,i stay or not8 ,i had a season of communion with the ,lord1 and the ,spirit seemed to say go4 ,i took my usual morning bath1 packed my valise1 and started to my brother ,joseph's1 bidding adieu to my brother ,lewis and my lifeless father1 the latter of course to see no more until the heavens cease to be and the earth shall flee away before the approach of the great ,judge of the human family4 ,i was conveyed to ,bryan by ,david ,warner1 my nephew4 ,improved the time in meditation and prayer4 ,i recalled the feeling that had rested upon me for some days1 a deep solicitude for my family4 ,both on ,sabbath and yesterday ,i went out into the woods where ,i used to seek the ,lord when a convert and besought ,god to preserve my dear family4 ,i also felt led to ask ,god to try us in any way he wished to4 ,i felt the need of some trial of our faith and loyalty to ,god4 ,in my deep meditation and fervent prayer to ,god the time passed off swiftly with the fast gliding train1 and at #a ,p4 ,m4 we reached ,upper ,sandusky4 ,leaving my valise1 ,i walked out at once and found the dear child very sick1 having first taken down with a sick stomach and then with the affliction developing in the brain4 ,the precious creature recognized me and made an effort to embrace me with her loving little arms4 ,her sweet little lips could responsively receive a father's kiss1 but they were silent for want of sufficient strength to articulate1 ,a good number of kind neighbors were in attendance1 and ,i at once saw what was threatening the very life of the poor little sufferer4 ,she was exquisitely fine in the texture of brain and her head measured nineteen inches in circumference around her forehead1 and she had a very sensitive nervous temperament4 ,hence it was extremely important that the most perfect silence should be maintained in her presence1 and with this strong nervous action1 with any sickness or weakness1 much talk and noise would necessarily draw the disease to the brain4 ,i had her removed from the room where the family mostly stayed and everybody came in1 to a more retired room2 demanded silence and forbade more than two at a time to be in the room4 ,sarah had seen the necessity of such regulations1 but many dear good old sisters1 not knowing their importance1 were much inclined to sit around the lounge and talk1 and not being in her own house she had not been able to enforce them4 #ai4 ,dear ,levilla still low1 but ,i had good hopes of her recovery4 ,spent as much time as ,i could with the ,lord4 ,left all with him4 #bj4 ,dear child still dangerous1 but we trust some better4 #ba4 ,the doctor could see no improvement4 #bb4 ,wife and ,i thought ,levilla better and still clung to the ,lord for her life if it be his will to restore her2 but all others had given up hope4 ,we thought it impossible that we should do without the company of this sweet little creature4 #bc4 ,sabbath4 ,the doctor did not come as usual this morning4 ,i presume from the report last eve he supposed she was dead2 but all day she seemed better4 ,p4 ,m41 sent for doctor4 ,he thought she had some symptoms for the better1 which raised our hopes4 ,eve1 a number came in and despite our efforts to keep them away they would crowd around the dear child4 ,she grew worse4 ,she had had very light spasms all day but they did not seem to hurt her2 but now she began to fail fast4 ,phlegm began to accumulate in her little throat1 making it difficult to breathe4 #bd4 ,toward morning the poor little sufferer was compelled to struggle hard to get her breath1 and it became apparent that unless ,god miraculously interposed1 her suffering must soon end in death4 ,while we sorrowed for her suffering1 we felt a calm and sweet resignation to the will of ,god1 to whom the dear child belonged4 ,we could say in truth1 ,thy will be done4 ,at five o'clock in the morning her redeemed spirit was freed from its earthly abode and taken away to be with ,jesus and holy angels4 ,now remained only the poor little emaciated body4 ,as we recalled the large1 active1 plump1 and rosy-cheeked ,levilla1 we could scarcely help but exclaim as we looked upon the reduced and colorless form1 ,is this ,levilla8 ,can it be that this is our child8 ,since my return ,i had anxiously cherished a hope that ere long ,i should hear those sweet lips utter words again2 but they are now silent in death1 or rather the sweet and dreamless sleep that shall pass off when the ,lord comes to call us forth from our earthly repose4 #be4 444 ,brother ,leay conducted services4 ,we looked for the last time upon our beloved child1 whose sweet and innocent little form was robed in its little white dress and skirts1 with a beautiful little bouquet of flowers protruding from her little hands folded upon her heart4 ,as my dear wife was deeply afflicted with her departure1 her sweet little face seemed to speak forth from its little white coffin and say1 ,weep not1 dear mother1 for though your loss seems to be great1 my gain is infinitely greater4 ,i have gone to the better land1 where sickness1 sorrow1 pain1 and death never1 never come4 ,we laid the dear and only child in the ,mission ,cemetery at ,upper ,sandusky1 near the road at the west side1 between two evergreens4 ,there with sad1 yet resigned1 hearts we left her to sleep beneath the angels' care until called forth at the last day4 ,levilla ,modest was born ,mar4 #ah1 #ahge1 near ,seward1 ,nebr4 ,she passed from suffering to the society of angels ,june #bd1 #ahgh1 and was therefore three years1 three months1 and six days of age4 ,she was a child of more than ordinary mental ability4 ,her organic quality was the very finest4 ,her temperaments were sanguine and mental4 ,her brain measured nineteen inches4 ,though of such great nervous activity1 we had by careful diet imparted to her a good1 large physical structure4 ,she measured three feet five inches4 ,she was very knowing about all kinds of work1 and ever eager to assist4 ,for some months past she would stand upon a chair beside her mother and wipe knives1 forks1 spoons1 saucers1 etc41 with the utmost care and perfection4 ,she would do the most of her dressing and undressing1 and never failed to hang up or put away every garment and everything she handled4 ,she seemed to have very fine taste and perfect order4 ,her causality was wonderfully developed for a child4444 ,she daily astonished us with questions concerning everything she saw1 and her remarkable ability to anticipate what next was wanted1 and with what eagerness those little feet ran errands for mother and father1 and grandmother and grandfather4 ,since eighteen months old she would sing parts of familiar tunes and hymns4 ,i believe her first was ,happy ,day4 ,for some time past she would tread the organ with one foot1 place her little fingers upon the keys1 and sing loudly1 ,halleluiah1 'tis done1 ,i am washed in the blood of the ,lamb1 etc4 ,she had a remarkable tendency to imitate all that was pure and religious4 ,she often had her little prayer-meetings by herself1 and would teach older children to engage with her in her childish prayers and songs4 ,after attending an ordinance where she paid marked attention to the saints' washing feet1 the next day she called for a washbowl of water and washed her feet1 then took off her mother's shoes and stockings and washed and wiped her feet and gave her a kiss4 ,every evening she kneeled at her mother's knee and said her little prayer4 ,at the sight of the picture with raised hands she was sure to say1 ,man lift up hands and praise the ,lord4 ,in her sickness she would sometimes sigh out1 ,o1 praise the ,lord6444 ,she excelled all other peculiarities in the wonderful depth and fervency of her affections4 ,her love seemed to possess the purity and strength of one fully renewed in the image of ,god and yet the innocence and simplicity of a child4 ,as she placed those precious little arms around our necks and gave the warm kiss1 we could not help but feel that this was real and not mere child's play2 and those embraces were free for all who sought them4444 ,this is my birthday2 a sad one3 but still in the midst of all the ,lord supports me and comforts4 ,though we can not understand this bereavement1 yet ,god knows all about it and will doubtless bring our highest good and his own glory out of it4 ,the ,lord giveth and the ,lord taketh away4 ,blessed is the name of the ,lord4 #bf1 #bg4 ,spent the time largely in communing with ,god4 ,wrote some letters4 #bi4 ,wife and ,i drove to ,tiffin4 ,when about one mile from the city our beast1 that we thought very safe and quiet1 began to make efforts to run off4 ,i held her1 when she began to kick desperately4 ,i turned her to the side of the way and got her stopped4 ,before this ,i was out4 ,i told ,sarah to get out behind if she could4 ,we had a top-buggy4 ,the curtain was rolled up1 but she could not get out4 ,the beast was loose from the buggy all but the holdbacks4 ,sarah got out and stood a moment1 when she found that she was hurt4 ,some friends came up just then4 ,i gave the mare to one to hold and ,i helped ,sarah to the fence1 where she sat upon a stone4 ,we found that she had been hit upon both limbs4 ,on one the mare's hoof 7she had no shoes7 cut through linen duster1 dress1 skirt1 and stocking1 and cut a small wound to the bone4 ,she had much pain4 ,three or four men kindly tendered all the help they could4 ,they took us in a one-horse wagon to ,tiffin1 having fastened our buggy behind1 and one led the mare4 ,we came to ,sister ,lewis'4 ,a small congregation gathered and ,i preached a short discourse1 of course on holiness4 ,july #b1 #ahgh4 ,got a crutch for ,sarah4 ,she concluded that she could go home by railroad4 ,took her to the train and committed her to the care of the ,lord4 ,i drove the mare and buggy1 trusting in ,god for his protection from all harm by the way4 ,the ,lord preserved me from harm4 ,found dear ,wife had safely made the trip4 #d4 ,spent much of the day picking berries all alone with the ,lord4 ,meditated upon the goodness of ,god in continuing our national blessings4 #f4 ,spent the day in prayer1 meditation1 and reading4 ,impressed with the duty of preaching against the enormous sin and galling yoke of sectarianism4 #g4 ,sabbath4 ,god helped me and blessed me in exposing the yokes of ,satan by which ,god's children are brought under bondage4 ,on the #abth of ,july1 #ahgh1 ,brother ,warner1 accompanied by his wife1 made a second trip to ,indiana4 ,he stopped in ,goshen with ,mr4 ,guiss1 his brother-in-law1 on the #ahth4 ,as the latter was a bold and reckless infidel1 he did not enjoy his visit there4 ,he felt that he was staying where the ,savior was excluded and that he could be admitted only apart from him4 ,he reached ,yellow ,lake on the #bjth1 and found that the meetings had been carried on for a few evenings after he left in ,may4 ,several had been saved4 ,on the #bcrd his wife returned home to ,ohio1 while he went on to ,auburn1 to ,brother ,lowman's1 whom he found firmly established in holiness4 ,when he and ,brother ,lowman began to open their minds to each other he found that both had been impressed with the idea of together printing a holiness and church paper1 ,brother ,warner to edit the former and ,brother ,lowman the latter department4 ,after discussing the publishing project with ,lowman he returned to ,ohio1 to ,wood ,county1 where he held a number of meetings and assisted in a camp-meeting near ,rising ,sun1 and also attended a ,united ,brethren camp-meeting at ,portage4 ,he speaks thus of a manifestation in his meetings at ,rising ,sun3 ,aug4 #bb1 #ahgh4 ,mr4 ,gay1 a spiritualist1 or rather a mesmerist who possesses a superior mind and is believed to be possessed by evil spirits1 was present4 ,he has attended for some time and has at different times attempted to mesmerize me while preaching4 ,at a few of the last meetings his wife has been seeking sanctification1 and he has made some good speeches in favor of the gospel4 ,today from the beginning of the meeting he began to maneuver his spiritism4 ,he made many strange motions2 walked the floor once and tried to dance4 ,it is probable that this was all involuntary on his part4 ,but we all kept our minds on ,jesus and ,god through the ,holy ,spirit to take care of him4 ,he began to show signs of distress1 got upon the floor1 wept and cried out4 ,a stronger power than the indwelling one had taken hold of him4 ,his suffering became more intense4 ,his wife brought him water and he drank some4 ,she fanned him for a long time1 and he became speechless and seemed nearly suffocated4 ,in ,september1 ,brother ,warner attended the ,ohio ,holiness ,camp-meeting held on the fair-ground at ,marion4 ,of his experience there he records the following3 ,sept4 #h1 #ahgh4 ,sabbath4 ,i began to fast on ,friday4 ,ate but little yesterday and nothing this forenoon4 ,the ,lord came very near to me4 ,oh1 how he let me down to nothingness6 ,i saw and felt ashamed of the trouble the ,lord has had with me4 ,i sank down into the dust before him1 and instead of wondering why ,god did not give the greater measure of power that the ,spirit impressed me ,i should have ,i was led to wonder that he had intrusted me as much as he had4 ,oh1 what shameful weakness and many errors were disclosed by the more perfect light that ,god has flashed into my soul6 ,o ,god1 let me be buried deeper and more perfectly hid away with thee4 #ab4 ,came home4 ,an incident in this camp-meeting should be recorded to the glory of ,god4 ,brother ,rudic took sick not long after he came here4 ,after lying in camp a few days he was taken to ,brother ,kennedy's4 ,prayers were being offered for him1 still he grew worse4 ,last ,saturday night he sent word to camp that after meeting a few believers should get together and ask ,god in faith for his recovery4 ,they did so1 and great power and strong assurance came upon them4 ,they claimed the answer to their prayer1 and some of the number were able to praise ,god for the brother's restoration just as if he had been raised up before their eyes4 ,sister ,lea1 who had taken violently sick that eve1 was also taken to the ,lord with much assurance4 ,the next morn both were in camp perfectly healed4 ,brother ,r4 suffered so much during the night and was so reduced that he thought he surely must die1 and made some arrangements for his departure4 ,but early in the morning he began to look to ,god once more1 when his faith joined that of the party in the camp at eleven in the night1 and he arose1 instantly made whole4 ,all glory to ,god6 ,following the part just quoted there is a gap in his diary until ,october #b1 the entry for which will explain4 ,in this1 one observes his humility1 his deep self-examination and his desire to exalt ,god alone4 ,oct4 #b1 #ahgh4 ,today ,i resume my pen again1 with an earnest endeavor to record some of the mercies and blessings of ,god upon my poor soul4 ,after ,i returned from camp-meeting1 the ,lord saw fit in his tender love to suffer affliction to befall me4 ,yea1 ,i was brought very low1 but he helped me4 ,i had bilious remittent fever and an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs4 ,friends and even a physician were much alarmed and felt my work was done4 ,as soon as taken down1 ,i ordered cards sent to the little ones at different places to pray for me4 ,i put my case in the hands of the ,lord and wished only his will4 ,dear ,wife was kept in great tranquility of mind through an unwavering faith in ,god that he would raise me up again4 ,my rest in ,god was so deep and perfect that ,i hardly knew anything of my physical condition4 ,i thought myself but slightly ill1 when others despaired of my life4 ,for a few days ,i talked only in a whisper1 and when ,i began to recover ,i was astonished to find myself reduced to a mere frame and unable to stand4 ,during my afflictions1 the ,lord not only kept my mind in perfect peace1 but also taught me many precious lessons of my littleness and his exalted greatness4 ,oh6 let us praise and magnify the name of the ,lord4 ,i saw myself but a speck of dust resting upon an invisible grain of sand4 ,oh1 how the eye of ,god scrutinized my past life and showed me yet more than at the camp-meeting my weakness and unworthiness6 ,oh1 how vile ,i had been in the sight of ,god6 ,how many times ,satan had succeeded in resurrecting some self in me6 ,the ,spirit has plainly shown me that ,i should never speak of having prayed for certain persons in connection with their conversion1 etc4 ,oh6 ,i am so ashamed of my folly and weakness in often relating such things4 ,i thought ,i was doing it all to the glory of ,god1 but now ,i can see that there was some self in it4 ,o ,lord6 save me in the future from such presumption and sin4 ,i thank thee for this affliction1 for ,i know it is all for the good of my soul4 ,thou hast also shown me that ,i have boasted too much of my health and ascribed it too generally to my knowledge of and prudence in observing natural laws4 ,o ,god forgive me of this offense4 ,i thank thee that thou hast such a constant supervision over all thy works that every good must be ascribed to thee and thanks be given to thee just the same as if no means were used at all to convey them to us4 ,blessed ,god1 let me sink down forever out of self4 ,i cried unto thee and thou hast healed me4 ,thou hast brought up my soul from the grave4 ,thou hast kept me alive that ,i should not go down to the pit4 ,sing unto the ,lord1 ,o ye saints of his1 and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness6 #c4 ,i have had a desire to attend the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership1 which convenes tomorrow eve4 ,but ,wife and friends all intreated that ,i should not venture from home in my present weak condition1 so this morning ,i went to my study to write a letter to that body2 but before doing so ,i consulted the ,lord1 when he gave me a strong baptism of the ,spirit to go and a strong assurance that he would abundantly support me and strengthen me4 ,i said3 ,lord1 ,i will go in thy name4 ,i firmly declared my intentions4 ,wife began to take the matter to the ,lord and soon felt resigned4 ,oft through the day as ,i thought of going the ,spirit would come upon me1 and ,i increased in strength with wonderful rapidity4 ,on the morning of the #dth he was conveyed to town to take the train4 ,the weather was unfavorable and there was some rain1 but he felt he was carrying out the ,lord's purpose and the ,lord sustained him4 ,from ,ada1 ,ohio1 to ,fort ,wayne1 ,ind41 he had the company of ,bros4 ,s4 ,rice and ,c4 ,e4 ,rowley1 two prominent holiness evangelists4 ,he reached ,silver ,lake in the evening and was conveyed to ,beaver ,dam1 the place of the ,eldership meeting4 ,,footnotes3 #g ,his profession of holiness soon brought him to conflict with the leaders in the church4 ,speaking of the period of #ahge-hj1 ,dr4 ,forney says in his ,history of the ,church of ,god3 ,during several of these years the ,eldership was contending against inroads of heresies advocated by ,d4 ,s4 ,warner4 ,it had finally to resort to the old remedy of excision in order to prevent the spread of the disease and restore the body to good health4 #h ,this trouble came up at the ,eldership meeting the following ,september4 ,the ,warner case was indirectly revived when the ,committee on ,resolutions adopted the following3 ',that any minister of this body that may presume to preach the dogma of a second work for sanctification shall be deemed unsound in the theology of the ,church of ,god1 and should not hold an ecclesiastical relation as a minister in this ,eldership4'--,from ,dr4 ,forney's ,history of the ,church of ,god4 ,x ,,northern ,,indiana ,,eldership ,the pagan system of ,freemasonry began to make inroads in the body of ,christians known as the ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god4 ,a storm of opposition arose from some who were of the more spiritual element of the ,church when a number of the members became affiliated with the ,masonic ,lodge4 ,it appears that the main body of the ,eldership did not object to secret societies1 and the result of the agitation was that a number of ministers who stood for the opposition and refused to fellowship ,freemasons were expelled from the ,eldership and were denied a renewal of their licenses4 ,others left the body of their own accord4 ,in consequence a new ,eldership was formed called the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership4 ,among those who constituted the original members of the new ,eldership were ,elders ,j4 ,martin1 ,j4 ,s4 ,shock1 ,c4 ,clem1 ,e4 ,b4 ,bell1 ,b4 ,f4 ,bear1 ,i4 ,w4 ,lowman1 and ,j4 ,w4 ,ray4 ,the new body came into possession of most of the church property and the best churches4 ,they appointed a ,board of ,publication1 which took steps to begin publishing a paper devoted to the interests of the cause for which they stood4 ,accordingly there appeared in ,january1 #ahgh1 the first number of the ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom1 a monthly periodical published from ,wolcottville1 ,ind41 at fifty cents a year4 ,it stood for the promotion of gospel truth and freedom1 opposition to all oathbound secret societies1 ,freemasonry in particular1 and loyalty to ,god and conformity to his ,word4 ,i4 ,w4 ,lowman was editor4 ,at the ,eldership meeting which convened at ,beaver ,dam on ,oct4 #e1 #ahgh1 and which was the third annual session1 ,brother ,warner was voted a member4 ,in his diary for ,october #e appears this account of the proceedings3 #e4 ,a good deal of time was given to prayer during the day4 ,much unnecessary business usually gone through within the various ,elderships was dispensed with4 ,all went off smoothly and with love4 ,not a grating word or discordant note in all that was said and done4 ,no one was called to order2 no one was materially out of order4 ,the manner in which business was done and the good degree of devotional spirit with which it was pervaded was a great stride from the carnal and formal wranglings of ,elderships of the present to the simplicity and spirituality of an apostolic ,eldership4 ,praise ,god1 he is leading his children out into the glorious freedom of the gospel4 ,the most of the time was devoted to the publishing interests4 ,a very important measure was enacted--that of enlarging the ,herald1 issuing it semi-monthly and devoting a part of it to the promotion of ,bible holiness4 ,praise ,god for this glorious movement4 ,it is wonderful how he is controlling things for his glory4 ,probably a large majority of the ,eldership are not in the experience of full salvation1 and of course some are disbelievers in it1 among whom are some of the preachers4 ,brother ,shock1 one of the number1 the present speaker1 is probably our most talented man4 ,but all glory to the name of ,god1 he controlled all these elements so that ,satan could not move one to open his mouth against this work of ,god1 and this ,eldership voted to support holiness as a second experience4 ,trusting in ,god1 ,i can see glorious results from this project4 ,it is bringing about what the ,lord showed me last winter2 that is1 a people straight before ,god in holiness and truth4 ,by this blessed little organ ,god is going to bring the true church foundation and ,bible truth into the hands of holiness people1 and holiness doctrine into the hands of ,church of ,god members1 which must result in a divine union of truth and holiness4 ,and this is just what is wanted to save the world4 ,holiness1 the great lever of power1 has since the ,reformation been weakened and encumbered by party names and creeds and human traditions2 whereas the ,church of ,god1 though established upon eternal truth1 has nevertheless been without strength to accomplish her mission for the want of perfect holiness1 the divinely appointed power to bring the world to ,god4 ,at this session of the ,eldership1 as ,brother ,warner says1 special attention was given to the ,eldership's paper1 the ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom4 ,during its first year it had been a #aj by #ae four-column folio4 ,it was now increased in size to a five-column #ac by #bj4 ,it was made a semi-monthly and its subscription price advanced to seventy-five cents4 ,lowman was reelected editor and publisher and ,brother ,warner was elected associate editor to conduct a new holiness department4 ,a number of special contributors were chosen4 ,a music department1 already established and conducted by ,professor ,j4 ,f4 ,kinsey1 of ,cincinnati1 was to be continued4 ,the best exchanges were secured1 and with this prospect the paper started on its second year1 #ahgi4 ,a portion of the prospectus for that year is here given4 ,,prospectus ,,of ,,the ,,herald ,,for #ahgi ,this paper was started one year ago as the organ of the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god1 a body of ,christian workers who were raised up through the following circumstances3 ,several ministers of the ,church of ,god in ,indiana through a scrupulous regard for truth and righteousness refused to fellowship men who were yoked together in the dark leagues of secrecy4 ,for thus reproving the works of darkness their licenses were withheld4 ,accordingly through the providence of ,god and the force of circumstances they formed themselves together as an independent body1 recognizing ,god as the founder of his own ,church and all true ,christians as her real membership4 ,the ,bible is their only creed1 and ,christian character their only test of fellowship4 ,the labors of this little band have been signally blessed of ,god1 and their members increased4 ,the ,herald1 all things considered1 has been a decided success4 ,at the recent session of the ,eldership ,eld4 ,i4 ,w4 ,lowman was reelected ,editor and ,elder ,warner was elected ,associate ,editor4 ,as heretofore1 it shall be the aim of the ,herald to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints1 not a part1 but the whole faith of the gospel1 ignoring the traditions of men1 reproving the works of darkness and enforcing all the will of ,god4 ,it believes in raising men to the ,bible standard of holy living by leading them into the ,bible measure of grace4 ,it advocates a salvation that lifts men above the regions of mere duty and places them in such sweet and perfect harmony with ,god that they delight to do his will2 a salvation that constrains to every good work by the infinite power of perfect love1 and not by the lash of the law4 ,viewed from a human standpoint the ,herald may appear to possess two separate features2 namely1 that of an organ of the ,church of ,god and an advocate of holiness4 ,but viewed from a pure ,bible standpoint these distinct features naturally blend into one effort to restore and propagate the pure religion of the ,bible4 ,church signifies called out4 ,the divinely given title1 ,church of ,god1 therefore denotes the called out of ,god or separated unto ,god4 ,holiness means the same thing2 that is1 to be separated from all sin and wholly given up to ,god4 ,the editors of the ,herald firmly believe that apostolic truths and ,bible holiness can not be separated4 ,the work of holiness has been too long encumbered by human creeds and disintegrated parties among its friends4 ,though holiness as a distinct experience is the most precious and important truth of the gospel1 its wonderful triumphs have been much limited and rendered comparatively unstable for the want of being identified with all other ,bible truths and divested of human systems4 ,upon the other hand1 the ,church1 ever accepting the only infallible and divinely authorized standard of discipline and wearing the only church title that was given by the mouth of the ,lord1 is utterly disqualified to perform her appointed mission in bringing the world to ,god unless she be girded with the invincible power of perfect holiness and the full and distinct baptism of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,truth is mighty2 but holiness1 being the fulness of ,god in man1 is almighty4 ,the union of these divine forces1 we believe1 will make a complete conquest of this world for ,god4 ,to restore the divine plan in the harmonious action and the spread of these elements of salvation is the primary object of the ,herald4 ,a part of the paper will therefore be devoted especially to that doctrine and experience of entire sanctification1 to be conducted by the ,associate ,editor1 the ,editor-in-,chief being also fully in line with holiness definitely through the blood4 ,with an unshaken trust in ,god1 and confiding in the integrity of our cause and the support of all lovers of truth and ,christian purity1 we begin ,vol4 ,,ii of the ,herald in the name of the ,lord ,jesus4 ,i4 ,w4 ,lowman1 ,editor and ,publisher4 ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 ,associate ,editor4 ,an entry from the diary1 dated ,october #g1 contains an interesting item and will close this chapter4 ,as ,i arose this morning and approached the ,lord ,i was led to ask my heavenly ,father for some means1 as ,i was entirely destitute1 having been just able to pay my ticket fare here by the addition of a postage-stamp which through the kind providence of ,god ,i happened to have and the agent was kind enough to take4 ,i came down1 washed1 and took my little morning walk for exercise and meditation1 returned1 and as soon as seated ,father ,m4 said1 ,i feel impressed that ,i should give this brother some money and ,i believe we all ought4 ,he handed me a half dollar and the several brethren all followed with half dollars and quarters4 ,glory1 honor1 thanks1 and praises be unto ,god our ,savior forever and ever6 ,oh1 bless the ,lord1 my soul1 who supplieth all my needs according to his riches in glory in ,christ ,jesus6 ,,xi ,,editor ,,and ,,author ,the difficulties and privations incident to ,brother ,warner's years of faithfulness in the ministry1 his persecutions on account of holiness culminating in his expulsion from the ,ohio ,eldership1 his bereavements of some of his nearest relatives--all were serving to draw him only closer to the ,divine and thereby fitting him for greater responsibilities and usefulness4 ,as we become acquainted with his career and the mission to which ,god had chosen him1 we discern the hand of ,providence leading him to his appointed field4 ,on his return to ,upper ,sandusky from ,tiffin on ,apr4 #i1 #ahgh1 he found some urgent calls to go to ,indiana1 and he said1 ,i think the ,lord is in it2 expect to go next week4 ,at this time he became more fully awakened to the importance of abandoning all party names and creeds and returning to the faith once delivered to the saints in its entirety4 ,at this time1 also1 he began to have some conception of the printing-press as an aid in publishing the truth4 ,the manuscript for a tract on the subject of holiness1 which he was writing1 was growing to the proportions of a book1 and he began to pray for means to have it published4 ,he received gracious answers by the ,spirit1 as he says1 and the following night while he was lying awake in meditation1 the ,lord opened up to him the new field of publishing holiness by means of the printing-press4 ,over the ,state line1 in ,wolcottville1 ,ind41 the ,lord had prepared the opportunity4 ,the little paper ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom1 was in its first year1 and its editor1 ,i4 ,w4 ,lowman1 was favorable to holiness and had been impressed that ,brother ,warner should conduct a holiness department in the paper4 ,the appointment was made at the ,eldership meeting1 as stated in our previous chapter4 ,as usual when undertaking any responsibility1 ,brother ,warner placed himself in entire dependence upon ,god4 ,he thus speaks of the project3 ,oh1 that ,god may endue us both with grace and wisdom to discharge this solemn and important calling6 ,o my ,god1 ,i cry unto thee for help6 ,i am sure thou hast put me under this solemn and responsible charge4 ,now thou must qualify thy poor tool for the work4 ,be pleased1 ,o ,lord1 to touch my heart and all my intellect and religious powers afresh with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,be thou thyself my qualification4 ,i am so glad thou hast promised to be my wisdom4 ,oh1 give me also thy mind4 ,be thou the fountain of all knowledge and goodness in me4 ,lord1 ,i accept thee for my ,,all4 ,his holiness articles contributed to the ,church ,advocate1 the regular ,church paper1 had been effective and had won for him openings and warm hearts in various places4 ,he possessed excellent gifts for writing as well as for speaking4 ,his discourse was entertaining and instructive4 ,he began his editorial duties in much physical weakness1 as1 it will be remembered1 he was just recovering from a severe illness that laid low his naturally weak frame4 ,oct4 #af1 #ahgh4 ,feeling bad4 ,much fever4 ,called upon the ,lord4 ,fasted most of the day4 ,applied water frequently to my head and back of my neck4 ,was compelled to do some writing in order to be in time with my continued article4 ,this greatly increased my fever and pain in the head4 #ag4 ,gathered some apples for myself4 ,feeling better4 ,praise the ,lord6 #ah4 ,at twelve ,brother ,lowman and ,i started to ,wolcottville4 ,undertook to me the enormous task of walking to ,waterloo1 a distance of three and one half miles4 ,the roads were muddy4 ,i soon felt that it was impossible for me to go through on my strength and began to look to ,god4 ,i took him for my strength4 ,all glory to ,god and the ,lamb1 when we reached the station ,i felt stronger than when we started4 ,lay over some time in ,kendallville4 ,visited printing-offices1 as we are contemplating the purchase of press and type to run the ,herald4 #ai4 ,the ,lord is opening the way for us to buy a whole printing-office here very cheap4 ,praise his name6 ,on the #bdth he visited ,rome ,city in view of finding a suitable place to reside4 ,he felt directed to locate here1 and wrote his wife to come4 ,on the #bfth of ,november they moved to their new location4 ,he bought the south half of lots #ajc and #ajd for #bac4 ,the entry for the new year1 ,jan4 #a1 #ahgi1 is of interest4 ,since the last account my time has been closely devoted to writing for the ,herald and on my little book4 ,this seems to have been the order of the ,lord1 and he has most wonderfully blessed me in the work4 ,the ,spirit is continually taking the things of ,christ and showing them to me4 ,glory to ,god for the new beauties and blessed unfoldings of divine truth under the clear light of the anointing that abideth and teacheth of all things4 ,the luminous heavens of revelation seen through the all-searching telescope of the ,holy ,ghost raise many texts that were but dim and of doubtful application to the definite purifying grace1 to their true magnitude of absolute authority2 while one beautiful1 blazing constellation of ,bible truth after another is brought to view until the adoring soul sees no end to the divine evidences of the second grace save the end of revelation itself2 and even there the ,spirit takes up the eternal theme and writes it all over the soul1 on the tablet of the heart and upon every fiber of our conscious being2 yea1 writes it upon the merchandise of the saints all over the entire universe of ,god's creation1 on every surrounding object4 ,even upon the bells of the horses shall there be ,,holiness ,,unto ,,the ,,lord4 ,we can begin to see the effects under ,god of praising the beauty of holiness in this place in our prayer- and class-meetings4 ,many express a hunger for full salvation1 and as we frequently present our dear neighbors to ,god in prayer1 the ,spirit seems to indicate a glorious harvest of souls in this place in the near future4 ,all glory to ,god6 ,and now1 my soul1 another year of thy earthly career and time to work has passed away4 ,thank ,god1 it was the first whole year of my life that ,i have dwelt in the ,canaan of perfect love and sinless glory4 ,all its events through ,god have indeed worked together for good to my soul4 ,illustration3 ,rome ,city1 ,ind41 in #ahgh4 ,birthplace of the ,gospel ,trumpet #aa4 ,since last writing we have constantly shared the goodness of ,god4 ,the time has been closely devoted to writing on my book and for the ,herald4 ,the ,holy ,spirit has greatly assisted4 ,the weather has been very cold1 as much as twenty-four degrees below zero4 ,the first week of the new year was observed as a week of prayer4 ,the weather being severe1 but few attended our union prayer-meeting4 ,last night in the name of ,jesus we began a meeting here in the ,methodist church-house on the line of holiness4 ,the book he speaks of was the ,bible ,proofs of the ,second ,work of ,grace4 ,it was printed and bound the next year1 #ahhj1 at the ,e4 ,u4 ,mennonite publishing house in ,goshen4 ,two thousand copies were printed4 ,it contained #dic pages and was1 it would seem1 an almost exhaustive treatise on sanctification as a second work of grace as shown by the ,scriptures4 ,it was counted an excellent book by the holiness people and leaders1 and doubtless accomplished much good4 ,copies of the book may yet be found in individual libraries4 ,this was the first book of which ,brother ,warner was the author4 ,he became the author of a number of publications afterward4 #bg4 ,closed meeting tonight4 ,a few souls have found ,christ a perfect ,savior4 ,the leading elements in the ,m4 ,e4 ,church did not come near during the meeting4 ,some did all they could against it4 ,the preacher in charge a week ago made a very brave defense of sin in the flesh1 justifying rather than condemning it4 ,oh1 the shameful clamor for sin6 the dead and godless condition of the ,church6 ,surely her glory has departed4 ,some who were longing for full salvation1 when they saw the united influence of an apostate church arrayed against this very fundamental doctrine of their creed1 were scared away from the good purposes of their heart and away from the meeting4 ,poor souls6 ,having lost a good conscience they can not look me in the face2 and vainly they talk of growing the remaining sin out of the heart4 ,oh1 that ,god would appoint salvation for this people6 ,feb4 #b1 #ahgi4 ,have been very busy writing during the past week4 ,brother ,lowman moved the press here last ,thursday4 ,praise the ,lord6 ,he showed me by the ,spirit that ,i should locate here1 and that the press would be located in this place1 when nothing had been thought or said about it4 ,oh1 ,i am so glad the ,lord does lead his little ones6 ,i can do much more for the paper now4 ,oh1 that ,god would keep ,brother ,lowman and me straight on the line of holiness and continue to make the ,herald a real herald of gospel freedom6 ,our circulation is increasing1 thank the ,lord6 #aj4 ,it is wonderful how ,god takes care of his dependent little ones4 ,when we came here1 kind friends bade us farewell with some sadness1 fearing that the holiness evangelistic work would not support us here1 where we had no friends and acquaintances4 ,but what a lesson our heavenly ,father has taught us6 ,he has abundantly provided for us1 even at home4 ,i must record some of his kindness4 ,fuel is rather scarce here1 wood quite high1 and the weather being quite severe ,i could not well see from whence we should be supplied4 ,but as we do not walk by sight ,i trusted all in the hands of the ,lord4 ,we have a neighbor who is a very wicked man1 but no loving children of ,god could be more kind and benevolent to us than the whole family are4 ,they tell us by word and action that we shall not want for any good thing while they have it4 ,another very wicked young man had bought twelve acres of timber about three miles from town4 ,the best timber and most of the nicest cord-wood timber had been taken off4 ,my kind neighbor asked him how much he would take for all that remained1 and to his utter astonishment he said1 ,i will give it to you for five dollars4 ,neighbor and ,i had talked the matter over before and he agreed to take me in partnership if we could get the wood reasonable4 ,he was true to this agreement1 and we both have wood enough to do us for two or three years4 ,this is nothing else than the dealing of ,god4 ,oh1 who would not trust thee1 blessed ,father of mercies6 ,thou art all love and boundless goodness4 ,but thou art also perfect wisdom1 therefore will we trust thee when thy providence seems to be against our wishes and inimical to our happiness2 for we know that such can only be in appearance1 because of our ignorance4 ,oh1 we thank thee that we can rejoice in all thy righteous will2 for as thou art thyself love1 nothing but love can proceed from thee4 #aa4 ,bro4 ,l4 ,spencer and ,brother ,kimmel brought me home1 each bringing me a load of wood from my place of procuring fuel4 ,when arriving home1 ,i found wife well as usual4 ,arrived at one o'clock1 and at two ,i was to preach the funeral of ,miss ,sigler4 ,poor girl1 ,i visited and prayed with her last ,saturday before leaving home4 ,the family are not religious1 the father is quite wicked and intemperate2 but ,mary gave me satisfactory evidence that ,god had forgiven her sins4 ,however1 when about to die she was left in great distress of mind4 ,brother ,newton1 residing near by1 was sent for2 he prayed for her4 ,she obtained the victory and closed life in peace4 ,the temperance meeting that was in progress when ,i left continued with success until tonight4 ,over three hundred signed the pledge1 and a permanent organization was effected4 #bc4 ,sabbath4 ,a4 ,m41 preached in ,albion on faith4 ,p4 ,m41 led the holiness meeting and organized a holiness band of sixty-six members4 ,praise the ,lord1 they expect to work for the ,master in spreading holiness4 ,on the #aath of ,march he and ,elder ,lowman drew up articles of agreement by which they were to be joint editors and publishers of the ,herald and all other papers1 books1 etc41 issued from their office4 ,brother ,warner was to pay ,lowman #bej for a half interest in the paper and office4 ,both were to bear half the expense of publishing the ,herald and any other publications4 ,both were to share equally in all the income of the office except the job-work1 which ,lowman was to do with his own press and stock1 and receive the proceeds4 ,brother ,warner1 however1 was to realize fifteen per cent from all the job-work he should procure4 ,all manuscripts written by or donated to either party after the date of their agreement were to be jointly published and owned1 and all manuscripts written by or donated to either party before the date of agreement were to yield to the owner ten per cent more than one half the proceeds4 ,from this time the diary entries are rather scattered1 until finally they cease altogether4 ,this is owing to the fact1 doubtless1 that the events of his life were associated with evangelistic and editorial effort and went largely into the paper as news items4 ,may #d1 #ahgi4 ,sabbath4 ,went to hear ,brother ,allison1 ,united ,brethren minister4 ,he requested me to talk4 ,i did so1 with great liberty and power of the ,spirit4 ,brother ,a41 who had hitherto been an opposer of distinct holiness1 was overwhelmed by the power of ,god and truth1 and confessed that it was ,bible doctrine4 ,another man1 whose carnality was greatly stirred1 turned pale1 grew nervous1 and finally interrupted me with questions and contradictions4 ,just then ,god sent an increased volume of sweet love to my heart4 ,glory to ,god6 ,burning coals were freely heaped upon his head1 and soft words soon turned wrath away1 and after meeting he humbly apologized4 #ag4 ,brother and ,sister ,shock brought me to ,syracuse4 ,being late1 ,brothers ,martin and ,bell had left just a few moments before4 ,brother and ,sister ,s4 began to lament their disappointment4 ,i began to praise ,god1 for the ,spirit seemed to say1 ,i want thee with me alone today4 ,i said ,i expected a glorious time by the way4 ,they looked astonished that ,i was so free from complaint and regrets4 ,they suggested that ,i should go by the cars4 ,i remarked that the conductor would probably put me off1 as ,i had no money4 ,i praised the ,lord that he would be my strength to walk4 ,they looked the more strangely as ,i started off with praises to the ,lord4 ,i hope that ,god may convince them of the blessedness of the rest of faith4 ,walked about sixteen miles to ,warsaw1 and ,god did most wonderfully bless my soul by the way4 ,reached ,warsaw about #c ,p4 ,m41 without fatigue or hunger4 ,called at ,brother ,barber's a few moments4 ,looked for a team that was going out south1 but had to take the train1 the ,lord having told ,brother ,barber to give me fifty cents to pay fare4 ,brother ,lowman was on the train4 ,after reaching ,silver ,lake we had three miles more to walk to ,gospel ,hill4 ,praise ,god1 he was my strength this day1 even without food from early morning till late in the eve4 #ah4 ,sabbath4 ,brother ,bear and many dear holy ones came from ,yellow ,lake and elsewhere4 ,glorious time in the ,lord4 ,p4 ,m41 met at half-past two4 ,i was urged again to lead the meeting4 ,the ,spirit of the ,lord was wonderfully upon me2 anointed me to preach the acceptable year of the ,lord4 ,halleluiah6 ,the deep prejudices began to give way2 opposition ceased2 ,god was triumphing4 ,eve1 ,brother ,lowman having the sore throat1 ,brother ,martin not being well1 and ,brother ,bear having left1 ,i was much humbled before ,god in talking again to the people4 ,i was brought low in the dust at the thought of being too prominent among the brethren in thus leading the meeting so much4 ,june #d1 #ahgi4 ,this is the fifth anniversary of our marriage4 ,took early train for home4 ,found dear ,sarah quite ill2 may the ,lord bless the precious object of my strongest earthly love4 ,july #d1 #ahgi4 ,sarah and ,i got a horse and buggy and went out three miles and picked a fine lot of raspberries1 and thus escaped the throng and rabble that filled our little picturesque city4 ,oh1 how much more sweet and comfortable to get away with the ,lord alone6 #f4 ,sabbath4 ,at home4 ,unwell4 ,the ,lord sent a young man here today1 that ,i might have something to do for ,him4 ,some weeks ago ,i found the poor wayfarer at the lake1 fishing4 ,having learned that he was a stranger and without money ,i brought him home for the night4 ,he seems very teachable4 ,i tried hard to get him to call upon the ,lord and be saved4 ,this is the second time he has been to see us1 not having found us at home the former time4 ,he is a very intelligent ,swede4 ,has had some practise in type-setting1 and has corresponded some for papers4 ,aug4 #f1 #ahgi4 ,came to ,warsaw camp-meeting4 ,the ,lord was at work1 many being saved4 ,about forty tents occupied4 ,bishops ,weaver1 ,william ,taylor and a host of preachers present4 ,rejoiced to form the acquaintance of ,brothers ,lambert1 ,krupp1 and ,low1 of the ,new ,mennonite ,church4 ,they are gloriously saved and definite for ,jesus4 ,we found a wonderful affinity in our hearts4 ,if the ,lord will1 ,i shall attend their conference4 ,i pray ,god we may become one fold4 ,the ,lord did not have his way fully in this meeting4 ,too much looking to men4 ,sept4 #c1 #ahgi4 ,took train for ,upper ,sandusky4 ,found ,wife and friends and many of the holiness workers already on the camp-ground4 #aj4 ,meeting closed tonight4 ,a mob of two or three hundred of the baser sort were let loose by ,satan upon us4 ,they threatened everything to ,bro4 ,w4 ,t4 ,ellis1 against whom they were incensed by what appears to have been imprudent conduct of his own4 ,we finally succeeded in escorting him through the surging1 raging rabble to our quarters4 ,some eggs were fired upon us4 ,this ,brother ,e4 is indeed to me a mystery4 ,his conduct is very rough4 ,he is truly a new sharp threshing-instrument having teeth4 ,notwithstanding he provokes malice from the world and forfeits confidence of believers1 he brings souls to ,god4 ,on ,tuesday we had a faith meeting4 ,special faith and gifts of healing were considered4 ,all who had infirmities which they believed the ,lord desired them to be healed from presented themselves before the ,lord1 and several remarkable healings were performed4 ,sister ,monnett1 from ,bucyrus1 who walked upon crutches1 was made whole1 and used them no more4 ,another sister was healed by the ,great ,physician of a spinal affliction which she had had from her youth4 ,the next day she was surprized to find that even the deformity had disappeared4 ,praise ,god6 #bb4 ,came home via the ,baltimore and ,ohio4 #bd4 ,went out to the ,mennonite conference in the ,hawpatch1 about nine miles from here4 #bf4 ,bade these beloved brethren farewell1 feeling that our hearts are wonderfully knit together in love4 ,they appointed a delegate to our ,eldership4 #bg4 ,met beloved companion this eve at our ,eldership at ,yellow ,lake ,bethel1 she having come directly from ,ohio4 #bi4 ,sessions very pleasant1 even spiritual4 ,after leaving the house1 very strange feelings came over me4 ,i felt sure that the powers of darkness were about to make a desperate rally4 ,we stayed up at ,brother ,bear's and prayed until one o'clock4 ,i then lay down and took a short sleep1 when the ,spirit bade me arise and go out in the woods4 ,oh1 what wrestling and agony of soul6 ,what burden of heart and cries unto ,god for the salvation of his cause in that lone place from about #d3cj till #f ,a4 ,m46 ,received some relief and victory4 ,an evil spirit seemed to be upon the session from the opening this morning4 ,the foreseen darkness was there4 ,business did not pass off so pleasantly4 ,at noon ,i spent all the time shut up with ,god1 and received great relief from the mountain that seemed to crush my heart4 ,this was a new and strange experience to my soul4 ,closed business at a late hour at night4 ,the ,eldership purchased the office from ,brother ,lowman and me4 ,oct4 #a1 #ahgi4 ,sarah started home this morning4 ,i felt led to go to see the brethren in the ,cook neighborhood and ,warsaw concerning the formation of a ,state ,holiness ,alliance4 #ad4 ,received an urgent call to go to ,wakarusa4 ,was led to go4 ,asked ,god for the means1 and in less than one hour a gentleman came and summoned me to affirm a small matter before the court1 which any of my neighbors could have done as well4 #ba4 ,at ,palestine4 ,quite a good turn-out4 ,two quite zealous ,christians who disbelieved the second work of grace--a father and son--both spoke4 ,the first believed in sanctification as a gradual work after pardon and consummated at death4 ,the latter testified that he received it in conversion4 ,what incongruity in the two1 but harmony in all who have the fulness6 ,eve1 read prophecies of the present holiness movement4 ,exhorted the many holy ones present to fill the ,bible description of ,god's holy army1 moving out in every direction1 setting the wilderness on fire1 invading every city1 casting down every wall1 staying and burying ,gog1 beating the mountains fine1 and blowing the mass of chaff from the ,lord's threshing-floor 7,ezek4 #ch1 #ci74 #bc4 ,came home4 ,among the mail awaiting me was a card stating that obligations to the amount of #de must be paid at once in ,wolcottville4 ,blessed be the ,lord1 another letter contained the precise amount of #de1 that had been due me nearly a year from ,nebraska4 ,glory to ,god1 he supplies all our needs4 ,how perfectly he meets all our wants6 ,nov4 #af1 #ahgi4 ,sabbath4 ,a glorious meeting was in progress at ,churubusko4 ,brother ,wood1 the leader1 had taken sick and the little ones were praying to the ,lord to send some one to proclaim the word of the ,lord4 ,we heard of the meeting and at once were moved to go4 ,we found the ,methodist ,episcopal house crowded4 ,a good band of holiness witnesses and singers all had their eyes on the ,lord to send a man to lead the host4 ,praise his name1 he anointed me for the work and a glorious meeting ensued4 ,four or five fully saved4 #ag4 ,this morning we found ,brother ,wood still quite sick4 ,the doctor anticipated a severe attack of bilious pneumonia fever4 ,we anointed him with oil and the ,lord heard prayer in his behalf and raised him up at once4 #ah4 ,brother ,wood quite well and able to work in the meetings4 ,held a special faith-meeting today4 ,prayed for the restoration of the boy who is perfectly deaf4 ,we were not at all discouraged1 but felt it our duty to continue in prayer from day to day just as we often have to do with those seeking pardon and purification4 #ai4 ,after our day meeting a brother and sister and ,i formed one of the visiting committees4 ,when nearly sundown we found a poor suffering woman who was a sinner1 and blind for some time1 and afflicted with much pain4 ,we told her that ,jesus could wash away her sins and heal and open her eyes4 ,the ,spirit soon brought on conviction and new-birth labors4 ,she was gloriously converted1 and giving a shout she sat down1 and after a few seconds composure said1 ,glory to ,god1 ,i can see6 ,my eyes are healed6 ,she then embraced her child and husband1 whom she had not seen for about two weeks4 ,she had lost all power to move her eyes1 and they were both turned upward in her head4 ,she was very weak1 having eaten but little for days1 and she sat with her hands over her eyes to exclude the light4 ,now she had the lamp lit and proceeded at once to get supper4 ,all glory to the ,great ,physician6 ,twenty-seven sanctified souls arose to join into a holiness band4 ,hallelujah6 ,god is mustering his host to the battle4 ,the accounts immediately following1 in which he speaks of consolidating the ,eldership with the ,mennonites1 show that he had not as yet gotten away from the idea of an external union in addition to that which the bonds of salvation alone can afford4 ,he had already made a trip to ,goshen1 and had met ,brother ,lambert and others of the ,mennonite faith4 ,dec4 #e1 #ahgi4 ,am pushing my book to completion4 ,today ,sarah and ,i started for the joint meeting of our ,standing ,committee and the ,mennonite ,quarterly ,conference at ,hawpatch4 #f4 ,drove eight miles this morning to the place of meeting4 ,was happy to meet with those beloved brethren once more4 ,had a joint convention4 ,the subject of consolidation was warmly advocated from both sides1 while our hearts glowed with the unifying glory of ,jesus ,christ4 ,the following preamble and resolutions were adopted3 ,whereas1 the ,god of all grace has most emphatically taught us in his ,word that his church is one as the ,father and ,son are one1 and that a manifestation of this unity is to be the world-saving salt of the church4 ,therefore1 we1 as the professed sons of ,god and members of the ,united ,mennonite ,church and the ,church of ,god assembled in the name of ,jesus ,christ in a joint meeting1 do confess it our duty to put away from us every accursed thing that might in the least distract1 divide1 and alienate us in heart1 or cause divergency in practise2 and for the sake of securing an answer to the prayer of the adorable ,savior1 we do solemnly agree to abandon anything not warranted by the ,word of ,god and accept any and everything it teaches4 ,therefore-- ,i4 ,resolved1 ,that we joyfully consent to the will of our ,lord and ,savior ,jesus ,christ and agree to unite in one body as soon as in the providence of ,god the consolidation can be consummated1 and ,,ii4 ,resolved1 ,that we recognize the ,word of ,god as the only true basis of ,christian union4 ,furthermore1 ,,iii4 ,resolved1 ,that we believe that the truth as it is in ,christ ,jesus is within our reach1 hence1 can be ascertained on all points of difference1 and that we are therefore morally bound to learn and abide its decision4 #ad4 ,at home4 ,preached at the ,wesleyan house at #a ,p4 ,m4 on faith in relation to gifts of the ,spirit4 ,in the evening at the ,united ,brethren house on the philosophy of faith4 #af4 ,though very stormy1 quite a company of dear brethren and young men turned out to chop and haul me wood4 ,oh1 the goodness of ,god6 ,jan4 #a1 #ahhj4 ,last night after a very successful and powerful meeting at ,chambers' ,schoolhouse we came to the watch-meeting at ,albion4 ,the ,spirit greatly moved us to come4 ,on reaching the house ,i dropped on my knees1 when the ,spirit gave me a searching message for the people4 ,we kept up until after twelve4 ,the old year passed away while we were on our knees in solemn consecration to ,god4 ,this is the last quotation which we make from his diary4 ,by the first of the year he was given full charge of the ,herald1 and any further record of his life-events must be found in the papers which he was editing4 ,unfortunately1 from ,jan4 #d1 #ahhj1 the date of the last entry in his diary1 until the issue of the ,herald for ,nov4 #g1 #ahhj1 is a gap over which we must bridge with silence1 as ,i have no access to any copy of the ,herald for that year other than the one mentioned1 nor have ,i been supplied with information from any other source covering that period4 ,in it is also announced that the following resolution was passed4 ,resolved1 ,that we are willing to consolidate the ,herald with any other paper that advocates the same gospel principles4 ,in the number of the ,herald referred to is printed the decision of the ,board of ,publication to make the following announcement3 ,edited in the name of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 by ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 ,rome ,city1 ,ind4 ,dedicated to the ,god of the ,bible and to the service of all saints who desire to love ,god with a pure heart fervently1 and the holy ,church he has established over eighteen hundred years ago4 ,from his book ,bible ,proofs we have drawn material for our next chapter4 ,,xii ,a ,,spiritual ,,shaking ,in his book ,bible ,proofs of the ,second ,work of ,grace1 ,brother ,warner devotes three chapters to the prophetic description of the great work of restoration in the latter times1 when1 through the preaching of holiness and the upholding of the full ,scriptural standard of truth1 ,god should bring his people into unity again4 ,this chapter is intended as an abridgement of the three chapters referred to4 ,i wish to say by way of introduction that many of the events in the history of ancient ,israel are figures of and have their counterpart in things occurring in the ,christian dispensation4 ,and many of the utterances of the prophets1 associated primarily with the events of those times1 have their fulfilment as well in connection with the things foreshadowed4 ,to regard these prophetic writings as referring only and finally to the literal affairs of the people of the ,old ,testament is to stop far short of their intention and use4 ,the old dispensation was preparatory of the new4 ,it was full of types and figures of things to be realized in the latter4 ,everything pointed forward in anticipation of the fulness of times when ,god should establish his new and better covenant with his people4 ,shall we say then that the prophecies did not share this anticipation2 that they had to do only with the literal figures8 ,nay1 it was the spirit of prophesy more than anything else that foretold of the times of the gospel dispensation1 not only by direct reference1 but also in many of those passages which touched first those immediate affairs in ,israel's career and through them those greater things farther on4 ,we note how the ,new ,testament writers picked up the ,old ,testament prophecies and applied them1 with such reference as that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet1 or1 as it is written1 etc4 ,but let us not suppose that the applications of prophecy were to be confined to the days of ,christ and the apostles4 ,many things were said of ,david and other ,old ,testament objects that had their extended and more important fulfilment in ,christ or in the establishment of the church1 but there were other utterances that had their final import in the later affairs of the ,new ,testament kingdom4 ,those that cluster about the captivity of ,israel in ,babylon and their reestablishment in their own land and the rebuilding of ,jerusalem are especially rich in secondary application to the corresponding crises in the history of the church4 ,it is thus that many of the prophecies have a two-fold application1 not that they mean two different things1 but that they apply to both the literal and spiritual phases of the same thing4 ,a sufficient proof of this lies in the fact that in the ,revelation1 where their spiritual meaning is assumed1 we find the same ,old ,testament figures4 ,there is unity of purpose in ,god's system of types and figures and in his plan throughout1 and hence many of the prophecies that pertained in the first place to events in the history of ,israel are used by the ,spirit today in connection with the antitypes of those events4 ,great epochal events or changes in which ,god by some particular institution unfolds his plan1 or in which there is involved the divine approach to man1 whether for approval or for judgment1 are attended more or less by violent manifestations in the earth or the elements4 ,thus on the occasion of the giving of the law at ,mount ,sinai the mountain shook and smoked and there were thunders and lightnings1 and the people trembled4 ,at the crucifixion of ,christ1 the central event in all history1 the sun hid his face and the earth shook1 the rocks were rent and graves were opened4 ,the ,pentecostal outpouring of the ,holy ,spirit was with the sound of a rushing mighty wind4 ,when the apostolic church prayed for the special endowment of divine power1 the place was shaken where they were assembled together1 and they were all filled with the ,holy ,ghost4 ,when the imprisoned ,paul and ,silas prayed and sang praises to ,god1 the divine response came with a great earthquake which shook the foundations of the prison1 opened all doors1 and loosed every one's bands4 ,on the day of final judgment the very earth will be moved out of her place and the elements will manifest the awful day of ,god4 ,the shaking of things1 as accompanying the divine visitation1 is also taken in the spiritual1 or figurative1 phase1 and it is this application of the idea of shaking as used in the ,scripture that ,brother ,warner employs in reference to the great spiritual movement of these latter times4 ,as a key to the prophecies on this subject he uses ,heb4 #ab3be-bi1 which reads as follows3 ,see that ye refuse not him that speaketh4 ,for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth1 much more shall not we escape1 if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven3 whose voice then shook the earth3 but now he hath promised1 saying1 ,yet once more ,i shake not the earth only1 but also heaven4 ,and this word1 ,yet once more1 signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken1 as of things that are made1 that those things which can not be shaken may remain4 ,wherefore we receiving a kingdom which can not be moved1 let us have grace1 whereby we may serve ,god acceptably with reverence and godly fear3 for our ,god is a consuming fire4 ,we have here two distinct shakings4 ,the first one1 according to the apostle's words beginning with verse #ah1 plainly refers to the manifestation at ,sinai when the first covenant was given to ,israel 7,exod4 #ai74 ,the second shaking attends the voice which in this dispensation speaks from heaven4 ,the former was a literal shaking1 while the latter is of course spiritual1 and attends the establishment of the new covenant4 ,see that ye refuse not him that speaketh is in the present tense to this dispensation and is an injunction for us4 ,now1 the new covenant involves the very highest standard of relation between ,god and his people1 a standard much superior to that of the old ,sinaitic covenant4 ,it is distinguished by the laws of ,god being written in our hearts and comprehends our perfect obedience to them4 ,in this relation we become his people and he our ,god in the very closest sense 7see ,heb4 #h3aj1 and #aj3af74 ,this relation is none other than entire sanctification1 which to attain requires the complete crucifixion of the self-life1 the destruction of every idol1 and entire abandonment to ,god4 ,it is a close-girding covenant and admits of no sin either in practise or in the heart4 ,the words yet once more refer to the shaking as final and to the standard of truth as being perfect1 ne plus ultra1 and as therefore consisting only of things unshakable4 ,it is the voice calling to this holiness standard of the new covenant that produces the mighty shaking1 causing both earth and heaven to tremble4 ,whenever this voice is heard1 whether in the beginning of ,christianity or in a movement that effects the reestablishment of the new covenant in the hearts of ,god's people today1 the shaking occurs4 ,both sinners and professors are made to tremble at ,god's mighty truth and he who would obey the divine appeal must suffer the shaking loose and consequent loss of all things contrary to the divine will1 however dear they may be in the selfish affections4 ,god has through grace made it possible for one and all to measure to this standard1 so that for him who refuses the voice that speaks thus from high heaven there is positively no escape4 ,our quotation from ,hebrews leads us back to the prophet ,haggai1 whose words in chapter #b1 verse #f1 are what the apostle doubtless refers to4 ,this introduces us to that field of prophecies relating to the captivity and the return1 so typical of the apostasy and of the final restoration of the true church in these last days4 ,it should not be a thing incredible that the great spiritual events of these epoch-making times should be in accordance with prophetic utterance1 nor that the ,holy ,spirit should lead ,brother ,warner1 as he testifies to having been led1 into these things as prophetic truth4 ,indeed the reader1 if he be a seeker after truth1 should not be surprized to find the ,holy ,spirit confirming to his own mind that these things have a prophetic illumination4 ,brother ,warner's reference to these prophecies1 and his comments1 are here given4 ,of ,heb4 #ab3be-bi he thus speaks3 ,on the #cjth of ,august1 #ahgi1 the ,holy ,spirit in a special manner gave me the foregoing scripture4 ,i had never clearly comprehended its meaning and ,i felt impressed that the ,lord was about to lead me into a new vein of truth4 ,i shut myself up with ,god and the ,bible1 when the ,comforter1 which is the ,holy ,ghost1 took most of the things that are contained in what follows and showed them to me4 ,being fully assured that my mind had been led into the pure light of truth1 we published it from the pulpit1 much to the edification of the holy brethren4 ,we feel confident that the following chain of ,scriptures1 correlative with our text1 will conduct every meek and candid reader into the same light it has your humble servant4 ,we shall find the foregoing words of the inspired apostle a key to the prophetic description of the great work of holiness4444 ,let us examine the same declaration elsewhere in the ,holy ,book4 ,haggai #b3e-g3 ,according to the word that ,i covenanted with you when ye came out of ,egypt1 so my spirit remaineth among you3 fear ye not4 ,for thus saith the ,lord of hosts2 ,yet once1 it is a little while1 and ,i will shake the heavens1 and the earth1 and the sea1 and the dry land2 and ,i will shake all nations1 and the desire of all nations shall come3 and ,i will fill this house with glory1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 ,the rebuilding of the temple is the subject under consideration4 ,this ancient abode of the great ,shekinah was such a marked figure of the church of ,god that it is seldom spoken of by the holy seers but what the spirit of prophecy flashes forth in interspersed references to the spiritual house4 ,says the prophet1 ,the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former1 saith the ,lord of hosts3 and in this place will ,i give peace1 saith the ,lord of hosts 7v4 #i74 ,is it not in the midst of his church where ,god speaks peace to thousands who seek his face8 ,let us also thank ,god for the gracious intimation that the glory of the restored1 latter-day church shall exceed that which preceded the dark-age captivity4 ,it is quite evident that the words in verses #e-g were in the mind of the apostle when he wrote the words of our text4 ,and we find here additional evidence that the once more shaking relates to the triumphs of the gospel1 because it is associated with the coming of ,christ1 not as ,judge1 but the ,desire or ,savior of all nations4444 ,god never designed that we should ,roam through weary years ,of inbred sin and doubts and fears1 ,a bleak and toilsome wilderness4 ,if you have not passed through the ,jordan1 the death-convulsions of the old man of sin1 to the ,canaan rest1 it is because you have either ignorantly or wilfully refused him that speaketh1 and entered not in because of unbelief4444 ,i will fill this house with glory4 ,here is the glory that ,christ gives3 ,the ,spirit of glory and of ,god1 that fills and rests upon the church when inbred sin and all weights are shaken out4 ,what is here associated with the once more shaking corresponds with entire sanctification4 ,the prophet ,ezekiel gives us a very interesting chain of concurring prophesy4 ,who with his spiritual eyes open can fail to see the application of the #cdth chapter of ,ezekiel to the ministry1 in general1 of this age8 ,they eat up the good pasture--fare sumptuously on fat salaries4 ',ye tread down the residue of your pastures' and 'foul the waters with your feet4' ,they are the real cause of spiritual famine instead of the means of refreshing the flock4 ,ye eat the fat1 and ye clothe you with the wool4 ,make a lucrative merchandise of your ,christless sermons1 instead of administering the free gospel of salvation4 ,ye kill them that are fed3 but ye feed not the flock4 ,when any find their way to the true ,shepherd and receive food1 life1 and holy fire in their souls1 they annoy the dead and sleeping1 who proceed at once to kill them4 ,this is no idle fancy4 ,it is an undeniable fact that in most of our present-day churches a real convert can scarcely maintain spiritual life4 ,the few that are not killed are usually driven or thrown out4 ,o ye shepherds1 a crisis from the ,almighty is coming upon you4 ,as the ,lord liveth1 the fires from heaven shall sweep away your craft4 ,howl1 ye shepherds1 and cry2 and wallow yourselves in the ashes1 ye principal of the flock3 for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished 7,jer4 #be3cd74 ,their time of feasting upon and dispersing the ,lord's flock will come to an end4 ,i will deliver my flock from their mouth1 and they shall no more be a prey 7,ezek4 #cd3aj1bb74 ,i will seek out my sheep1 and will deliver them out of all places sectarian divisions where they have been scattered into several hundred parties in the cloudy and dark day 7v4 #ab74 ,we talk of the dark age as in the past2 but the seer of ,god declares that we are yet under its lingering fogs1 and shall be until holy fire from heaven shall sweep away every partition-wall1 human creed1 and party name1 and purge out that infamous god1 the sectarian spirit2 the vile image of jealousy which sits in all the thresholds of ,babylon4 ,and ,i will bring them out from the people1 and gather them from the countries1 and will bring them to their own land1 and feed them 7v4 #ac74 ,yea1 ,i will feed them in a good pasture1 and upon the high mountains of ,israel shall their fold be 7v4 #ad74 ,and ,i will set up one shepherd over them1 and he shall feed them1 even my servant ,david ,christ--,david was already dead four hundred years2 he shall feed them1 and shall be their shepherd 7v4 #bc74 ,the perfect reign of the ,messiah1 and his love in the soul1 is to succeed the dark day of party confusion4 ,the two are not compatible with each other4 ,and ,i will make with them a covenant of peace 7v4 #be74 ,their own land1 and this covenant-union with ,god1 is simply entire sanctification4 ,see ,jer4 #bc4444 ,in ,ezekiel #ce we have the judgment of mount ,seir4 ,seir--rough1 shaggy--we presume is used in the typical sense to denote the ,catholic power4 ,it was inhabited by the ,edomites1 the descendants of ,esau1 who were therefore brothers with ,israel1 the descendants of ,jacob2 but the ,edomites had a deep-rooted and perpetual enmity against ,israel1 they harassed and distressed them by all possible means1 7,see ,a4 ,clark47 ,behold1 ,o mount ,seir1 ,i am against thee1 and ,i will stretch out mine hand against thee1 and ,i will make thee most desolate 444 because thou hast had a perpetual hatred1 and hast shed the blood of the children of ,israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity1 in the time that their iniquity had an end4 7vs4 #c-e74 ,does not this look like the record of the beast that sits upon the seven hills8 ,martyrdom1 it appears1 is confined to such times when ,god's people have reached an end of sin4 ,as the spirit of prophesy uses mount ,seir to represent ,catholicism in chapter #ce1 and the ,caucasian mountains ,gog and ,magog1 see ,bible dictionary to represent sectism in chapters #ch and #ci1 so in chapter #cf3a the mountains of ,israel are used to represent the true conscientious ,christians4 ,the ,lord says1 ,set thy face against mount ,seir1 against ,gog1 and prophesy against him2 but in reference to the mountains of ,israel1 the order is changed to prophesy unto1 showing that the former were rejected1 but the latter accepted of the ,lord2 to these very precious promises are made4 ,in the latter part of the chapter we have associated together salvation from all uncleanness1 the gift of the ,holy ,spirit1 and bringing into the land1 i4 e41 the land of perfect holiness4444 ,the spirit of prophesy now takes up another figure to set forth the holiness crisis and the glorious effect in those that abide the day of the ,refiner's coming4 ,moreover1 thou son of man1 take thee one stick1 and write upon it1 ,for ,judah1 and for the children of ,israel1 his companions3 then take another stick1 and write upon it1 ,for ,joseph1 the stick of ,ephraim1 and for all the house of ,israel his companions3 and join them one to another into one stick2 and they shall become one in thine hand4 ,and when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee1 saying1 ,wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these8 ,say unto them1 ,thus saith the ,lord ,god2 ,behold1 ,i will take the stick of ,joseph1 which is in the hand of ,ephraim1 and the tribes of ,israel his fellows1 and will put them with him1 even with the stick of ,judah1 and make them one stick1 and they shall be one in mine hand 7,ezek4 #cg3af-ai74 ,who does not know that this never was really fulfilled in the alienated sects of ,jacob's literal seed8 ,while it may apply to the formation of the church in the beginning of the reign of ,christ1 it was specially designed to typify the return of the church to ,god and the mount of holy union after the falling away or cloudy and dark day4 ,the figure does not properly suggest the formation of a new church state1 but the gathering again of a divided and starved-out church under the pastorate of corrupt and self-aggrandizing shepherds4 ,i 444 will gather them on every side1 and bring them into their own land 444 ,i will save them out of all their dwelling-places1 wherein they have sinned1 and will cleanse them1 so shall they be my people and ,i will be their ,god4 ,and ,david ,christ1 the root and offspring of ,david my servant shall be king over them2 and they all shall have one shepherd 7vs4 #ba-bd74 ,nothing but entire sanctification can unite the saints under the direct control1 and headship of ,christ1 through the ,comforter4 ,and they shall dwell in the land that ,i have given unto ,jacob my servant1 wherein your fathers in the day of the church's purity have dwelt2 and they shall dwell therein1 even they1 and their children1 and their children's children forever3 and my servant ,david shall be their prince even ,christ1 for him hath ,god exalted to be a ,prince and a ,savior forever4 ,moreover ,i will make a covenant of peace with them2 444 and the heathen shall know that ,i the ,lord do sanctify ,israel1 when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore 7vs4 #be-bh74 ,here is the solution of the whole matter4 ,the reception of the ,spirit1 uniting into one1 placing in the land1 cleansing1 and the covenant of peace under the glorious reign of the ,prince of peace1 is all summed up and consummated in the sanctification of the church through the indwelling of the ,holy ,trinity4 ,instead of exterminating the idols and ,canaanites in the house of the ,lord of hosts1 the shepherds of ,israel have catered to their unholy lusts4 ,they have so long truckled to the world in the church1 so long fawned and pampered sin under the cloak of religion1 that a terrible conflict ensues whenever it is attacked by the sword of the ,spirit4 ,this crisis is described in the two following chapters1 namely1 ,ezekiel #ch1 #ci4 ,son of man1 set thy face against ,gog1 the land of ,magog1 the chief prince of ,meshech and ,tubal1 and prophesy against him1 and say1 ,thus saith the ,lord ,god2 ,behold1 ,i am against thee1 ,o ,gog 7#ch3b1c74 ,the ,bible dictionary applies ,gog and ,magog to the ,caucasian mountains1 a chain that extends from the ,black ,sea to the ,caspian4 ,the ,scythians of those regions were a fierce and warlike people4 ,for many years they had made their name a terror to the whole ,eastern world4 ,they were finally conquered and driven out1 ,b4 ,c4 #eif1 a few years before the time of ,ezekiel's prophesy4 ,these events being fresh in the mind of the ancient seer1 the prophetic spirit employs ,gog and ,magog to represent the acrid and intolerable spirit of sectarianism and its final overthrow4 ,meshech and ,tubal1 allies of ,gog1 are noticed in history as the remotest and rudest nations of the world4 ,david1 it is probable1 spoke prophetically of the same contentious1 unsanctified zeal3 ,woe is me1 that ,i sojourn in ,meshech4444 ,my soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace4 ,i am for peace1 but when ,i speak1 they are for war 7,psa4 #abj3e-g74 ,in applying the army of ,gog and ,magog to the false1 deceived1 and sectarian forces1 the enemies of the ,lord's true and holy church1 ,i am clearly sustained in ,revelation #bj3h-aj1 where they are declared to have been deceived by the devil1 therefore have a spurious religion--are professors4 ,they compass the saints on the breadth of the earth2 hence are diffused throughout all nations and everywhere arrayed against the holy2 but shall be finally destroyed by fire from heaven4 ,this vast army ,ezekiel represents as 'coming from their place out of the north parts' 7#ch3f1ae2 #ci3b71 indicative of a cold and heartless religion4 ,the attack upon the land by ,gog1 shall be in the latter years1 the latter days1 7#ch3h1aa74 ,this language all through the prophets points to the last1 or present1 dispensation4 ,in the latter years thou shall come into the land the sanctified that is brought back from the sword saved from the carnal1 sectarian strife of tongues1 and is gathered out of many people1 against the mountains of ,israel1 which have been always waste2 i4 e41 more or less destitute of the apostolic faith and power4 ,god sets the testimony of his anointed against the worldly churches4 ,gog in return makes war upon them4 ,but being dead to sin1 and having a resurrected life1 they are an invulnerable army4 ,they shall dwell safely all of them 7v4 #h74 ,and it shall come to pass at the same time when ,gog shall come against the land of ,israel1 saith the ,lord ,god1 that my fury shall come up in my face4 ,for in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have ,i spoken4 ,surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of ,israel 7vs4 #ah1 #ai74 ,when the sword of the ,almighty is unsheathed against self-righteous orthodox sinners1 there is soon war in the camp1 and a general commotion in the heavens and the earth4 ,the two-edged sword of definite testimony is now wielded in every church1 which has never been the case in any of the past holiness reforms4444 ,amen6 ,let the battle rage1 though the heavens and the earth be moved4 ,send down the fire1 ,o ,lord1 send fire from heaven1 and burn every ,gog-schism out of the church6 ,yea1 saith the ,lord1 ,i will send a fire on ,magog1 and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles3 and they shall know that ,i am the ,lord4 ,the burning of the weapons and burying of ,gog is described as the cleansing of the land--the church4 ,therefore it is the special work of sanctification1 and the heavens and the earth are now shaken by the tread of ,god's holy army1 who are 'severed out to continual employment1 passing through the land to cleanse it4' ,let us now begin with #a ,pet4 #d3ag1ah4 ,for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of ,god3 and if it first begin at us1 what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of ,god8 ,and if the righteous scarcely be saved1 where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear8 ,here is a trying ordeal1 a judgmental shaking of the church parallel with that described in ,hebrews4 ,it is the execution of ,christ's verdict of death to sin in the flesh4 ,the time is come4 ,scriptures thus introduced almost invariably refer to some previous prediction4 ,in the prophecies of ,isaiah we find what is doubtless the antecedent of ,peter's words3 ,i will turn my hand upon thee1 and purely purge away thy dross1 and take away all thy tin3 444 afterwards thou shalt be called1 ,the city of righteousness1 the faithful city4 ,zion shall be redeemed with judgment1 and her converts with righteousness 7,isa4 #a3be-bg74 ,the judgment of ,zion1 the house of ,god1 is her full redemption4 ,it is the hand of the ,almighty 'purely purging away the dross and all the tin' from his church1 that it might be called the city of righteousness4 ,this experience is not for the sinner1 nor is it confined to the aged and dying2 but the converts in ,zion1 saith the ,lord1 shall be redeemed from sin1 by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning4 ,this purging is parallel with the removing of those things that are shaken4 ,in that day shall the branch of the ,lord be beautiful and glorious i4 e41 'sanctified and cleansed1 a glorious church' 7,eph4 #e3bf1bg71 and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of ,israel have 'escaped the corruption that is in the world'4 ,and it shall come to pass1 that he that is left in ,zion1 and he that remaineth in ,jerusalem1 shall be called holy1 even every one that is written among the living in ,jerusalem3 when the ,lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of ,zion1 and shall have purged the blood of ,jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment1 and by the spirit of burning 7,isa4 #d3b-d74 ,this explains the words of ,peter very clearly2 the judgment of the house of ,god is a divine washing and purging4 ,the church1 having passed through the spirit of judgment and of burning1 all that are left therein shall be called holy4 ,therefore1 we understand the words of ,peter as having reference to the sin-consuming flames of the ,sanctifier1 the baptism of the ,holy ,ghost1 which corresponds with the shaking of the church1 of which ,paul speaks in ,hebrews2 for he concludes by saying1 ,our ,god is a consuming fire4 ,if ever there was a time when ,peter's words were pertinent1 it is now4 ,the hand of the ,almighty is upon his church1 and he will smite and humble it with his judgments2 shake it with his voice from heaven1 and consume it with the flames of his ,spirit until every foul spirit is driven out and all the works of the devil destroyed2 that nothing may remain but the pure1 unalloyed elements of the divine kingdom1 which can not be shaken4 ,no wonder the churches so often fear and dread the coming of ,god's holy bands2 yea1 a fire burns before them1 which quite frequently closes all meeting-houses and every other place where the sects can defeat their access4 ,it is because they know that they are but a collection of ecclesiastical stubble1 which can not abide the fire which accompanies the ,lord's army of definite witnesses4 ,here we also see that the charge that insisting upon the definite experience of entire sanctification destroys the churches is true only so far as they are composed of wood1 hay1 and stubble4 ,fire never destroys gold and silver4444 ,in ,joel we have the declaration3 ,the ,lord also shall roar out of ,zion1 and utter his voice from ,jerusalem the holy church2 and the heavens and the earth shall shake 7#c3af74 ,a church that has no voice to shake sinners and professors1 no voice that turns the world upside down1 that makes not the wicked flee1 the devil howl1 and persecution rage--that church may have gods many1 but has not the true ,god dwelling in her2 for1 following the foregoing the prophet says3 ,so shall ye know that ,i am the ,lord your ,god dwelling in ,zion1 my holy mountain3 then shall ,jerusalem be holy1 and there shall no strangers pass through her any more 7v4 #ag74 ,the ,lord wants his church so holy that no stranger to ,god will pass through her1 much less dwell and carry on business in her4444 ,let us now trace the heaven- and earth-shaking hosts of the ,almighty in the prophet ,isaiah4 ,cry out and shout1 thou inhabitant of ,zion3 for great is the ,holy ,one of ,israel in the midst of thee 7,isa4 #ab3f74 ,here is the power that does the shaking4 ,a church that has the great and ,holy ,one in her midst always produces a commotion in the world4444 ,but who are required to do these things8 ,thus saith the ,lord1 ,i have commanded my sanctified ones1 ,i have also called my mighty ones for mine anger1 even them that rejoice in my highness 7chap4 #ac3c74 ,the sanctified soul rejoices only in the exaltation and glory of ,god2 there is no principle left in the heart that seeks self-aggrandizement4 ,they even glory in being abased1 if ,god is thereby honored4 ,glory to his name6 ,now observe the effect of lifting high the banner of holiness3 ,the noise of a multitude in the mountains1 like as of a great people2 a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together3 the ,lord of ,hosts mustereth the host of the battle 7v4 #d74 ,a commotion soon follows the definite testimony and lifting up of holy hands in the sanctuary of the ,lord3 an army springs into existence2 ,god himself mustereth the host4 ,halleluiah6 ,howl ye2 for the day of the ,lord is at hand2 it shall come as a destruction from the ,almighty4 ,therefore shall all hands be faint1 and every man's heart shall melt4444 ,behold1 the day of the ,lord cometh1 cruel both with wrath and fierce anger1 to lay the land desolate3 and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it4 7vs4 #f1 #g1 #i74 ,this conflagration from the ,almighty sweeps1 with a besom of destruction1 all sinners from the land--out of the church4 ,if1 therefore1 the holiness movement lays waste some churches in its course1 it is simply because they are composed1 in general1 of sinners4 ,this fact also proves that it is the very crisis we are here tracing in the ,bible4 ,it does not destroy true ,christians nor spiritual churches2 but1 saith the ,lord1 ,i will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease1 and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible 7v4 #aa74444 ,,separation ,,of ,,the ,,wheat ,,and ,,chaff ,the great war for the extermination of sin out of the heart1 or sinners out of the church is destined to sweep over all the nations of the earth4 ,the isles saw it1 and feared2 the ends of the earth were afraid1 drew near1 and came 7,isa4 #da3e74 ,thus saith the ,lord3 ,fear not1 thou worm ,jacob1 and ye men of ,israel2 ,i will help thee1 saith the ,lord1 and thy redeemer1 the ,holy ,one of ,israel 7,isa4 #da3ad74 ,when sin and self are all destroyed there is barely enough left of ,jacob to constitute a small worm4 ,but by thus reducing her to naught1 ,god has prepared the church to exhibit his power in shaking the heavens and the earth and bringing to naught the things that are--the great things of the world4 ,behold1 ,i will make thee a new sharp threshing-instrument having teeth3 thou shall thresh the mountains1 and beat them small1 and shall make the hills as chaff4 ,thou shall fan them1 and the wind shall carry them away1 and the whirlwind shall scatter them3 and thou shalt rejoice in the ,lord1 and shalt glory in the ,holy ,one of ,israel 7,isa4 #da3ae1af74 ,the characteristic of ,god's church here portrayed is nearly lost sight of at present4 ,people think it is the business of the church to stand like a beggar at the door of the devil's kingdom and politely coax his subjects over2 saying much about the duty and advantage of belonging to church and little about their sin and the duty of repentance1 as though ,god were dependent1 and the devil proprietor of the universe4 ,satan1 having thus stolen the spikes out of the church--her power of execution--has distinguished himself in helping to run the empty machinery4 ,but he that sitteth in the heavens will arise and bring to naught ,satan's devices4 ,the time is soon coming1 by the prophets foretold1 ,when ,zion in purity the world shall behold2 ,when ,jesus' pure testimony will gain the day-- ,denomination selfishness vanish away4 ,already the ,lord has begun to make ,jacob new again2 a sharp instrument1 reset with the spikes of its primitive power1 the weapons of his indignation4 ,a church or ministry that is destitute of these teeth will hurt no flesh1 awake no persecution1 thresh out no wheat1 please the devil1 and give no glory to ,god4 ,but spikes are not the only essential to a first-class thresher4 ,anciently grain was threshed with flails or trodden out by cattle and horses4 ,then a great improvement was secured by the invention of what is called the old open machine4 ,but1 oh1 the heaps of chaff that piled up1 and filled the entire floor6 ,then came the dreadful task of cleaning up--of separating and removing the worthless heap4 ,such have been the crafty open machines that have for years imposed heaps of trash upon the ,lord's threshing-floor4 ,they have not taken forth the precious from the vile 7,jer #ae3ai74 ,her priests have violated my law1 and have profaned mine holy things3 they have put no difference between the holy and profane1 neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean 7,ezek4 #bb3bf74 ,ye have wearied the ,lord with your words 444 when ye say1 ,every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the ,lord1 and he delighteth in them 7,mal4 #b3ag74 ,is not this perfectly fulfilled at present by preachers who invite sinners into their folds without requiring a particle of saving grace1 and who even flatter them that they are already pretty good1 and need but to come and join the church8 ,and how many of their poor1 deluded victims remain in the church for years and never hear the gospel preached straight enough to convict them of their unregenerated hearts6 ,the policy of these teachers has been to gather of all kinds1 but the next thing in order--to separate and cast the bad away--has been wholly omitted4 ,but as the ,lord liveth1 he is going to clear away this ecclesiastical rubbish4 ,whose fan is in his hand1 and he will thoroughly purge his floor1 and gather his wheat into the garner2 but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire 7,matt4 #c3ab74 ,who would accept as a gift a few bushels of wheat scattered through a great heap of chaff and dirt8 ,and think you that ,god will accept the church in her present condition8 ,no1 indeed2 the gold must first be separated from the dross4 ,the bride must dissolve her unholy friendship with the world1 in which she is guilty of spiritual adultery in the sight of ,god 7,jas4 #d3d74 ,she must put away all her rival gods1 and adorn herself in robes of spotless white1 before prepared as a bride for her husband4 ,the ,bible most assuredly teaches that ,god will separate the chaff from the wheat before he comes to garner home his church4 ,to accomplish this he is converting ,jacob from an open machine to a separator4444 ,when the rushing mighty wind from heaven strikes the gathered heaps of stubble and chaff and begins to scatter them1 people think the church is being ruined2 but this fan is in the hand of the ,lord ,jesus1 and it will not carry a grain of wheat off his floor1 and why fret about that which is not meet for the ,master's use8 ,what is the chaff to the wheat8 saith the ,lord4 ,let the wind from heaven drive it1 and the fire consume it1 and thou even in this scatterment shalt rejoice in the ,lord1 and shalt glory in the ,holy ,one of ,israel4 ,in the prophet ,micah1 chapter #d1 and verses #a1 #b1 we have the mountain of the house of the ,lord 7the church7 established1 and the law going forth of ,zion1 and the word of the ,lord from ,jerusalem4 ,in the #ajth verse we have recorded the captivity1 or falling away of the church--,thou shalt go even to ,babylon4 ,and1 in order to restore her purity1 the ,lord commands the following severe measures in verse thirteen3 ,arise and thresh1 ,o daughter of ,zion3 for ,i will make thine horn iron1 and ,i will make thy hoofs brass3 and thou shalt beat in pieces many people3 and ,i will consecrate their gain unto the ,lord1 and their substance unto the ,lord of the whole earth4 ,threshing and separating1 purging and consuming is the order of ,god1 in the day of the ,refiner4 ,many think we must so temper the gospel as to preserve peace in the church1 notwithstanding her sin and idols4 ,but1 ,suppose ye that ,i am come to give peace on earth peace with sin8 ,i tell you1 ,nay2 but rather division4 ,so answers the ,lord4 ,his fan is in his hand1 and he would rather blow the church to atoms and secure a little clean wheat by itself than see it prosper in peace and multitudes and under mortgage to ,satan1 and bearing his brand mark1 i4 e41 spots of sin4 ,for this purpose1 says ,jesus1 ,i am come to send fire on the earth2 and what will ,i1 if it be already kindled8 ,but ,i have a baptism to be baptized with2 and how am ,i straightened till it be accomplished6 7,luke #ab3di1ej74 ,jesus intimates that the work of refining the church with the ,holy ,ghost fire could not begin until he himself had passed through the ordeal of suffering and death4 ,for1 behold1 the ,lord will come with fire1 and with his chariots like a whirlwind1 to render his anger with fury1 and his rebuke with flames of fire4 ,for by fire and by his sword will the ,lord plead with all flesh3 and the slain of the ,lord shall be many 7,isa4 #ff3ae1af74 ,here is the fire1 sword1 and division that ,christ came to send on earth4 ,its shaking and purifying power was first manifest on the day of ,pentecost4 ,this light makes ,israel see her condition and cry out1 ,my leanness1 my leanness1 woe unto me6 ,wherefore glorify ye the ,lord in the fires1 even the name of the ,lord ,god of ,israel in the isles of the sea4 ,when thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people1 there shall be as a shaking of an olive-tree1 and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done 7,isa4 #bd3ae1ac74 ,and it shall come to pass1 that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit 7v4 #ah74 ,there is no escape from the sweeping fire of holiness but into the pit of sin2 and all that can not abide his coming are like chaff1 which the wind driveth away4 ,but nowhere in the ,bible is the line more clearly drawn between the wheat and the chaff1 the gold and the dross1 than in our key-note text to this entire subject4 ,what shall remain after the once more shaking8 ,nothing but the divine elements of the kingdom1 which can not be moved1 and which ,paul represents as righteousness1 and peace1 and joy in the ,holy ,ghost 7,rom4 #ad3ag74 ,these only remain in the heart that has passed through the crisis4 ,halleluiah6 ,but what is thereby removed8 ,answer3 ,all things that are shaken and that are made4 ,by the first class we understand everything that flinches and shakes before the searching light and sin-exterminating gospel of ,christ2 every vein of our nature1 every motion flesh and spirit1 every temper of the mind and habit in life that does not perfectly harmonize with the righteousness of ,god revealed in the ,bible1 will naturally shake beneath the voice of the ,holy ,one1 and must1 therefore1 be removed4 ,the second class--all things that are made--denotes every thing that is not original3 every phase of our moral being that is not implanted by the hand of ,god4 ,or1 in other words1 everything adhering to us that was produced by ,satan1 sin1 or the perversion of our moral being4 ,as the ,lord says1 ,every plant that my ,father has not planted1 shall be rooted up4 ,this includes inbred sin4 ,we have all along assumed the existence of this besetting foe4 ,yet we are aware that a very few deny the fact4 ,but we think ,david settles this matter in the #east ,psalm1 where he declares that1 as fallen creatures1 our very being is conceived and shapen in the mold of sin and iniquity4 ,paul also avers that we are by nature the children of wrath 7,eph4 #b3c72 and that we are cut out of the olive-tree ,adamic root which is wild by nature 7,rom4 #aa3bd74 ,but why multiply texts8 ,observation must necessarily teach everybody that children are possessed with a perverse nature long before the knowledge of right and wrong is developed4 ,justified ,christians almost uniformly confess this same inward trouble4 ,the remaining question is1 ,can we get rid of it in this life8 ,to decide this1 we have but to ascertain whether it is original1 or the result of the fall4 ,that it formed no part of the likeness of ,god in the soul1 is very certain4 ,it is therefore the works of the devil1 and just what ,christ came to destroy4 ,it shakes1 flashes out and roils up when pierced by the sword of the ,lord1 and must1 therefore1 be removed from the soul4 ,but the words of ,paul apply to the church1 as well as to the individual4 ,it is designed to assay and remove the dross of the whole body of ,christ4 ,before the great holiness reform had shed its benign influence upon the ,christian world1 and to some extent raised the church out of the narrow rut of churchism into a deeper and broader loyalty to ,god and unselfish love for humanity1 the idea of getting saved from your church would have been regarded as blasphemy4 ,but1 thanks to the ,lord6 a purer light and higher standard of truth now compel the trumpeters of ,god all along the line of holiness to insist on salvation from all our churches4 ,but it may be asked1 ,what is it that we must be saved from in our churches8 ,surely there must be some way to discriminate between that which is pernicious and that which is of ,god4 ,now1 ,i know of no corner from which to run off this line but the one that ,paul points out3 ,other foundation can no man lay than that is laid1 and1 ,this word1 ,yet once more1 signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken1 as of things that are made4 ,god has founded one body--one church1 fold1 or kingdom4 ,in it he has placed every element that is essential to its work1 its prosperity1 and its perpetuity4 ,his wisdom has adapted it to all ages of time and conditions of men4 ,its faith was delivered to the saints once for all4 ,its principles and precepts are the last testament1 the final and immutable will of the eternal ,god4 ,this divine organization is invested with such absolute symmetry and perfection that to attempt the slightest modification of its divine unity or polity is wicked presumption in the sight of its divine ,founder1 and incurs the curses and forfeits all the blessings of ,god's ,holy ,book4 ,now1 since the work of entire sanctification is designed to elevate the church to her normal and perfect condition in the sight of ,god1 it must shake out and purge away every existing element that was not originally implanted by the hand of the ,lord4 ,this test1 ,i think1 is one in which all true ,christians agree4 ,indeed1 if we were to untie from this moorage we should soon be driven to sea without compass or chart2 we should virtually open the door for every tradition of ,rome and invention of error4 ,starting1 then1 from this corner-stone of divine truth1 established at ,jerusalem nearly nineteen hundred years ago1 and with the ,bible as our compass and field notes1 let us run off a line4 #a4 ,between the true and false spirits in the church--let us try the spirits whether they are of ,god4 ,now if any man have not the ,spirit of ,christ1 he is none of his4 ,but the party spirit1 so prevalent in the churches1 is not of ,christ1 hence must be removed1 purged out of the heart4 ,a zeal that springs from anything but pure1 unmixed love for ,god and humanity1 a spirit that would even promote holiness1 or the conversion of sinners1 partly to build up our church1 is badly mixed1 is soon shaken and can not survive the ,refiner's fire4 ,it is only when the eye is single that the whole body is full of light--wholly sanctified4 ,a spirit which1 out of deference to its own creed1 wilfully disobeys the divine word1 is not of ,god1 and can not coexist with a pure heart4 ,all these secondary motives1 these mixed and unclean spirits1 shake at the voice of the mighty ,god1 and are removed in the thorough work of entire sanctification4 #b4 ,the next thing ,i am compelled in the fear of ,god to speak of1 as included in the catalog of the devil's shaky works1 the foul smut and chaff of error1 is the evil of sectarianism4 ,this is the most destructive bane that ,god has ever suffered the devil to sow in his kingdom4 ,it is the very mildew of hell1 that spreads its blasting curse over nearly all the precious fruit of the ,lord's vineyard4 ,here the words of ,paul are an all-sweeping besom4 ,oft the enlightened ,christian's conscience inquires whether it is right for the church to be divided thus into a plurality of sects or denominations1 with their respective human creeds and party names4 ,in the light of truth we are compelled to answer1 ,no4 ,and for the simple reason that these parties are not of divine origin4 ,christ is the source of all true union among his disciples1 and all divisions between them and the world2 while the devil is the instigation of divisions in the church1 and of all union between it and the world4 ,i quote the following from an editorial in the ,christian ,harvester4 #a4 ,god has a church on earth4 ,it is one and indivisible4 ,it is made up of all and singular who are born of the ,spirit4 #b4 ,individual 7local7 churches1 or congregations1 are as ,scriptural as they are necessary4 #c4 ,there is not one word in the ,bible favorable to denominations or sects4 ,the only sect among ,christians that is spoken of in terms--the ,nicolaitan--is severely condemned4 ,there are indications of sectish belief1 against which ,john is supposed to labor in the first chapter of his ,gospel1 and ,paul withstood in the ,judaizing tendencies1 even in a brother apostle4 ,denominations are directly or indirectly the result of sin remaining in the great body of professors4 ,thorough and wide-spread holiness would soon destroy denominations4 #d4 ,but the evangelical denominations of today contain the mass of true ,christians1 with a multitude of mere professors4 ,because of differences sects can not yet be abolished2 and an effort at abolition would result in a new one4 ,therefore sects are a present necessity1 until holiness more generally prevails4 #e4 ,the possessor of perfect love of necessity overleaps denominations in spirit1 and so regards all the sanctified as perfectly his brethren4 ,we are personally acquainted with the editor of the ,harvester1 and believe him a holy man of ,god4 ,we admire the frankness with which he acknowledges that there is not one word in the ,bible favorable to denominations or sects1 and that denominations are directly or indirectly the result of sin remaining in the great body of professors4 ,such must be the honest verdict of every intelligent1 ,god-fearing man4 ,it is no pleasant thing1 we know1 to look upon and admit this monster evil1 this fell destroyer of the purity1 love1 and power of the ,lord's ,zion4 ,says ,wm4 ,starr1 ,my heart has groaned as1 pen in hand1 ,i have looked at this subject1 arranged my thoughts to present them to you4 ,but for the love of truth ,i am constrained to differ with the position that sects are a present necessity4 ,they originated from sin in the church2 and shall we admit that the fruit of sin is a necessity under any circumstances8 ,shall we do evil that good may come8 ,god forbid4 ,where the cause--sin in the church--is removed by full salvation1 should not its effects also disappear8 ,but it is thought that because of differences sects can not yet be abolished4 ,we might say1 with equal propriety1 because of sects differences can not be removed4 ,they coexist and mutually support each other4 ,these divergent views1 and party shibboleths1 may have had their root in carnality1 but they are stereotyped and perpetuated by sectarian parties and their man-made creeds4 ,therefore we have no more right to palliate the sin of sects because of differences1 than to excuse the latter because of the former4 ,one of the great evils of sectarian divisions is1 they prevent the return of the church to the faith once delivered to the saints2 and shall we let the baneful tree stand until it ceases to bear its legitimate fruit8 ,again1 it is thought that sects are a necessity until holiness more generally prevails4 ,thorough and wide-spread holiness would soon destroy denominations4 ,sects and holiness are antagonistic to each other4 ,this truth is clearly implied in the above remarks4 ,the fire of true holiness burns up all the fences that ,satan has placed between the saints4 ,and shall we defeat this its real mission1 by not lifting up the sword of the ,lord against sects1 and attempt to abolish the evil1 until holiness prevails more extensively8 ,that is the same as saying that we should make no attack on unholiness until holiness gains a certain degree of ascendancy4 ,yea1 it provides that we should give place to the devil in the church to destroy holiness1 until the church becomes more holy4 ,these are no trifling words4 ,it is a solemn fact that adherence in different denominations is the devil's wedge1 whereby the unity of the ,spirit1 so perfectly procured in the grace of prefect love1 is again destroyed4 ,party names1 party creeds1 and party spirits almost of necessity go together2 and the natural return of this spirit1 because of membership in a fragmentary church1 takes more souls off of ,god's altar than do everything else together4 ,let sects alone until holiness prevails6 ,what a device of the enemy6 ,how can we expect to bring forth permanent fruits into holiness1 if we allow the plowshare of ,god's truth to slip over this fallow ground of sin8 ,sects are the devil's high places in the land1 the groves of his own planting1 and gods that he has set up to corrupt ,israel1 and provoke ,god4 ,how many of the kings ,jehovah complains of because they did not1 like ,josiah1 purge ,judah and ,jerusalem from the high places and the groves 7#b ,chron4 #cd3c76 ,beware that we partake not of their sins4 ,of ,azariah it is said that he did that which was right in the sight of the ,lord 444 save that the high places were not removed4444 ,and the ,lord smote the king ,azariah so that he was a leper unto the day of his death 7#b ,kings #ae3c-e74 ,says ,w4 ,h4 ,starr 7a conscientious ,presbyterian minister7 after quoting #a ,cor4 #a3aj-ac in his ,discourses on ,sectarianism3 ,it would seem as if no man could read these words of the great apostle without vividly seeing that party divisions among the people of ,christ were1 in his view1 a most astounding evil4 ',is ,christ divided1' he says1 that ye who are all his1 and who have been 'baptized by one ,spirit' should be sundered one from the other by party names8 ,and he adjures them in the most solemn manner1 he beseeches them by an appeal the most sacred that words could utter1 even by the name of ,christ1 as it were for his sake1 and for his bleeding cause1 to forsake these pernicious ways1 and to be perfectly joined together in the same mind4 ,hear what this author thinks of promoting holiness over these high places1 or sect walls4 ,the divisions of the ,christian church1 as they now exist1 are a prominent cause of the low state of piety among believers2 the greatest single obstacle which now exists to the spread and triumph of our religion in the world4 ,the moment you separate the church of ,christ into distinct divisions1 you set up the idol of party4 ,success or adversity will no longer affect the mind simply as they touch the cause of ,christ1 but they will be felt1 also1 as affecting 'our side' or 'our church4' ,it is not ,christ and his cause to which their whole thoughts and desires are now turned2 the idol of party has now been set up1 and it claims1 and receives1 part of their regard4 ,the man1 ,i think1 is almost more than human that can wholly avoid this influence1 at least after he has been long identified with any branch of the church4 ,it is an influence which is all the time at work4 ,the idol has been set up to divide the heart from the blessed ,savior and his holy service2 and its influence is as ceaseless as the existence of the cause4 ,and this party feeling is1 as we have seen1 the essence of all sin1 so that sinful desire is blended continually in the heart with its love to ,christ1 and pollutes the worship which it offers him4 ,this is an honest and faithful description of this monster evil4 ,the party feeling is very sin4 ,yea1 says this ,god-fearing man1 ,it casts a millstone round the neck of those who are struggling upwards to the image of their ,redeemer4 ,it mingles poison with the streams of salvation that flow to the soul through the church1 and casts a blight upon its budding fruit4 ,again1 ,sectarianism is the greatest foe to the exhibition of love which ,god has ever suffered ,satan to beget4 ,it hinders brotherly love among ,christians1 and regard for the souls of men4 ,it is vain for brethren in ,christ to talk about the duty of loving one another1 and to try to feel love for one another1 while they refuse to act as love dictates by separating into parties4 ,their actions will control their hearts1 as men's acts always do in the end4 ,the fences which they set up between them in fact will become fences in feeling4 ,and that is now even so1 every ,christian knows4444 ,the divisions of ,christ's people beget and stimulate continually that opposite spirit of rivalry and contention1 which is the spirit of the world4444 ,yes1 ,i charge all this mischief1 the existence of which you all know1 upon the sectarian divisions of the people of ,christ2 and let him deny it who can4 ,it is in fact their legitimate fruit4 ,the division of the church into parties not only destroys the power and holiness thereof1 but is the greatest impediment to the conversion of the world to ,god4 ,again we will hear ,brother ,starr1 and the blessed ,redeemer himself4 ,would that the church of ,christ might pause long enough from its sectarian strife to hear the voice of its ,redeemer and ,lord pleading with ,god in prayer on that sorrowful night ere the traitor came--',holy ,father1 keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me1 that they may be one1 as we are4444 ,neither pray ,i for these alone1 but for them also which shall believe on me through their word2 that they all may be one2 as thou1 ,father1 art in me1 and ,i in thee1 that they also may be one in us2 that the world may believe that thou hast sent me4' ,the prayers of ,christ were not offered for a light matter1 least of all that memorable petition which the pen of inspiration has recorded for the church in all ages to wonder and weep over1 the prayer of its dying ,lord4 ,the desirableness of that visible union of his people for which ,christ prayed as the means of impressing his truth on the world1 and the evils of those divisions against which the apostle so earnestly exhorts1 need to be better understood by the church4444 ,may ,god grant you a disposition to look the evil fairly in the face4 ,oh1 the thousands of souls that are being lost to all eternity through the selfish1 wicked1 and carnal spirit of our churchism6 ,god is dishonored1 yea1 robbed of the purchase of his ,son's death1 and infidelity stalks abroad2 the result of a divided house4 ,it is said that the possessor of perfect love of necessity overleaps denominations in spirit4 ,does not this love prove that they are in the way of the ,spirit of ,christ8 ,and shall we compel the ,lord to drag his children together over these cursed walls1 only to have walls rise up again1 and grieve away the ,holy ,spirit8 ,if it be true that thorough holiness destroys denominations1 then it follows that where they yet exist this genuine degree of holiness has not been attained by the people4 ,but ,i have not quoted correctly3 it is thorough and wide-spread holiness4 ,ah6 here is the sticking-point--a condition put in by the enemy of souls4 ,it implies the following3 ,though entire sanctification removes all sectarianism out of my heart1 ,i will still adhere to my sect until people generally abandon their schismatic parties and creeds4 ,the devil is perfectly easy over these principles4 ,now1 if this evil is to be done away by popular sentiment1 then it is not through holiness2 but if by the latter it does not depend upon any foreign influence4 ,the condition of the church in one ,state does not rob the ,word and ,spirit of ,god of their virtue in another4 ,the power of holiness to destroy denominations in one community does not depend in the least upon another4 ,judah can burn down his groves and destroy his idols1 whether ,samaria and ,ephraim do it or not4 ,therefore1 we repeat1 where the professed followers of ,christ are divided into a plurality of sects1 they have not yet become thoroughly sanctified to ,god4 ,can it be said of professors of holiness that they have one heart and one mind1 while some have a mind to be ,presbyterian1 others ,baptists1 others ,united ,brethren1 and others have a mind to adhere to the several different sects of ,methodism8 ,have they one heart and one way when they rise from the solemn altar in the holiness meeting and go1 each one in his own way1 to the synagog of his own sect8 ,now1 ,i must confess that ,i can not see the necessity of this1 unless it be to please the devil1 break the unity of the ,spirit and grieve away the heavenly ,dove1 bring to naught the divided house of the ,lord1 and destroy the work of holiness as fast as it can be built up2 to this end alone it is necessary4 ,but let us come still closer home4 ,i would lay the responsibility of this enormous evil just where ,god places it and all other sin4 ,we shall not be judged by sects1 ,states1 nor even by neighborhoods and towns1 but every one of us shall give account of himself to ,god4 ,a revival of holiness in a community is the result of personal consecration and faith2 and its relapse will be in proportion to the number of individuals that remove the sacrifice from the sanctifying altar4 ,there is no such thing as thorough holiness1 except as wrought by the ,sanctifier in individual hearts2 and if1 as has been said1 and as ,i verily believe1 thorough and widespread holiness destroys denominations--burns up sectarian distinctions--it must do it in your heart as an individual4 ,and if this work is done1 the fruits must exhibit the fact2 you will be 'saved by the precious blood of ,christ from all vain conversation1 received by tradition from your fathers'2 such as ,your church1 ,our church1 ,our preacher opened the doors of the church1 ,what branch of the church do you belong to8 ,you ought to join some branch1 and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine--that grew out of a perversion of the right ways of the ,lord and the gospel of ,christ 7,acts #ac3aj2 ,gal4 #a3g74 ,if the bitter root of sectism is entirely destroyed out of your heart1 you will ignore all sectional lines and party fences1 the dreadful curse of which ,brother ,starr has so honestly pointed out4 ,if you are a true1 intelligent ,bible ,christian1 a holy1 ,god-fearing man1 you must cast off every human yoke1 withdraw fellowship from and renounce every schismatic and humanly constituted party in the professed body of ,christ4 ,instead of belonging to some branch you will simply belong to ,christ and be a branch yourself in him1 the true vine4 ,instead of remaining identified with any sect1 i4 e41 cut-off party1 directly or indirectly the result of sin1 you will claim membership in and fellowship with the one and indivisible church that ,god has on earth1 and that is made up of all and singular who are born of the ,spirit4 ,on this broad and divinely-established platform1 and here only1 can you stand clear of the sin of sectarianism and the blood of immortal souls that perish through its pernicious influence4 ,are you strictly loyal to ,god while you persist in adhering to a sect1 notwithstanding he says there should be no schism sects in the body 7#a ,cor4 #ab3be78 ,i am not advocating the no-church theory that we hear of in the ,west1 but the one1 holy church of the ,bible1 not bound together by rigid articles of faith1 but perfectly united in love under the primitive glory of the ,sanctifier1 continuing stedfastly in the apostle's doctrine and fellowship1 and taking captive the world for ,jesus4 ,but it is thought that we should not fight against sects nor attempt to abolish the evil at present1 lest we thereby form another sect4 ,this is virtually saying we should go on sinning1 lest a worse thing come upon us6 ,an attempt to rally ,israel under any of the many party names and creeds might indeed result in a new sect4 ,but this is not what we contend for4 ,nay1 but let us rather burn to ashes these high places of ,israel's corruption1 and1 returning to ,jerusalem1 let us build upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets1 ,jesus ,christ himself being the chief corner-stone4 ,let us abandon the nonsense of ecclesiastical succession2 cease to inflate our pride and vanity by parading the good and long-since departed1 who innocently wore our party badges--the piety of our fathers will not atone for the worldliness of the church at present4 ,let us also quit flourishing our church creeds as though their excellency were an essential supplement to the wisdom of inspiration4 ,let us1 we pray you1 in the name of ,jesus ,christ1 for the sake of our holy and divine religion and a world that is lost in sin--oh1 let us put away these childish things1 and return to ,jerusalem1 not to form a new sect1 but as the 'servants of the ,god of heaven and earth let us build the house that was builded these many years ago1 which a great ,king of ,israel ,jesus ,christ builded and set up' 7see ,ezra #e3aa74 ,many say we need more union of hearts1 but think a visible organic union unnecessary2 but remember that it was a visible union that ,jesus prayed for1 such as the world could see and be thereby convinced and saved4 ,we quote once more from ,w4 ,h4 ,starr4 ,they will say to me3 ,can not we have union of feeling without external union that is1 with external disunion8 ,i answer ,no1 you can not1 except in rare instances1 and in an imperfect degree4 ,it is vain to be beating off the leaves of the tree while you continually nourish its roots4 ,and sectarianism is the root of bitterness1 whose acrid and legitimate fruit of divided hearts1 and jealousy1 and strife1 doth continually grieve away the ,spirit of our ,god and ,savior1 and leave our churches in a comparative poverty of grace and growth that methinks must make the very heavens groan with sorrow as they look down upon our dying world4 ,up1 up6 my brother1 my sister in ,christ1 inquire of the ,lord concerning this thing6 ,why slumber ye here while ,satan has entered the fold of ,christ1 a wolf in sheep's clothing1 and is rending the flock8 ,oh1 cry to ,god that he will direct you and all the children of his grace1 till the church of his holy ,son shall be purified and saved4 ,alas6 it is now 'a house divided against itself4' ,oh1 pray that the ,lord would unite and build it up in the truth2 and that he would show you your duty in the matter4 ,the wants of the world require a holy and united ,church4 ,from what has been said1 and the uniform teaching of the ,bible1 the following facts are very evident3 #a4 ,the division of the church into sects is one of ,satan's most effectual1 if not the very greatest1 means of destroying human souls4 #b4 ,its enormous sin must be answered for by individual adherents to1 and supporters of1 sects4 #c4 ,the only remedy for this dreadful plague is thorough sanctification1 and this is wrought only by a personal1 individual contact with the blood of ,christ through faith4 #d4 ,the union required by the ,word of ,god is both a spiritual and visible union4 #e4 ,the divisions of the church are caused by elements that are foreign to it as a divinely constituted body1 by deposits of the enemy1 which exist in the hearts and practises of individual members1 involving their responsibility and requiring their personal purgation4 ,these facts make your duty plain4 ,what you and ,i want1 dear reader1 is thorough and wide-spread holiness in our individual souls to destroy denominationalism there4 ,holiness1 ever so thorough and wide-spread around you1 will not cleanse your heart2 neither can the sin of division in the hearts and lives of others attach to you1 unless you drink in their spirit and also become a partisan4 ,you need not waste time in planning general union movements1 or praying the ,lord to restore the unity of his church1 until you go down under the blood and have every bone of contention and cause of division purged out of your own heart2 then you may do something to influence others to do the same4 ,you are praying and longing for the happy time when ,god's children shall all be one1 but are you willing that the once more shaking shall have its designed effect in your own case8 ,do you1 indeed1 suffer the ,holy ,ghost fire to consume out of your own life1 heart1 religion1 and conversation1 all the shaky chaff and stubble the devil has made to divide the children of ,god8 ,do you1 indeed1 withdraw from and ignore all churches1 so called1 but the one ,christ purchased with his own blood and founded nearly nineteen hundred years ago1 and to which the ,lord added you by regeneration 7,acts #b3dg78 ,do you discard every church title but that which the mouth of the ,lord hath named 7,isa4 #fb3b71 even the name of the ,father1 in which ,christ and the apostles kept the church 7,john #ag3f1aa1ab2 ,acts4 #bj3bh2 #a ,cor4 #a3b2 #a ,tim4 #c3ae78 ,do you honor the divine head of the church by rejecting every creed but the one that is given by inspiration of ,god2 every door that is opened and shut by men2 and every spirit but the ,sanctifier2 and every motive but the love of ,god and humanity8 ,if you1 by the grace of ,god1 die to all these prime causes of sectism and their concomitant sins1 then1 and not until then1 will the ,lord have thoroughly purged so much of his threshing floor as you will have to answer for in the day of judgment4 ,where this is not accomplished1 the grace of ,god is frustrated2 holiness is not permitted to reach the ,bible standard of thoroughness1 nor spread its healing virtue to every part of the soul4 ,it may look foolish to many thus to blow the trumpet of the ,lord around the high and massy walls of sectarian glory and selfishness1 but the power of ,god with the faith and shouts of the holy people will surely bring them down4 ,though the heaps of sectarian chaff have reached the magnitude of mountains1 ,god has some wheat scattered through them1 and he will have it separated for his garner4 ,therefore he says to ,jacob1 ,fear not 444 thou shalt thresh the mountains1 and beat them small1 and thou shalt make the hills as chaff4 ,thou shalt fan them1 and the wind shall carry them away1 and the whirlwind shall scatter them4 ,the pure elements of ,god's church possess a wonderful inherent attraction and cohesion2 but the devil neutralizes the divine cement by mixing in his chaffy and sloughy trash1 thereby effecting divisions2 therefore1 the ,lord restores union by the removing of those things that are shaken1 as of things that are made by the enemy1 thus removing discord and schism4 ,glory to ,god6 ,little ,jacob has barely commenced threshing and separating4 ,soon we shall see clouds of chaff driven by the mighty rushing wind from heaven4 ,says ,bro4 ,i4 ,reed1 in his paper1 ,the ,highway3 ,the great holiness movement is shaking harder than ever4 ,it is to be a real moral earthquake yet4 ,we have nothing to fear in that direction4 ,we have allied ourselves to the ,power that does the shaking1 and feel a kind of holy joy at the falling walls1 reeling ,babels and ecclesiastical fortifications that can not stand the grand holiness shock4 ,in anticipation we enjoy the grand smash-up of things semi-religious--this half and half1 linsey-woolsey type of ',good ,god1 ,dear ,mammon1' kind of fashionable moral froth1 too often called 'religion'--that is coming some of these days4 ,it is coming4 ,we hear the tread of the mighty army4 ,amen4 ,let the conflict come4 ,god will have a pure church4 ,he will shake the chaffy works of the devil out of his kingdom1 though all hell be moved in rage2 though ,gog and ,magog surround the camp of the saints on the breadth of the whole earth4 ,dear reader1 ,i am aware that ,i have here written things that will be unwelcome to many1 truths that will assail and stir up many prejudices2 but in doing so ,i have determined to cast from me the fear of man1 and clear my conscience in the sight of ,god4 ,it is1 indeed1 my honest conviction that the great holiness reform can not go forward with the sweeping power and permanent triumph that ,god designs it should until the gospel be so preached and consecration become so thorough that the blood of ,christ may reach and wash away every vestige of denominational distinction1 and perfect into one--yea1 one indeed and in truth--all the sanctified4 ,i am aware that this will elicit storms of persecution1 but in the name of the ,lord it must come4 ,god will be glorified in the escape of his holy children from all human enclosures into the one and identical fold of ,jesus ,christ4 ,oh6 let us be honest before ,god in this matter4 ,music3 ,prophetic ,truth4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 7,,ezek4 #cd3ab-ad2 ,,isa4 #ea3aa47 ,b4 ,f4 ,,bear4 #a4 ',twas sung by the po-ets1 fore-seen in the ,spir-it1 ,a time of re- #b4 ,we stand in the glo-ry that ,je-sus has giv-en1 ,the moon1 as the #c4 ,now filled with the ,spir-it and clad in the ar-mor ,of light1 and om- #d4 ,the proph-et's keen vi-sion1 trans-pierc-ing the a-ges1 ,be-held us to #e4 ,the fig-tree is bud-ding1 the eve-ning is shin-ing1 ,we wel-come the fresh-ing is near2 ,when creeds and di-vi-sions would fall to de-mer-it1 day-spring doth shine2 ,the light of the sun is now e-qual to sev-en1 nip-o-tent truth2 ,we'll tes-ti-fy ev-er1 and ,je-sus we'll hon-or1 ,zi-on re-turn2 ,we'll sing of our free-dom1 tho' ,ba-by-lon ra-ges1 won-der-ful light6 ,we look for the ,sav-ior1 for time is de-clin-ing1 ,and saints in sweet un-ion ap-pear4 ,so bright is the glo-ry di-vine4 ,and stand from sin ,ba-bel a-loof4 ,we'll shout as her cit-y doth burn4 ,e-ter-ni-ty's loom-ing in sight6 ,,chorus4 ,oh1 glo-ry to ,je-sus6 we hail the bright day1 ,and high on our ban-ner sal-va-tion dis-play1 ,the mists of con-fu-sion are pass-ing a-way4 ,,xiii ,a ,,prophetic ,,time ,that many events of the world are foreshadowed in the prophecies of the ,bible is something which perhaps the average reader does not pause much to reflect upon4 ,he rather inclines to regard the prophecies as a difficult portion of the ,sacred ,writings1 and in consequence of their being passed by1 ignorance generally prevails concerning them4 ,there is nothing inconsistent in the idea that events in the world occur in accordance with prophetic utterance4 ,it does not necessarily give credence to the doctrine of fatalism--that everything which happens must happen4 ,the affairs in man's life are largely subject to his control4 ,he has a scope of freedom all his own4 ,he can make his own choices and govern his own career4 ,he may do an act or he may not do it4 ,an accident occurs which may have been avoided had more care been exercised4 ,nevertheless1 from this free volitionary scope which belongs to man we may not exclude ,god's design2 for he does exercise a controlling hand in the affairs of man4 ,it may be said1 however1 of the greater things that occur in the world1 the trend of public thought1 the drift of conditions1 the great political upheavals1 things which are rather beyond man's individual control1 and which involve mankind as a body and their destiny as a race--these more particularly belong to ,god and are made the subject of prophetic forecast4 ,god did not create the world and then abandon its processes4 ,he created all things according to design1 and we may be assured that he has design in the progress of things as well as in their first creation4 ,nor will the grand play of the world's events reach its conclusion without the decree of him whose prerogative it is to say1 ,it is enough2 time shall no longer be4 ,christ's coming into the world was freely prophesied hundreds of years in advance of that event4 ,this is so plain that no student of the ,bible1 unless he means purposely to be infidelic1 will dispute the fact4 ,likewise1 the fulfilment of prophecies that went before concerning the ,jews and their city ,jerusalem is much in evidence4 ,the events of the world naturally group themselves into periods1 or epochs4 ,they are like panoramic scenes that unfold in the theater of the universe4 ,thus we have the two dispensations separated by the incarnation of ,christ1 the grandest event in all history4 ,and thus we have1 as divisions of the latter dispensation1 the event of paganism giving place to the papacy and ushering in a dark day of apostasy1 known in history as the ,dark ,ages2 and the ,renaissance and the ,reformation of the sixteenth century1 ushering in a period of ,protestantism1 which is also an age of letters and invention4 ,in the interests of his church and the progress of his truth ,god has shown in advance in prophetic vision the periods and epochal events covering not only the ,christian dispensation1 but also a considerable time previous to it4 ,these are for the ,bible-student1 the minister of ,god1 and for all ,christians1 to know and understand4 ,there is a prophecy in the #gth chapter of ,daniel fore-shadowing the four successive world empires--the ,babylonian1 ,medo ,persian1 ,grecian1 and ,roman--and the papal power1 that grew out of the ,roman4 ,the book of ,revelation is but a series of panoramic displays of the events of the entire ,christian dispensation and the end of the world4 ,and so we may expect that1 inasmuch as the prophecies served primarily the interests of the church1 or the ,new ,testament kingdom1 any marked advance for the church1 such as the deliverance of the saints from spiritual ,babylon1 should have its foregleam in the utterance of the seer4 ,in our preceding chapter1 ,brother ,warner has already given quotations from the prophets relating to bringing out a pure church through the preaching of holiness4 ,we wish to show by several other lines of prophecy that this state of the church1 as being free from the bondage of human ecclesiasticism and enjoying her primitive glory1 marks a distinct prophetic time or period in this evening of the dispensation4 ,referring again to the #gth chapter of ,daniel1 where four successive world kingdoms are represented by the four beasts1 we note that special attention is given to the description of the fourth beast1 which is the ,roman power in its pagan phase4 ,it was a beast dreadful and terrible1 and strong exceedingly2 and it had great iron teeth3 it devoured and brake in pieces1 and stamped the residue with the feet of it3 and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it2 and it had ten horns4 ,i considered the horns1 and1 behold1 there came up among them another little horn1 before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots3 and1 behold1 in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man1 and a mouth speaking great things 7vs4 #g1 #h74 ,daniel wished to know the truth respecting the little horn that had eyes like the eyes of a man1 and a mouth speaking great things4 ,he beheld that the same horn made war with the saints1 and prevailed against them2 until the ,ancient of days came1 and judgment was given to the saints of the ,most ,high2 and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom 7vs4 #ba1 #bb74 ,now this horn that came up from among the other ten horns was nothing other than the elements of ,roman ,catholicism1 developing into popery4 ,it was the man of sin1 the product of the substitution of man rule for the ,holy ,spirit rule1 the date for which change historians have fixed at about the year #bgj ,a4 ,d4 ,this horn was to speak great words against the ,most ,high1 and to wear out the saints of the ,most ,high1 and think to change times and laws3 and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time4 ,but the judgment shall sit1 and they shall take away his dominion1 to consume and to destroy it unto the end4 ,and the kingdom and dominion1 and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven1 shall be given to the people of the saints of the ,most ,high1 whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom1 and all dominions shall serve and obey him 7vs4 #be-bg74 ,the time and times and the dividing of time1 marking the period during which the elements of the papacy should have full sway and should wear out the saints of the ,most ,high1 etc41 are interpreted as three and one half years2 a time in prophetic reckoning being one year1 times two years1 and the dividing of time one half year4 ,three and one half years would be forty-two months1 or1 if reduced to days according to the ,jewish reckoning of thirty days to the month1 twelve hundred and sixty days4 ,taking each day for a year1 which is proper prophetic counting1 we have twelve hundred and sixty years1 and this added to the year #bgj brings us to the year #aecj1 the date of the beginning of organized ,protestantism1 and the end of the universal sway of the papacy4 ,following this1 the judgment shall sit1 and they shall take away his dominion1 to consume and to destroy it unto the end 7v4 #bf74 ,since her universal spiritual supremacy ended1 the judgment against ,roman ,catholicism has gradually proceeded and her political power has waned4 ,and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom 7v4 #bb74 ,the saints' possessing the kingdom is the culminating point in this line of prophecy1 and means nothing other than the victory over human ecclesiasticism which the saints now possess4 ,in the #aath chapter of ,revelation we have the wearing out of the saints expressed as treading under foot the holy city1 and the time-period of a time and times and the dividing of time expressed as forty-two months 7v4 #b74 ,in v4 #c the same time-period is expressed as twelve hundred and sixty days4 ,during this time the two witnesses--the ,word and the ,spirit--prophesy in sackcloth1 which represents the low estate to which they were relegated during the dark age of popery4 ,it will be remembered that the twelve hundred and sixty days 7years7 end with the year #aecj4 ,following this comes three days and a half 7three centuries and a half7 of ,protestantism during which the two witnesses 7,word and ,spirit7 are1 in the governmental sense1 operatively dead1 the organized systems of man rule having usurped the place of divine government and authority which these witnesses originally held4 ,at the end of the three days and a half1 three hundred and fifty years 7which1 added to #aecj1 brings us to the year #ahhj7 the ,spirit of life from ,god entered into them1 and they stood upon their feet 7v4 #aa74 ,they ascended to their place in the ecclesiastical heaven1 to the true church1 and were thus victorious4 ,this brings us to the present reformation4 ,this is soon followed by the sounding of the seventh angel1 which represents the end of time when the 'kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our ,lord and his ,christ2 and he shall reign forever and ever' 7v4 #ae74 ,the curtain drops4 ,another scene is presented in the #acth chapter1 where the rise of the papacy1 or ,roman ,catholic power1 is represented by a leopard beast having the same mouth speaking great things that appeared in the little horn of ,daniel seven4 ,and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months 7v4 #e71 which is the same time-period1 again1 of twelve hundred and sixty years4 ,following this the period of ,protestantism is represented by a beast coming up out of the earth2 and he had two horns like a lamb1 and he spake as a dragon 7v4 #aa74 ,the length of the time-period of this second beast is here omitted1 but the sphere of its activity is succeeded 7in chap4 #ad7 by a victorious church1 the fall of ,babylon1 and the present reformation work in which the everlasting gospel1 the gospel that really saves1 is once more preached unto them that dwell on the earth4 ,in connection with this also is the judgment which ,daniel says is given to the saints of the ,most ,high2 that is1 the judgment against the false religions of spiritual ,babylon4 ,in the #ahth chapter1 in connection with ,babylon's fall1 we have ,god's people called out of her4 ,and ,i heard another voice from heaven1 saying1 ,come out of her1 my people1 that ye be not partakers of her sins1 and that ye receive not of her plagues4 ,for her sins have reached unto heaven1 and ,god hath remembered her iniquities4 ,reward her even as she rewarded you1 and double unto her double according to her works3 in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double 7vs4 #d-f74 ,thus the time is come that 'judgment is given to the saints' and the 'saints possess the kingdom4' ,spiritual ,babylon represents ,rome first1 and ,protestantism second4 ,in the ,critical ,commentary by ,jamieson1 ,fausset1 and ,brown1 in the comments on ,rev4 #ah3d1 we have the following quoted from ,hahn in ,auberlen3 ,the harlot is not ,rome alone 7though she is preeminently so71 but every ,church that has not ,christ's mind and spirit4 ,false ,christendom1 divided into very many sects1 is truly ,babylon1 i4 e41 confusion4 ,the literal ,babylon was an ancient city situated on the ,euphrates ,river4 ,in it ,god's people ,israel were held captive for seventy years1 or until liberated by the ,persian king ,cyrus4 ,this is used as a figure of the captivity of ,god's spiritual ,israel in spiritual ,babylon4 ,the word ,babylon means confusion1 and it is fittingly applied to the confused religion as represented by the whole picture of ,roman ,catholicism and the ,protestant sects4 ,in the #cdth chapter of ,ezekiel the gathering of ,god's people and their deliverance from false relations is represented by a shepherd seeking out his flock and delivering them4 ,as a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered2 so will ,i seek out my sheep1 and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day4 ,and ,i will bring them out from the people1 and gather them from the countries1 and will bring them to their own land1 and feed them upon the mountains of ,israel by the rivers1 and in all the inhabited places of the country4 ,i will feed them in a good pasture1 and upon the high mountains of ,israel shall their fold be3 there shall they lie in a good fold1 and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of ,israel 7vs4 #ab-ad74 ,the cloudy and dark day of ,protestantism1 when the light of truth shines1 not in its entire brightness1 nor yet as entirely obscured1 is also referred to in the #adth chapter of ,zechariah4 ,and it shall come to pass in that day1 that the light shall not be clear1 nor dark3 but it shall be one day which shall be known to the ,lord1 not day1 nor night3 but it shall come to pass1 that at evening time it shall be light 7vs4 #f1 #g74 ,thank ,god1 the day of mingled light is past1 and we are in the full light of the evening1 when the whole truth is once more preached in its fullness1 without hypocrisy and without reserve4 ,thus we see that the present movement among ,god's people toward holiness and unity1 out of denominationalism1 is prophetically represented as a new epoch for the church4 ,music3 ,louder1 ,louder4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 ,,allie ,r4 ,,fisher4 #a4 ,on-ward moves the great ,e-ter-nal ,in the or-der of his plan2 #b4 ,since by sin this earth was blighted1 ,god has whis-pered of his love1 #c4 ,loud-er speaks his love in ,je-sus1 ,heav-en sweet-ly chants his fame2 #d4 ,yet the world is wrapped in slumber1 ,loud-er raise the trumpet's blast2 #e4 ,in the cag-es of de-cep-tion ,souls are pin-ing to be free2 ,loud-er1 near-er rolls the thun-der ,of his aw-ful word to man4 ,dreams and vi-sions by his proph-ets ,breathed of mer-cy from a-bove4 ,earth re-ceives its glo-rious ,sav-ior1 ,hal-le-lu-jah to his name6 ,oh1 in mer-cy let it thun-der1 ,ere the day of mer-cy's past4 ,quick-ly sound the proc-la-ma-tion ,of the glo-rious ju-bi-lee4 ,,chorus4 ,loud-er1 loud-er1 hal-le-lu-jah6 ,see the glo-rious foun-tain flow2 ,from the midst of heav'n pro-claim it1 ,oh1 it makes me white as snow4 ,,xiv ,,the ,,gospel ,,trumpet ,after the ,board of ,publication of the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership had passed the resolution in ,november1 #ahhj1 that they were willing to consolidate the ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom with any other paper that advocated the same gospel principles1 a consolidation was effected with a small paper called ,the ,pilgrim1 published in ,indianapolis1 by ,g4 ,haines4 ,the ,pilgrim was a monthly and had been issued but about eight times4 ,the ,herald equipment1 it should be remarked1 had been donated to ,brothers ,warner and ,haines by the ,churches of ,god in ,indiana for the new paper4#i ,the decision to effect this consolidation was made in a joint meeting of the ,board of ,publication and the ,standing ,committee held in ,yellow ,lake ,bethel1 ,kosciusko ,county1 ,ind41 ,dec4 #bc1 #ahhj4 ,in an old memorandum tablet of ,brother ,warner's is recorded what is apparently a report of this meeting1 in his own handwriting4 ,one paragraph1 which reads as follows1 is of special interest3 ,on motion it was agreed to consolidate the ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom with the ,pilgrim1 at ,indianapolis1 ,ind41 and call the new the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,though he modestly does not say so1 it was ,brother ,warner himself who suggested the name ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,he felt impressed that the new paper should be called by that name1 the idea being associated with such scriptures as the following3 ,the great trumpet shall be blown1 and they shall come 444 and shall worship the ,lord in the holy mount 7from ,isa4 #bg3ac74 ,the ,lord ,god shall blow the trumpet1 and shall go with whirlwinds 7from ,zech4 #i3ad74 ,a scripture containing the word trumpet always appeared in the heading of the paper4 ,after a few years the heading contained the design of a flying angel blowing a trumpet from which was suspended a scroll containing this inscription1 taken from ,zech4 #e3b-d3 ,he said unto me4 ,what seest thou8 ,and ,i answered1 ,i see a flying roll4444 ,then said he unto me4444 ,every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it2 and everyone that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it4 ,i will bring it forth1 saith the ,lord of hosts4 ,at a later date the design was changed1 the angel was reversed1 and the following was substituted as an inscription on the scroll3 ,all ye inhabitants of the world1 and dwellers on the earth1 see ye1 when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains2 and when he bloweth a trumpet1 hear ye 7,isa4 #ah3c74 ,for many years the heading design contained one or more angels blowing the trumpet4 ,brother ,warner was a man wonderfully anointed of ,god for a special work4 ,since he had received the experience of sanctification1 in #ahgg1 the ,lord had been gradually revealing to him that the true and divinely intended state of the people of ,god was not that of being scattered in a multiplicity of sectarian divisions but of being perfectly one in ,christ1 not only in spirit1 but in name and in visible aspect4 ,he felt that the teaching of genuine holiness would1 in connection with the light of the prophecies bearing on the subject1 bring the church out into her pure1 undivided state4 ,for such a reformation he was indeed a chosen instrument of the ,lord4 ,it was ,god's truth he was preaching4 ,it led1 of course1 to a crisis in which he received much persecution and was deserted by many4 ,the ,trumpet1 he realized1 was a very effectual instrument ,god had placed in his hands for accomplishing the great reformation-work in this evening time of the ,christian era4 ,the time was ripe4 ,true saints of ,god in various places1 in whom was the ,spirit of the ,lord1 were desiring and anticipating a oneness for ,god's people1 and when the ,trumpet appeared it was just what they were wanting4 ,the fact that it was considered insignificant and ignored in popular religious circles proved its mission none the less divine4 ,god's work is frequently accomplished by insignificant instruments4 ,the ,trumpet shared ,brother ,warner's difficulties and deprivations4 ,the description of these in the spiritual phase will be reserved for the next chapter4 ,what we shall note here are some of the mere facts of its history4 ,illustration3 ,fascimile of a copy of the ,gospel ,trumpet dated ,mar4 #a1 #ahha1 the oldest in the ,company's files4 ,a paragraph from ,brother ,warner's notes4 ,the oldest copy of the ,gospel ,trumpet now in the files of the ,publishing ,office is of the issue of ,march #a1 #ahha4 ,the paper began with ,january #a of that year1 at ,rome ,city1 ,ind4 ,two issues were printed there1 then the equipment was moved to ,indianapolis4 ,the removal occasioned some delay1 so that there was no paper printed during the month of ,february4 ,the new location was over ,n4 #gj ,north ,illinois ,st4 ,the paper started as a semimonthly1 at a subscription price of seventy-five cents a year4 ,agents were allowed a commission of fifteen cents on each subscription in clubs of five or upwards4 ,its object was stated as being1 ,the glory of ,god in the salvation of men from all sin1 and the union of all saints upon the ,bible4 ,it was a four-page1 five-column paper of about #ac by #ai inches in size4 ,it at first contained considerable matter on prohibition2 but the thing that brought it persecution and isolated it from the fellowship and sympathy of nominal professors was its teaching against sectarian divisions4 ,financial privation was one of the handicaps that had to be contended with from the start4 ,on the moving of the equipment to ,indianapolis1 new type to the amount of #adg had to be purchased4 ,at this time also a new ,prouty power-press costing #eij was contemplated1 the old press being a ,washington hand-press4 ,it was some years1 however1 until a power-press was installed4 ,in the issue of ,may #ae1 #ahha1 appears the following editorial3 ,we are experiencing that it takes a man wonderfully burned out for ,god to publish a paper that is simply true to ,jesus and up to the ,bible standard of salvation from all sin4 ,a thousand points of expediency and policy must be disregarded1 and the eye fixed on ,god alone4 ,o reader1 you that love ,god and the truth1 do not forget to pray for us4 ,we are here in the city with a family to support1 and publishing expenses to meet1 and many are withdrawing from us because we will not sanction their idols2 but ,god is always present1 and we fear no evil4 ,thus far1 since the paper is all on ,god's altar1 he has supplied our needs4 ,glory to his name6 ,another difficulty that had to be contended with almost from the start was the unfaithfulness of some of those associated with him4 ,he was scarcely settled in ,indianapolis when the partnership with ,haines had to be dissolved1 and the latter then started an opposition paper4 ,the following editorial from the ,june #a number will explain3 ,,the ,,opposition ,,paper ,no person that has the real cause of ,god at heart can fail to deplore the fact that in this city two papers are now being published1 both claiming to be holiness papers1 having of course conflicting interests4 ,that this state of affairs must weaken and wound this sacred cause1 and hedge up its way by destroying the confidence of the people in the great truth of holiness1 is very apparent to all thinking minds4 ,this being true1 fearful responsibilities rest somewhere1 and the people have a right to know where4 ,it is a painful task to refer to the reproach that is brought upon the pure cause of holiness2 but it is largely known1 and can be remedied only by a statement of the causes and terms of the dissolution of the ,trumpet firm4 ,two papers in the same place with rival interests can not both be of ,god--there is no use trying to smuggle the fact4 ,the blame must be located1 and though its location exposes personal character1 it must be done4 ,paul wrote even with tears of some whom he pronounced enemies of the cross of ,christ4 ,alas1 how often the blessed ,son of ,god is sacrificed at the shrine of selfishness1 and sold for a few pieces of money6 ,the office having been donated by the ,church of ,god in northern ,indiana1 for the use of the ,trumpet1 we entered into a consolidation and partnership1 agreeing that each should do one half of the labor1 pay one half of the expenses1 and receive one half of the income4 ,we went to work in good earnest1 published two papers at ,rome ,city1 and then shipped the office to this city4 ,but before it arrived we found ourself bound to a chilling iceberg1 an austere1 worldly1 complaining1 and mere money policy4 ,though rather incongenial to our feelings1 we thought it probably all for the better and were willing to go ahead2 but ere long the ,spirit of ,god clearly indicated to us that we should not work with this man4 ,we gave the matter all into the hands of ,god1 and told the ,lord that if he wished a dissolution1 he should bring it about in his own time and his own way4 ,we had made no note of labors at ,rome ,city1 but thought when we set up here we should be under the necessity of doing so2 but wishing to avoid every shadow of blame for the separation that we knew was coming1 we continued to waive our right in the agreement1 and went on working for the ,lord1 while partner gave his time to the ,cincinnati ,times-,star1 with the exception of an occasional call of a few minutes at the office4 ,it pleased ,god to withhold a competent income from the paper4 ,this soon wrought a divine purpose1 and partner proposed to dissolve--offered to give or take one hundred dollars1 and the party taking the office pay all the debts on the firm4 ,having the will of ,god clearly revealed to us1 we could not1 without disloyalty to ,god and infidelity to the brethren who donated the office1 abandon it4 ,we also had one hundred and seventy dollars in the office that partner did not1 having released notes to that amount against those churches when they kindly donated the office4 ,we remarked1 however1 that as the office had been given for the use of the ,trumpet1 it was not right that1 withdrawing from the paper1 he should ask that amount of money4 ,but the answer was that the ,pilgrim field which had been merged into the ,trumpet was worth that to him4 ,we therefore consented to pay the one hundred dollars to satisfy him for the field4 ,but when we remarked that he of course would feel himself under obligations not to start another paper here1 both because of the amount received for the field1 and for shame's sake1 as it could only expose the cause to reproach1 we were surprized that he would not make a fair promise4 ,we insisted upon it as our right1 and he remarked finally that he did not think he would start another4 ,just then the ,spirit said1 ,trust it in the hands of the ,lord1 ,god will himself manage the matter4 ,from that time we said no more about it4444 ,we feel that our skirts are clear from the harm that holiness must suffer from this bad example to the world4 ,and if ,god can bless the little opposition sheet 7for such is the spirit of its first issue7 we shall be thankful4 ,bless the ,lord6 ,we have nothing to fear1 because we have nothing to lose4 ,the ,trumpet is indeed all burned up for ,god2 but out of its ashes shall continue to rise honest1 holy1 ,god-fearing pilgrims1 instead of happy pilgrims who rejoice in unrighteous gain4 ,god is now on trial4 ,he is our only resource4 ,on the other hand1 a crafty policy slyly gets up a little paper1 changes the association meeting from home to ,terre ,haute1 presents it to the congregation1 gets four votes in its favor1 then himself pronounces it adopted2 is elated that he was sharp enough to get the one hundred dollars and the field also1 and now boasts that he will take away the ,trumpet subscribers4 ,o ,lord1 pity and save such a one for ,christ's sake6 ,just now we feel a deeper concern for his salvation than for all we may suffer through his competition4 ,though doubtless we shall lose some readers through this assumed organ of the ,state association1 a thing that lives only in name1 and whose head1 professing to be called to labor in the vineyard of the ,lord as a gospel minister1 prefers the vineyard of the worldly paper as more lucrative1 we are thankful that the ,gospel ,trumpet rests only upon ,god and its own merits4 ,our ,father in heaven still owns the universe4 ,truth has not lost its power1 neither have the four votes cast at ,terre ,haute dethroned the ,almighty4 ,halleluiah6 ,jesus reigns4 ,after dissolution of partnership with ,haines1 ,brother ,warner was supplied with a colaborer in ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher1 who took a half interest1 and was very effectual in starting the work in ,michigan1 where he resided4#aj ,illustrative of the poverty of the ,trumpet in its infancy as well as the construction of the first publishing office1 is another editorial from the ,june #a number here given4 ,the location of this new office was on ,brother ,warner's lot at #fbe ,west ,vermont ,st41 adjoining his residence4 ,,an ,,office ,,for ,,the ,,trumpet ,as we have over a mile to walk to our office and have to pay #e a month for rent1 we felt led of the ,lord to build an office on our lot4 ,we had a small stable that would afford some material1 and1 trusting that ,god would send help1 we began to tear it down in the name of the ,lord4 ,so the other day a dear old saint who is a carpenter came to inquire what we had to build with4 ,we told him1 when he said he had some lumber to add1 also door and plenty of windows1 which he would give very cheap1 and give work also4 ,we are now looking to ,god for some means1 perhaps thirty dollars1 to buy shingles and some other material4 ,now1 dearly beloved reader1 as both our family duties and the necessity of curtailing expenses1 as well as saving time1 require us to build this office1 it may be that on account thereof we shall not be able to issue a paper for the #aeth of ,june4 ,please remember this and do not be disappointed if no paper reaches you4 ,there are two other reasons why it will be somewhat difficult to issue the next number4 ,first1 we have a tabernacle in operation and we desire to work all we can in these direct efforts to save souls4 ,and1 second1 we think of taking charge of the office and doing most of the work on the paper ourself hereafter2 and having but a slight experience in compository work1 we shall need to have more time on the first paper4 ,but withal we shall issue a paper if possible4 ,if the ,lord has given you a few dollars for the office1 send it on4 ,amen4 ,in explanation of why he was not able to issue the paper regularly he writes as follows for ,august #ae of that same year3 ,the announcement that the paper would be on time would have been carried out so far as the work on the paper is concerned1 but it did not please the ,lord to send us the means to purchase the paper1 hence the delay4 ,well1 we are willing that ,god should stop the ,trumpet altogether if he will4 ,it belongs wholly to him1 and so do we1 and1 bless ,god1 we have nothing to say about it4 ,oh1 how perfectly dead to all self in the matter6 ,we will say to our readers that the ,trumpet shall only be issued as the ,lord furnishes the means2 every two weeks if possible1 if not1 let all know that it was not in our power to do so1 and that all our subscribers shall have the worth of the money paid4 ,owing to the past delays and the fact that we are led to attend some camp-meetings1 we skip one number with the present issue4 ,in the ,november #a number we notice more privation4 ,we did not move1 neither were we able to plaster our office4 ,how then do you think we managed to get out this paper8 ,we will tell you4 ,dear ,wife tendered her kitchen to the ,lord for the use of publishing salvation4 ,praise the ,lord6 ,by thus crowding in a sufficient amount of the office to get along for the winter we shall save fuel1 and the expense of finishing the office until next fall4 ,thank ,god1 we are willing to get along any way for ,christ's sake1 so that we may fulfil our mission and publish truth and righteousness4 ,we are not at all mortified at these humble facilities from which the ,trumpet goes forth to its readers4 ,christ started his earthly mission from a manger4 ,oh no1 we are not ashamed to let all men know that the ,trumpet is published in the rear of a small cottage4 ,god's presence makes the whole domicil sacred4 ,oh1 how wonderfully he pours out his glory on our souls in this work6 ,on the other hand1 there were others in whom ,god had planted a love for the truth4 ,among these was ,brother ,warner's faithful printer4 ,god had preserved a few who should contribute sufficient to the paper to keep it going4 ,,how ,,it ,,looks ,,to ,,others ,we know that many think it big to be an editor1 hence before and ever since we entered upon this work we have feared and dreaded being actuated by such motives4 ,when we go out to work in the field and we just tell ,god to let the ,trumpet stop if it is his will and we will keep right on evangelizing1 the ,spirit's voice soon compels us to return to this sacred charge4 ,once when we had the office up in the city1 ,god tried us thoroughly4 ,we had no money to pay the printer1 and he was out of meal-tickets1 which must be paid in advance4 ,we were sent for to come to a meeting in ,terre ,haute4 ,a brother wrote that he would pay our fare1 so we borrowed the money and went down on ,saturday morning4 ,we told the ,lord that if he did not want the paper to continue1 to let the printer leave and get work somewhere else4 ,as we walked from the depot to the office on our return1 ,monday eve1 we said1 ,if that young man is in the office it is the wonderful dealing of ,god4 ,we entered and found him cheerfully working away4 ,on ,saturday he ran the press all day without a bite to eat4 ,as he told us this our heart was melted4 ,we entered our little sanctum and poured out our soul to ,god1 and he sent the ,spirit as the dews of heaven upon our heart4 ,when we started for the ,camargo camp-meeting1 we had a few dimes4 ,having been provided with a free pass1 through the kindness of ,brother ----1 who wrote that for months he had not thought of the camp-meeting without seeing us on the program and that we must be there without fail1 we left with ,wife all our change but two nickels4 ,told our printer that as we had no money to give him he might quit if he saw fit and hunt a position where he could get his pay4 ,we remarked that as the ,trumpet was not ours we had no choice whether it lived or died4 ,well1 it cost us five cents to reach the depot by street-car1 and the other nickel to carry us and baggage from the train to camp-ground1 so we just had enough4 ,praise ,god from whom all blessings flow6 ,though we were brought there by the direction of ,god's ,spirit through ,brother ----1 the high priest in charge1 probably out of self-interest1 gave us no place in the pulpit4 ,but ,god gave us a field to work in1 and the hearts of the people who do know their ,god1 and1 blessed be his name1 in that meeting he gave us over sixty-one dollars4 ,so the ,trumpet still sends out the certain sound4 ,here is a sample of many letters received the last few months4 ,it will show how others see the ,trumpet in relation to ,god's will and ,satan's dread3 ,ah yes1 ,brother ,warner1 it is the ,trumpet the devil wants stopped4 ,you may evangelize all you please1 so the ,trumpet goes under1 and the devil doesn't care4 ,do stand by the ,trumpet at all hazards4 ,of course we know that all such expressions relate to the awful and offensive truth of ,god that we give place to in the ,trumpet1 and not to any ability we possess to write or conduct a paper4 ,we are too sorely and constantly pinched by a sense of our own ignorance to think anything else4 ,in the ,november #ae number1 under the heading1 ,the ,trumpet ,will ,go ,on1 we have the following3 ,god has blessed us with excellent health and strength4 ,praise his holy name6 ,we can work without apparent fatigue from #e ,a4 ,m4 to #aa ,p4 ,m41 and we propose doing so1 by the continued help of ,god4 ,we feel that the gates of hell can not stop the truth4 ,and if we can not issue the paper regularly every two weeks1 we will issue as often as we can1 and give everybody his or her full number of papers4 ,the ,lord holds us to this work1 and he can not forsake us in the work whereunto he has called us4 ,let all the readers of the ,trumpet obey the voice of the ,spirit of ,god1 and there will be means both to enlarge and carry on the paper for the glory of ,god4 ,oh1 if the ,god of salvation could but reach some who are blessed with means and draw out about two hundred dollars it would pay all the ,trumpet debts1 get the necessities to enlarge the paper1 and provide a good little stock of paper to start with4 ,we will work1 and pray1 and trust1 and ,god and the dear people will provide the means4 ,at the beginning of the second year the price of the ,trumpet was raised to one dollar4 ,for some time before the ,trumpet raised to one dollar1 nearly everybody sent us one dollar instead of seventy-five cents4 ,thus the ,lord has fixed the price1 and he will provide for its enlargement4 ,the enlargement came with the first issue in ,february4 ,it was made a six-column1 four pages--#ae by #bb4 ,in the first issue of the new size we find the following editorial3 ,we printed two thousand papers this issue4 ,it is quite a task on our hand-press2 but1 praise ,god1 he gives us blessed health and strength1 and we are perfectly satisfied to work on with the means the ,lord has furnished1 until he sees proper to give us others4 ,early in the autumn of #ahhb the publishing office was moved to ,cardington1 ,ohio4 ,here was a congregation of saints among whom the publishing work could be better supported4 ,a very pleasant office1 warm and well lighted1 was rented for thirty dollars a year4 ,brother ,warner acknowledges his enjoyment of the great kindness1 love1 and cooperation of the true saints there4 ,it seems1 however1 that even there the work did not make much progress4 ,the old press had by this time become very unsatisfactory4 ,brother ,warner sought to hire his printing work done elsewhere1 but his effort resulted in his having to print the first issue of #ahhc on a job-press1 with the paper reduced in size to a four-column #aa by #ae4 ,the price was dropped to seventy-five cents1 then to fifty cents4 ,the following editorial will give an insight to his situation3 ,,this ,,little ,,trumpet ,having had our last issue printed on our neighbor's steam-press1 we concluded it would pay us to trade our old press on a jobber and have them print the paper regularly4 ,our chief reason for so doing was this3 in the time that it would take us to print them on the slow old press1 we could make more on job-work than would pay the printing4 ,but1 behold1 when our neighbors learned that we were getting a job-press1 they seemed to think we were intruding on their territory1 and not having the utmost confidence in their typographical ability they thought to make us pay a sort of royalty for the privilege of doing job-work here1 by raising the price of printing the trumpet from four dollars to eight dollars an issue2 and while we conceded the perfect right to charge that price1 we were happy for the privilege of saving that amount and printing on our job-press4 ,of course1 we can print but one page at a time1 which makes four impressions for a folio2 and if we print as large as the ,trumpet has been1 it will take eight times running through the press1 which1 after all1 can be done in about the same time it took to print it in two impressions on the old press1 and takes one to run instead of three4 ,when the paper comes to you only half the old size we will call it but a half number1 so we will not defraud our subscribers in the least4 ,but we desire to send you eight pages every two weeks if we possibly can4 ,when we can not1 please bear with us until the kind providence of ,god and the liberality of the saints help us to get a paper-press4 ,the eight-page proposition did not then materialize4 ,about this time was adopted the motto1 which was carried for many years3 ,first pure1 then valiant for the truth4 ,the home of the ,gospel ,trumpet was not long at ,cardington4 ,brother ,warner was desirous of having a permanent home for the ,trumpet1 where he would not have to pay rent4 ,when he moved to ,cardington1 he did not feel that that would be the permanent place for the paper4 ,kind brethren in ,michigan made very liberal offers and asked him to come there2 but a place was opening at ,bucyrus1 twenty miles distant1 in ,crawford ,county4 ,while he was in prayer pleading earnestly for ,god's direction1 three teams drove up4 ,it was the brethren from ,bucyrus1 who had come to move the office to that place and also help it out of financial difficulties4 ,there was great joy in ,brother ,warner's heart as he realized that ,god had answered prayer and sent help4 ,one of these brethren1 ,d4 ,d4 ,johnston1 assisted in the matter of finances4 ,he purchased a lot and furnished material with which to erect a building4 ,his name appeared as publisher in ,august1 #ahhc4 ,brother ,warner proceeded to build a small office on the lot at ,bucyrus4 ,in the last number printed at ,cardington he writes as follows3 ,while you read this paper1 the editor will be personally at work erecting a house in which to carry on the work of the ,lord4 ,if we were building a house for ourself we should want to count the cost before commencing2 but we are building this house unto the ,lord1 and the earth and the fulness thereof are his1 hence1 we need not stop to count since he says go forward4 ,the undertaking is wholly by faith4 ,while at work with our hands we shall pray without ceasing to our heavenly ,father to send us the means4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we have had experience enough in our business to know that we never can carry on the paper and pay rent4 ,it is claimed that a paper is not self-supporting with most any number of subscribers without receiving advertisements4 ,just yesterday in the office of a temperance paper we were told by an editor and publisher that we ought to take in one thousand dollars every year for advertisements1 and he could not see how the paper could be carried otherwise4 ,but1 beloved1 it must be carried otherwise or not at all4 ,neither do we wish to do any secular job-work if we can help it4 ,we shall dispose of our job-press and material as soon as possible4 ,now1 beloved1 when we shall have obtained a good paper-press 7and it is already bought1 thank ,god7 and a place free of rent1 with much self-denial and care we shall be able to send you a paper #bb by #cb every two weeks4 ,some of our dear brethren have in love censured us occasionally4 ,we find generally these two points1 sometimes in the same letter1 namely1 ,why do you not send your paper out more frequently and more regularly8 the other1 ,i think you have not been on your guard enough to keep out of debt4 ,well1 there it is4 ,we could have kept entirely out of debt if we had issued fewer papers1 and we might have issued every two weeks had we gone more in debt4 ,but no one of our experience could possibly have issued more frequently1 with our income and slow facilities4 ,our dear brethren are without a knowledge of what they are talking about4 ,but now1 beloved1 as we are in this desperate effort to get entirely out of debt and to get situated so as to cut off much of our past expense1 we hope that all will send us the help they can4 ,the move to ,bucyrus was made in ,may1 #ahhc4 ,about that time the first good press was purchased4 ,it was a rebuilt ,country ,campbell1 allowing either belt- or hand-power to be used1 and costing perhaps six hundred dollars4 ,the trying times through which the ,trumpet had to pass in its early years are known only to ,god4 ,it was perhaps his design that it should be tried as gold is tried4 ,there were always a few consecrated hearts who contributed of their means4 ,some put everything they had into the work4 ,thus the work was kept alive4 ,little did ,brother ,warner realize1 when he was located at ,bucyrus and the prospects looked good1 that there he should go through the bitterest trial of his life4 ,the light of the ,trumpet came very near being snuffed out entirely4 ,bucyrus was the narrows in the ,trumpet's voyage1 through which it barely passed4 ,this will be described in our next chapter4 ,the office of the ,trumpet remained at ,bucyrus nearly a year4 ,some brethren in ,michigan were desirous of having it moved to their locality4 ,progress had been made at ,bucyrus1 but it was through the furnace of trial rather than any extension of influence4 ,but doubtless all this experience was necessary as an equipment for greater usefulness4 ,the move to ,williamston1 ,ingham ,county1 ,mich41 was made in ,april1 #ahhd4 ,a ,mr4 ,horton1 a business man of ,williamston1 in whom the ,lord had planted a love for the truth1 went to ,bucyrus and had the office equipment shipped4 ,the saints in ,michigan had in the meantime obtained possession of a two-story building #bh x #hd1 and they had it partitioned1 or remodeled1 to suit the need1 the upper story to be used for a hall or assembly-room1 the rear of the lower floor to be used for living rooms and the front for an office4 ,brother ,warner rejoiced with tears when the work got started in its new and enlarged quarters in ,williamston4 ,the first number of the paper published there was dated ,april #ae4 ,from its columns we quote the following greetings3 ,we are happy to greet your ears once more1 beloved1 with the sound of the trump of ,god4 ,the devil has spent all his infernal powers in vain to crush this work of ,god4 ,we have thoroughly learned his attitude toward us4 ,in his hellish clamor about us for many days1 saying1 ',you must give up the ,trumpet1' he has clearly committed himself against this cause1 and all who are against this dissemination of the light of ,god we know are on the devil's side1 either wilfully or ignorantly4 ,oh1 how hell has poured forth upon us6 ,night after night we had to leave our bed at two1 three1 and four o'clock1 and go to the office and cry unto ,god to drive away the hosts of hell that had encamped against us4 ,and every time the power of ,god dispersed these infernal spirits of darkness1 the ,lord recommissioned us to blow the ,trumpet in ,zion1 and sound an alarm on his holy mountain1 and we were made joyfully conscious of his approving smile for not having backed down before the legions of hell4 ,but the devil having drawn to his side the best agents he could ever expect to use against us1 was fierce and determined to hush the trumpet-sound of freedom from all sin and ,babylon yokes4 ,oh1 halleluiah6 ,during this terrible combat with the powers of darkness1 we had to do more fighting than working1 hence the work went on slowly4 ,we were ready to print about the first of ,february1 then the ,lord called us by telegram to ,kalamazoo1 ,mich4 ,the next day our printer accidentally spoiled the rollers1 so that he could not print4 ,so the work lay until our return4 ,after looking to the ,lord until he assured us that the office would be cleared from the mortgage1 we ordered new rollers1 and went to work again in the name of the ,lord4 ,about the time we were ready to print1 ,god sent ,bro4 ,thomas ,horton1 from ,williamston1 ,mich41 who paid off the five hundred-dollar mortgage1 some other debts1 chartered a car1 loaded us up1 and moved office1 household goods1 ,master ,willie1 and ourself to this place4 ,wife and child having remained behind to visit with friends4 ,moving just at the time caused a few days delay in this issue1 but now we expect to greet you regularly4 ,praise the ,lord6 ,the ,lord giveth1 and the ,lord taketh away1 blessed be the name of the ,lord6 ,so said ,job4 ,if it was the devil that took it away1 he had to get a permit from ,god before he could do it1 therefore it was of the ,lord1 and blessed be the name of the ,lord2 for when he permits the devil to take anything away he has given to his children1 he always returns fourfold4 ,we have understood this principle long ago1 and have thrown it in the face of the devil every time he has shown his teeth at us4 ,blessed be ,god forever and ever6 ,and thus hath ,god done unto us again4 ,we left an office where we were hampered up in #ad #bf feet1 and here has ,god furnished a building two stories high1 #bh #hd feet1 all of which is dedicated to the ,lord4 ,it contains a large meeting-hall1 and plenty of room for office and all families connected with it4 ,it is1 however1 under repairs1 and we have taken temporary quarters for a few weeks4 ,every change that was made gave occasion for new hopes for the advancement of the publishing work4 ,accordingly we read in the first issue at ,williamston3 ,after one more issue we expect steam-power1 and there is no telling what ,god will yet do for the ,trumpet if the devil doesn't quit his hellish opposition4 ,an engine was purchased during the first year at ,williamston4 ,it was of three horse-power and cost two hundred dollars4 ,thus1 after the trying times of the first four years of its life1 the ,trumpet work began to make substantial progress and the reformation cause to expand and become permanent4 ,the next move for the ,gospel ,trumpet was in the summer of #ahhf4 ,near ,bangor1 in ,van ,buren ,county1 was a yearly camp-meeting4 ,there were many saints in the vicinity and near ,grand ,junction1 seven miles north4 ,at the ,bangor camp-meeting in ,june1 #ahhf1 the subject of moving the ,trumpet ,office to that part of the ,state was considered4 ,it seemed to be the mind of the ,spirit and of all the saints that the removal should be made4 ,a commodious and substantial building in the town of ,grand ,junction was offered for eight hundred dollars1 or about half its worth4 ,the saints agreed to purchase the property1 and money was raised to pay moving-expenses4 ,an encumbrance of five hundred dollars on the machinery was also paid off4 ,accordingly it was decided to move4 ,one freight-car held the entire outfit of office material1 machinery1 and household goods4 ,grand ,junction1 where two lightning tracks lay crossing1 was a small town of a few hundred inhabitants1 the junction of the ,chicago and ,west ,michigan 7now the ,pere ,marquette7 and a branch of the ,michigan ,central ,railways1 ten miles from ,south ,haven on the lake and thirty miles west of ,kalamazoo4 ,this became the permanent home of the ,gospel ,trumpet during twelve years of its history4 ,before the move to ,grand ,junction1 ,bro4 ,s4 ,michels1 of ,south ,haven1 assumed with his means a portion of the financial responsibility4 ,being thus directly connected with the publishing work1 his name appeared as publisher1 which position he held till relieved by ,n4 ,h4 ,byrum1 in #ahie4 ,about a year after the publishing office was located at ,grand ,junction1 the publishing work1 and the church as well1 suffered the defection of ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher1 who had been on the editorial staff and had been useful in the ministry4#aa ,he was succeeded as assistant editor by ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum1 who remained on the staff for many years1 and after ,brother ,warner's death became editor4 ,the ,gospel ,trumpet was a mighty factor in the reformation work1 a very effectual means of spreading the truth4 ,at ,grand ,junction the ,office grew to a substantial printing-plant1 sending out tons of literature4 ,books were printed1 a children's paper was started1 and the ,trumpet became a weekly4 ,it was here that ,brother ,warner's death occurred1 in #ahie4 ,we close this chapter with the publishing work located at ,grand ,junction4 ,brief reference to its present status will be made in another chapter4 ,illustration3 ,office and ,home of the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,grand ,junction1 ,mich41 #ahhi ,,footnotes3 #i ,it seems the idea prevailed within the ,eldership that every member should be under the control of ,christ alone in the performance of work appointed him4 ,they said1 ,we believe that the ,lord wishes not his church burthened and perplexed with financial cares4 ,therefore1 ,resolved ,that it is not good that she should own and control a printing-office4 ,they said further1 ,we are willing to assist and support these two brethren in the joint publication of the ,gospel ,trumpet provided they are permitted to have full control of the same and so long as they keep themselves and the paper wholly in the ,lord's hands and to his glory4 ,they1 of course1 did not understand that by means of a corporation1 board of trustees1 or other legalized body1 the church could control its printing business and yet not be burthened and perplexed with financial cares4 #aj ,see next chapter4 #aa ,see ,chapter ,,xv for further mention of this4 ,,xv ,,the ,,crisis#ab ,true to prophetic fulfilment1 the time was at hand for the restoration of the church to her normal state of unity and holiness4 ,the scattered condition of ,god's people in the various sectarian denominations was not always to continue1 for such could not be the ideal state of the church2 it could not be her final state in which ,christ could expect to receive her as his bride4 ,for her there was a better day at hand4 ,from ,romish night to the light of justification by faith1 possessed among ,protestant sects generally since the sixteenth century reformation1 had been a great step upward4 ,also the ,wesleyan reformation1 bringing in the light of perfect holiness as a ,christian attainment subsequent to regeneration1 marked an advance for the truth in its progress by stages unto the end of time4 ,there needed to be yet another step1 another reformation1 which should bring the church to her fulness of glory1 and visualize her unity and solidarity4 ,it would seem that the holiness movement that arose in the sixties and seventies should have accomplished this1 but it served only as an approach to it4 ,true holiness indeed destroys the elements of sectarianism1 and forbids a continued state of division among ,christians4 ,but the holiness movement1 as such1 came to have holiness only nominally for its object4 ,it undertook no antagonism to sectarian divisions1 though it deplored them4 ,it stood for nothing more than holiness as a subject to be taught and experienced1 and satisfied itself as best it could to remain within the denominations4 ,it drew back when the real issue came1 and in consequence it has long been dissipated in the sects1 having for forty years accomplished little or nothing toward bringing ,god's people into unity4 ,christian unity can never be brought about within the sects nor in connection with any recognition of allegiance to them4 ,it absolutely can be effected only out of and away from the sects1 by obedience to ,god and a severance of sectarian ties4 ,since true ,christian unity is incompatible with sects1 and since coming out of sects is opposed by the sect spirit and invites persecution by the sects1 the only course for the people of ,god to take who have received the light on the true church is to cut loose from human institutions and abide in ,christ alone1 even though it places them in a relation hostile to the so-called churches4 ,for those first leaving the sects there was no body of saints already called out to which they could be added4 ,what could it mean to them but a crisis8 ,and what would it constitute in the progress of events but a reformation8 ,but the ,spirit of the ,lord was thus leading4 ,since sects are hostile to the movement out of sects1 the ,spirit of the ,lord becomes necessarily hostile to them2 for he indeed leads his people out of sects4 ,but the time had come4 ,god's spiritual ones were looking and longing for some development or other by which they would cease to be divided in sectarian bodies4 ,no one had put it into their minds2 their anticipation of it was prompted by the ,spirit of ,god1 which was in them4 ,there needed some one to sound the trumpet of the ,lord1 some one to take the lead and make a positive declaration against the sin of division1 some one through whom ,god could voice the call1 ,come out of her1 my people1 that ye be not partakers of her sins1 and that ye receive not of her plagues 7,rev4 #ah3d74 ,god had in ,brother ,warner prepared just such an instrument4 ,his was the spirit of a reformer4 ,he shunned not to declare ,god's judgments4 ,his ministry had a definite message1 and represented the burden of ,god for the purity and unity of his church4 ,looking back upon ,brother ,warner's career it would seem1 as the writer has already intimated1 that his connection with the ,church of ,god 7,winebrennerian71 which assumed to have no creed but the ,bible and to be indeed the true church of ,god1 had doubtless served to emphasize to him the true church ideal and to shape his course along right lines4 ,and his rejection by the ,ohio ,eldership for the preaching of holiness awakened him to see that that body was not what it claimed to be1 but was1 after all1 only a humanly ruled institution1 only one sect among the many4 ,the light he already had on the church was sufficient to forbid his reuniting with them4 ,thus the so-called ,church of ,god had contributed to him the right idea of the church1 and the holiness movement had brought to his understanding the line on which ,god would bring out a pure church1 namely1 the line of holiness2 and thus was the divine ,hand leading him and fitting him for the work to which he was called4 ,we can only imagine what it meant to step out on ,god alone and preach the divine judgments against the apostate religions of the day1 to decry the evils of denominationalism1 and to undertake on that same line the publication of a paper4 ,that his work was despised and that ,satan undertook to crush it in its very beginning can not be wondered at4 ,its humbleness and apparent insignificance looked uninviting to the worldly-minded2 but the deep spirituality and divine manifestations that characterized it were a sufficient vindication to those who were capable of spiritually discerning the truth4 ,there was something that said1 ,this work is of ,god4 ,there was a sense of spiritual freedom and of love and ,christian fellowship that bore convincing testimony to those who would but listen to the dictation of the ,spirit that this is indeed the truth4 ,but ,brother ,warner was not alone4 ,god had reserved his thousands who no longer were bowing the knee to ,baal4 ,from them he received encouragement and support1 though for a few years it seemed his work had to go through the crucible of trial4 ,accordingly we trace his difficulties and sorrows1 as well as his victories1 until the cause becomes fully established in the earth4 ,from what we learn of ,brother ,warner's earlier views and attitude1 he never had a party spirit2 he never was a sectarian4 ,even from his early ministry the love and fellowship that exists among the people of ,god he recognized as the paramount bond of ,christian union4 ,after his conversion1 when dealing with the question of what church he should join1 he is found casting about to determine which one represented the real church of ,god4 ,as the followers of ,winebrenner had the right name1 and seemed to him to be correct in doctrine1 he was led into that denomination4 ,with the insufficient light he then possessed he probably failed to see the man rule that prevailed1 instead of the ,holy ,spirit rule that characterizes the divine1 theocratic government in the true church of ,god4 ,he discovered1 of course1 the clash of this man rule with the free1 independent inclination of the ,holy ,spirit1 by which he preferred to be led4 ,but he bore with it patiently1 believing that he was in the true church2 and it took years to discover to him that the body to which he belonged was but a sect4 ,it was through the attainment of the ,bible standard of holiness that he was gradually led into the truth respecting the church and sects4 ,early in #ahgh he wrote3 ,the ,lord showed me that holiness could never prosper upon sectarian soil encumbered by human creeds and party names1 and he gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living ,god4 ,he soon began to receive light on the ,scriptures1 which revealed to him that the church was to be restored to her primitive glory in the evening of the dispensation4 ,the chapter on a ,spiritual ,shaking1 taken from his book1 clearly shows that when the chapter was written 7#ahgi7 he understood that ,god was going to bring out a pure church4 ,he published this in #ahhj1 which became the date from which the present epoch of the church may be reckoned4 ,it should be remembered that during this time he was connected with the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership2 but as this was a body already separated from the old ,eldership because of their purpose to keep on the ,scriptural basis1 he really believed that this body was the true church1 for that was its claim4 ,thus he was really out of sectism in heart and was associated with a body claiming to be the church of ,god4 ,during the last year 7#ahhj7 of the ,herald of ,gospel ,freedom1 when it was fully under his editorial charge1 its columns1 while teaching holiness1 breathed the principles of the one true church4 ,one of its stated objects was the union of all true believers in the ,spirit of ,god and upon the inspired ,word4 ,because of insufficient light on the governmental aspect of the true church1 he was slow to discover that even the new ,eldership was only a body ruled by men4 ,as light came on the ,holy ,spirit government1 he looked upon the man rule elements in the ,eldership as inconsistencies that needed removal4 ,it was human machinery that he thought needed to be dispensed with4 ,we must concede1 therefore1 that in the meantime he was1 to all intents and purposes1 out of sects4 ,we speak of this period as the crisis because he took such a bold1 uncompromising stand against sects and taught holiness and the principles of the church with such thoroughness that it seemed to awaken every satanic element that had been slumbering under the guise of false profession4 ,people had either to accept the truth or go into darkness4 ,to him it meant the break-up of old relations1 the drawing of new lines of fellowship1 exposure to persecution1 and everything that might befall the career of a reformer4 ,as the teaching of the resurrection and the repudiation of circumcision constituted the offence of the cross in ,paul's day1 so the preaching of the ,bible standard of holiness and the renouncement of all sects became the offence of the cross at this time4 ,we shall give several selections from the earlier issues of the ,trumpet that are representative of its teaching4 ,in the issue of ,mar4 #a1 #ahha1 we have the following3 ,,branches ,where in the ,bible do we find the idea of sects being branches1 as people talk about8 ,what branch of the church do you belong to8 is a common expression in these times of antiscriptural language and practise4 ,why do not people read their ,bibles better and learn that every individual believer is a branch in ,christ--,john #ae8 ,if a whole sect is a branch1 then the individual must be a sub-branch2 but this would make each one dependent upon the sect for his union with1 and life from1 ,christ4 ,this would be second-hand salvation4 ,we should not like to risk the coupling--,i prefer a direct union with ,christ4 ,taking ,christ's parable of the ,vine and ,branches1 there is but one way to represent branch sects2 that is1 imagine the branches adhering directly to the vine but pressed together and tightly bound into several bunches4 ,thus drawn together each bundle would have the appearance of a branch2 but upon closer examination it would be found to consist of many branches each adhering to the vine1 except a good many dead sticks1 that had been killed by the unnatural confinement1 and had rotted loose from the trunk4 ,we think it is the great business of the pure gospel sword of holiness to cut those soul-killing chords1 that the ,father may purge the several branches1 and that they may all straighten out in natural position--live1 grow1 and bear fruit unto holiness4 ,his account of how he was led to sever his connection with the holiness association1 which he began to see was but a milder form of sectism1 is given in an editorial for ,june #a1 #ahha4 ,,that ,,ye ,,break ,,every ,,yoke ,saturday1 ,april #bb1 the hand of the ,lord was heavily upon our soul1 had no relish to converse with any one but ,god4 ,finally in company with two brethren we went into the house of ,god at ,hardinsburg1 ,ind41 and placed ourselves under the searching eye of ,god1 when the ,spirit of the ,lord showed me the inconsistency of repudiating sects and yet belonging to an association that is based upon sect recognition4 ,we promised ,god to withdraw from all such compacts4 ,but being dearly attached to the holiness work1 we attended the ,association at ,terre ,haute1 and tried to have the sect-endorsing clause removed from the constitution4 ,its substance is as follows1 speaking of local associations3 ,it shall consist of members of various ,christian organizations and seek to work in harmony with all these societies4 ,we offered the following substitute3 ,it shall consist of1 and seek to cooperate with1 all true ,christians everywhere4 ,we had supposed that fellowship and cooperation should not exclude any person or truth that is in ,christ ,jesus1 and that we should not be compelled to bow down to anything not in1 nor of1 ,christ ,jesus4 ,we were positively denied membership on the ground of not adhering to any sect4 ,and now we wish to announce to all that we wish to cooperate with all ,christians1 as such1 in saving souls--but forever withdraw from all organisms that uphold and endorse sects and denominations in the body of ,christ4 ,in the same issue 7,june #a7 he reviews a position taken by ,t4 ,k4 ,doty1 the editor of the ,christian ,harvester4 ,we present this article1 and also two others1 in order to show his argument on the question of the church and sects4 ,,square ,,come-,,outism ,probably this means the doctrine of coming out of all the sects1 and giving the church of ,christ no visible organization4--,christian ,harvester4 ,i wish to ask the editor of the ,harvester if human sects are essential to the visible organization of ,christ8 ,the above language so implies4 ,then1 according to this statement1 the church of ,christ was without a visible organization hundreds of years1 until the present-day sects arose4 ,and if the visible organization thus provided is a necessary adjunct to the church1 then the apostle ,peter made a mistake when he said that ,god had already given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness4 ,again1 if the formation of sects gives the church of ,christ a visible organization1 will the ,harvester please point out the time1 in the history of the church1 when that important event occurred8 ,was it when the first sect was formed1 namely1 the ,roman ,catholic sect1 in the beginning of the apostasy8 ,did she give the church of ,christ a visible organization8 ,if so1 what need of subsequent efforts at organization8 ,we presume that the ,harvester does not admit that this corrupt hierarchy is the church of ,christ4 ,so there was one sect formed1 and ,christ's church still not visibly organized4 ,out of her came the ,church of ,england4 ,she claims to be the identical church of ,christ4 ,does the ,harvester admit the assumption8 ,if not1 then he must admit that a second sect failed to organize and represent the ,church of ,christ4 ,again1 from the old mother of sects came forth the ,lutheran sect and her daughters--granddaughters of ,rome4 ,did any of them organize the visible church of ,christ8 ,if so1 which one8 ,or was it left for ,john ,wesley to organize the church of ,christ in the formation of the ,methodist ,episcopal sect8 ,if that sect is really the identical church of ,christ1 then the editor of the ,harvester is in a hopeless condition1 since severed from that body2 but we presume that he still felt that he was in the church of ,christ after dismembered from that great sect1 therefore it is not identical with the church of ,christ1 and her organization was not the organization of ,christ's church at all4 ,having now followed two branches of ,rome to the second generation without finding in any of these sister denominations the identical church of ,christ1 we must pass on to the third generation4 ,is any of the sects that have branched out from the ,methodist ,episcopal sect the church of ,christ8 ,if so1 will the ,harvester point out the one8 ,will he assume that the one he represents is the church of ,christ8 ,if so1 then he has been without ,christ's church until recently4 ,if not1 then the founding of the ,wesleyan ,methodist sect was not the organization of the body of ,christ4 ,it is a fact which no man of intelligence will deny1 that no one sect on earth is the identical church of ,god4 ,but it may be claimed by some that all the sects taken together constitute the true church in her visible organization4 ,this is also a great mistake4 ,how can all these bodies sum up the one organic visible church of ,god1 when they have no organic relation to each other8 ,in what a disgraceful light sectism presents the church6 ,does that look like a divine and heaven-born family1 that is composed of numerous1 rival1 jealous1 independent1 and conflicting organisms8 ,oh1 ,i beseech you for ,christ's sake1 do not dishonor ,god by confounding his church with ,babylon confusion6 ,instead of sects giving the church of ,christ a visible organization they mar and destroy the visible organization and unity of the church of ,christ4 ,a striking want of identity in the membership of ,god's church and human sects also proves conclusively that no sect1 nor yet all sects together1 constitutes the divine fold4 ,their walls are not the walls of ,god's house at all1 neither are their thresholds his threshold4 ,many are in them who never entered ,god's church1 and1 thank ,god1 many have entered by ,christ the door who have never attached themselves to any of the factions that are not of ,god1 but the result of sin4 ,if1 then1 the constituent elements of sects are not identical with the elements of ,god's church1 sects themselves are not identical with her1 and consequently their organization is not her organization4 ,,questions ,,answered 7,aug4 #ae1 #ahha47 ,first3 ,does the come-out element constitute the true church of ,god8 ,answer3 ,all true ,christians in heaven and earth constitute the true church of ,god4 ,eph4 #c3ae4 ,second3 ,in what particular is the separationist1 or come-out church1 better than the ,wesleyan ,methodist ,church8 ,answer3 ,this language places antisect ,christians in a false light4 ,they never teach such a thing as a new sect1 whose distinguishing characteristic is simply the coming out of all other sects2 such is the impression made by the question1 and it is a false one4 ,the ,christians branded come-outers have founded no church or sect1 nor do they intend to2 but1 on the contrary1 they have abandoned all sects to live in the one church that ,christ founded1 and into which we were inducted by regeneration4 ,this fact is known by hundreds who nevertheless misrepresent them continually3 this goes with them4 ,god's church is composed altogether of come-outers4 ,the word church 7ecclesia7 means the called out1 they are called out of the world1 out of heathen religions1 and all corrupt and bogus ,christianity4 ,but while the come-out element is embodied in the very word church1 she is not to be called ,come-out church4 ,she embodies water baptism1 but is not a ,baptist church4 ,she teaches the ,sabbath1 and the second advent1 but is not a ,sabbatarian nor ,adventist church4 ,her members are all brethren1 and united1 but she is not the ,united ,brethren church4 ,the sin of all this is in making one of the subordinate elements of the system the center1 and not ,god in ,christ ,jesus4 ,but to the question4 ,the ,wesleyan ,methodist sect is an organized party in ,christendom1 a schismatic1 or cut-off party1 all of which is condemned in the ,bible4 ,there should be no schisms in the body4 ,the origin of all such disintegrating factions1 whether for ,paul1 ,peter1 or ,wesley1 is carnality1 as the ,word of ,god teaches1 the result of sin1 says the ,harvester4 ,the ,wesleyan ,methodist sect is human1 fragmentary1 and earthly1 and will be utterly annihilated at the coming of ,christ1 with every other schismatic party4 ,the church of the living ,god1 in which come-outers inhere1 to the exclusion of all human organisms1 was purchased1 built1 and sanctified by ,christ ,jesus1 who is its head1 door1 and foundation4 ,it is the pillar and ground of the truth1 and will stand through all eternity1 that's the difference4 99 99 99 99 99 ,fourth3 ,wherein does the come-out church excel the ,wesleyan1 and manifest its divine origin8 ,answer3 ,this is virtually a repetition of the question above answered4 ,we have often said1 ,why do not opposers of holiness go to the standards of the doctrine and controvert what they say8 ,they never do4 ,again1 we ask1 ,why do not sect apologists attack what come-outers teach8 ,they teach the one true and catholic church of the ,bible--this can not be overthrown1 therefore sect worshipers seek to hide their sin in misrepresenting all who abandon sects4 ,come out of ,babylon1 brother1 then you can see much clearer4 ,,the ,,shafting ,,giving ,,way 7,nov4 #a1 #ahha47 ,if it were not such a solemn thing1 it were really amusing to see how many are floundering about on the question of organized divisions in ,christendom4 ,they admit them evil1 predict their downfall1 and then1 shrinking from the result of their own admissions1 they fly to their protection and raise the hue and cry against those who bring the gospel of ,god to bear upon these ramparts of sin4 ,l4 ,hawkins1 of the ,banner of ,holiness1 admits the design of ,christ is the spiritual and organic unity of all believers1 and that an advanced degree of holiness would demolish these walls of separation1 and then1 as if alarmed at their fall1 he pleads for their toleration at present4 ,the ,harvester adds1 ,then let us hail every sign of real unity as from the ,lord1 and1 as holiness laborers1 not be afraid when the temporary shafting of denominationalism begins to give way4 ,so it is admitted that denominationalism is bolstered up with temporary shafting4 ,this reminds us of a pamphlet we read some years ago1 in defense of sect organizations4 ,the writer confessed that the denominations were not the real house of ,god which is the church of the living ,god1 but that they were necessary scaffolds for the erection of the house1 and that when the house shall have been completed1 the scaffolds will all be taken down4 ,well1 in view of the prospects of ,christ's speedy coming we prefer to keep off of these old rickety1 rotten-timbered scaffolds that are destined so soon to tumble down and be consumed with all the rubbish of ,satan's invention4 ,for our part we are ready for the sect shafting to give way any day2 for we are builded into the house of ,god itself1 and have nothing to lose or to fear4 ,but many are not ready for the catastrophe4 ,while fearing and even predicting the fall of those ,dark-,age structures1 they are unwilling to abandon them4 ,they sit trembling upon their lofty but narrow ,methodist1 ,baptist1 ,united ,brethren1 or ,presbyterian plank1 while with one hand they try to hold onto the walls of ,god's church4 ,we can always tell whether a man is resting upon one of these scaffolds or whether he is building only on ,christ1 the sure foundation4 ,if on the latter1 he has nothing to fear2 if on the former1 he is sure to command a halt when he sees the true priests of ,god blowing the trumpets about these walls4 ,such always think the time has not yet come to abolish sects and denominations4 ,oh6 no6 do not push against our scaffold poles yet2 be careful down there6 ,please don't lean against that shafting1 there is danger of its falling6 ,one dear minister took us aside at the ,alvan 7,ill47 camp-meeting last summer and inquired of our views4 ,we told him1 of course1 that we believed in no church but the body of ,christ1 etc4 ,he conceded about all we contended for1 but1 unwilling to abandon his elevated plank1 he humbly besought us not to be so hard on them4 ,poor fellow6 ,we think all had better climb down from these shaky concerns2 for ,god has announced her fall4 ,babylon the great is fallen1 is fallen1 and is become the habitation of devils1 and the hold of every foul spirit1 and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird4 ,and ,i heard another voice from heaven1 saying1 ,come out of her1 my people1 that ye be not partakers of her sins1 and that ye receive not of her plagues 7,rev4 #ah3b1d74 ,then let us hail every sign of real unity as from the ,lord1 and not be afraid when the temporary shafting of denominationalism begins to give way4 ,this is good advice1 but does ,brother ,doty walk in it8 ,does he hail as from the ,lord those whom the ,spirit of ,god has led out of those cut-off parties1 which divide the people of ,god1 and who stand in the one fold and body of ,christ8 or has he not done his best to represent them as teaching no church1 no organization1 and as building another sect1 etc48 ,is it consistent to admit that sects are without a warrant in ,god's ,word1 and that they are the result of sin in the body of believers1 and express a hope for the unity of ,god's people1 and then join with all the popular holiness journals in opposing those who have abandoned all those unscriptural schisms8 ,is it consistent to say1 ,we don't want an ism gospel1 and yet adhere to and stuff the ,harvester full of the gospel of ,wesleyan ,methodist ism8 ,illustration3 ,church building in which ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and five others severed their relation with the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership in #ahha4 ,it is located at ,beaver ,dam1 three miles north of ,akron1 ,ind4 ,illustration3 ,group of ,individuals1 former members of the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership1 who with ,brother ,warner severed their connection with the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership in #ahha4 ,at top1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,f4 ,krause2 center1 ,d4 ,leininger2 bottom1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,w4 ,w4 ,ballenger ,an event that had to occur sooner or later was ,brother ,warner's separation from the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership4 ,at the ,eldership meeting which convened at ,beaver ,dam1 ,kosciusko ,county1 ,ind41 in ,october1 #ahha1 he proposed some measures by which that body might be made to conform more perfectly to the ,bible standard with reference to government4 ,in this he would not be heard1 and on their rejection of his reform measures he realized1 probably for the first time1 that the new ,eldership1 bent on continuing their human organization1 was a sect with which he must sever his connection1 and he then and there did so4 ,this event does not properly mark his coming out of spiritual ,babylon1 as some have supposed4 ,in heart he had already been out1 and had preached against sects4 ,but he ignorantly supposed that the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god was not a sect and therefore that he was keeping clear of sects4 ,thus his act at ,beaver ,dam was a keeping out of ,babylon as much as a coming out4 ,it was the latter only in the outward sense1 but of course it emphasized and gave more definite character to the anti-sectarian stand he had previously taken4 ,there were others in attendance at the ,eldership meeting who had heard his preaching against spiritual ,babylon and who also took the same step with him4 ,they were ,david ,leininger1 ,william ,ballenger and wife1 and ,f4 ,krause and wife4 ,we give their names and also their pictures as being of those originals who declared themselves free from all outward forms of ,babylon4 ,a similar thing occurred in ,michigan4 ,about the same time the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership was formed1 there originated near ,pompeii1 ,gratiot ,county1 ,mich41 the ,northern ,michigan ,eldership of the ,church of ,god4 ,this body was formed because its members had been isolated from and generally dissatisfied with the old ,eldership1 which sanctioned secrecy and was steeped in tobacco4 ,about the fall of #ahgh there joined this new ,eldership ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher and his wife1 ,allie ,r4 ,they had never heard of ,brother ,warner at that time4 ,in the spring of #ahhj1 ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher had occasion to visit ,indiana on business1 and it happened that while there he heard ,brother ,warner preach1 and he accepted the doctrine of holiness and received the experience4 ,the following autumn the ,fishers sent for ,brother ,warner to come up to that part of ,michigan and preach holiness4 ,it was then that ,allie ,r4 consecrated for and also received the experience of sanctification4#ac ,a year later1 just before the annual meeting of the ,eldership 7,october1 #ahha71 the ,fishers and others1 thinking to get the ,eldership to accept holiness and thus make good the claim of being the true church1 started a holiness meeting at ,carson ,city1 where the ,fishers lived1 and again had ,brother ,warner present4 ,this was right after the meeting in ,indiana where ,brother ,warner had declared his separation from the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership4 ,the situation was similar to what it had been in ,indiana4 ,brother ,warner had been preaching on the true church and setting forth its divine government1 and the hope of these ,michigan saints was that if they could get the ,eldership to accept holiness they might get them to do away with the human machinery and fill the true church requirement4 ,in this they were disappointed4 ,before the holiness meeting was over the ,eldership showed its opposition4 ,upon this the ,fishers and a good number of others1 nearly twenty in all1 withdrew from the ,eldership4 ,illustration3 ,joseph ,c4 and ,allie ,r4 ,fisher ,illustration3 ,group of ,michigan saints1 some of the first to declare their freedom from sectarian relations4 ,above1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,frank ,b4 ,reeves2 center1 ,mrs4 ,c4 ,e4 ,reeves2 below1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,john ,t4 ,lyon ,thus there were two centers where a stand of independence with regard to the ,eldership and human ecclesiasticism had been taken4 ,these two congregations of saints--at ,beaver ,dam1 7,ind471 and ,carson ,city1 7,mich471--were the earliest in the ,united ,states 7so far as the author knows7 who had stepped completely out of ,babylon and had taken for their basis that of the ,new ,testament church alone4 ,an annual camp-meeting was established at each place4 ,the ,michigan saints in order to express in definite form their position and intentions drew up the following resolutions3 ,whereas we recognize ourselves in the perilous times of the last days1 the time in which ,michael is standing up for the deliverance of ,god's true saints 7,dan4 #ab3a71 the troublesome times in which the true house of ,god is being built again1 therefore1 ,resolved1 ,that we will endeavor by all the grace of ,god to live holy1 righteous1 and godly in ,christ ,jesus1 looking for1 and hastening unto the coming of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 who we believe is nigh1 even at the door4 ,resolved1 ,that we adhere to no body or organization but the church of ,god1 bought by the blood of ,christ1 organized by the ,holy ,spirit1 and governed by the ,bible4 ,and if the ,lord will1 we will hold an annual assembly of all saints who in the providence of ,god shall be permitted to come together for the worship of ,god1 the instruction and edification of one another1 and the transaction of such business as the ,holy ,spirit may lead us to see and direct in its performance4 ,resolved1 ,that we ignore and abandon the practise of preacher's license as without precept or example in the ,word of ,god1 and that we wish to be known by our fruits instead of by papers4 ,resolved1 ,that we do not recognize or fellowship any who come unto us assuming the character of a minister whose life is not godly in ,christ ,jesus and whose doctrine is not the ,word of ,god4 ,resolved also1 ,that we recognize and fellowship1 as members with us in the one body of ,christ1 all truly regenerated and sincere saints who worship ,god in all the light they possess1 and that we urge all the dear children of ,god to forsake the snares and yokes of human parties and stand alone in the one fold of ,christ upon the ,bible1 and in the unity of the ,spirit4 ,it should be noted that even at this time1 while they could see the evils of human machinery in the church1 they had not as yet a perfect knowledge of how the divine government would be4 ,they wondered whether they should form a new ,eldership or whether they had anything at all to do in the new procedure1 cut loose as they were from all human organizations4 ,at this time ,sister ,fisher was given a vision4 ,it was of a tower which she and others were constructing with stones that were piled about them in heaps4 ,the foundation was already laid and they were engaged on the superstructure1 their work being to polish the stones and fit them for the tower4 ,when polished1 the stones were clear as crystal4 ,they were asked where they got such beautiful stones4 ,she replied that they were simply such stones as could be found anywhere4 ,their beauty was brought out through the work that was put upon them4 ,the capstone1 or headstone1 was also perfectly clear1 but it had a blood-red spot in the center which shone and which shed rays of light like streaks of blood down through all the tower4 ,the vision seemed to her so wonderful4 ,she awoke to a full consciousness and said1 ,lord1 what is it8 ,he answered1 ,this is my church4 ,immediately the ,scriptures in #a ,cor4 #c3aa-ah2 ,eph4 #b3bj-bb2 and #a ,cor4 #c3i came to her mind4 ,she then understood that the church was organized by ,god1 and that it was man's part to work with him1 and let him be ,leader and ,foreman1 and that ,jesus was the head of the body4#ad ,they soon learned to be led of the ,spirit and that they were complete in ,christ in matters of government as well as everything else4 ,conscious of their freedom from the bondage in which they had been held and that they had taken their stand on ,god alone1 they were blessed with the ,spirit of ,god upon them and their assemblies in a remarkable manner4 ,the joy of the ,lord was their portion and they were satisfied4 ,thus the reformation had taken complete form4 ,the light began to spread and the work became established in various places4 ,a sister ,harris1 living near ,bangor1 in the southwestern part of ,michigan1 was called up to ,gratiot ,county in ,july1 #ahhb1 to attend the funeral of a niece4 ,while there she heard ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher preach and she invited him down to her part of the ,state4 ,he went the following ,october and held meetings there1 which were very successful1 resulting in a number getting saved4 ,an annual camp-meeting was started there the next year4 ,this camp-meeting has been continued ever since1 though it was taken to ,grand ,junction1 seven miles north1 in #ahib4 ,thus this part of the ,state was one of the first sections where the work of the reformation was established1 and ,grand ,junction became1 at a later date1 the home of the publishing plant for a number of years4 ,that ,god was working on a similar line in other parts of the world may be seen from a letter written from ,england and quoted in the ,gospel ,trumpet from the ,christian ,harvester4 ,,soul ,,prosperity ,,without ,,the ,,pens ,we extract the following from a letter in the ,christian ,harvester from ,e4 ,morgan1 ,maidstone1 ,england3 ,we have a number of people who enjoy holiness1 men and women1 old and young1 who do not belong to any sect4 ,they have the presence of the ,holy ,spirit with them in a much richer and more powerful way than the friends in the churches4 ,this seems to indicate that the ,lord will raise up an army to do his work1 and perfect love will be the uniting power that will keep them one4 ,it is not at all to be wondered at that those who have obeyed ,god and come out of all human sects should have a superior degree of ,god's grace and ,spirit with them1 who are free from the oppression and interdiction that we hear so much of in all our holiness papers4 ,yes1 ,god is now raising up that holy army who stand free in ,christ1 bound only by the truth and the love of ,god4 ,from the above1 we see1 as well as from the testimony of hundreds in this country1 that the assertion that coming out of sectism results in spiritual death is a groundless falsehood4 ,the result is always the opposite1 unless it be in some instances where souls have been overwhelmed with the hellish rage and deceitful1 persecuting spirit of the sects1 which has induced a superindignation4 ,brother ,warner's separation from the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership was the subject of comment by his contemporary editors and others4 ,his reply to a letter on the subject of his leaving the church is here given4 ,a dear brother writes to us as follows3 ,i think you have erred in leaving the ,church of ,god1 and yet ,god is blessing you and the ,trumpet4444 ,to talk about leaving the church of ,god and yet receiving the blessing of ,god1 is ,babylon confusion4 ,there is absolutely no way given under heaven and among men whereby we can leave the church of ,god but by ceasing to live by faith in and obedience to ,jesus ,christ1 or falling into and continuing in sin2 in which case ,god does not and can not continue his blessings upon that soul as before4 ,therefore1 when certain preachers in ,ohio published that ,i had left the church 7which was false1 for they themselves cast me out of their synagog for the crime of preaching real experimental holiness71 they declared the fact that what they worship in the name of the ,church of ,god is only a creature of men1 to which they invite members and report accessions through a different process than that of regeneration1 which is the only means of accession to ,god's church4 ,and when people talk of our having left the church1 because we withdrew last fall from a human corporation called the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god1 they simply show that the devil's counterfeits still pass current with them2 they call that the church which does not answer the ,bible description of the church4 ,oh1 how hard it is to get rid of the marks of the beast1 and the number of his name6 ,the ,bible speaks of churches of ,god in ,galatia1 in ,achaia1 in ,asia1 etc41 but we do not read of any northern1 southern1 eastern or western ,galatian1 ,achaian1 or ,asiatic ,elderships of the church of ,god4 ,you see this thing--,northern ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god--is too long for any use1 so we just take the broad-ax of ,god's ,word and chop it in two between of and the and throw the first part to the moles and bats1 according to the sayings of the prophet4 ,then we have the church of ,god left1 which is the body of ,christ1 the fulness of him that filleth all in all4 ,glory to ,god and the ,lamb1 we are complete in him6 ,if some more would suffer the excision of this useless appendage1 there would be quite a vacuum made for the reception of this fulness4 ,the term ,eldership as used in this case1 is both contradictory in itself and a perversion of ,god's ,word4 ,where the apostle ,paul speaks of laying on of the hands of the presbytery1 the ,bible ,union and some other versions render hands of the eldership1 and ,i think correctly1 too4 ,so ,i accept the word eldership as a ,biblical term4 ,but what is its obvious meaning8 ,simply the elders of the church in one locality1 or in a district1 or country1 as the case may be4 ,to apply it therefore to an organized corporation is a misapplication1 a perversion of one of the words of ,god's ,holy ,book4 ,it is contradictory1 and asserts a falsehood1 because the corporate body to which it is applied is not composed of elders1 but of brothers and sisters1 a few elders1 and without doubt some sinners and backsliders2 so this use of the word changes the truth of ,god into a lie4 ,like every other body that is not identical with the body of ,christ1 this new ,eldership1 as it is often called1 is a rival of the body of ,christ1 and is used by the devil to generate party spirit and sectish bigotry4 ,nothing is more natural than the disposition of carnality to want to get up something besides the glorious church of the ,firstborn4 ,the reason is obvious4 ,christ built his own church1 adds the members1 and spews out the unworthy2 ',he is head over all to his body1 the church1' the only real ruling power1 except as he chooses to execute his will through some of the members4 ,hence this gives no place to aspirants who wish to work up something that men can build1 so as to receive the glory1 and become lords over the work of their hands4 ,as ,sister ,m',creery says in her history of the origin of the ,free ,methodists--during the six years that they were contented to work with a single eye1 and let ,god build up his own church1 and receive all the glory1 the ,spirit was with them in mighty power to save souls1 because they had no craft to look after2 but after they set up the ,free ,methodist idol1 it was all1 ,he 'o he1 go up ,free ,methodism6 ,and ceasing to work exclusively for ,god's kingdom of righteousness1 peace1 and joy in the ,holy ,spirit1 and founding another sect1 that they call ,our ,church1 they necessarily became double-eyed1 and lost the real power of ,god4 ,so after our meeting last fall we heard the call to rally up the party spirit2 and to apologize for the addition of this sect corporation to the several hundred already in the mazes of ,babylon1 it was called the ,northern ,indiana ,eldership of the ,church of ,god1 opposed to ,secret ,societies4 ,just as though the church that ,christ himself founded did not oppose secret societies1 therefore it is necessary to form another body for that purpose4 ,thus every sect on earth is an insult to ,god2 even their formation implies that we are not complete in ,christ1 hence the necessity1 as ,b4 ,t4 ,roberts said1 of our organizing another sect4 ,the ,trumpet's ,new ,year's greeting1 at the dawn of its second year1 has an interesting tone4 ,,new ,,year',s ,,greeting ,to all who may read this ,trumpet1 and especially to all who love the truth1 we send you our brotherly greeting1 a ,happy ,new ,year1 and a heartfelt ,god bless you4 ,our heart overflows with love and gratitude to ,god1 and all his loving saints1 for all the benefits and mercies that filled the expiring year4 ,dearly beloved friends and patrons of the ,trumpet1 and lovers of its hated truth1 we are happy to report from this watch-tower of ,zion that we see nothing but success1 victory1 and glory4 ,a beloved father in ,israel in ,new ,york on first seeing the ,trumpet recently wrote us of his inexpressible gratitude1 and he remarked that he had tried to have one established in ,chicago1 but says he1 ,there was no one interested in the truth1 that seemed to have sufficient means to undertake the project4 ,well1 glory to ,god4 ,he has chosen the weak things1 and the moneyless1 to carry on a work which to all human appearances1 in this sect-loving and idolatrous age1 could not be accomplished without considerable capital1 and on a free basis--the wonderful work of ,god4 ,how has he surprized the hypocrites1 and confounded the prophets of ,babylon6 ,g4 ,d4 ,watson but uttered the predictions and carnal prayers of thousands when he said through an antichrist sheet in this place1 ,brother ,warner can not succeed in that line4 ,what is this but a thrust at ,jesus ,christ6 ,it virtually says to the ,son of ,god3 ,in the prosperity of our churches1 there can be nothing but failure in the attempt to build up ',god's ,church4' ,oh1 these devotees of ,babylon would blot out of existence1 if they could1 the church that ,christ founded over eighteen hundred years ago1 to augment the glory of our great ,methodist ,church founded less than a hundred and fifty years ago6 ,well1 ,brother ,warner may have failed in many respects2 but no man that reads the ,trumpet can deny the fact that ,god and truth have most gloriously triumphed4 ,and the ,trumpet1 too1 through the ,god-approved truth it holds forth1 has proved a glorious success1 notwithstanding the different measures ,satan has devised to hedge up its way4 ,one poor whited sepulcher had the impudence to say with a satanic chuckle1 ,we will crush the ,trumpet and take all ,brother ,warner's subscribers4 ,a gentleman in this city when asked to take the chaff1 and baby-soap1 sheet1 remarked1 ,if you succeed with this paper will it not break down the ,trumpet8 and received the following reply3 ,that's just what we want to do4 ,he told a brother this1 and said he did not think there was much holiness in that1 and did not want the paper4 ,yet one1 ,m4 ,l4 ,haney1 who was canonized at the ,jacksonville convention as the ,patriarch of ,holiness in the ,west and everywhere else1 is so blind that he has twice presumed to intimate that that enterprise might be of ,god1 saying ,if your paper is of ,god4 ,nearly all the professed holiness periodicals have been hauling barrels of water and pouring on the altar of ,god's truth and filling up the trench round about2 but ,god is all the more glorified in this test between the ,trumpet and the prophets of sects4 ,praise his name6 ,the ,gospel ,trumpet has proved ,satan false in more than one way4 ,in all love1 we suggest to all those papers and preachers that have been in the habit of telling the people that separation from the sects invariably results in spiritual death to read the ,trumpet1 then shut their mouths1 and cease their lying against the truth4 ,there is not a sect-endorsing paper in the land that presents as strong array of testimony to clear definite holiness1 ,holy ,ghost power1 wonder-working faith1 and fruitful lives4 ,and we have abundance of live1 glowing reports and experiences that we have not had space to use1 and nearly all have spared us the necessity of telling you that the writers are without the camp of creed factions4 ,we have published numerous expressions of appreciation1 because1 by their strong relish for the truths of the ,trumpet coupled with their vigorous spiritual health and usefulness in ,christ1 they condemn all who reject the food we issue1 as perverted and spiritually diseased4 ,to the former class the ,trumpet is heavenly music2 but to the latter1 it is an annoying sound1 because their hearts and ears are not sufficiently circumcised to endure sound doctrine4 ,the ,trumpet has demonstrated the fact that ,god is able to carry a war against the devil in his strongest1 last1 and most desperate fortress4 ,god has in a remarkable manner heard and answered our prayers2 not always however in the way we expected1 but far better than we imagined4 ,last spring we prayed the ,lord for a more speedy press1 but the furnace of trial through which he brought us was better for our soul than a hundred presses and ten thousand subscribers4 ,glory to the ,god of ,daniel1 and the ,hebrews6 ,oh1 what lessons we have learned in the salt and fire school of ,christ6 ,we would gladly pull the lever of the ,lord's good old hand-press for forty years to come1 rather than have missed those furnace-wrought visions of ,god1 of his church1 and of the great sect abomination4 ,to all the patrons of the ,trumpet1 we would return many thanks for the means you have furnished the ,lord's cause1 and the many appreciated contributions you have sent us by the inspiration of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,you have largely made the paper what it is1 and by your continued labor of love and sacrifice for ,christ's sake you will continue to improve and enlarge the paper and extend its sphere of usefulness4 ,we regard the real testing-point in the ,trumpet as past2 ,god has established the work of our hands4 ,our circulation is steadily increasing2 we have been printing sixteen hundred papers each issue1 sixteen fifty this time1 and we do not have fifty papers left when we get through mailing4 ,the demand for canvassing and sample copies continually increases4 ,to ,babylon and all her concomitants1 we promise nothing but fire1 sword and hammer1 and confounding blasts from the armory of ,god's ,word4 ,we have scarcely begun the bombardment of the wicked harlot city4 ,by the grace of ,god1 we expect to deal with sin and sinners as we never yet have done4 ,some have intimated to us that we have been too personal in rebuking ,church sinners3 but1 before ,god1 we are ashamed of and repent for our mildness and want of personality in the past4 ,and now we give fair warning to hypocrites1 and all whose walk has not been upright before ,god1 that if you don't repent and publish your confession of sin1 the ,lord has made it our duty1 so far as we know1 to expose and rebuke you before all4 ,we know no man after the flesh1 and we seek to please no man4 ,if ,god can not carry on the paper by us seeking only to please ,him1 the ,trumpet will surely be discontinued4 ,but ,god is our sufficiency4 ,i shall not want4 ,for the ,lord ,god will help me2 therefore shall ,i not be confounded2 therefore have ,i set my face like a flint1 and ,i know that ,i shall not be ashamed 7,isa4 #ej3g74 ,while it is our duty to reprove all outward sin1 we must keep the fact prominent that all reform must begin at the heart1 which ,god only can change2 inward transformation is only upon the condition of faith1 and1 therefore1 must be definitely presented in the ,scriptural order of pardon and adoption to the sinner1 and entire sanctification to the believer4 ,we regret that some attempt to beat down the ice-mountain of sect by the hammer of the ,word1 without the melting fire of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,getting people out of the sects any other way than by leading them to ,christ for heart purity and the reception of the ,comforter1 which leads the soul from all sects and into all truth1 is but enlisting men into carnal crusade against ,babylon1 and can result in little good1 and has1 in some instances1 hedged up the way and turned back the tide of ,god's truth more than it will be able to advance it4 ,because the ,bible experience of entire sanctification is the true objective of ,christ's atonement and shed blood1 and because thorough holiness destroys sects and denominations1 as frost would disappear under the beams of the ,june sun1 and as the promotion of true holiness is the only remedy for schisms and every other form of sin in the body of professed ,christians1 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-purity4 ,we ask the cooperation and prayers of all true saints of ,god1 who love the freedom of ,christ ,jesus our ,savior4 ,the truths of the reformation were disseminated largely by the ,gospel ,trumpet1 and in many parts of the country there were those with whom its teachings found a hearty welcome4 ,a few bits of correspondence addressed to ,brother ,warner and taken from the ,trumpet of early in #ahhb are here presented4 ,i like the ,trumpet very well2 hope it may sound out long1 loud1 and clear to call the people back to the old paths1 the good way4 ,yes1 truly it is the good way1 the strait and narrow way1 the new and living way1 and the high and holy way4 ,you may count me a subscriber as long as the ,trumpet sticks to the ,bible4 ,your brother purified and being tried1 ,e4 ,b4 ,b4 ,he keeps them that put their trust in him4 ,i pray ,god the time may soon come when ,christians shall be united as one in ,christ ,jesus1 the living ,head1 and throw away all divisions1 taking ,christ for their head and having their names enrolled on ,god's book in heaven4 ,may the ,lord bless all the saints4 ,may ,god bless you1 ,sister ,warner1 in giving up part of your house in order that the ,gospel ,trumpet may still be printed4 ,oh1 we can't give up the ,trumpet6 ,oh1 that ,i could do something6 ,i will do what ,i can to help you4 ,the ,trumpet must go on4 ,enclosed find the widow's mite4 ,l4 ,b4 ,we are strangers1 never have seen each other1 yet we know each other by the ,spirit that is given us4 ,i am glad you have grace enough to run the ,gospel ,trumpet without any visible means4 ,they that overcome inherit all things4 ,the ,lord will not forsake you in the work4 ,he will help you to carry it through4 ,i gladly send you one dollar and would gladly send you more if ,i could at present4 ,i have no love for sects in my soul4 ,l4 ,m4 ,success crown your labor of love in the kingdom and patience of ,jesus4 ,may sectarianism totter and fall to its very base1 and glory and unity fill ,god's kingdom of peace and righteousness4 ,god grant that the trumpet of salvation may continue to sound its certain blasts1 until ,babylon be overthrown by the power of ,god and truth4 ,mrs4 ,l4 ,l4 and ,eld4 ,j4 ,m4 ,god bless you abundantly4 ,amen4 ,my heart is with you to do the whole will of ,god1 regardless of great or small men1 bigots1 or devils4 ,t4 ,f4 ,d4 ,i have received two numbers of the ,trumpet2 the sentiments therein taught are mine and have been for fifteen years4 ,my wife stands with me4 ,let the ,trumpet continue to sound louder and louder1 until the walls of sectarian ,jericho fall4 ,j4 ,c4 ,a4 ,the more ,i deepen in ,christ1 the better ,i understand the doctrine ,brother ,warner advocates2 and the more ,i understand the doctrine advocated and acquaint myself with the early history of the ,friends1 the greater similarity ,i find between the two4 ,he does not insist upon entire separation from the world in every form stronger than they did4 ,f4 ,w4 ,god bless you and yours and the great and glorious work in which you are engaged4 ,would like to help you scatter pure gospel truth without isms or man-made walls4 ,the ,lord hasten on the day when they shall all fall to rise no more4 ,glory to ,god6 ,yours saved1 ,j4 ,l4 ,k4 ,in the issue of ,jan4 #af1 #ahhb1 ,brother ,warner answers a number of criticisms by contemporary editors4 ,,to ,,our ,,contemporaries ,modern come-outism1 or1 better said1 no-churchism4 ,we hold that uniting with the people of ,god in church fellowship1 even of our own choice1 does not necessarily constitute us sectarians4 --,gospel ,banner4 ,in all love we would ask our kind ,brother ,brenneman to inform us of those modern no-church men of whom he speaks2 give us the address of any man professing godliness who believes in and claims membership in no church4 ,second4 ,is the body of ,christ no church8 ,third4 ,if there is any way to get into the church besides ,christ and through the ,holy ,spirit--if the church is something that men open the door of and admit members into--please give us thus saith the ,lord for it4 ,fourth4 ,if uniting with one party or sect of the professed people of ,god does not constitute one a sectarian1 then why should union with a ,masonic lodge constitute a man a ,freemason8 ,fifth4 ,if a person is in ,christ ,jesus1 is he not in the church1 and is he not already joined to all others that are joined to the ,lord8 ,pure ,religion very smartly1 as she supposes1 ranks come-outers with all other sects1 by which she virtually admits that they are as good as the others1 and then says that it takes the following elements to make a good come-outer3 #a4 ,it is necessary that the person be turned out of some church1 meaning of course one of those other sects1 for a little sober1 candid reflection upon the ,bible will show any person that such remarks can not apply to the true church at all2 for the ,lord added to the church daily such as should be or1 were being saved1 and 'no man or ecclesiastical court can pluck them out of his hand4' ,if the editress of ,pure ,religion were half as zealous to know what the ,bible teaches as she is to exhibit her wit1 she would doubtless have learned that the church is not something that men organize and admit members into1 but that it is a holy temple in the ,lord1 ,god's building1 ,god's husbandry4 #b4 ,the editress thinks that to be a good come-outer the person should have a small stock of religion and quite a good stock of ignorance4 ,we presume that she did not consider that in those words she condemned as nearly graceless and very ignorant such men as ,luther1 ,melancthon1 ,fox1 and ,wesley1 who at the very time when they stood out of and condemned all sects and did not contemplate joining or forming any1 wielded their greatest power for ,god4 ,the ,good ,way recently informed us that ,wesley never contemplated the forming of a sect4 ,what was he then but a come-outer8 ,it is an undeniable fact upon record that he deplored the unhappy divisions and parties of ,christendom4 ,it is the uniform testimony of the history of the ,reformation that every reform effort was attended by a much greater power and demonstration of the ,spirit of ,god before it culminated in a new sect than ever was manifest in that sect afterward4 ,i think ,i can safely challenge a single exception to this fact4 ,during ten years labor in the denomination that grew out of the labors of ,j4 ,winebrenner and his coworkers1 it was the constant admission of the old fathers and mothers that no such power of ,god had been witnessed in that body as was before they assumed and received the name of another religious denomination4 ,the same is true of early ,methodism1 and in a remarkable manner is it true of the ,free ,methodists4 ,let me give you a few extracts from the ,history of the ,origin of ,free ,methodism1 by ,sister ,sidney ,m',creery1 who with her husband1 ,joseph ,m',creery1 was associated with ,b4 ,t4 ,roberts and ,william ,kendall from the beginning of the great holiness revival that resulted in their separation from the ,methodist ,episcopal sect4 ,hence she testifies what she knows and declares what she has seen4 ,the record is that for six years they worked and prospered wonderfully under the power of ,god and freedom from all sect yokes1 and that from the formation of a new sect by ,b4 ,t4 ,roberts the glory departed from the ,nazarites1 as they had been called4 ,she says3 ,b4 ,t4 ,roberts in his discipline says the ,free ,methodist organization was a necessity4 ,was it8 ,let the hundreds testify who were so wonderfully and lovingly united together in the ,holy ,ghost4 ,the truth is this3 ,god's heritage and work were spoiled by the laying on of man's hands4 ,while enjoying this spiritual fellowship all was peace and harmony and the work of conversion went on1 the saints rejoiced1 and the sectarian devil was mad1 sinners in ,zion were afraid and trembled as they saw the weakest saint upon his knees4 ,b4 ,t4 ,roberts started out with a trap in hand1 making a new test of fellowship4 ,he visited far and wide among the live pilgrims1 preaching sect fellowship as the one thing needful1 and that they could go no further without it4 ,in most cases it took them by surprize4 ,they examined themselves and reasoned thus3 ,we are already in fellowship with the ,father1 ,son1 and ,holy ,ghost1 and in holy spiritual fellowship with the saints1 and ,god has given us the victory again and again while fighting against the unholy sects4 ,what can the sect yoke do for us8 ,we are now free to go everywhere preaching and teaching in the name of ,jesus4 ,thus many stood out for a while4 ,oh1 what robbery1 what treachery1 to pervert and use this work of ,god1 which began so gloriously1 to the building up of a carnal and selfish organism6 ,at every gathering1 large or small1 the sect yoke was presented and held forth as 'the cross'4 ,my husband was satisfied with ,god's way of ordering the battle2 yea1 more than satisfied2 he rejoiced and was exceeding glad to see the prosperity of ,zion in our midst4 ,while ,b4 ,t4 ,r4 said in action by the formation of his sect1 ',i have suffered enough reproach and shame2 ,i will number ,israel and become as other nations1' then the work of building up 'our church' commenced4 ,how the enemy triumphed6 ,at all the gatherings the spirit of sectarian zeal was worked up to the highest pitch1 and so fulfiling the scripture which saith1 ',who changed the truth of ,god into a lie1 and worshiped and served the creature more than the ,creator1 who is blessed for ever4'444 ,and today he 7,b4 ,t4 ,r47 has no more influence than any other sect bishop1 whereas he was once a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them who did well4 ,from this time the battle of the ,lord ceased and the enemies rejoiced4 ,some who remember the former days of liberty and power ask ,b4 ,t4 ,r4 why the same power is not manifested now as formerly4 ,he answers on this wise3 ,god then gave the people a special blessing for a special work4 ,very good2 but why not continue under these special blessings and in this special work8 ,what an absurdity1 what inconsistency to build another sect in order to go through the same variations and evolutions of its predecessors6 ,was it pleasing in the sight of ,god to manufacture another class of backsliders8 ,was it a necessity8 ,wherever ,i go ,i find the burden of ,free ,methodist preaching is to backslidden membership1 whereas before its formation--while they remained in ,god's order1 where he placed them--every man1 woman1 and child was able to do a full day's work4 ,in visiting many places ,i find them 7the ,f4 ,m4's7 nearly1 if not quite1 extinct4 ,in missionary fields the work takes well for a season1 but when they begin proselyting and making it a 'necessity' to gather them into their peck measure1 then the ,lord leaves them to themselves4 ,as ,i am passing through the land ,i often meet with those with whom ,i was acquainted during the war of the ,lord1 and immediately they refer to the former days of power and salvation and say1 ',we don't have such meetings nowadays2 ,i would go a long distance to enjoy such privilege4' ,we might multiply quotations1 but these will suffice to show the fact that the formation of sects is the destruction of ,christianity4 ,thus it is an undeniable fact1 that when men enjoyed the stigmatized come-out stock of ignorance1 they have been used of ,god far more than after they suddenly became wise 787 in building up a wall about themselves or entering a sect pen built by some one else4 ,the ,vanguard calls coming out of ,babylon a kind of spiritual rash2 and ,pure ,religion and ,gath ,rimmon both think that very smart1 and serve it up to their readers4 ,may the ,lord forgive this lightness4 ,had we not better look into the ,word of ,god and see what the ,lord saith1 than to indulge in mere witticisms8 ,does the ,word of ,god teach that it is a spiritual rash to belong to ,christ alone and hold only to him1 the head over all things to the church1 which is his body1 the fulness of him that filleth all in all8 ,was ,christ afflicted with a spiritual rash when he said1 ,there shall be one fold and one shepherd8 ,was that the infirmity that ,paul had when he said 'there should be no schisms in the body'--no ,methodist schism1 no ,wesleyan schism1 no ,free ,methodist bond schism1 nor ,united ,brethren2 yea1 no schism8 ,now1 brethren1 if you dare drop the scales from your eyes and look squarely at the ,holy ,bible1 you must admit that every one of those sect organizations which you call churches are schisms1 just what ,god condemns and forbids4 ,unless you are shamefully blind1 you know it to be the truth and nothing but the truth1 and your slurs and sarcasms can not revoke that truth nor enable you to stand when you are judged by it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,there are other exchanges that have uttered hard things against the ,rock on which ,i stand4 ,now1 ,i simply want you to know what you are doing1 then if you wish to continue kicking against the goads1 you may do so4 ,do you believe that ,christ purchased and founded one church of the living ,god8 ,do you believe that the body of ,christ is the church8 ,do you believe that ,christ is the only door to the church1 and that by him if any man enter he shall be saved8 ,do you believe that the ,holy ,spirit sets the members in the body1 the church8 ,do you believe there should be no schisms in the body8 ,do you believe that believers are made perfect in one and that thorough holiness destroys sects and denominations8 ,do you believe that 'divisions and offences are contrary to the doctrine we have received' of ,christ8 ,do you believe that ,christians should not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers8 ,in the name of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ ,i ask any paper to speak out and tell me which of these points you dispute4 ,and if you say you believe them all1 as some of you have1 then ,i ask1 ,why do you object to my believing the same8 for that is just what ,i believe4 ,the only difference is1 ,i act consistently with my faith1 while you say and do not4 ,you admit there is but one church of ,god1 still you think hard of me for not allowing that all your churches are of ,god4 ,this is ,god's truth and you can not deny it4 ,you say that sects are wrong1 but advise ,god's children to continue in the wrong4 ,i claim that sects are wrong1 and therefore say1 ,come out from among them1 as saith the ,lord4 ,men professing godliness should act consistently with their belief4 ,if you believe that ,christ is divided and there are many folds1 many bodies1 many ,lords1 many faiths1 instead of one fold1 one body1 one ,lord1 and one faith1 then you may consistently with your faith antagonize the ,gospel ,trumpet2 but you must abide the consequences of fighting against ,god's ,word4 ,and remember this1 that in the day of judgment it will do you no good to have put false colors on the truth you are opposing4 ,you will not plead before the bar of ,god that ,i taught no-churchism1 no organization1 etc4 ,if you are ignorant of the ,trumpet's teaching1 you will be condemned before ,god for opposing and speaking evil of the things you do not understand4 ,you should hold your peace until you know what you are talking about4 ,if you do know what we--myself and contributors--teach1 you know that every paper insists on organization1 the very organization set forth in the ,new ,testament1 and you do know that we all advocate the church1 and never have encouraged anybody to leave her2 but we chose to learn from the simple ,word of ,god what the church is1 and not from your ,dark ,age creeds and confused tongues4 ,now1 all you who have lifted up your heel against ,christ and his body1 the only true church in heaven and earth1 have done so because you have some sect idol in your heart and can not receive the truth or endure sound doctrine1 or else you have not the moral courage to assault the devil in his stronghold of divisions4 ,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 sects8 ,i pity your sad confusion4 ,may ,god give you all repentance to the acknowledging of the truth4 ,an editorial in the ,july #be number answers an objection by the editor of the ,sword4 ,,that',s ,,right ,brother ,dolan makes a sweeping cut with his ,sword like this3 ,sectism is of the devil1 and no-sectism is of the devil4 ,amen4 ,that's true4 ,an ism spirit may attach itself to any principle1 false or true4 ,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 tradition4 ,whether men worship the moon or an idol of their own make1 it is an equal insult to ,god2 and whether men worship a gospel principle1 or a doctrine of devils1 is of little if any difference in the sight of ,god4 ,either case is idolatry2 because ,christ is supplanted as the center by something else either subordinate or foreign4 ,when men get a chronic lopsidedness1 so that they will scan greedily over a paper and drop it as soon as they see nothing on their hobby1 whether it be sect or antisect1 ,sabbath or antisabbath1 or anything else1 notwithstanding it may contain much good1 pure food1 many blessed thoughts about ,jesus1 they have put something else in the place of ,christ1 and their religion runs about like a grindstone with its axis near the outer circumference and passing diagonally through the stone4 ,we once heard a ,disciple preacher say that every sect that holds some truth that no other sect holds1 has a right to its existence4 ,this provides for as many sects as there are truths in the religion of ,christ2 but ,god allows no schism in the body4 ,nothing but the exclusive 'holding the ,head1' 'seeing ,jesus only1' and the full enjoyment and constant praising of the beauty of holiness1 can keep us from all isms4 ,a selection from the ,vanguard1 copied in the ,trumpet shows the spiritual state into which a number of leading holiness editors had by this time drifted because of a failure to follow as ,god was leading4 ,,backslidden ,brother ,brooks in the last number of the ,banner 7and his authority as the oldest holiness editor in the country can not be doubted7 says that the aggressiveness has gone out of the holiness movement1 and ceasing to be aggressive it is a dying thing4 ,in most places its numbers are decreasing1 only a few accessions4 ,well1 he tells the truth4 ,the holiness people as a general thing through the country are backslidden from ,god4 ,a large per cent of them never had anything but a reclaimed backslidden experience to leave4 ,they got back to ,god and called it by the new name of holiness1 taught to do so by superficial teachers that wanted to swell the ,banner reports4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the chief cause of this awful declension that has rolled back the tide of the salvation of the world a decade is that the editors and evangelists1 failing to become more and more aggressive at every point against sin in the church and out1 especially among holiness people1 have backslidden as a class4444 ,brother ,brooks told me he could not put radical truth into the ,banner without ,brother ,haney and ,brother ,kent and other such temporizers writing and denouncing him2 so ,brother ,brooks would yield and backslide from ,holy ,ghost power4 ,bro4 ,isaiah ,reid told ,brother ,sherman he did not want anything in his paper that would indicate that the holiness people were not all right2 he was planning to have the ,highway as a support for his old age4 ,a year ago he called for a thousand firemen in the holiness work as the only thing needed4 ,he has spent his energies this year in regulating the fiery come-outers from wrecking the train1 and evidently wants the oaks of ,bashan slashed down with a little hatchet1 and not with a broadax4 ,rams' horns1 goad sticks1 and the unsectarian jaw-bone of an ass ,philistine-killer1 he evidently does not take much stock in4 ,brothers ,inskip and ,macdonald are not square on the ,freemason question and are churchy4 ,while the shell remains in part of radical holiness1 that only is the real thing1 much of the spirit is gone4 ,you may call it fault-finding1 sour godliness1 or whatever you please1 these are ,god's facts about your case4 ,you know the whole batch of you are afraid to throw red-hot truth uncompromisingly everywhere4 ,we except from this catalog ,baker and ,arnold of the ,free ,methodist1 ,warner of the ,trumpet1 ,johnson of the ,stumbling ,stone 7if he had the ,holy ,ghost71 and the ,sword1 and some others4 ,now ,brother editors and evangelists1 suffer the word of exhortation from a jaw-bone1 break up your fallow ground1 do your first works1 burn up ,haney's chapter on dress1 not resolve against it2 pay your debts1 or go and acknowledge them at least2 cease to print such dawdle as ,brother ,bryant's church holiness writings2 seek for and get the ,holy ,ghost again2 and lead the people up into the land4 --,vanguard4 ,satanic forces were arrayed against the reformation work in every conceivable way1 not only by mobs and undisguised1 professional evil 7though this form of attack was usually instigated by the sectarian element71 but also by deception--by teachers and editors who were apparently right on some main question in order to deceive1 but wrong on some other vital points4 ,a writer in the ,trumpet points out one of these destructive agencies4 ,a ,,destructive ,,heresy ,by ,d4 ,w4 ,m',laughlin ,there is an eternal antagonism between true holiness and fanaticism in all its phases1 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 teaching4 ,the ,spirit and the ,word agree1 and the ,holy ,spirit moves and works in harmony with the written ,word and never contrary thereto4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the writer has been receiving from time to time during the last four years copies of the ,stumbling ,stone1 and while much truth is found in its columns as to the evils of sect divisions1 the destructive heresy of ,count ,zinzendorf 7that sanctification is not subsequent to regeneration7 is held with inveterate opposition to the gospel order4 ,consequently1 from this standpoint1 the holiness movement is of the devil1 and the second-grace ,christians are in need of the first grace4 ,the ,stumbling ,stone seems to attack every movement extant1 even to the ,salvation ,army1 as well as all holiness associations and bands for the promotion of entire sanctification4 ,even the position of the ,gospel ,trumpet he calls a holiness schism1 because the editor makes a distinction between justified and sanctified believers4 ,and he proposes to kick ,brother ,warner's justification cobhouse into pi1 by which he exhibits his ignorance of the real plan of salvation4 ,he might as well talk of kicking ,god's ,word into pi as to overthrow the two distinct works of grace1 justification and sanctification4444 ,by the above and similar remarks the ,stumbling ,stone editor reveals the antagonism in his heart to the second grace in the ,bible economy of salvation4 ,now1 my honest conviction is that a come-outism that sets itself squarely against holiness as a definite experience subsequent to pardon1 is surely of the devil4 ,it is a fact that wholly saved souls who are spiritual and discerning men detect at once the carnality in such persons1 and1 quite naturally1 are led to conclude that if such spirits are the fruits of come-outism ,i will have nothing to do with it4 ,thus1 this spurious antiholiness come-outism is a snare of ,satan to deter honest souls from separating from sectism1 leaving them under the pressure of unholy corporations1 which often results in compromise and the loss of the ,spirit of ,god4 ,a come-outism that sets itself to fighting the sects in a vindictive spirit1 condemning and unchristianizing all who do not at once come out1 can not be of ,god4 ,let us lead the children of ,god to the true apostolic unity1 but never attempt to drive them out of ,babylon2 and1 above all things1 let us keep sweet and deal kindly with persons who1 under the blinding influence of sectarian education1 can not yet see the sin of sects1 and the true church of ,god4 ,sound teaching1 in connection with the come-out movement1 is of the utmost importance4 ,false doctrinal theories and extravagant notions cause untold disaster to the cause we represent4444 ,in the issue of ,may #a1 #ahhc1 when the ,trumpet was yet printed at ,cardington1 ,ohio1 ,brother ,warner speaks of how the cause was sifted at that place4 ,,salt ,,in ,,cardington ,god's cause has passed through a terrible sifting in this place4 ,all the powers of darkness and of ,satan's hellish rage have been let loose upon the few loyal1 holy little ones here4 ,wicked sect members have boasted that this cause was crushed out4 ,one ,methodist son of ,belial1 steeped in tobacco and the poison smoke of his torment1 has even boasted through the secular press that he had succeeded in putting down holiness4 ,a ,quaker preacher and family have let their tongues run with the base1 vulgar1 and profane of the place in speaking against this way4 ,but bless ,god1 the devil is sadly mistaken4 ,several souls have recently become established1 unblameable in holiness4 ,the ,lord is with us in power1 the hidden ones have four meetings every week1 and ,god is wonderfully blessing us4 ,in the chapter on the ,gospel ,trumpet we have already referred to the trying ordeal through which ,brother ,warner had to pass while the ,publishing ,office was in ,bucyrus1 ,ohio1 in #ahhc4 ,a general assembly of the saints in ,ohio was announced to be held on ,friday1 ,november #i4 ,the place was ,annapolis 7now called ,sulphur ,springs71 seven miles northeast of ,bucyrus4 ,in ,brother ,warner's call to this first general assembly in ,ohio he wrote as follows3 ,we expect to see a large turnout of the saints of the living ,god from ,van ,wert1 ,paulding1 and ,wood ,counties1 and some from eastern ,ohio2 and come ye1 dear ones1 from ,pennsylvania4 ,come1 ,o ye sanctified hosts of the ,lord6 ,let us eat together in the name of our ,chief ,shepherd and only ,head and ,leader4 ,come in the power of the ,spirit2 come to have the spiritual gifts stirred up and strengthened2 come to sharpen each other as iron sharpeneth iron and to have the faith once delivered to the saints developed in us up to the ,bible standard2 come to make a more perfect consecration4 ,come1 ,o ye lame and halt and blind and deaf1 for the power of the ,lord will be present to heal all who believe on him4 ,come1 ,o ye sufferers1 and give yourselves up to the mighty ,god and be made whole4 ,come1 poor sinners1 and be saved in the day of his power4 ,come1 ,o ye poor and wayward ,christians1 and have your hearts established unblameable in holiness4 ,come1 ye who are in bondage of sect captivity1 and learn your way out of the wilderness unto the city that is set upon a hill1 which hath foundations1 and whose builder and maker is ,god4 ,come from far and near1 whoever seeks the old paths and the peace of ,jerusalem4 ,come1 for the little ones will make you welcome2 yea1 the ,spirit and the bride say1 ,come1 and whosoever will1 let him take of the water of life freely4 ,little did he realize1 when giving this invitation and bold promise of such benefit to all who should have any need of the divine favor1 that ,satan would come also with various forms of deception and attempt to divert the reformation movement into false channels and to so confuse the truth with clouds of error and fanaticism that men may not see it4 ,the meeting began on ,friday evening at ,conlay ,bethel1 some distance in the country from ,bucyrus4 ,saturday1 the second day1 was appointed a fast day4 ,the first conflict came with some elements of fanaticism manifested by three men from ,van ,wert and ,paulding ,counties1 who believed it wrong to wear collars1 collar buttons1 lace1 eye-glasses1 etc41 and confessed that they came to the meeting purposely to make ,brother ,warner and the other saints take off these things4 ,they were a great interruption of the meeting until ,brother ,warner finally rebuked them4 ,after this they feigned great humility4 ,they prostrated themselves on three sides of the table behind which ,brother ,warner was preaching1 and would moan and groan during his discourse4 ,on ,saturday evening the meeting was moved to the hall at ,annapolis4 ,here another element was met4 ,l4 ,h4 ,johnson1 who published in ,toledo a paper called the ,stumbling ,stone1 had arrived and even before the evening service began had mounted a wagon and begun to teach his false doctrine4 ,he rejected the ,new ,testament ordinances and also opposed sanctification as a second work of grace1 though he was also on the anti-sectarian line4 ,he was very bold to break in on the meeting with his harangue against the true way1 which he did particularly on ,sunday4 ,on ,sunday evening the saints1 wishing to get away from the confusing and delusive elements1 withdrew to a private house where they felt they had escaped from the atmosphere impregnated with devils1 and where the meeting continued victoriously all night--until #e ,a4,m4 ,on the next day1 ,monday1 at #a ,p4,m4 the meeting was held at another private house4 ,this time the deceiving elements appeared and undertook to get the upper hand4 ,the saints1 being forbidden in the ,scriptures to have any fellowship with devils1 withdrew to another room1 where the meeting progressed peacefully4 ,one sister ventured to stay in the room occupied by the false teachers4 ,she was suddenly seized by the awful powers of darkness and she felt she was lost4 ,to a sister who came to her she said1 ,oh1 ,i feel so bad2 take me to the altar6 ,she was led to the saints' apartment1 where she bowed at the altar and soon began to manifest a frightful appearance4 ,she jerked and cried1 ,i have a devil2 stay away from me6 ,her face blackened and twitched with frightful contortions1 her eyes glared1 her tongue darted out like a serpent's1 and when any one approached her1 she would spit and claw furiously4 ,hands were laid on her and she was instantly delivered and clothed in her right mind4 ,this was but one of the many remarkable manifestations4 ,the meeting ended on ,tuesday evening1 and on the whole with victory on ,god's side1 but it had been a trying time indeed4 ,brother ,warner devoted a whole page of the ,trumpet to the report of this ,assembly4 ,we quote the beginning of the report3 ,we have never been called upon to portray any meeting that so transcends our powers of description4 ,we can now better understand the language of ,john when he said that if all the works of ,christ had been written1 ,i suppose the world could not contain the books4 ,a full account of the meeting would make quite a volume4 ,for some time we felt that the meeting would be one of unusual interest4 ,as we received intelligence of the saints' coming from time to time1 the ,spirit of ,god was poured upon our soul1 insomuch that we could not restrain the praises of ,god as we walked the streets4 ,and their coming was as the heavens bowed to earth4 ,our little habitation was thronged most of the day on ,friday1 and in the evening we all went to the ,conlay ,bethel1 where the meeting began4 ,since the first assembly in ,michigan1 where ,satan was also loosed and a terrible conflict ensued1 resulting in his being cast out1 all the meetings of the sanctified and free saints of ,god that we have attended have been blessed with great unity and peace2 and as there were such a host coming to this assembly1 all of which we knew were of one mind and one heart in the truth and ,spirit of ,christ1 and most of whom had never met before1 we looked for a meeting that would be a sample of the reign of heaven4 ,how apt we are to forget that we are still in the field of battle1 and that ,satan is now loosed for a little season1 having great wrath because he knows his time is short6 ,in the very first meeting we felt that ,satan had also gathered his angels together where the sons of ,god came to worship the ,god of the ,bible 7,job4 #a3f74 ,certain of the brethren and sisters had been previously shown by visions some of the things that occurred at this meeting4 ,the ,lord was on the side of his saints and vindicated the righteousness of his cause by manifesting himself in their meetings as well as to their spiritual consciousness4 ,outwardly1 of course1 the meeting bore an aspect of confusion2 but ,brother ,warner learned to see the good in everything4 ,referring1 at a later date1 to this assembly1 he said3 ,this providential bringing together of the children of light and the powers of darkness has proved a great blessing to the saints in that it has clearly brought to light which side men occupy4 ,the ,bucyrus assembly was but one engagement with the forces that at this time had gathered to oppose and overthrow the reformation work which ,brother ,warner and the ,trumpet had begun4 ,other instruments were to figure in the struggle1 and another terrific battle was soon to follow4 ,there were two prominent holiness teachers who were not in sympathy with ,brother ,warner's position regarding sects4 ,they opposed the coming out from denominationalism4 ,r4 ,s4 ,stockwell was a young minister who had helped in the meetings and who had been loved and respected by both ,brother ,warner and ,sister ,warner1 but had become exalted in himself and deceived1 and had sprung a very pernicious doctrine1 the doctrine of marital celibacy4 ,he held that the sex relation was carnal2 that when a person was fully cleansed1 the love for a husband or wife was no more than the love for any one else2 especially1 that if a husband and wife were not in harmony it would be wrong for them to maintain the conjugal relation or be to each other anything more than to any one else2 and that they would have more love for others with whom they were in harmony than for their own companion1 etc4 ,the attainment along this line was an advanced experience1 a sort of third work of grace4 ,sister ,warner was a splendid woman and had been a faithful companion to her husband4 ,she had borne her part well in the arduous duties of their evangelical career4 ,but there had come in some disorder that had begun to affect their fellowship4 ,brother ,warner mentions it thus in his ,meditations4 ,first there appeared mysteriously withal1 ,some leprous spots on our domestic wall4 ,the plague soon marred our holy fellowship1 ,then ate like moth the threads of love that knit ,our hearts and souls in sweet connubial bliss1 ,and made us one in sympathetic flesh4 ,it is probable that this would have been but temporary had not deceiving forces combined to turn her mind and estrange her from her husband4 ,she came from a well-to-do family1 and it is possible that the contrast of a life more or less destitute of physical comfort had some weight with her at this time and made her susceptible to the suggestion that perhaps the ,trumpet could be more successfully managed in the hands of some one else4 ,there were those who were desirous of taking it over and had the means to invest in it4 ,under ,stockwell's instruction she endeavored to consecrate for the third work1 and under his enamoring influence the enemy took advantage of her state of mind1 and she came into affinity with spirits that antagonized the work that the ,lord had been accomplishing through her and her husband4 ,once in the hands of these enemies1 the flying roll1 which had begun to carry messages of salvation to thousands1 would of course have to cease its mission4 ,a league of babel spirits1 though dissimilar in character1 comprising free-love1 antiordinance1 anti-second-work1 and anti-come-out elements1 had united against ,brother ,warner4 ,in a meeting at a private house in ,bucyrus1 ,stockwell1 who had begun to assume a papal-like authority1 gave those assembled about an hour's harangue1 which was like a gathering storm about to break on ,brother ,warner4 ,there were peculiar manifestations at this meeting4 ,on a lounge lay a woman of frightful appearance1 her face drawn1 her eyes sunken1 and she was uttering moans4 ,another1 a man with distorted limbs and scowling countenance1 also gave evidence of an attack upon his body by some supernatural power4 ,it was claimed by ,stockwell that these were divine evidences that some one needed to be set right2 just who1 the ,lord would make known4 ,each began to say1 ,lord1 is it ,i8 ,brother ,warner had been asking the ,lord for wisdom and had been shown that after some trial of suffering he would be able to take ,god himself for his wisdom4 ,now1 since his wife had taken sides with others who held that he was not right1 and since he was ready to suspect himself as being in error rather than his wife1 he felt that possibly they were right in their contention that the error lay with him4 ,in his intense eagerness to be right with ,god and have the blessing of fellowship restored in his family1 he became a victim4 ,he bowed before them ,a suppliant1 in that infernal maze1 ,to evil spirits' much elated gaze4 ,his critics gathered around him and waited with agonizing groans while ,stockwell pried into his consecration and asked whether he was willing to sell the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,they said they felt that such was ,god's will and that if he was not able to see it he should be wise and act upon their judgment1 and that his soul would be blessed in so doing4 ,brother ,warner consented1 but reserved one condition--that should ,god1 ere the transfer be made1 interdict the order and show him differently1 he of course would obey ,god4 ,they said1 ,no1 but that 'if' you must leave out4 ,finally he was persuaded to drop the if4 ,then the agonies of those who1 it was claimed1 were groaning for him1 ceased and gave place to fiendish laughter1 as they supposed ,god's flying roll was taken4 ,this was the crisis that had come upon his soul2 this the price he had to pay for a decision to preach uncompromisingly the truth that should create a shudder in the ranks of hell and work a reformation in the world4 ,opposing forces had succeeded in getting him to consent to give up the ,trumpet and yield to the suggestion that he was not right4 ,but the promised blessings did not come to his soul2 on the contrary he was plunged into spiritual darkness4 ,he had weakened and given over his sacred trust4 ,what a night of suffering followed6 ,only with the morning that swept away the horrors of night came a spiritual illumination and consequent victory4 ,his very disappointment had brought reason to its throne and changed the aspect of the situation4 ,and the ,lord broke the satanic spell1 filled his soul with peace1 and enlightened his understanding as to the devilish powers that had been seeking to crush his soul4 ,he went to the little publishing office1 bowed in thankfulness1 renewed his covenant1 and was swallowed up completely in ,god once more4 ,he then felt that he could henceforth take the ,lord for his wisdom against all the suggestions of men or devils transformed as angels of light4 ,but now he began to realize that his trueness to ,god would mean the sacrifice of his own bosom companion4 ,this1 then1 should be the lingering phase of his sorrow4 ,for about one week the battle alternated between victory and the attacks of hell4 ,morning would bring apparent release1 and ,satan's hosts would flee1 only to renew the conflict when the shadows of evening gathered around him4 ,his strength wore away4 ,he prayed that he might be comforted by some friend1 if one were left4 ,there was a brother1 a ,john ,n4 ,slagle1 whom ,god had reserved and who had expressed to ,brother ,warner a forewarning of some trouble4 ,this brother came to him and took him to his home1 seven miles in the country1 where was enjoyed a sweet sleep and a respite from the storm's rage4 ,the poem ,meditations on the ,prairie1 is very touching in its description of these experiences4 ,what this humble servant of ,god had to pass through in this trying ordeal only ,one can know4 ,in one long sleepless night of parching fever and inward pain a portion of his hair suddenly turned grey4 ,what wonder that the ,trumpet during this period was sometimes late in reaching its readers or that for four months it failed to appear at all6 ,illustration3 ,john ,n4 ,slagle1 befriender of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner ,illustration3 ,sidney1 only living child of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner ,with repeated endeavor ,brother ,warner tried to win back his alien wife4 ,they had one child1 a boy of three years4 ,he had fears that he should have to be separated from the child also2 but it seemed the mother's affection for both husband and child had forever flown4 ,she wrote her husband that he could come and get the child for aught she cared4 ,the train that bore us onward to that son ,seemed slow that day1 so very slow to run4 ,we met1 and lo1 upon his little face ,a famine of parental love we trace4 ,three days we tarried there in strong appeal ,that ,god would make that woman's heart to feel ,one touch of love1 yea1 but one precious beam ,of fond affection where a living stream ,once issued forth to bless our happy home1 ,but now1 alas1 congealed in icy zone4 ,in vain was wished one moment's private talk2 ,at last 'twas begged that we together walk ,outside the city1 where repose the dead1 ,in silence slumb'ring in their narrow bed1 ,and where1 between two virgal evergreens1 ,a little mound more dear than any seems3 ,the grave of our ,levilla ,modest child1 ,on whose sweet brow but three bright summers smiled4 ,she was her mother's idol and firstborn1 ,her childish virtues memory still adorn4 ,but this request she coolly yet declined1 ,as if no love to living or dead remained4 ,then1 taking that one warm and little hand1 ,we slowly walked to where cold marbles stand4 ,dear ,sidney chatted merrily on the way ,not knowing what within our bosom lay3 ',twas hard to answer to his prattling words ,with but the tearful tribute grief affords4 ,poor child6 ,god bless him6 ,we devoutly pray ,he ne'er may feel what father felt that day4 ,we came to where there had been laid to rest ,the form1 now cold1 that we had known was blessed ,to hold a pure and lovely spirit-bud ,that went to blossom in the home of ,god4 ,and there beside the foot of that small mound ,we knelt in prayer upon the turfy ground4 ,dear ,sidney--bless the child--rememb'ring how ,in family worship he was wont to bow ,close to our side in sweet becoming grace1 ,he gently came and now resumed his place4 ,his tender heart beat with devotion there ,as soft his name was breathed in fervent prayer4 ,but oh1 that hour6 what deep emotions rose6 ,no earthly language could our heart disclose4 ,for our child's dear sake some feeble words were used1 ,but they failed to carry what was inward mused4 ,oh6 how our heart longed for the poet's flight ,to sing relief to deep affection's blight4 ,when touched emotions ripe like a swelling flood ,and merge the soul1 oh6 it is then we would ,that some kind angel could but lend his harp ,to start the flowing of a surcharged heart4 ,but mundane language gave no wings to thought2 ,our feelings could in tears alone flow out4 ,brother ,warner endeavored to regard this alienation of his wife as ,providential4 ,he took it all for good and felt that by it he would experience all the more of ,heaven's riches in his soul4 ,through the kindness of a brother who happened to have a copy of the ,christian ,harvester of ,may #a1 #ahhd1 we are able to give to the readers the article by ,mrs4 ,warner in which she renounced the movement which she brands ,come-outism4 ,,come-,,outism ,,renounced ,the following communication pretty fully explains itself4 ,it was written by ,sister ,warner1 the wife of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 the ,come-out leader1 and editor of the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,those who know ,sister ,w4 generally1 among the straight holiness people1 have confidence in her integrity4 ,god bless her1 and may she save her husband from his strong delusions4 ,she desires the holiness papers to copy her article3 ,dear ,brother ,doty3 ,my soul praises ,god today for a perfect salvation in ,jesus4 ,he sweetly abides in my heart1 and ,i do know that his ,word is true4 ,his promises to save from all sin and keep in perfect peace are most wonderfully verified in my case2 praise his name6 ,salvation is sweeter to my soul every day ,i live4 ,and how sweetly ,jesus whispers1 ,take the cross1 thou needst not fear2 ,for ,i've trod this way before thee1 ,and the glory lingers near4 ,yea1 praise ,god for the cross1 and the glory that always follows4 ,i feel it my duty to say to all ,god's children1 that he has opened my eyes to see the evils of come-outism4 ,i am free from it1 and forever renounce it and praise ,god that he has so completely delivered me from the spirit of it4 ,i am thoroughly convinced that this effort to unite ,god's people by calling them out of the churches is not ,god's plan of unity4 ,it simply cuts off a few members by themselves1 who get an idea that none are clearly sanctified unless they see as we do2 and1 then1 they have a harsh grating that is the very opposite of love4 ,i have found that the predominant spirit of the come-out movement is the same self-righteous1 pharisaical spirit that ,christ rebuked when he was here on earth4 ,they hold and teach that no one can be entirely sanctified and belong to a sect4 ,it is not necessary for me to speak of the fanaticism and absurdities connected with this movement2 but ,i am not at all surprized to hear of men losing their minds after passing through such a meeting as the assembly at ,sulphur ,springs last ,november4 ,i have seen more ,babylon confusion outside the churches than in4 ,i know whereof ,i speak1 for ,i have been connected with the movement from its beginning1 and1 as you all know1 at the very head of it4 ,and while ,i believe it my duty before ,god to renounce it1 and stand aloof from it1 ,i have all charity for those connected with it4 ,i am confident that ,i have nothing in my heart but love toward them all1 and love to my husband2 nor do ,i reject him1 but ,i can not endorse either the movement or its organ1 the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,i must obey ,god1 and walk in the light he has given me1 or forfeit salvation1 which ,i can not afford to do4 ,i have suffered the loss of all things1 but rejoice to know that ,i am counted worthy to suffer for ,jesus' sake4 ,in taking this step for ,god ,i have not been hasty4 ,i have been convicted of this duty for some time4 ,circumstances and the manifestations 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 soul4 ,i humbly ask the prayers of all ,god's children that he will keep me firm and sweet while passing through the furnace4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,a4 ,warner4 ,upper ,sandusky1 ,ohio1 ,apr4 #bb1 #ahhd4 ,brother ,warner deplored his wife's going into print with their trouble4 ,a number of the so-called holiness papers made remarks that were reflective on ,brother ,warner and the cause of truth4 ,on account of this1 he felt it necessary to make some reply in the ,trumpet and set forth the facts concerning his wife4 ,in the issue of ,july #ae1 #ahhd1 he made a very clear delineation of the whole affair4 ,he showed the sad deception into which his wife had fallen1 how it had affected her conduct1 and hardened her conscience to do things she was never known to do before1 even to being untruthful1 and yet publish her testimony abroad that she was more sweetly saved than ever4 ,near the close he says3 ,and this is the kind of holiness the sectarian sheets have such a jubilee over4 ,this work of the devil which has at present broken up a family1 brought a reproach upon the cause of holiness1 robbed us of our sweet child for over three months past1 and which has filled all hell with a jubilee1 the ,highway of ,holiness says should be received with thankfulness4 ,yes1 it is received in hell with thankfulness1 and just to the extent that ,babylon glories in the same she proves that she is in league with hell4 ,while our heart is sad for the sake of our dear companion1 we have great reason to give everlasting thanks to ,god for the glorious fruits of these furnace flames4 ,oh1 how our weaknesses have been searched out and our patience perfected6 ,we would not cast away the gold ,we've gathered in the furnace flame4 ,nor would we wish again the dross ,here purged in our ,redeemer's name4 ,in the ,trumpet of ,july #a1 #ahhd1 a quotation is made from the writings of ,john ,bunyan in which are recalled the persecutions that culminated in his imprisonment4 ,he tells of how ,satan1 failing in one plan to overthrow his work and make it ineffectual1 tries another1 which was to stir up the minds of the ignorant and malicious to load him with slanders and reproaches1 and finally to have him arraigned and put in jail4 ,with this quotation ,brother ,warner makes the following comparison3 ,in all these sufferings ,bunyan had1 besides the grace of ,god1 the consolations of a true wife to sustain and comfort him4 ,with his great heart glowing with love for the truth1 and deep affection for her that had been such a true friend in the past1 just suppose for a moment the devil had in the time of his greatest persecution from sectarian idolaters1 overthrown his faithful ,elizabeth1 and so blinded and deceived her as to make it appear her duty to renounce him and the truth he was devoted to1 in all the papers of that day4 ,suppose he had found her all at once fellowshiping his persecutors and slanderers1 and receiving the friendship and applause of the popular sects of that time1 rather than suffering persecution with her husband for ,christ's sake2 do you not believe that such a trial would have more cruelly pulled the flesh from his bones than twelve years' imprisonment with a good and faithful wife at home sharing his reproach and offering her daily prayers to ,god on his behalf8 ,of course the woman could not have published any sin of the man of ,god1 nor would it have been necessary4 ,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 ,god1 and remind them that she had been connected with the movement from its beginning1 as you all know1 and at the very head of it1 and then throw out a few hints that she had suffered a great many things1 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 soul4 ,this were sufficient to confirm all the vile slanders that ,satan had sent out against her husband1 with all who hated the truth he taught4 ,oh1 yes1 that would settle the matter4 ,yes1 yes1 you know all the terrible things that are reported of this awfully deluded man1 and now his wife comes out against him1 which proves that these things are true4 ,and if the devil were as smart then as he is now1 he would have led the poor apostate guilty woman to put on a very lovely aspect in her public comforters1 to the idolaters of those times1 in order to have the more influence4 ,yea1 doubtless1 while selling her husband to the devil for the friendship of his enemies1 and selling ,christ1 whose truth he dared to speak1 she would have hypocritically said1 ,i love my husband1 and ,jesus sweetly abides in my heart4 ,oh1 what a record the day of judgment will unfold6 ,but ,god be praised that ,bunyan was blessed with a true companion2 but let him whose lot is otherwise bind this to him as an ornament1 as ,bunyan did the vile slanders heaped upon him4 ,after a few years there appeared in the ,trumpet1 in the issue of ,jan4 #g1 #ahib1 the following statement1 from a person who knew ,mrs4 ,warner from her youth and who here speaks of her divorce and remarriage3 ,nothing has ever been more surprizing to me than the steps she has taken4 ,it may not be generally known that she got a bill through the court at ,upper ,sandusky1 ,ohio4 ,the grounds upon which she filed her complaint betray a dreadful absence of conscience and the fear of ,god1 stating that she had been a faithful wife to him ever since married1 and that he had been wilfuly absent from her for over three years2 when the facts are1 she had wilfully abandoned him over six years before1 during which time he twice visited her and wrote many letters kindly urging her to return and that without any conditions4 ,and she was so far from being a faithful wife that she did not even answer his letters4 ,brother ,warner did not feel led to appear against her1 but faithfully admonished her for her soul's sake not to put on record in the county court and the high court of heaven statements that she knew to be so directly opposite to the truth4 ,and1 worse yet1 the woman has recently shown her disregard for the counsel of the ,bible by marrying another man4#ae ,we insisted that these few words of explanation be published to cut off all occasion for unreasonable men to speak against the cause of ,christ and against his servant4 --,e4 ,j4 ,hill4 ,in the ,trumpet of ,june #a1 #ahic1 an editorial speaks of her death1 as follows3 ,while holding meetings in ,portland1 ,ind4 on ,wednesday1 ,may #bd1 we were informed that there was a telegram at the office for us4 ,on going there we were startled with this brief dispatch3 ,sarah died this morning in ,cincinnati4 ,signed1 ,l4 ,f4 ,keller4 ,he is a brother of the one we ought to be able to call our wife1 and this fact rendered the familiar name ,sarah all sufficient in the dispatch4 ,o my ,lord1 is it possible that she is cut off in the midst of her days6 ,she who seemed so fresh and well is suddenly called to be the first to break the circle of six children1 all of whom were early instructed in the fear of the ,lord4 ,ah1 we can not help the conviction that had the dear woman never been alienated by the adversary to break her solemn vows1 and held by a blind and erring influence from returning to the obligations of a mother and wife1 yea1 and had she not been by that influence led to obtain a bill1 and that on absolutely false grounds1 she would be alive1 well1 and happy today4 ,but alas1 all is past now4444 ,we wrote immediately to our friend who had kindly informed us of the departure of the one who once so filled the vision of our heart1 for the particulars of her death1 and received a prompt reply that she died with acute typhoid fever1 to which was added peritonitis1 and that she did not express herself about the future4 ,out of a full heart we would love to say much1 but we have space only for these thoughts4 ,may ,god comfort the sorrowing mother1 brothers1 and sisters4 ,the unhappy woman1 having forsaken her ,god1 her husband1 and child1 became married over a year ago to another man4 ,but alas1 how often the path that leads from ,god is cut short6 ,as to what became of ,stockwell1 the author has found no trace4 ,when ,brother ,warner recovered his spiritual poise1 after the terrible conflict at ,bucyrus1 he renounced ,stockwell1 and the latter at once dropped all profession4 ,an incident that occurred at ,medina1 ,ohio1 before ,stockwell's defection1 gave ,brother ,warner some trouble4 ,a ,mrs4 ,booth had had a vision in which she saw herself caught up with a thousand-dollar note4 ,stockwell1 who was at that time apparently in sympathy with the ,trumpet1 interpreted her vision to her as meaning that she should give the one thousand dollars to the ,trumpet4 ,she then decided to do so and threw the money into the lap of ,sister ,warner1 who refused to accept it4 ,stockwell then said he would take it1 which he did1 and with it paid off the debt against the ,trumpet office4 ,after this was done1 ,mrs4 ,booth came to ,brother ,warner one day in company with an attorney for the purpose of recovering the money1 whereupon ,brother ,warner adjusted the matter by mortgaging the ,trumpet equipment for one half the amount and giving a note for the balance4 ,the report got out in some manner that he had fraudulently taken the money from ,mrs4 ,booth4 ,in explanation he speaks of the matter as follows3 ,we feel rather like treating with silent contempt the wicked aspersions that have gone through many papers1 secular and religious1 against our character2 but as friends demand it of us we will just say that the report that we fraudulently took from a ,mrs4 ,booth a thousand dollars by mesmeric influences is wholly and basely false4 ,if we have been correctly informed1 it was fabricated by a lying infidel in ,bucyrus and furnished to a ,cincinnati ,enquirer reporter by him4 ,that paper1 after consulting more reliable parties in ,bucyrus1 on the #aeth of last ,february published an article refuting all the reflections that had been cast upon us4 ,the ,church ,advocate1 having published the ,enquirer's slanders1 also took back the charges against us4 ,the fact is1 we never had any hand in obtaining that money4 ,we were at our home and knew not that the woman had a thousand dollars or any money at all1 until a letter was sent me stating she had given the same4 ,we also have letters from her stating that she had cheerfully and deliberately given the money2 that ,god had called her to do so and that she did not regret the step she had taken4 ,but subsequently she fell through the opposition of her husband and ,satan1 and we gave security for the money because it was demanded1 though we were under no legal or moral obligation to do so4 ,one can imagine that during his severe trial at ,bucyrus ,brother ,warner felt very much forsaken4 ,but ,god had many others who were ready to stand with him4 ,there were those who were solicitous with reference to his welfare4 ,in one of the issues of the ,trumpet we find this little note3 ,a brother writes thus1 inquiring of us1 ,o ,daniel6 is thy ,god continually able to deliver thee8 ,through the amazing grace of ,god we are able to answer from the lion's den and from the seven-times-heated furnace1 ,yes4 ,glory to the ,god of our salvation1 he keeps our soul above the world1 the flesh1 and the devil1 and from all sin4 ,he keeps us from these two opposite regions of death1 namely1 the cold1 hard-hearted1 grating1 fruitless spirit of carnal sect-hatred on one side2 and from the soft1 spurious1 self-soothing1 carnality-pleasing1 and sect-compromising1 all-bogus love delusion on the other4 ,god helping us we shall never move out of ,mic4 #c3h and ,psa4 #adi3f-i4 ,he received many letters from those who were sympathetic and who were thankful for the ,trumpet4 ,the following are a few3 ,i am so glad to get the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,i think it is the best paper ,i ever read4 ,it speaks the ,bible truth4 ,may the ,lord bless you in the good work1 and give you grace and strength to withstand all the fiery darts that ,satan and his hosts can hurl at you4 ,god and ,christ shall be for walls of salvation about you4 ,whom shall we fear when ,god is our friend8 ,i am trusting in ,jesus for a full and free salvation4 ',without holiness no man shall see ,god4' ,it does my soul good to read the testimonies of how ,god is healing both soul and body1 ,i believe he is willing to manifest as much power on earth today as he did when ,christ was here in the flesh4 ,your sister1 saved through the blood1 ,l4 ,b4 ,we are continually praising ,god for the way he is keeping you through every severe trial4 ,when we understood the reality of your trials we all wept as if we had been at a funeral4 ,how our hearts go out in sympathy for you6 ,o dear brother1 hold on to ,god2 he will not forsake those that trust in him4 ,you must come to our camp-meeting without fail1 for we know ,god wants you here2 but the sect people are hoping you will not come4 ,your sister1 ,m4 ,j4 ,f4 ,may ,god reward you in your great work4 ,some good friend is sending me the ,trumpet1 and ,i do love to read it1 because it has the right ring4 ,it sounds as if it had been baptized in the ,holy ,ghost and with fire4 ,i never saw until ,i was baptized with the ,holy ,ghost the corruption of sectism4 ,i am so glad that there are a few that do stand for ,christ and him alone4 ,your brother1 ,h4 ,b4 ,c4 ,my prayer is that you may continue blowing the ,trumpet1 and that it may always give a clear and certain sound4 ,i had a pretty sharp discussion with a minister today on the subject of sanctification4 ,by the grace of ,god ,i was under the necessity of telling him that he was not a competent witness on the subject1 having never received the experience4 ,oh1 why will men attempt to explain and preach that of which they know nothing6 ,may the ,god of all grace be continually your refuge and your exceeding great reward4 ,m4 ,m4 ,that the ,trumpet had the right ring was a fact recognized wherever there were spiritual ,christians who had felt the oppression and seen the evils of human control in the so-called churches1 and of course that meant in all parts of the country4 ,there were many ready to fall in line with its teachings4 ,besides ,beaver ,dam1 in ,kosciusko ,county1 ,ind41 and ,carson ,city1 in ,michigan1 as original centers1 there had come to be congregations in other parts of the ,states named1 and in ,ohio1 ,pennsylvania1 ,missouri1 ,iowa1 ,kansas1 and others4 ,the reformation was in all places marked with spiritual vigor1 enthusiasm1 joy1 love1 fellowship1 confidence1 and activity4 ,people who came in contact with it and who were not already prejudiced by sectarianism1 were made to feel1 by a spiritual discernment1 that this is the way and these people have the truth4 ,a spirit of victory pervaded the work everywhere4 ,god manifested himself by the outpouring of his ,spirit and by miraculous healings and answers to prayer4 ,a remarkable instance of healing occurred at the first camp-meeting held near ,bangor1 in southwestern ,michigan1 in ,june1 #ahhc4 ,emma ,miller1 who lived in ,battle ,creek1 had been an invalid for nearly three years4 ,her eyes had become affected and she had to be led about4 ,for nearly the whole period of three years 7or1 lacking one month7 she had not read a line of print4 ,after her conversion1 which occurred nine months previously to her healing1 she was plainly shown by the ,lord that she would be healed4 ,on being invited to the camp-meeting she was again shown1 in answer to her prayer1 that she would be healed4 ,she requested her friends to provide her with paper and envelopes1 promising to write to them4 ,in this confidence she went to the meeting4 ,on the fourth morning of the meeting1 after continued prayer had been offered1 she was impressed she would be healed that day4 ,brother ,warner had been called away from the meeting1 but ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher and others were present4 ,here was a case of blindness4 ,her eyes were covered with a film and the lids were closed through paralysis and she could not open them4 ,but nothing daunted the little body of spiritual workers here assembled4 ,fasting and importunity characterized the earnest prayer4 ,about #e ,p4 ,m4 of the day mentioned1 while ,sister ,miller was seated on the rostrum1 where she had been requested to sit that all might see1 suddenly her eyes were opened and she gazed upon the audience and praised the ,lord4 ,the people were amazed4 ,some fell to shouting1 which was heard two miles away4 ,others trembled and cried4 ,after praising ,god for an hour or more ,sister ,miller went out into the bright sunlight without any unpleasant sensation1 the first time for nearly three years1 and wrote two postal cards4 ,her eyes became bright and strong4 ,sister ,miller 7now ,mrs4 ,a4 ,b4 ,palmer7 is still living and has had her sight ever since4 ,marvelous healings were common1 but as this one was a healing of complete blindness and was one of the earliest cases1 it is here mentioned4 ,another divine manifestation was the power given to the ministry over devils4 ,since the early centuries it has not been characteristic of any spiritual movement prior to this one1 so far as the author has learned1 that devils were in such subjection and had to come out of those possessed4 ,by this time quite a force of ministers had been raised up in various portions of the country4 ,over in ,missouri was a man named ,jeremiah ,cole1 who had been led into the light independent of any human instrumentality4 ,he had suffered from dyspepsia for twelve years2 he had been so bad he could eat only specially prepared articles of food4 ,he was instantaneously and wonderfully healed in answer to his own importuning prayer1 so that he could eat all ordinary foods without discomfort4 ,his own healing led to the healing of his sister1 ,mary1 who had been an invalid all her life4 ,she began to have spasms at two years of age1 and later dyspepsia and other ailments1 until her life was one of continual suffering4 ,through her own prayer and that of her brother1 she also was led to claim her healing1 and the work was done4 ,both of these persons became effective ministers in the reformation4 ,in northwestern ,ohio ,god had raised up several persons 7among whom were ,a4 ,j4 ,kilpatrick1 ,william ,n4 ,smith1 ,j4 ,n4 ,howard1 and ,sarah ,smith7 who also became prominent workers4 ,in western ,pennsylvania was ,g4 ,t4 ,clayton1 and in yet other parts of the country1 far and near1 were those who had received light on the church1 in some cases without any teaching from any one1 and who were by the ,spirit of ,god added to the ministry4 ,,apostasy ,,of ,,fisher ,a sad defection from the ranks of those who had been active in the reformation work was that of ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher1 which has been already referred to4 ,he was a very effectual preacher4 ,it was through his efforts that the original company was raised up at ,carson ,city1 ,mich41 where he lived at the time4 ,also it was through his instrumentality that the work was started in southwestern ,michigan and in some other parts of the country4 ,through a lack of his consecration1 sad to say1 he became unfaithful in his marriage relation and found affinity with another4 ,after being patiently and faithfully counseled by ,brother ,warner and others1 and after it became evident that he was rejecting all admonitions1 and in fact had married another woman1 he had to be renounced and cut off from the fellowship of the saints4 ,this was a distinct loss to the cause1 for ,fisher had been a very successful evangelist1 and had a great influence4 ,his error1 however1 was plain1 and there were scarcely any who were sufficiently in sympathy with his actions to be to any extent drawn away with him4 ,as a part of this chapter1 we wish to include an article from one of the earlier ,trumpets1 written by a contributor1 which touches the central principle of the reformation1 the principle which distinguishes it from all other movements4 ,it is on this line1 the ruling authority of the ,holy ,ghost1 that the reformation proceeds4 ,,ruling ,,authority ,,of ,,the ,,holy ,,ghost ,by ,d4 ,w4 ,m',laughlin ,notwithstanding the apostasy of the ,romish ,church1 her utter departure from the faith because of the substitution of a man-made system of ecclesiasticism for the personal presence and authority of the ,holy ,ghost1 ,protestants have not profited 7but in part7 by her fall2 they have very generally fallen into a like snare4 ,the apostolic church fully recognized the personal presence and authority of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,he was fully accepted as their teacher and guide4 ,they fully embraced the words of ,jesus3 ,when he1 the ,spirit of truth1 is come1 he will guide you into all truth--yea1 teach you all things1 even the deep things of ,god4 ,hence1 we hear ,peter saying unto ,ananias1 ,why hath ,satan filled thine heart to lie to the ,holy ,ghost8 ,the presence of the divine ,spirit was to them a certainty4 ,in ,acts #ac3b we read1 ,as they ministered to the ,lord1 and fasted1 the ,holy ,ghost said1 ,separate me ,barnabas and ,saul for the work whereunto ,i have called them4 ,here the authority of the ,holy ,ghost is recognized4 ,thus we see that the early church needed no man-made system2 being filled with the ,holy ,ghost they fully accepted him as their teacher and guide4 ,but in process of time the church lost her primitive power2 the presence of the ,holy ,ghost seemed less real4 ,the necessity of a teacher and guide was felt2 hence the absence of the ,holy ,ghost necessitated the substitution of another teacher and guide1 a dead ecclesiasticism1 called the ,holy ,catholic ,church 7871 with the prerogative of the divine ,spirit--thus priesthood was exalted and invested with power to forgive sins2 and the pope made the visible head of the church1 or the vicar of ,jesus ,christ upon earth4 ,but the church felt the need of an infallible teacher2 the loss of the divine ,paraclete necessitated a substitution1 if the resemblance of the apostolic church be maintained2 hence the system must supply the lack4 ,thus the dogma of infallibility was conceived1 ending in the exaltation of the pope of ,rome above all that is called ,god1 or that is worshiped--the man of sin sitting in the temple of ,god1 shewing himself that he is ,god4 ,any man-made system of ecclesiasticism must necessarily be lifeless and powerless1 just in proportion as it fails to recognize the personal presence and authority of the ,holy ,ghost1 and sets up its own order and authority4 ,indeed the modern church has so far lost sight of the veritable presence and authority of the personal ,holy ,ghost1 that everything seems reduced to man-ordered system--yea1 an endless treadmill of works4 ,the form of religion takes the place of vital godliness1 and the people seem to have forgotten that there is any ,holy ,ghost4 ,it is said history repeats itself2 let us consider what meaneth the cry of fanatic now so prevalent in the sects as used against the holiness movement4 ,perhaps we may learn a lesson from ,rome--why did the ,romish hierarchy persecute the ,reformers8 ,simply because there had been substituted a wire-bound ecclesiasticism 7a man-made system7 for the presence and authority of the personal ,holy ,ghost2 a lifeless system--yea1 a dead ecclesiasticism was thought to be the one holy catholic church4 ,it was not allowed that any could be loyal to ,god unless loyal to the system1 hence the cry of heretic1 which today finds its counterpart in the term holiness fanatic as used by the dominant sects against holiness men4 ,in their devotion to churchism they lose sight of the personal ,holy ,ghost1 and exalt the system4 ,we must go back to apostolic ground2 the presence and power of the ,holy ,ghost must mark 7or make manifest7 the church4 ,the blinding power of churchism will deceive nominal professors in the ,protestant sects just as effectually as it did in the ,roman ,church4 ,it is eternally true that the natural man perceiveth not the things of the ,spirit of ,god4 ,the great ,sanhedrin judged it right that ,jesus ,christ1 the ,lord of glory1 judged to be a vile deceiver1 should be crucified between two thieves2 the ,romish ,church considered it right to burn heretics2 and in all ages the mystic ,babylon of ,revelation has persecuted the true saints of ,god4 ,thus it will be till the time of the end4 ,,the ,,one ,,church ,through the night of doubt and sorrow ,onward goes the pilgrim band1 ,singing songs of expectation1 ,marching to the ,promised ,land4 ,one the object of our journey1 ,one the faith that never tires1 ,one the earnest looking forward1 ,one the hope our ,god inspires4 ,one the strain that lips of thousands ,lift as from the heart of one2 ,one the conflict1 one the peril1 ,one the march in ,god begun4 ,one the gladness of rejoicing ,on the far eternal shore1 ,where the one ,almighty ,father ,reigns in love forevermore4 ,onward therefore1 pilgrim brothers1 ,onward with the ,cross our aid6 ,bear its shame1 and fight its battle1 ,till we rest beneath its shade4 --,sabine ,baring-,gould4 ,music3 ,perishing ,souls4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,byers4 #a4 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake to-day6 ,says the banner of ,christ unfurled2 ,pleading in #b4 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake we see1 ,yet the ,sav-ior has died for all2 ,go and in- #c4 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake1 go tell ,what the ,savior has done for you2 ,how he re- #d4 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake to-day1 ,can you tar-ry for earthly dross8 ,fly to the love for help to save ,blood-bo't sinners all o'er the world4 vite them earnestly1 ,some will sure-ly o-bey the call4 deemed thy soul from hell1 ,and is a-ble to save them too4 res-cue1 don't de-lay1 ,bring the need-y to ,je-sus' cross4 ,,chorus4 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake1 my brother1 ,what is all this world be-side8 ,per-ish-ing souls at stake1 my brother1 ,souls for whom the ,sav-ior died2 ,per-ish-ing souls1 7,perishing souls17 ,per-ish-ing souls 7at stake to-day17 ,oh1 who will help to save the lost8 ,,xvi ,,evangelistic ,,tours ,the responsibility of publishing the ,trumpet required1 of course1 that the editor spend a good portion of his time at the ,publishing ,office4 ,but ,brother ,warner's zeal for the evangelistic work1 as well as the demand for his services here and there in the field1 took him forth a good deal on various tours4 ,an account of the principal tours he made1 and the events in connection therewith1 is sufficient for a chapter by itself4 ,for the first few years after the ,trumpet started1 he made frequent trips4 ,of these we shall give no account1 but shall begin the chapter with a trip into western ,pennsylvania in the summer of #ahhd4 ,a camp-meeting was to be held two miles south of ,sandy ,lake1 in ,mercer ,county1 beginning ,august #bc4 ,this was the second meeting for that place1 as one had been held there the previous year4 ,he planned to attend this meeting after holding a grove-meeting in ,medina ,county1 ,ohio1 and he accordingly announced there would be no ,trumpet issued for ,august #ae1 since he expected to make this tour4 ,portions of his report of the ,sandy ,lake meeting are here given4 ,quotations direct from ,brother ,warner will enable the reader the better to comprehend the man and to feel the touch of his saintliness2 for there breathes out from his words such a spirituality and devotion as is possessed only by those who are thoroughly abandoned to ,god4 ,glory be to the ,god of salvation-power6 ,these words seem best fitted to begin our report of this heavenly convocation4 ,we were met by conveyance at ,stonesboro1 and the very instant we entered the precious grove of the saints' encampment we felt the presence of ,god4 ,indeed it was wonderful4 ,we were engaged in conversation as we drove in and were not thinking of or expecting such a glorious manifestation of ,god1 when we were suddenly filled with the consciousness of his holy presence1 impressing heart and lips in praises to his holy name4444 ,we had been unwell some days in the city1 and felt half sick on the train2 but as soon as we breathed the ,god-pervaded atmosphere of that beautiful pine-grove1 all our infirmities fled away and we could shout the praises of ,god in a sound body4 ,how hallowed and sweet the recollections of ,god's blessings upon that ground one year ago6 ,how dear to our heart the precious chambers in ,brother and ,sister ,carmichael's tent1 where we often spent much of the brief interval between the three daily services1 in nearly all of which the ,lord used us to read and teach his ,holy ,word to the dear saints4 ,in that precious retreat he daily filled our soul and recuperated the wasted energies of our body and mind so that we could stand and feed the ,lord's sheep4 ,praise ,god1 we found the same little sanctum prepared for us again4 ,thank ,god1 there were plenty to share the work of the gospel ministry this year4 ,the blessed ,holy ,spirit wrought in the hearts of the people from the first service to the close of the meeting4 ,on ,tuesday we went to the stream a mile from the camp and immersed fourteen of the dear1 happy saints of ,god4 ,it was a glorious and wonderful time4 ,the ,spirit of the living ,god was poured out in mighty power4 ,some went down into the water shouting the high praises of ,god1 and nearly all leaped and shouted as they came forth from the symbolic grave4 ,what glory shone in the faces of those blood-washed ones6 ,the place was one of beautiful scenery4 ,on either side the stream stood the dense and lofty pines4 ,as this blood-washed company faced the stream1 with their eyes lifted toward ,god and their faces all lit up with heaven's glow1 and sang the sweet songs of redemption1 we were reminded of ,bunyan's company of pilgrims that stood in white robes awaiting their invitation to cross to the celestial paradise4444 ,do we astonish you when we say that while sinners were melted to tears by the power of ,god during the baptism1 and said1 ,this is the right way4 ,this is the right way1 an apostate and hypocrite preacher by the name of ---- stood back and spake against this way of the ,lord8 ,woe unto such empty clouds1 wandering stars1 wells without water6444 ,brother ,fisher was quite sick when we reached the grove1 and after having been strengthened several times to preach the word he was finally and instantaneously healed by faith and the laying on of hands4 ,the next evening the healing power was mightily upon him1 and four of the dear saints were healed of various diseases and old complaints4 ,in the early part of the meeting ,brother and ,sister ,frost's little girl was healed of a very bad case of catarrh4 ,the morning ,brother and ,sister ,fisher left1 the ,lord woke us between three and four o'clock in the morning and led us forth into the woods to commune with him4 ,our mind was led to ask for a more perfect faith4 ,praise ,god1 he gave it4 ,early we walked to ,brother ,farrah's house1 where we found ,sister ,clayton very sick with sick-headache4 ,in the name of the ,lord we laid hands on her head1 and she was immediately healed by faith in ,jesus4 ,several others of the saints were healed that day4444 ,one evening in company with ,brother and ,sister ,fisher we went home with ,brother and ,sister ,frost4 ,sister ,owen lives a close neighbor to them4 ,her daughter had two days before been taken sick4 ,that night she was taken very bad1 and she suffered extremely4 ,mr4 ,owen wished to go for the doctor1 but ,lula begged her pa to send for us4 ,though he had been extremely prejudiced against us by some ungodly sectarian neighbors1 he could not refuse the wish of his suffering child4 ,he gave his consent1 and at two o'clock we were called up1 and went to the house in the name of the ,lord4 ,lula had been praying the ,lord to forgive her sins1 and seemed to have found pardon1 but she was in great suffering4 ,brother ,fisher and ,i laid hands upon her1 and in less than a minute her intense suffering ceased1 and she rested until morning4 ,her body gradually recovered strength1 and two days later she was out to the meeting4 ,praise the ,lord1 ,o my soul6 ,the power of ,god since then so softened the heart of ,brother ,owen that he has turned to serve the ,lord4 ,his heart is so changed that he not only loves ,god but us also4 ,may ,god bless the dear brother4 ,praise the ,lord for the wonderful bond of love that binds our hearts together in the ,son of ,god6 ,blind sectarians ask us1 ,what have you got to bind you together8 ,we reply by asking them1 ,what have you got to part us asunder8 ,oh1 bless ,god for the balm in this union6 ,we never know the strength of the divine bonds of love until all the sect bonds of the devil are cast away and we are led to suffer together for the gospel of ,god and the name of ,jesus4 ,oh1 happy bond of perfect love1 which binds all the pure in heart to ,god and to each other6 ,after the close of the ,sandy ,lake meeting he went by invitation to ,greenville1 in the same county4 ,he first held an evening service on the streets1 in which he spoke to a large audience4 ,this was on ,friday evening1 ,september #e4 ,the rest of the services at ,greenville were in a grove in the country4 ,in his report he tells of his being mercilessly beaten by a drunken man and of his wonderful escape from injury because of divine protection4 ,we praise ,god for having sent us here4 ,we are confident that much good was done4 ,one brother1 who had been wonderfully converted and blessed1 had actually made an appointment at a schoolhouse and talked to the people by the ,holy ,spirit4 ,people were moved1 and asked the man to speak again4 ,but he consulted his ,methodist priest1 who told him it would never do in the world for him to attempt to speak and exhort without license1 and that if he did so he would be brought up and tried4 ,the poor man was scared down and was on back ground2 but he promised us to rededicate himself to ,god and go straight forward in ,god's will4 ,may ,god bless and help him4 ,such is the pernicious work of the devil under the mask of what he calls our church4 ,we hope in the providence of ,god to return to ,greenville again4 ,a sister told us that we would receive persecution for pay4 ,well1 praise ,god1 we were well remunerated in that kind of currency for ,christ's sake4 ,it has brought the leap and rejoice with the spirit of glory and of ,god in our soul4 ,after the grove-meeting we spoke again on the streets of ,greenville to a very large crowd of attentive hearers4444 ,after preaching in the grove ,saturday night1 we walked a mile and a half to find rest for the night4 ,the mother and two of the family are fully saved4 ,but the husband is intemperate and desperately wicked4 ,he does not often stop with the family1 as the little home belongs to one of the sons1 who1 with his brothers1 affords protection to their mother against the father's abuse4 ,the wretched man had been drinking liquor through the day1 and was also well filled with the wine of ,babylon's wrath received from his sectarian neighbors1 who hate any child of ,god that lives godly in ,christ ,jesus outside of her pales4 ,he seems to have come liquored up on purpose for a row4 ,after entering the house1 the frenzied man assaulted us with shocking oaths and threats4 ,he was desperate1 just in that state of intoxication in which he had more than his usual strength1 and maddened beyond all reason4 ,he soon struck me with all force in the forehead1 but through ,god his blow was not more than a ball of cotton4 ,we praised the ,lord4 ,feeling a deep concern for the wicked man's soul1 we dropped upon our knees in the middle of the room1 raised our bands1 and began to pray for him4 ,but this enraged ,satan more than ever4 ,he seized a large rocking-chair and slammed it down on us with all vengeance1 but through the ,lord ,jesus ,christ our uplifted hands turned it off with ease4 ,the storms of oaths and slamming of furniture was terrific4 ,it looked as though there would not be a whole piece left in the room4 ,the infuriated man grabbed a common wood-bottom chair by the back and struck down twice or three times at our head1 which was safely shielded by the hand of the ,lord4 ,glory to ,god in the highest6 ,our soul was filled with great peace in the midst of the storm2 we had not the slightest fear of suffering harm4 ,the kind wife and a daughter1 who were gloriously sanctified at the ,sandy ,lake meeting1 tried to protect us1 when the latter received a heavy blow on the shoulder from the chair1 the legs having been threshed off by previous blows1 making it all the better to maul with4 ,seeing that they were in danger of being hurt in our protection1 we arose and began to retreat4 ,the savage monster followed us out of the yard and some rods on the road with awful curses and open threats that he would kill us4 ,glory to the ,god of our salvation6 ,there was not a hair of our head hurt1 not a scratch or mark upon our body4 ,the next morning we felt our right wrist was slightly sprained by stopping the terrible blows1 but it soon disappeared4 ,the man soon left1 shortly after which his large son came1 whose delay furnished the intoxicated man his opportunity for an onslaught4 ,praise ,god1 the ,lord led me to do just as ,i had preached what a holy man should do when thus assaulted--commit our life to ,god1 fear no evil1 and let him be glorified in our death or deliverance1 as he shall choose4 ,fearing the man might return that night and our presence excite to deeds of violence upon the family1 one of the boys and ,i went to the barn to sleep1 but ,i spent the night in thanksgiving to ,god for his sweet deliverance4 ,surely it is safe to trust ,god always4 ,it was while he was in western ,pennsylvania that he received word from his wife that he could come and get their boy1 ,sidney1 then a little more than three years of age4 ,accordingly he returned home by way of ,upper ,sandusky1 ,ohio1 and got the boy4 ,he then made a visit to the saints at ,jerry ,city1 ,wood ,county1 of which he thus speaks3 ,then1 following the apostolic example1 we declared what miracles and wonders ,god had wrought where we have gone about preaching the kingdom of ,god's grace1 and assured the dear saints as he did that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom of heaven4 ,and the hearing of all the gracious dealing of ,god with our soul and in many hearts caused great joy unto all the brethren4 ,many tears of sympathy and holy love flowed from the eyes of the beloved4 ,he arrived home at ,williamston in time for the annual assembly2 for which the large hall1 #bhhd1 on the second floor of the ,office building afforded a splendid place4 ,it was a wonderful gathering of the saints4 ,a number were ordained to the ministry1 and among these he included himself1 as where so many were assembled he probably decided that his call to the work should be solemnly recognized and confirmed by the laying on of hands of the elders present4 ,as was evidenced by the success of this assembly1 the work of the reformation seemed by this time to be taking a forward move4 ,since the ,ohio assembly at ,bucyrus1 one year before1 ,brother ,warner had learned to take a more fearless1 unyielding attitude against deceiving elements such as had encompassed him there4 ,we shall ever have reasons to thank ,god for the benefit derived from the ,ohio assembly last fall4 ,though much of the good anticipated was not realized because of the evil powers that were permitted to encompass the beloved saints1 yet the lessons learned as a result have furnished a protection against the devil in all subsequent meetings4 ,the fact is1 we were delivered from priestcraft and had a solemn abhorrence of everything that savored of lordism4 ,hence we declared the meetings free2 yes1 free for heretics1 false prophets1 and virtually for the devil himself4 ,in our zeal to avoid all dragon authority we had also lost sight of the divine authority1 and ,god had to permit that victorious conflict with the powers of hell to teach us the necessity of using1 not lordism1 but1 the double-edged sword of the ,almighty upon everything that is not clean and straight before ,god4 ,since we know that we are of the truth1 and shall assure our hearts before ,god1 we know that we are of ,god1 and he that heareth us not is not of ,god4 ,and the only sense in which we give place to such as are deformed and darkened by antichrist traditions and doctrines of devils1 is in this wise3 ,we give place for them at the altar1 where1 by entire consecration1 and faith in the blood of ,christ they may be cleansed from sin and all foolish conversation received by tradition from the fathers4 ,glory be to ,god1 there is now a flaming sword in the assembly of his saints1 that can be endured only by those who know and do the truth1 and such as honestly wish to know and obey the truth as it is in ,christ ,jesus4 ,we believe that all future time and eternity will not erase the glory of this ,williamston assembly from the memory of the redeemed4 ,after the assembly he held a meeting in ,battle ,creek1 ,mich4 ,the following is a portion of his account of a woman's deliverance from devil-possession1 which occurred while he was there4 ,such instances were found from time to time4 ,for an example we give but this one3 ,for some months past ,mrs4 ,samuel ,worden1 of ,battle ,creek1 ,mich41 has created quite an excitement in the papers throughout the country by the exercise of a supernatural power of healing4 ,people have come from a considerable distance to be treated1 and letters have poured in from every direction4 ,some cases of healing were actually performed4 ,the woman and her husband1 hearing of our meetings1 came to hear the gospel and seemed willing to receive the truth4 ,she confessed that they were not fully saved and filled with the ,spirit as they should be1 although she claimed to heal in the name of ,christ and by the power of ,god4 ,she soon came to the altar4 ,god enabled us to see her condition pretty correctly4 ,we told her she was in the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity4 ,she acknowledged the fact and desired deliverance4 ,in the course of a few days she professed to have found salvation4 ,there seemed to be a change2 but still there was something in her from which the ,spirit of ,god in our heart recoiled4 ,she tried to consecrate for sanctification1 but could not claim that grace4 ,on ,sabbath afternoon1 ,october #bf1 the power of ,god was upon our little meeting4 ,there were four cases of healing by the laying on of hands4 ,sister ,worden said that she had suffered for many years in an awful manner with what she called a confused headache4 ,she had hands laid on her for the healing4 ,the ,spirit came on us and her in mighty power4 ,she claimed what had been prayed for1 a complete healing of her body4 ,presently there were strange manifestations1 which the most of us at once recognized as the writhing of evil spirits in her4 ,we asked ,god to show her just what it was4 ,presently she said1 ,brother ,warner1 pray for me4 ,we asked her what she wanted4 ,she replied1 ,that the devil might be cast out4 ,this was the confession we desired to draw out of her4 ,hands were laid on her head1 and the demons were commanded to come out of her in the name of ,jesus ,christ4 ,the poor victim was soon convulsed and choked by the hellish spirits1 which had to come out by the power of ,god4 ,she obtained relief1 sat up1 but did not look clear4 ,we all kept looking to ,god to complete the work4 ,hands were laid on again in the name of ,jesus4 ,another struggle ensued4 ,then we perceived that to get complete deliverance there had to be a more perfect consecration1 confession1 and mortification4 ,we proceeded to use the sword of the ,spirit in every possible manner4 ,but a miserable don't-care devil answered to every point of consecration4 ,oh1 what an awful condition the poor woman was in6 ,how discouraging6 ,the devils had so long held possession of her that they had almost taken possession of her own will and thoughts4 ,and this awful enemy had so tortured her head that she had had a hard struggle to keep out of the asylum2 so when he was pressed by the power of ,god he caused such distress and confusion in her head that he could use her mind and organs of speech4 ,but by the grace and mercy of ,god conviction reached her conscience4 ,the poor woman made some humiliating confessions1 was humbled down1 and wept4 ,she confessed her association with ,spiritualists1 which ,satan had tried to conceal before4 ,glory to ,god1 his chief nest was now revealed4 ,the ,spiritualism devil was commanded to come out of her in the name of ,christ4 ,oh1 how he tortured the poor woman6 ,her throat became greatly swollen4 ,how the legions of hell struggled against the power of ,god6 ,she was pretty thoroughly decided for ,god2 declared she would have every last evil spirit cast out if it killed her4 ,glory to ,god for the mighty ,deliverer6 ,relief came by the hand of ,jesus4 ,a great measure of peace filled her soul4 ,she sat up in the rocking-chair and her hands were raised while we sang songs of victory for the space of an hour4 ,two days later she discovered that there was still in her heart something that was not right1 and a close examination discovered that she had some lingering love for ,spiritualists4 ,she confessed it1 when she soon found that more evil spirits were revealed4 ,by the laying on of hands and the power of ,god she was fully delivered1 after which she consecrated wholly and entered the sacred rest of entire sanctification4#af ,on ,saturday hands were laid upon her for healing4 ,the mighty power of ,god came upon her and filled her soul and body1 and she was perfectly healed from the awful tortures ,satan had inflicted upon her for many years4 ,praise ,god for his wonderful mercy to the oppressed children of men6 ,for years this poor woman had struggled hard to keep out of the insane asylum2 now she says1 ,i am 'clothed and in my right mind4' ,her neighbors see the great change in her countenance4 ,one woman looked upon her with astonishment1 and said1 ,why1 how your face and voice are changed6 surely these meetings are the true work of ,god4 ,the months of ,february and ,march1 #ahhe1 he spent in a tour to southeastern ,iowa1 and northeastern ,missouri4 ,he refers to his leaving home as follows3 ,in the kind providence of ,god we were permitted to start forth on this long-expected tour ,january #bh4 ,god bless the beloved ones we left behind in the ,trumpet ,office4 ,oh1 how our hearts are knit together in the pure love of ,jesus6 ,bless ,god for those he has given to be with us in the glorious work of the ,lord6 ,but the hardest of all was to leave my precious little ,sidney1 not expecting to see the dear child again for some three months4 ,but praise ,god for the very kind provision he has made for the poor boy in the devout family of ,brother and ,sister ,william ,crandall1 residing at the edge of our town4 ,here he is taught to pray daily1 and his little heart is developed only in the pure spirit of love and obedience4 ,he is my only living child1 three years old the #bdth of last ,june4 ,though he has a happy home and two little playmates1 still1 as may be imagined under the circumstances1 his dear little heart clings to his father with the most fervent love that a child is capable of possessing1 as ours also does to him4 ,but since ,god so lovingly cares for him1 we must leave the blessed little angel in his charge and go forth to win to ,christ souls that are lost in sin4 ,he was gone nearly three months4 ,the meetings in ,iowa and ,missouri resulted in good1 yet nothing of unusual interest attended them4 ,early in ,june he made a trip to ,daviess ,county1 ,ind4 ,he had found in his evangelistic work that preaching on the street was a very effectual way of reaching the people4 ,when he lived in ,indianapolis1 a few years previously1 he and the saints in that place engaged frequently in preaching on the streets and in the parks4 ,one ,sunday afternoon1 while preaching in ,central ,park1 a man came to him and gave the names of persons in southern ,indiana to whom he requested the ,trumpet sent4 ,thus the ,trumpet became the forerunner of his visit to ,daviess ,county4 ,as we passed through the village of ,odon1 we notified the people that we would preach the gospel on their streets the next afternoon4 ,not being accustomed to such services1 there was quite an interest4 ,the people began to collect some time before the hour arrived4 ,store-boxes1 sidewalks1 etc41 were converted into pews1 and we had one of the best hearings we ever had on the streets4 ,god mightily helped us by his ,spirit to testify the gospel of his perfect salvation for an hour and thirty-eight minutes4 ,bless ,god1 the truth swept all the sinnership religion into the pit1 from whence it came4 ,though real ,bible holiness had scarcely ever been preached in that place1 and no holiness meetings ever held there1 so far as we learned1 yet every hearer1 even lawyers1 doctors1 and preachers1 acknowledged the practicability of perfect salvation and preservation from all sin through ,christ ,jesus4 ,a ,baptist preacher by the name of ,w--1 who had been preaching to the people that no one can or does live without sinning in this world1 and that all men sin day and night1 sat close by us1 and was convinced of the truth of the gospel and convicted of his sins4 ,he sanctioned the word and acknowledged to others that it was all truth4 ,we saw the tears in his eyes1 and hoped he would become saved and qualified to preach for ,jesus1 instead of for sin and the sect4 ,sabbath1 the seventh1 we held services in a grove near old ,shiloh ,bethel1 south of ,odon4 ,as the appointment was circulated only after our arrival1 there was not a large turnout4 ,the ,baptist preacher sat near us while preaching in the forenoon1 and looking into his face during the discourse1 our soul was pained to see that he had shut his heart against the truth and salvation of ,god4 ,instead of coming down to an equality with ,christ1 he chose to have a reputation among men1 to indulge the lusts of the flesh and enjoy the friendship of the world4 ,from that moment his face gathered blackness4 ,during the afternoon preaching he showed every disposition to avoid listening to the gospel of ,god4 ,he came to some of the meetings afterward1 just as the ungodly ,pharisees followed ,christ1 to catch something out of his mouth4 ,on ,wednesday evening ,bro4 ,o4 ,allen met and spoke to this priest of ,baal1 standing in a public place of the village1 burning incense to the devil in gratification of the filthy lust for tobacco4 ,he later made another trip into ,pennsylvania and attended the third annual camp-meeting at ,sandy ,lake4 ,at the close of this meeting he1 in company with others1 drove about twelve miles to attend a ,church of ,god 7,winebrennerian7 camp-meeting1 held near ,barkerville4 ,his description under the title ,a ,night in ,babylon1 is here given in part4 ,on the way we met a good many people returning from the camp1 and we were no little astonished to see so many of them smoking cigars4 ,finally the thought forced itself on our mind1 ,can it be possible that they are selling such things on the camp-ground8 ,but considering that it was the ,sabbath-day and the people holding the camp-meeting professed to be the ,church of ,god1 such a thing surely could not be4 ,the very thought was shocking and preposterous4 ,when a half mile away we saw a smoke ascending at the camp4 ,as we entered the ground we observed a crowd of sinners standing about a building with a sign1 ,boarding-,tent1 and the smoke from their many cigars blended into a cloud1 that we had seen from a distance4 ,soon after landing1 we said to a brother1 ,let us walk up and see what they have to sell there4 ,we did so1 and adventuring into the poison-fog we walked the whole length of the long building1 all opened in front1 displaying a large stock of every variety of ware that would be necessary to satisfy the pride1 vanity1 and lust of the horse-race or any vanity-fair throng of this ungodly world4 ,we were shocked and amazed at this horrible traffic4 ,the chief sale was tobacco4 ,there the nasty1 filthy stuff was piled up from one end of the building to the other4 ,the vile curse of the earth1 in every form and shape the devil ever invented1 freely sold on a--oh1 the blasphemy6--,church of ,god camp-ground6444 ,it was all licensed by the preachers in control of the meetings4 ,and such men have the wicked presumption to call themselves ministers of ,christ6 ,one of the merchants of these things which were made rich by the abundance of the delicacies1 though we understand he makes no profession of ,christ1 was ashamed of the unhallowed traffic1 and though his contract included another year1 he said he would never come back again4 ,he confessed that if he were to open up such traffic on ,sabbath at his place of business in town he would be prosecuted2 but the superabundance of righteousness 787 of these tobacco-soaked preachers1 it would appear1 was to atone for the same sins on their camp-ground4 ,surely it has come to pass what is written in the prophets1 ,they overpass the deeds of the wicked 7,jer4 #e3bh74 ,after taking some refreshment and having obtained permission to praise ,god1 we engaged in our evening devotion1 with singing and prayer1 to the ,god of our salvation4 ,our doors were soon crowded with young folks to hear the singing4 ,the tobacco-smoke was so dense that we could scarcely endure it without getting sick4 ,but after a few songs and prayers were offered1 every one cast his cigar away and listened with seriousness4 ,this they did without a word said by any of us4444 ,the meeting had been in progress four days1 and no soul had been saved4 ,not a seeker4 ,not even a place for a penitent to kneel1 no straw on the ground4 ,the pulpit was the only place to kneel in the congregation2 as though they did not expect a poor penitent to seek ,god1 and that the preacher should do all the praying4 ,on ,monday morning1 the services were made later than the usual hour4 ,the preachers were doubtless perplexed how to perform in the deadness of their souls4 ,the sinners in ,zion are afraid2 fearfulness hath surprized the hypocrites 7,isa4 #cc3ad74 ,not one of them would venture to preach4 ,the services were confined to one hour4 ,after reading a psalm1 the preacher announced that all should be free to serve ,god by prayer1 and testimony1 and song1 requesting brevity of each4 ,so1 as our heart was springing up full of the love of ,god1 we opened our mouth to praise the ,lord in singing a verse occasionally4 ,after several had spoken we arose and testified to the great salvation we have in ,christ ,jesus with eternal glory4 ,we aimed to be very brief1 but occupied seven minutes by the watch1 when they began to sing4 ,but they being but a few and feeble folk1 their song would not have interfered materially with our remarks4 ,however1 we struck in to sing until they stopped1 and then sat down4444 ,after the services were dismissed we were ordered to leave the ground as soon as we could pack up and depart2 and forbidden to sing1 pray1 or preach1 within one mile of their tobacco-soaked camp4 ,when asked why they would not allow us to worship ,god there1 the president said it was because we held a second work of grace1 which they did not believe4 ,why should they fear to hear the testimony8 ,if they really believed that there is no second grace1 they need not fear that any of their flock would obtain it4 ,according to their position1 they were afraid of the thing that does not exist4 ,what brave soldiers6 ,one of the preachers arose in the speaking-meeting and said1 ,according to the little bit of information ,i have received concerning ,christ's salvation1 it is all received at once4 ,certainly a man that has only a little bit of information respecting ,christ's salvation has only a little bit of salvation1 and that little bit of salvation was doubtless all obtained at once1 for it was so little it could not have been divided4 ,and when that very little bit is analyzed it is seen to consist in a mere name to live1 a form of godliness1 anointed by love of self and love of sect4444 ,the preacher who led the meeting is saturated with tobacco and addicted to horse-trading and worldly foolish jesting4 ,in his remarks he said we should exemplify ,christ1 that is1 our lives should be like his4 ,the ,lord led us to ask him if he regarded himself an example of ,christ's character2 whether he could consistently say to boys and men generally1 ,follow the example ,i set before you4 ,not having 'sanctified the ,lord ,jesus in his heart1' he was not ready to give an answer4 ,he paced the pulpit1 being speechless4 ,we repeated the question1 including both him and the president4 ,neither answered4 ,we then told the latter something about their being of the same spirit the old ,jews and pagans were of1 who forbade the apostles preaching any more in their towns4 ,we also called their attention to the abominable and wicked traffic we saw on their ground on the ,lord's day1 which was licensed by them and sanctioned by their filthy habit4 ,they could allow that corrupting bane of society2 but of a few little children of ,god who have obtained pure hearts and desired to worship ,god in the beauty of holiness1 they said1 ,away with them6444 ,well1 we are compelled to give the manifestations at that camp the credit of being the filthiest and vilest form of ,babylon we have ever met4 ,an unconverted man who was there and witnessed the scene said to them1 ,god deliver me from such a sect4 ,they are destitute of ,god's grace4 ',for the grace of ,god that bringeth salvation 444 teacheth us1 that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts1 we should live soberly1 righteously1 and godly in this present world' 7,tit4 #b3aa1ab74 ,but these live in the filth of the world1 walking after their ungodly lusts4 ,in a report written from this part of ,pennsylvania three years later1 he refers to his visit to the ,winebrennerian camp1 as just described1 and says1 ,well1 that was the last camp-meeting held on that ground4 ,their doleful tents are rotting to the ground1 and are the habitation of owls and bats4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,floating ,,bethel1 ,,used ,,for ,,several ,,years ,,on ,,the ,,ohio ,,river ,,for ,,evangelistic ,,work ,,by ,g4 ,t4 ,,clayton ,,and ,,company4 ,,burned ,,dec4 #af1 #ahih4 ,brother ,warner felt that he needed1 and that the ,lord was going to provide1 a company of singers to go with him in the evangelistic field4 ,it was about this time that the company who should travel with him for more than five years began to be formed4 ,it was at the ,williamston assembly that summer that ,brother ,warner said to ,nannie ,kigar1 of ,payne1 ,ohio1 and to ,frances ,miller1 of ,battle ,creek1 who attended the meeting1 that he felt impressed they would form a part of his company to help in singing and other gospel work4 ,their voices were soprano and alto respectively4 ,they1 with a number of other saints1 accompanied ,brother ,warner to the ,beaver ,dam assembly4 ,on their way1 as they changed cars at ,ft4 ,wayne1 they met and were joined by ,sarah ,smith1 of ,jerry ,city1 ,ohio4 ,while they were at ,beaver ,dam the ,lord added ,sister ,smith to the company4 ,her voice furnished a high tenor4 ,she was an elderly lady and she was called the mother of the company4 ,bro4 ,john ,u4 ,bryant and ,bro4 ,d4 ,leininger1 from the ,beaver ,dam neighborhood1 also traveled in the company for a time4 ,after the ,beaver ,dam meeting1 ,brother ,warner made a short visit to ,illinois and ,iowa1 while the rest of the company remained at ,beaver ,dam and were soon engaged in a protracted meeting at the ,hans ,schoolhouse1 where about fifty souls were saved and a great interest was created4#ag ,while on this trip he was healed of an affliction of the eyes4 ,he thus speaks of it3 ,during the ,williamston assembly in ,september1 ,satan began to afflict our eyes4 ,at the beginning we were impressed that it was an attack of the enemy4 ,they grew worse until we were scarcely able to read or write4 ,the next morning after our arriving in ,iowa1 the ,spirit impressed a sister that it was ,satan who had afflicted our eyes to prevent our labors in writing1 etc4 ,instantly recollecting the same impression in our mind at the beginning of the attack1 we knew it was of ,god4 ,our vehement faith in ,god and indignation against the devil were instantly aroused4 ,we fell upon our knees and asked ,god to deliver us1 rebuking ,satan in the name of ,jesus ,christ4 ,praise ,god1 the pain all ceased1 and we were able to do a pretty good day's work4 ,and our eyes have been well ever since4 ,god suffered the attack doubtless to teach us a lesson concerning the origin of much of the suffering of the afflicted4 ,in the latter part of ,january he with his company of singers and coworkers went to ,deerfield1 ,randolph ,county1 ,ind41 arriving on a ,saturday evening4 ,the next morning they attended a meeting where a nominal ,christian preacher had the service4 ,they sang some of the sweet songs of victory2 but this so confounded the preacher that he could not find anything in his ,bible to preach1 and after he had taken the pulpit he invited ,brother ,warner to preach4 ,the latter preached a burning message4 ,he had hoped for the use of the house1 but it could be seen that the preacher intended to control the house that week1 for he proposed that he and these people use it alternately4 ,he was soon told that they were out on the blood and fire line1 that they could not yoke up with the dead priests of ,babel and would go elsewhere4 ,they went over into the edge of ,jay ,county and began meetings in a ,united ,brethren house called ,prospect4 ,here the preaching created a furor among those who were joined to their sectarian institution and felt that it was in danger4 ,it was like a thunderbolt in the community4 ,the singing drew the crowds4 ,the trustees became fearful4 ,one of them went into the woods to pray to know what to do to get rid of these people who seemed to be taking things4 ,the heavenly songs seemed to follow him4 ,he felt he should attend all the meetings to see what occurred4 ,he soon found that these people had something more than the ,united ,brethren had4 ,he was one of two trustees who embraced the truth1 and of course desired that the meetings continue4 ,threats were made4 ,a woman was heard to say1 ,they ought to be driven out of the country with shotguns4 ,a ,baptist preacher who came into the neighborhood said that they ought to be put in jail1 and offered his service as one to help in the matter4 ,the ,united ,brethren minister had been holding meetings1 with but little success4 ,a ,mrs4 ,r----1 one of their number1 had been praying the ,lord to send somebody who would preach the truth in such a way that ,god would get unto himself a people who would serve him4 ,she and a ,mrs4 ,w---- went to the altar together1 with others4 ,brother ,warner asked them whether they would be willing to separate themselves from denominationalism if the ,lord should show them that duty4 ,sister ,w---- said in her heart1 yes4 ,sister ,r---- turned over to her and said1 ,now1 they are trying to tear down the church1 so let us just stick4 ,there she turned bitter1 and the very thing she had prayed for she was rejecting4 ,she walked up and down the aisle wringing her hands and crying1 ,my church6 my church6 ,another woman said1 ,these people are either awfully good people or else they are desperately wicked4 ,once during the meeting flying missiles crashed through the windows4 ,glass flew across the room1 striking a woman on the head and drawing blood4#ah ,said ,brother ,warner3 ,people have dealt in cheap1 shoddy religions so long that they feel like stoning us when we state the cost of that we are commissioned of ,christ to offer the people2 nevertheless1 when men consent to pay the price they are always highly pleased with the results4 ,such a display of sectarian idolatry was a good exhibition for some who had come out of ,babylon1 for they saw what they had been yoked up with4 ,about eight persons made their escape in this meeting4 ,there were in attendance1 as was usual in the meetings everywhere1 people who gloried in hearing the sects spoken against4 ,such people1 of course1 while adding force in the start1 were no substantial credit to the movement1 as they were not genuine representatives4 ,during the winter the evangelists went to ,marshall ,county1 into a neighborhood that seemed very dark spiritually4 ,after one of the evening meetings there1 in which he had preached with marvelous power1 ,brother ,warner was passing out the door when a young rough gave him a kick4 ,he turned and thanked the fellow and said he always praised ,god when he received such treatment4 ,as he started on he received another kick1 for which he also praised ,god aloud4 ,at the house where he was stopping the sister had two very wicked sons4 ,on the night the kicking occurred one of these young men1 instead of retiring to bed1 sat in his chair at the fireplace1 his face in his hands1 groaning4 ,when asked what was the matter1 he referred to what had happened that evening and said he felt sorry for ,brother ,warner1 for surely he was a godly man1 etc4 ,when he saw how ,brother ,warner received such abuse1 his heart was touched1 and he was much pained4 ,he and his brother had both mistreated ,brother ,warner and those with him and had in their presence cursed his mother for feeding them4 ,when they saw the love manifested their hearts melted1 and they became warm friends to the saints of ,god4 ,illustration3 ,evangelistic company1 #ahhf-ahia ,b4 ,e4 ,warren ,nannie ,kigar ,frankie ,miller ,d4 ,s4 ,warner ,sarah ,smith ,illustration3 ,b4 ,e4 ,,warren1 ,,springfield1 ,o4 ,from ,marshall ,county the company went up into ,michigan1 into ,van ,buren ,county4 ,here1 at ,geneva ,center lived a young man whom the ,lord had saved and was calling into the gospel work1 ,bro4 ,barney ,e4 ,warren4 ,the fact that he was under twenty-one years of age and that his father was unsaved and was opposed to his going into the ministry1 was an obstacle4 ,but his father1 who was a very wicked man1 became very much convicted during the meetings held in a schoolhouse in the vicinity4 ,he was seized with such trembling that in his attempt to steady himself by holding to the seats he shook the very floor of the building4 ,finally1 in a consecration-meeting in ,bro4 ,joseph ,smith's house1 near ,lacota1 he rebelled against the ,lord and started to leave the room4 ,before he reached the door the strength of his legs gave way and he sank instantly to the floor1 and was unable to go farther4 ,he then yielded4 ,brother ,warner asked him if he was willing to let ,barney go into the gospel work4 ,his reply was1 ,barney is the ,lord's4 ,the way was then opened for the young ,brother ,warren1 and in the following ,april he became a part of the little singing company that should travel with ,brother ,warner for the next five years1 and should consist of1 besides ,brother ,warren1 who was a base singer1 ,sisters ,nannie ,kigar1 ,frances ,miller1 and ,mother ,smith4 ,this constituted a complete quartet1 with ,brother ,warner often reenforcing the tenor4 ,there had come to be many saints gathered in the one fold in this part of ,michigan4 ,bros4 ,a4 ,b4 ,palmer1 ,s4 ,michels1 ,w4 ,b4 ,grover1 and ,s4 ,l4 ,speck were ministerial workers whom ,god was using in this vicinity4 ,at this time ,brother ,warner was called to ,williamston to help get out the second edition of the ,songs of ,victory1 the first song-book published at the ,gospel ,trumpet ,office4 ,of the first edition there were over fifteen hundred copies sold in less than three weeks4 ,holy song exerted a wonderful influence in the reformation4 ,with reference to his return to ,williamston we include a paragraph from his report4 ,the day we arrived at home a good steam-engine was brought into the ,trumpet ,office1 by the kind blessing of ,god1 ,brother ,fisher having previously engaged it4 ,thank ,god that we live to see this day4 ,the glorious work is spreading like fire in the earth4 ,glory to ,god and the ,lamb6 ,oh1 what hosts of fire-baptized saints we have met6 ,with the increase of numbers there is a continual advancement in clearness and power4 ,thus there was a long day of waiting before a steam-engine was used in the ,trumpet ,office4 ,every improvement of this kind was always an occasion of much rejoicing for ,brother ,warner4 ,by this time the truths of the reformation were being extensively scattered4 ,besides the workers named in southwestern ,michigan1 there were ,g4 ,t4 ,clayton in western ,pennsylvania1 ,c4 ,z4 ,lindley in ,iowa1 ,j4 ,p4 ,haner in ,kansas1 and ,w4 ,n4 ,smith and others in ,ohio4 ,the ,lord was raising up ministers in various places1 and many people were accepting the truth4 ,the first engagement for ,brother ,warner and his company1 after the latter had been definitely formed1 was at ,walkerton1 ,ind41 in ,april1 #ahhf4 ,they remained two weeks1 and a few souls came out on the clear ,bible line4 ,there was a little persecution here1 as was usual4 ,they found the place dark with prejudice4 ,over forty of the professors in the place were joined in a holiness band4 ,they professed sanctification1 but most of them were connected with sects4 ,we went to their meeting on ,tuesday night before we began operations in the hall4 ,being held in the ,united ,brethren house1 the meeting was led by ,pastor ,s--1 of that sect4 ,god powerfully baptized our soul1 and we praised him in prayer and testimony1 which made the sect priest grow black in the face4 ,he afterward tried to make out that we had come there and interrupted their meeting1 and actually caused a report of that kind to go out4 ,he spared no pains to fill the place with all manner of evil against us4 ,like ,demetrius1 the silversmith1 his craft was in danger4444 ,the ,methodist priest delivered a lecture on ,monday night in favor of secret societies2 he labored especially to make a good character for the ,odd ,fellows4 ,the ,holy ,spirit put it upon us to rebuke such agents of the devil4 ,this the class-leader of that sect said made his blood boil4 ,so he went about the town breathing out his venom against us and enlisting as many as possible in an effort to induce the proprietor of the hall to break his contract and close the hall4 ,they succeeded in so influencing him2 but the power of ,god turned his mind right around1 and he not only gave the hall cheerfully to the extent of the time1 but offered it as much longer as we wanted it or at any time we might return4 ,threats were made1 eggs were thrown1 and there was considerable disturbance4 ,but the effect of such abuse was the raising up of many friends for the truth and the salvation of a few souls4 ,brother ,warner was again called home1 and the company returned to ,beaver ,dam4 ,the next trip for the company was to the ,prospect neighborhood1 in ,jay ,county1 where the truth had been planted the previous winter4 ,this was in ,may4 ,brother ,warner and ,brother and ,sister ,fisher went directly to ,portland by train1 while the company1 including ,s4 ,l4 ,speck and ,clara ,morrison1 were conveyed from ,beaver ,dam in a wagon4 ,of this trip across the country in a wagon1 ,sister ,frances ,miller wrote an account in her diary4 ,it is interesting reading in these days of automobiles1 when such a trip can be made in a few hours1 and we here include it as she wrote it4 ,the brethren from ,beaver ,dam carried our little company from that place to ,sweetser1 ,grant ,county1 by lumber-wagon4 ,we started at #e ,a4 ,m41 and reached our destination about #i ,p4 ,m4 ,we had a glorious time by the way1 praising ,god and singing those beautiful songs4 ,about two miles beyond ,roann we drove in at the edge of a beautiful piece of woods and stopped for dinner4 ,we placed the seats in a circle and spread our dinner upon ,father's green carpet1 then thought we would praise him with a song1 supposing we were alone in the woods4 ,in a few moments we were surrounded with cattle4 ,there must have been at least twenty-five or thirty1 with their eyes wide open1 gazing at us4 ,we felt that ,god had put the love of music in these dumb animals1 and we sang two or three songs for their benefit4 ,mother ,smith then asked ,god to bless the food1 and we all thanked him for it1 in our hearts4 ,after the horses had finished their dinner we pursued our way1 rejoicing because we had ,jesus in our souls1 and he made melody through us to the ,father4 ,the next morning the ,beaver ,dam brethren returned home1 and brethren at ,sweetser brought us to ,prospect1 ,jay ,county4 ,we started at #g ,a4 ,m4 ,it was a beautiful morning4 ,the recent rains had laid the dust1 and we had pike roads most of the way1 making traveling delightful4 ,in the afternoon the clouds began to gather blackness1 and in a short time a terrible storm was upon us4 ,the rain came down in torrents1 drenching us through and through4 ,the wind was furious4 ,it seemed almost every moment as though it would take us up4 ,then the hailstones came down so thickly the horses refused to go4 ,we were seemingly in the midst of an ocean of water4 ,the recent heavy rains had flooded the country1 washing away several bridges4 ,we had quite an adventurous trip2 forded one river1 and the horses1 while pulling us through a deep creek1 pulled loose from the wagon1 leaving us in the water4 ,we were able to get to land1 however4 ,this was about two hours after the storm1 and while the brethren were repairing the wagon we gathered hailstones by the handful in the fence corners4 ,well1 ,i am satisfied that none but the pure in heart could relish such a storm4 ,we did enjoy it2 and ,god so filled our hearts that we praised him through it all4 ,and when the wind was blowing the thickest1 the calmness in our souls was indescribable4 ,we knew ,god had power to prevent the storm2 but in his wisdom he saw it was just what we needed1 and his will being ours1 we thanked him for it and left the consequences of our becoming wet in his hands1 knowing all would work out for our good4 ,after the storm1 it turned quite cold4 ,we had thirty miles yet to drive2 but we had the holy fire burning within us4 ,we reached ,brother ,key's about twelve o'clock that night1 waking ,brother and ,sister ,key with the song1 ,oh1 'twas love1 'twas love1 that found out me6 ,the next morning1 ,saturday1 ,may #ae1 we arose feeling refreshed after a few hours' rest1 not one of us feeling any the worse after our exposure of the previous day4 ,oh1 what a wonderful ,god6 ,let us praise him for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men4 ,we drove out to ,prospect that morning1 six miles1 and to our surprize and joy met ,brother and ,sister ,fisher1 who had come with ,brother ,warner4 ,our hearts were made to rejoice to meet the dear saints at ,prospect1 with whom we had labored in the ,lord last ,january4 ,we had a glorious time and witnessed the salvation of many precious souls4 ,this second meeting at ,prospect was to be held in a grove2 but on account of the weather being cold and damp1 and the meeting-house being refused1 the meetings were held most of the time in a granary building owned by a brother1 ,jesse ,wickersham4 ,this brother had given the land on which the ,prospect meeting-house stood1 and had contributed largely to its erection1 with the understanding that the house should be open to all true worshipers of ,god4 ,but here the sect refused the house1 the preaching of the truth on the former occasion having been too much for them4#ai ,in ,august of this year 7#ahhf7 was held the first of the annual grove- or camp-meetings in the ,beaver ,dam vicinity4 ,it was in ,w4 ,w4 ,ballenger's grove4 ,for the next five years the annual camp-meeting was held in ,j4 ,kuhn's woods2 and then1 beginning in #ahib1 it was held for five years in ,d4 ,leininger's woods4 ,beginning with #ahig this meeting has since been held on the beautiful ground overlooking ,yellow ,lake4 ,before attending the ,indiana grove-meeting in ,august1 ,brother ,warner felt impressed that from that meeting he should labor on a line eastward from that place4 ,in conjunction with this came urgent calls from that direction1 and brethren even made preparation for his coming before asking him4 ,the first place was ,arcola1 ,ind4 ,we quote from his report in which he speaks of this part of his trip3 ,on ,friday morning1 ,august #ac1 with our heart melting with pure parental love for our child1 we kissed his innocent cheek and left him in silent slumber1 not daring to wake him lest his little heart should break with grief at our departure1 and our soul also be filled with sorrow at his pitiful tears4 ,o ,god1 thou knowest the abundance of thy grace that enables us to tear away from this affectionate child6 ,the poor boy has recently been sick insomuch that many of the saints despaired of his life4 ,o ,lord1 only thou knowest the great trial of our soul when we felt the awful sickness of our boy1 by the ,spirit of ,god1 while we were making up the last ,trumpet at ,williamston1 and packing the ,office1 which none of our company had any experience in6 ,our presence was much needed1 so that we did not feel permitted to go1 though we keenly felt his sickness and told some of the saints that we felt he was sick4 ,after suffering those feelings a week1 we received a letter stating that he had been very low but was better4 ,this took a great load off our heart1 and a few days later a second letter stated that through the laying on of hands in prayer the ,lord had gloriously healed the poor little fellow4 ,oh1 praise our ,god for his great mercy toward us1 that he has spared our soul the great sorrow of such a bereavement as would have been the departure of this last and dear-beloved friend in the flesh6 ,and yet we know that had the blessed ,lord seen fit to take him1 as in all the trials of the past we would have been exceeding joyful in all our tribulations4 ,this trial of our faith was a great blessing to us4 ,it gave us a sure evidence that notwithstanding our intense love for the child we could leave him in the hands of ,god1 and feel sweetly resigned to his will who had worked for us elsewhere4 ,we found the precious boy feeling well1 but still so slim and poor that it touched our heart to look upon his lean face4 ,the ,lord bless ,brother ,leininger's family1 with whom the child was staying during his sickness1 and all the beloved saints who did all they could for the comfort and help of the dear boy4 ,we started at three o'clock in the morning1 the ,lord having sent a glorious shower before us to cool the air and put away the dust4 ,as the day began to break1 we were blessed in looking at the sublime and beautiful clouds which ,father piled up in the heavens1 of every shape1 tint1 and hue4 ,looking to the north we saw the perfect form of a great hand pointing to the ,east1 and the ,spirit of ,god filled our heart as we acknowledged it the hand of our ,father1 and that we were going in the direction ,father was pointing4 ,we felt something like ,nehemiah must have felt when he said1 ,the hand of the ,lord is good upon me4 ,illustration ,illustration3 ,two of the homes where ,brother ,warner and the earlier evangelists and workers always found a welcome4 ,the upper residence is that of ,joseph ,f4 ,smith1 near ,grand ,junction1 ,mich42 the lower one that of ,david ,leininger1 near ,beaver ,dam1 ,ind4 ,illustration3 ,these two old buildings1 now crumbling to decay1 were used thirty-five years ago as houses of worship by the saints at and around ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,the one in the upper picture1 known as ,smith's1 is about three and one half miles northwest of ,grand ,junction2 and the other1 known as the log house1 is about the same distance northeast4 ,we sang the praises of ,god much of the way1 and the gentle breezes carried the sweet sound over the surrounding country4 ,once we finished a hymn just as we were ascending a hill4 ,at the top of the hill1 to our right1 stood a house4 ,the song had sounded on ahead of us and found an echo in the heart of a blessed old mother in ,israel1 who was clapping her hands and shouting the praises of ,god1 and who waved her hand and nodded her head toward us as we came opposite the house1 as good as to say1 ,i felt the ,spirit of ,god in the song and it has set my soul on fire4 ,oh1 how it stirred our soul1 as we saw the joyful demonstrations of the dear old sister6 ,we reached our destination in good time and had a blessed meeting that night4 ,that his frail body should endure the strenuous evangelistic work--the much travel1 loss of sleep1 and the strain of preaching and laboring for souls--as well as editing and writing for the ,trumpet1 is in itself a miracle4 ,on more than one occasion1 when he was exhausted1 he was miraculously strengthened by the power of the ,spirit4 ,the following is a portion of his account of the meeting at ,antwerp1 ,ohio1 held while on this tour3 ,having labored hard all day in the ,lord1 our body was so worn that we felt scarcely able to stand on our feet1 so closed the meeting about dark4 ,but finding some unsaved souls had just come who seemed concerned about salvation1 we asked ,god to touch our body with renewed strength4 ,praise ,god1 he did as we asked4 ,we called the people to order and renewed the battle of the ,lord for the rescue of perishing souls at stake4 ,praise ,god1 a rich harvest of souls followed4 ,we labored on until after ten o'clock4 ,two or three times we announced the meeting closed1 when other souls were found under conviction and were constrained by the ,spirit of ,god to yield4 ,about eight were converted and a few sanctified through the blood4 ,the work was wrought in mighty power4 ,strong men shouted in their new-born joys sent down from heaven by the sweet ,spirit of adoption4 ,oh1 what a heavenly sight6 ,even little boys1 who had just found the ,lord1 were so powerfully blessed of ,god that they clapped their hands and leaped with the glory4 ,in twenty years of labor for ,god we never saw anything like it4 ,it verily seemed their little bodies must burst asunder by the power of the ,spirit4444 ,every meeting is getting richer and more wonderful4 ,o my ,lord1 whereunto will this great kingdom yet grow8 ,truly the saints of the ,most ,high have taken the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven4 ,leaving his company at ,jerry ,city1 ,ohio1 he returned to ,van ,buren ,county1 ,mich41 long enough to attend the assembly at ,geneva ,center where saints from over an extensive territory were gathered4 ,he makes the following reference to this meeting3 ,tuesday afternoon1 the great day of the feast1 near the beginning of the service1 we sang1 ,perishing ,souls at ,stake1 when the ,holy ,spirit overwhelmed all our souls with the awful condition of this dark world and the worth of millions of souls who would receive the pure gospel and be saved if it were brought to them4 ,oh1 how all our hearts were melted in sympathy for perishing souls at stake today6 ,up to that time we had been looking for one of the dear ministerial brethren to work with us2 but then we said1 ,o ,lord1 send them everywhere1 and we will trust thee to 'make all grace abound unto us1 so that we always1 having all sufficiency in all things1 may abound unto every good work4' ,through the ,lord ,jesus ,christ we feel abundantly able to do as much preaching and laboring with souls as one man would be supposed to perform1 and also one man's work with the pen4444 ,how beautiful the sight of ,god's host1 all mustered to the battle by the ,lord himself6 ,no jealousy1 strife1 and selfish manipulation for the best places and fattest fields4 ,every soul feels that he has the very best place while he abides in ,christ and ,christ abides in us4 ,oh1 what fools the devil has made of poor blind ,babylonians whose backs are galded by the sect harness and whose hearts are often crushed beneath the sect machinery6 ,we speak from experience4 ,for ten years we felt this cold1 heartless heel of selfish oppression4 ,more than once we wet our pillow with the tears that the accursed ,baal-idol pressed from our wounded heart4 ,by the grace of ,god we shall render unto her double1 as ,god hath commanded us4 ,instead of wire-pulling and ungodly plotting against one another1 and each one greedily looking for his meat from his quarter1 each worker in the ,lord's vineyard is looking to the ,lord to guide his feet in the paths of ,his own will4 ,and all go out in perfect freedom whither the ,lord will and yet all work in perfect harmony1 under the sweet and heavenly management of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,of his return to ,ohio and of an attempt by a mob to capture and mistreat him we have his account in the ,trumpet of ,nov4 #a4 ,after the assembly of the saints in ,michigan1 we returned to our little company of fellow workers in ,ohio2 found them all together at dear ,brother and ,sister ,miller's1 at ,jerry ,city4 ,praise ,god1 it was joyful to our souls to meet all well again4 ,how all hearts praised ,god for the tidings of his wonderful works in the assembly6 ,of course dear ,brother ,barney began to bound like a rubber ball1 almost to the ceiling1 when he learned of the salvation of his brother ,william4 ,doubtless angels in heaven took a part in the celebration of ,god's holy praises4444 ,october #a we came to ,bro4 ,s4 ,phillips'1 near ,rising ,sun4 ,we held some meetings in a house on his place4 ,we enjoyed preaching the glorious gospel of ,christ to the people that came together there4444 ,october #g1 we moved a few miles farther east and one mile north1 to the house of dear ,bro4 ,daniel ,roush1 where we invited the neighbors together to hear the word of the ,lord4 ,the room soon proved too small1 and the weather being pleasant1 we obtained a tent from ,brother ,phillips1 that covered about #ahbj feet1 which we attached to one end of a large porch2 these together made quite a good meeting-room4 ,the ,lord helped us to preach the glorious gospel of ,christ1 and we poured out the vials of ,god's wrath upon every evil way4 ,the ,lord worked1 and souls were saved almost every day4 ,thursday1 ,october #ad1 the ,lord sent a very strong wind and we had to take the tent down4 ,that night we held the meeting in the house4 ,the night being dark and rainy1 the congregation was not very large4 ,while we were preaching the word1 suddenly in rushed ,a ,,black ,,mob ,about fifteen or more of the baser sort1 who were drunk and mad on the wine of ,babylon1 with their faces blackened1 sprang into the room and seized upon us and started to take us out4 ,brethren quickly saw the situation and were not slow in our help4 ,but the room being seated with backed seats1 and the space between us and the door being all occupied by the sons of ,belial1 not many saints could get near us4 ,the enemies of the ,lord all having hold of each other and the front ones hold on us1 we were pretty rapidly drawn to the door4 ,but a few of the little ones were pulling back with all their might4 ,brother ,barney and ,sister ,frankie ,miller were in the hottest of the fight6 ,mother and ,nan could not get to us4 ,halleluiah6 ,we praised ,god every step and felt the perfect peace of ,god in our souls4 ,bro4 ,george ,roush had hold on our left arm and was our principal stay4 ,the black clan1 knowing him as a very strong man1 thought to beat him loose from his hold on us2 but he received the blows on his face without slacking his hold4 ,god bless that brother4 ,the ,lord did not suffer him to be hurt to amount to anything4 ,one of the black clan brought with him a pretty wieldy little cudgel1 which ,bro4 ,jacob ,roush grabbed and wrested out of his hands4 ,and being an officer of the law1 of whom the ,word of the ,lord says1 ,he beareth not the sword or club in vain1 he began to apply it vigorously on the black heads4 ,up to this second the contest stood in breathless uncertainty4 ,we were hauled to the very threshhold1 and all the desperadoes were determined to have their victim4 ,once the threshold crossed1 we were to be dragged out into the dark night to suffer all that ,satan might dictate in the hearts of fiendish ,catholic sect idolaters and wicked sinners4 ,but all at once the ,spirit said to our soul1 ,i will not leave thee in the hands of the wicked4 ,almost immediately every black hand let go and fled4 ,glory be to our ,god1 he always causes us to triumph through ,christ ,jesus4 ,the little ones said it looked as though we should be pulled to pieces1 but1 praise ,god1 not a hair of our head was harmed1 not a muscle strained1 and not a thread of our clothes torn4 ,glory to ,jesus for his precious deliverance of us out of the jaws of the fierce beasts6 ,it was reported that their intention was to strip us and give us a good lashing with whips and then serve us with a dessert of rotten eggs4 ,we praised ,god for their defeat1 but believe we should have praised him and leaped still more with the glory in our soul had he seen fit to let the wicked accomplish their end4 ,after the struggle we sang a hymn of praise to ,god and resumed our discourse in the ,spirit of the ,lord4 ,before we came to the place1 our eyes rested on #a ,thess4 #b3a1b1 and as we read1 the ,spirit gave us the words as descriptive of what we should meet4 ,praise ,god1 we were willing to be shamefully entreated for ,christ's sake and were none the less bold in our ,god to speak unto you the gospel of ,god with much contention1 knowing that our entrance in unto you was not in vain4 ,the night before the black mob came we dreamed of fighting black dogs1 which finally fled from before our face4 ,some were apprehensive they would repeat the attack1 and there were all kinds of rumors of wars4 ,had we not been saved above all fears we should have escaped out of that place as soon as possible1 but we remained over the following ,sabbath4 ,from ,ohio the course of our little company of evangelists turned westward again4 ,while they were holding meeting at ,payne1 ,ohio1 ,brothers ,williams and ,yoder1 from ,la,grange ,county1 ,ind41 arrived to convey them seventy-two miles back to ,brushy ,prairie1 ,ind4 ,on their return they reached a point near ,antwerp1 ,ohio1 the first evening4 ,as soon as they came into the neighborhood the news was sounded out1 and the house where they were stopping was quickly filled with people who had come to hear the words of eternal life4 ,when we landed there1 we began to think of our bodies1 and felt sorry the word had gone out announcing a meeting4 ,we had been up1 some until twelve1 and others until two o'clock1 the night before1 and wishing to start by daylight on a fifty-five mile drive the next day1 it seemed that the rest was a matter of necessity4 ,but as the people came together1 our hearts1 burdened for lost souls1 soon forgot circumstances1 and the meeting continued till eleven o'clock4 ,all glory to our ,god1 who is 'able to make all grace abound unto us1 so that we always having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work4' ,meetings were held in ,la,grange ,county1 ,ind41 after which the company were conveyed in a two-days journey by lumber-wagon1 to ,beaver ,dam4#bj ,while engaged in meetings in this part of the ,state he was called home to the ,office again1 to assist with the third edition of the song-book4 ,the ,publishing ,office by this time had been moved to ,grand ,junction1 ,van ,buren ,county1 ,mich4 ,brother ,fisher1 having gone to the ,office1 wrote for us to come also1 as we were needed4 ,the interest of the meeting was such that we thought we should by no means leave4 ,but as we fasted and prayed1 the ,spirit of ,god bade us go immediately1 assuring us that he would put his ,spirit on dear ,bro4 ,barney ,warren and cause him to preach the word to the people4444 ,though the little ones were loath to have us leave so suddenly1 the grace of ,god enabled all to say1 ,amen1 and in a few moments we were on our way to the station1 and several hours ride on ,father's swift chariots landed us at the ,trumpet ,office once more1 after an absence of five months4 ,oh1 praise ,god for his glorious blessings upon our soul and body6 ,having had no ministerial help1 preaching nearly all the time twice a day1 with much altar-work1 singing1 etc41 besides doing one man's writing keeping the ,trumpet filled and attending to a large correspondence1 hymn-writing1 etc41 it is wonderful1 a constant miracle1 how ,god can do so much through a poor1 naturally frail body4 ,we scarcely get six hours sleep out of twenty-four4 ,glory to ,god1 we do love this holy war for our ,god against the powers of hell and for the rescue of perishing souls4 ,if the ,lord saw fit to keep us working the whole time day and night1 and sustained us1 we should say1 ,amen4 ,oh1 how glad we were to see the beloved little ones at home once more6 ,god bless their souls4 ,how grateful we are to ,god for the faithful labors of these dear ones4 ,truly they endure all things for the elect's sake1 that their fingers may send forth the bread of heaven to the hungry souls4 ,dear brethren1 when you read the ,trumpet so eagerly do not forget to pray for those blessed children who are so devoted to this great work4 ,we were in hopes that ,god would give us the sweet luxury of some nights' rest with the little ones at home4 ,but lo1 here came the dear saints from every direction wishing ,brother ,joseph and us to come here and there to preach for them4444 ,when we left our little company we expected to return soon again1 but as the second edition of ,songs of ,victory is nearly exhausted we have to remain here to help print the third edition soon4 ,praise ,god1 nearly thirty-five hundred books have gone forth singing the praises of ,god4 ,may ,god speed all his flying angels with the everlasting gospel to this dark and wretched world1 so near its awful doom4 ,amen4 ,brother ,warner remained at the ,office until early in ,march1 when1 by agreement1 he met his little company again at ,walkerton1 ,ind41 where they had held meetings almost a year before4 ,frankie ,miller refers in her diary to their meeting in ,walkerton on the night of their arrival there4 ,that night we all met at ,brother ,barden's to worship ,god4 ,after the meeting had nicely begun1 in walked ,brother ,warner4 ,well1 it is needless to say we were all very thankful to see his dear face again4 ,he said that this was the second time he had been mobbed4 ,the first time was by the black mob near ,rising ,sun4 ,ohio1 and the second time was this time by the ,white ,horse ,cavalry4 ,sister ,miller also relates an instance of healing that occurred before they left ,walkerton4 ,wednesday morning1 the #acth1 ,brother ,wolfenberger came out to ,brother ,barden's1 where we were1 before breakfast4 ,his little boy five years old was very sick with spinal disease and had high fever4 ,the doctors held a council over him the day before4 ,we all went over about nine o'clock4 ,the doctor was there4 ,the little fellow was crying1 and burning up with fever4 ,he had not eaten anything but a little scraped apple since ,saturday4 ,the doctor tried to open his eyes1 and wanted to put a fly blister on his spine4 ,brother ,warner told the parents that if they wanted to put the case in ,god's hands they must drop the doctor and his medicines and take ,christ alone for their physician4 ,they were both willing1 and said they believed ,god would heal the child4 ,after looking to ,god in prayer1 ,brother ,warner anointed the child in the name of ,jesus1 and we laid on hands1 and ,god healed the little sufferer4 ,oh1 praise ,god for his goodness6 ,the fever was broken1 and he sweat freely and opened his eyes very bright and asked for a cookie4 ,he ate two cookies and some bologna very greedily1 and teased to be dressed and go to the depot with his papa after his sister's satchel4 ,the daughter had been attending school in ,auburn1 and they telegraphed for her1 thinking the child could not live4 ,before we reached the place1 the daughter had gone to ,god in prayer asking him to pardon her sins and to save her little brother4 ,after the child was healed1 a young woman working in the family1 who had been bitter against the power of ,god and against us1 fell on her knees and cried to ,god for mercy1 and she received the spirit of adoption4 ,she was a member of the ,united ,brethren without a spark of salvation4 ,we present extracts from ,brother ,warner's report of this second meeting at ,walkerton4 ,here we set the battle in array last ,april in a two weeks siege4 ,hell was moved to the bottomless pit4 ,babylon foamed and howled1 and1 like the ancient ,pharisees1 stirred up the people to shamefully entreat us1 as they did ,paul at ,philippi4 ,but1 thank ,god1 in the fires of persecution and storms of opposition ,god saved a few souls1 and these we find standing fast2 and a few others the ,lord has added to his own church1 who are praising ,god for the great salvation4 ,we soon found that the gospel of ,christ had grown much in the favor of the people4 ,the ,lord ,god of power had greatly turned the minds and hearts of the people to endorse and love the truth4 ,men of principle gave all to understand that if they attempted to disturb our meetings again as they had before they must suffer the application of the law4 ,praise ,god1 the people heeded the warning1 and ,god also inclined them to give good attention4 ,we occupied a very large hall for two weeks and had it well filled with hearers4 ,multitudes were under deep conviction1 but were unwilling to pay the price of real salvation4 ,several1 however1 were saved by the power and grace of ,god1 converted and sanctified1 and a few made their escape fully out of ,babylon and were wonderfully blessed of the ,lord4 ,were it not for shoddy holiness and stagnant pools of sectish religion in the way of ,god's salvation1 a great harvest of souls could be brought to ,jesus4 ,but the corrupt preachers in this place will have to answer for the awful influence that is damning multitudes of poor sinners1 both in and out of their sect enclosures4 ,on the last two nights of our meeting1 there was also meeting in the ,methodist house in the town4 ,some of that sect were greatly convicted to escape out of her2 but we could feel the influence of those meetings as sensibly as if the ,holy ,spirit were incarnate and were being literally crucified in the town1 as the ,spirit and ,word were killed in the streets of the great city1 which spiritually is called ,sodom and ,egypt 7,rev4 #aa3h74 ,oh1 how sensibly we felt the fellowship of the suffering of ,jesus ,christ6 ,while the sweet peace of ,god flows a deep1 everlasting undercurrent in our souls1 we often feel the slaughter of immortal spirits in the streets of ,babylon until our heart sickens and we long to leave this world and be with ,jesus4 ,but like the apostle1 we always conclude that for us to live is ,christ2 and the rescue of perishing souls from the brink of hell fires us with a willingness to expose our soul to the hatred and jeers1 violence and murder in hearts that are drunk on the wine of beast religion4 ,the ,united ,brethren preacher at this place1 whom ,satan used with such diligence against the work when we were here last year1 was much tormented by our return4 ,the wine of the wrath of her fornication so foamed in his heart that1 we were told by good authority1 he said that he wished we were stripped1 tarred and feathered1 and then set on fire1 and added that he would like to touch the match himself4 ,and this wretched priest of ,baal professes sanctification1 and frequently leads the ,babylon holiness band's meetings4 ,today we were told that he regretted much that his words came to our ears4 ,that is like the thief that repented bitterly1 not of his theft1 but that he was caught in the deed4 ,a sister came in from the country and received full salvation4 ,there being a union meeting-house in the community1 she and others desired us to come there and preach the gospel4 ,we agreed to do so on ,sabbath evening if the house could be obtained4 ,she thought there would be no difficulty4 ,but as soon as the matter became known1 a ,methodist local preacher of the vicinity began to rage4 ,he came to ,walkerton on ,saturday and1 foaming out his shame before the people1 declared that if we attempted to enter that pulpit he would break our head1 break our neck1 kill us1 etc4 ,bishop ,foster speaks of his ,m4 ,e4 sect as follows3 ,oh1 how changed6 ,a hireling ministry will be a feeble1 a timid1 a truckling1 a time-serving ministry1 without faith1 endurance1 and holy power4 ,through this corrupt ministry worldly socials1 festivals1 concerts1 and such like1 have taken the place of the religious gatherings1 revival meetings1 class- and prayer-meetings of the past4 ,oh1 how changed6 ,yes1 saith the prophet1 ,how is the faithful city become an harlot6 it was full of judgment2 righteousness lodged in it2 but now murderers4 ,thy silver is become dross1 thy wine mixed with water3 thy princes are rebellious1 and companions of thieves3 every one loveth gifts1 and followeth after rewards 7,isa4 #a3ba-bc74 ,surely we have come to the last days4 ,for1 this know also1 that in the last days perilous times shall come4 ,for men shall be lovers of their own selves1 covetous1 boasters1 proud1 blasphemers1 disobedient to parents1 unthankful1 unholy1 without natural affection1 trucebreakers1 false accusers1 incontinent1 fierce1 despisers of those that are good1 traitors1 heady1 highminded1 lovers of pleasure more than lovers of ,god2 having a form of godliness1 but denying the power thereof3 from such turn away 7#b ,tim4 #c3a-e74 ,yea1 ,babylon the great is fallen1 is fallen1 and is become the habitation of devils1 and the hold of every foul spirit1 and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird4 ,oh1 the rottenness1 fierce hatred1 and soul-murdering wickedness of sect ,babylon6 ,if there were only one hundred professors of ,christ in the ,united ,states1 and they all holy men and women of ,god1 filled with faith and the ,holy ,spirit1 walking unto all pleasing before ,god and exemplifying the pure life of ,christ before men1 and this generation had never known any other kind of professors of ,christ1 the masses of the people could be rapidly reached by the gospel of ,jesus and saved from sin4 ,but the devil has the world piled up with corrupt1 proud1 filthy1 sectish religionists1 'professing that they know ,god2 but in works they deny him1 being abominable and disobedient1 and unto every good work reprobate' 7,tit4 #a3af74 ,and because ,god has given us an honest heart to confess the sins of the professed ,christendom and show the people that ,christ is not the author of this mass of spiritual whoredom and abominable wickedness1 which has filled hell with lost souls and covered the earth with blackness and infidelity1 the devil howls and rages in his sectish priests1 who are ready to murder us as the ,jews did ,christ1 ,stephen1 and thousands of other martyrs who testified against them and their evil deeds4 ,as we shall have to meet the people of ,walkerton and surroundings face to face in the day of judgment1 ,god holds us responsible to tell them that the greatest obstruction to the salvation of souls is their shoddy1 sectish holiness and their abominable1 worldly religion4 ,up to the summer of #ahhg the evangelistic efforts of ,brother ,warner and his company were confined to the ,states of the ,middle ,west4 ,but now came a more extensive tour1 that should take them as far ,west as ,denver1 ,colo4 ,on ,june #bd they left the ,office and after a few meetings in ,la,grange and ,jay ,counties1 ,ind41 departed for the ,west4 ,they stopped at ,gilman and ,onarga1 ,ill41 and ,hayesville1 ,iowa4 ,from ,keokuk1 ,iowa1 they traveled by steamboat to ,st4 ,louis1 where the following report was written3 ,oh1 praise the ,lord with me1 and let us exalt his name together6 ,we have just landed here from the steamboat ,sidney1 having had a very delightful trip down the ,mississippi from ,keokuk4 ,we made the trip of two hundred miles in twenty hours4 ,the river being very low at this time1 much caution was necessary to avoid running aground4 ,doubtless one hundred miles were traveled in passing from one side of the river to the other to keep the deepest channel4 ,we were a day and a night at ,keokuk1 waiting the coming of the boat4 ,the ,gem ,city was to have reached ,keokuk the first day and then return down the river2 but being late she turned around at ,quincy and started back1 leaving us to wait until the next day4 ,praise ,god1 we confessed his all-wise hand in the matter and thanked him for the prolonged wait1 believing it was all ordered of him4 ,this morning about daybreak we passed the ,gem ,city1 she having stuck fast in the sand4 ,so the ,lord was good to his little ones and gave us a safe and very joyful voyage4 ,oh1 the goodness and wisdom of ,god our heavenly ,father for placing the great rivers and lakes in the earth as a beautiful means of travel6 ,it is so much more pleasant than by railroad4 ,though the speed is not more than half so great1 we can very pleasantly improve the time reading and writing4 ,however1 this trip was so wonderfully enjoyed by us that we could do no more than feast upon the beauties of nature and praise the ,lord4 ,the river abounds in beautiful green islands1 and all her verdant banks are delightful4 ,just below the mouth of the ,illinois river1 for a few miles1 the hand of ,god has skilfully carved out of the high rocky shore very beautiful scallops and great piers and towers1 and even some appearances of partly ruined mansions and rustic stone buildings4 99 99 99 99 99 ,no one else on board the vessel seemed to be delighted with these vast and beautiful works as were our company1 because unacquainted with our dear ,father1 whose hand of love has formed them all4 ,oh1 how blessed the pure in heart who see ,god all along the voyage of life6 ,what a vastly different aspect everything wears when looked at in the light of ,god6 ,oh1 how poor and meager the pleasures of the children of this world6 ,how utterly tasteless and empty their thoughts and conversation6 ,no place on earth serves better to call out the glories of a life hid with ,christ in ,god in its striking contrast with the dark minds and almost senseless twaddle of the aliens than the deck of a steamboat4 ,even the more elevated seldom have a worthy thought on immortal mind2 while every object our eyes lighted upon in the passing panorama of nature inspired our souls with joyful acknowledgments of ,god1 and moved our hearts and lips to praise his name4 ,oh1 what a rapturous and heavenly kingdom we live in1 all flashing with glory and yet hidden from the blinded sinners6 ,having lost our lives for ,christ's sake we are raised to the heavenly joys of the life of ,god in us1 a life of bliss1 that already transcends the sinner's loftiest ideal of heaven itself4 ,oh1 the beauties of holiness6 ,out of ,zion the perfection of beauty1 ,god hath shined4 ,never in all past experience has our heart flowed out more in gratitude to ,god for the inexpressible bliss of a pure conscience1 a pure heart through the blood of ,christ1 an innocent life through grace divine1 a conversation in heaven flowing from a good treasure in the heart1 and1 above all1 a soul illuminated and inspired to see and enjoy ,god in every bright sunbeam that gleams on earth and sparkles in the silvery stream and every object upon the footstool of ,god4 ,god is love2 the angels know ,that ,father dearly loves us so4 ,but1 oh1 the ransomed feel within ,the burning love we try to sing6 ,this evening we start for ,st4 ,james1 ,mo41 the ,lord willing1 where we expect to meet once more our dear ,bro4 ,j4 ,cole1 and many others dear to our hearts by the fellowship of the ,spirit whose faces we have never seen4 ,and best of all1 we are expecting a glorious harvest of souls turned to righteousness by the mighty power and love of ,god4 ,the next report was written from ,st4 ,james1 ,crawford ,county1 one hundred miles west of ,st4 ,louis4 ,bro4 ,b4 ,e4 ,warren says that after buying their tickets for ,st4 ,james they had but seven cents left1 and that after arriving at the latter place ,brother ,warner went to the post-office and received a letter containing five dollars from ,s4 ,l4 ,speck1 who felt led of the ,lord to send that amount4 ,brother ,warner's account of their reception in ,st4 ,james1 as follows1 is interesting3 ,the night following our last report1 which was from ,st4 ,louis1 ,mo41 we landed at ,st4 ,james1 at #ab3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,the ,lord directed us to a friendly inn1 where we rested until the morning4 ,as we sat at the breakfast-table our grateful hearts flowed out in our sweet little table thanksgiving song4 ,the ,lord wonderfully blessed that sweet offering of praise4 ,it rang out and greeted the ears of all in hearing as the music of heaven4 ,after meal1 requests soon came in for songs4 ,the ,holy ,spirit gloriously inspired our voices to sing his praises4 ,many people soon collected in front of the room and some came in4 ,after a few hymns1 we had family worship4 ,we invited all that would come to come in and bow with us in prayer4 ,some did so4 ,the ,lord blessed our souls4 ,soon ,bro4 ,j4 ,h4 ,morrison came into town1 and seeing the throng in front of the hotel he asked the cause1 and was told that your people have come to town4 ,he came into the waiting-room and introduced himself1 and the ,spirit of ,god gave us a joyful meeting4 ,sinners looked on with wonder and amazement1 and were led to say1 ,these are truly the real children of ,god1 and this is the right way1 according to the words of our ,savior1 ,by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples1 if ye have love one for another4 ,many seemed quite serious4 ,had we tried to respond to the requests of the people we should have kept singing all day without cessation4 ,the people desired ,brother ,morrison to keep us right there and have a meeting that night in town1 saying they would see that all our expenses there should be paid4 ,the landlady and family were also very anxious we should stay1 and treated us with much kindness4 ,the ,lord reward them4 ,the ,methodist preacher also came to see what this ,pentecost fire was that had come to town4 ,when asked if we could have their meeting-house that night he replied that he was going to begin a protracted meeting tonight4 ,suddenly the preacher concluded a protracted meeting was needed in his charge4 ,whoever heard of a ,methodist minister commencing a protracted meeting in the month of ,july in the latitude of central ,missouri1 especially since that sect has gone spiritually to the frigid zone where1 as their oldest living bishop says1 spirituality is frozen to death8 ,quite a capacious hall was procured and well filled1 and we enjoyed preaching the precious gospel to the people4 ,about all received the word4 ,the ,m4 ,e4 meeting consisted of three or four women1 and was not further protracted4 ,the day of our arrival here came also dear ,bro4 ,c4 ,c4 ,knight1 from ,fulton1 ,ill41 with tent and equipment to accompany us on our ,western campaign4 ,he is full of faith and the ,holy ,ghost and is a good help in the work4 ,the next day we moved out to the camp-ground1 which is about ten miles from ,st4 ,james and near the ,merrimac ,river4 ,here we met our dearly beloved ,brother ,cole1 who spent a year with us in ,michigan a few years ago2 also his sister ,mary1 a chosen and anointed instrument of ,god to preach and testify the gospel of the grace of ,god4 ,at this camp-meeting the little company were to encounter a new problem4 ,as soon as they arrived at the place of meeting they were accorded a strange reception4 ,those who were supposed to be saints at that place came to meet them1 some dancing on one leg1 some rolling their eyes in their head1 others gibbering in tongues1 or jerking1 or falling stiff1 etc4 ,at first they did not know what to make of the strange performance4 ,at this place also was another attempt by a mob to capture ,brother ,warner4 ,his report continues3 ,we met also a much larger host of saints than we had expected to find in this country4 ,praise ,god for this6 ,but oh1 how soon we saw and felt that ,satan1 the deceiver1 had passed a dreadful network of deception over them1 or nearly all of them6 ,unseemly and even hideous operations and contortions were carried on and called the manifestations of the ,spirit and power of ,god4 ,we began at once to rebuke it in the name of the ,lord ,jesus4 ,god gloriously blessed our souls in preaching his word and assured us that he had much people there who were honest and sincere at heart and who would be delivered by the presentation of his word4 ,the supposed gift of tongues was alarmingly increasing4 ,indian war-dances1 etc41 had turned the church of ,god into something quite different1 a disgusting maze of confusion4 ,we were helped of ,god in teaching them how they ought to behave themselves in the house of ,god1 which is the church of the living ,god4 ,a terrible nervous jerking had seized upon many in the meetings1 which in some cases resembled much ,st4 ,vitus' dance4 ,we speak of these things in order to give the saints of ,god everywhere the benefit of what these precious souls have learned in the dear school of experience4 ,we had never seen such manifestation except in persons possessed with devils1 and yet the ,spirit of ,god showed us these were not so possessed1 but were1 for the most part1 still owned of the ,lord4 ,we read #a ,cor4 #ab1 #ac1 #ad1 and showed the beautiful harmony of the church under the control of the ,spirit of ,god2 that 'love does not behave itself unseemly'2 that the gift of tongues was not of general usefulness1 and was a sign to the ,jews1 not generally edifying to the church2 that other gifts should be sought in preference1 and unless he or some one else interpret1 the person having the gift should keep silent or speak to himself2 that 'five words with the understanding is better than ten thousand in an unknown tongue'2 that spasmodic jerking is not mentioned in the ,bible as a manifestation of ,god's ,spirit1 but is ascribed to a malignant spirit4 ,we renounced that working as of the devil4 ,it seems that one brother who had been powerfully charged by the ,holy ,spirit had become puffed up1 which gave place to this satanic working4 ,then ,satan made it the standard of being filled with the ,spirit and power of ,god2 therefore many earnestly prayed for it4 ,they forgot that the ,holy ,spirit makes intercession for us only according to the will of ,god1 and whatsoever one prays for outside the will of ,god must be suggested by some other spirit4 ,and as ,god has not promised to answer such a prayer1 the devil steps in and answers it4 ,and now1 since delivered1 the dear saints see and confess that the incoming of this power dimmed their faith1 joy1 and peace4 ,it was nothing less than ,satan touching and playing upon their nerves and upon their imaginations4 ,their motives having been good1 namely1 to seek the real power of ,god1 their consciences were not defiled--at least1 with most of them4 ,but some were much blinded and puffed up of the devil4 ,satan had free access to their minds under the cloak of the ,spirit of ,god4 ,those who were not affected by the foolish jerking of the devil were judged by the devil and made to believe they did not have the ,spirit of ,god because they did not jerk4 ,thus all were under depression and more or less bewildered4 ,oh1 how our souls were saddened at the sight6 ,o dear saints of ,god everywhere1 do not ascribe to the ,spirit of ,god ludicrous and unbecoming conduct1 such as chattering like a coon or barking like a dog1 and all hideous looks6 ,well1 praise ,god1 the word of ,god was received4 ,some at first resented1 but ,god soon convicted them and they became teachable4 ,nearly all the foolish stuff was rid out of the camp after one discourse explaining and renouncing it4 ,intelligent sinners respected the truth of ,god that exposed the devil's counterfeit1 and some who loved the true church wept for joy to see the abomination put away4 ,from that time ,god led one after another to confess that spiritual joy and true faith began to depart out of their hearts from the time of receiving the jerks4 ,many came bowing at the altar1 and the glorious work of cleansing went forward4 ,the truth of ,god was published against all the works of the devil by the power of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,some sect preachers1 filled with the beast spirit and the very devil himself1 were very much enraged against the word of the ,lord1 which had laid open the rottenness of their hearts4 ,hence they spewed out their shame and foamed exceedingly4 ,on ,tuesday night1 after meeting1 we all lay down to rest1 being wearied with the arduous labors of the day4 ,a masked mob aroused us from our much-needed sleep and ordered all to pack up and leave the grounds in half an hour4 ,they were armed with staves and rocks4 ,well1 the saints arose and packed up1 praising ,god for peace and comfort in their souls1 not fearing the poor set of sinners who knew not that they were persecuting the ,savior4 ,they made diligent inquiry for us all about the camp4 ,we were doubtless the special victim marked by their rankling hatred2 but the ,lord delivered us out of their hands4 ,oh1 praise the ,lord with me and let us exalt his name together6 ,the next morning early some saints drove back to the ground to get some things that had been left1 and there came the preachers who had been howling with torment and sorrow because of the sword of the ,lord1 and even gnawing their tongues for pain1 and who were generally believed to have been in the clan the night before1 and one of them even recognized4 ,they asked with much affected surprize what had happened1 and began to declare and even to swear in the presence of ,god that they knew nothing of the movement and were not in it1 though one of them confessed he was glad of it4 ,this they did without having been accused4 ,one brother said1 ,a guilty conscience needs no accuser2 you plead guilty before accused4444 ,well1 praise ,god1 the next morning1 after a few hours' sleep1 we were called up to join some little ones in asking ,god to heal a child that was suffering with the croup4 ,the good ,lord instantly did the work4 ,others followed1 some for healing1 others for complete deliverance from every taint of the devil4 ,god himself gathered the saints at that place1 and the day was devoted to salvation work4 ,probably twenty-five or thirty souls were delivered from all the works of the devil and filled with the ,spirit of ,god4 ,oh1 what a mighty change has taken place here6 ,instead of gloomy and hideous looks1 now shines the glory and beauties of holiness1 upon the joyful faces of the redeemed1 and clear1 ringing shouts of praises are pleasing to ,god4 ,no meeting was announced for the next day1 but the ,lord gathered quite a number together again1 and salvation work was resumed4 ,on both days ,god so filled and possessed the meetings that there was not time for the slightest allusion to the mob workers of the devil4 ,a stranger might have sat in the meeting the whole day and not received the faintest information of what had happened two nights ago4 ,praise ,god1 these two days after driven out of camp were the most glorious and fruitful of all that we spent in these wild thickets4 ,in spite of all that poor1 pitiable ruffians could do1 hissed on by wicked ,babylonians1 we are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory4 ,we are now holding meetings a few days in the village of ,st4 ,james4 ,a large hall is crowded with attentive hearers1 and the truth is mightily prevailing4 ,let all the saints of ,god pray for us4 ,we will continue to preach the whole truth and rebuke the works of the devil1 even if this tour should end in heaven4 ,halleluiah6 ,of these strange manifestations ,bro4 ,t4 ,e4 ,ellis1 who was one of those living in the vicinity and affected by the peculiar power that possessed the saints there1 says3 ,we were under an influence similar to what the modern tongues people are under4 ,we had different manifestations4 ,some would jerk spasmodically1 some would fall and become stiff1 some would dance1 some would seem to have a kind of trance and a vision4 ,healing was claimed and the work seemed to be done4 ,we had what we called the unknown tongue and an interpreter4 ,a few talked similarly to the way modern tongues people talk nowadays4 ,from ,st4 ,james the company continued their tour to ,carthage1 in the southwestern part of the ,state4 ,they also held meetings at a number of different points in southern ,kansas and in southeastern ,nebraska1 ,the first paragraph of his report from ,chanute1 ,kans41 was written while he was sick4 ,we quote the first two paragraphs3 ,it seems as distance stretches out between us and the dear loved ones with whom we have so often and joyfully worshiped ,god1 that the love of ,god in our hearts is drawing us nearer together4 ,i have never before felt the blessed1 pure love of ,god burning so intensely in my heart for the dear household of ,god as lately4 ,i can scarcely write to the beloved saints without tears dimming my eyes4 ,o dearly beloved1 we can feel your daily fervent prayers in our behalf1 and all our company desire to thank you1 for them4 ,we want to testify to the goodness of ,god4 ,the foregoing lines were written by a very sick man1 but now we continue writing1 a well man4 ,oh1 praise the ,lord with me and let us exalt his name together6 ,from early morn until #c ,p4 ,m4 today we were very sick1 unable to eat4 ,tried to write1 but had to take the bed4 ,finally the ,lord impressed us with earnest prayer4 ,we called the little company and kneeled before ,god1 and oh1 our dear heavenly ,father instantly healed our body1 took away all bad feeling1 raised our voice from the faint tones of a person just beginning to rise from a hard sick spell to clear loud shouts of praise6 ,he also sent through our entire system the strength of high leaps1 as well as the high praises of ,god4 ,in a later report he shows how his health was maintained by faith4 ,for some time we have felt called of ,god to devote ourself more especially to the great duty of writing some works of present truth1 and we expect to do so after the present tour4 ,with this fact coming oft before our mind1 we began unconsciously to relax our faith by which in our natural frailty we kept up sufficient strength for field labor4 ,the presence of the ministerial brethren with us for some time also helped ease up our mind and drop our shield of faith by our side4 ,the result was the devil had afflicted our poor weak body for several weeks4 ,but1 praise ,god1 the ,lord having in answer to prayer shown us what the trouble was1 last ,sabbath we rebuked the devil in the name of the ,lord ,jesus with a holy vehemence1 and our soul and body sprang forth with a shout of victory1 and1 glory to our ,god1 we have been wonderfully well and spiritually glorious ever since4 ,from ,waco1 ,nebr41 the company traveled westward to ,denver4 ,the following are extracts from his report at that place3 ,we stopped over a few hours in ,lincoln1 the capital of the ,state4 ,we viewed with surprize the young city4 ,fourteen years ago when we visited the place it was small--now it numbers over twenty thousand inhabitants1 more than double the size of ,lansing1 ,mich4 ,that night1 for the first time in all our travels1 an accident occurred to our train1 a slight collision with a freight-train several miles out of ,lincoln4 ,the engine being injured1 we had to wait some hours until another was brought from the city4 ,during this time there was a very violent wind4 ,the car rocked on its springs like a load of hay passing over a rough road4 ,but we lay down and slept sweetly1 committing ourselves unto the ,lord4 ,that evening dear ,bro4 ,e4 ,e4 ,byrum1 at the office1 had a great burden for our safety1 as he wrote us the next day4 ,but he prayed for us until the ,lord by the ,spirit answered him that we should be delivered from all harm4 ,oh1 praise the ,lord for his goodness and mercy toward us6 ,for our safety he placed a burden on one nearly a thousand miles away1 but allowed not the slightest anxiety on our minds4444 ,tuesday evening1 ,december #f1 our little company took train for ,denver1 five hundred miles more toward the setting sun4 ,that night we stopped over and had a good night's rest at ,mc,cook1 ,nebr4 ,took train again at #g ,a4 ,m4 and went flying over the prairie at a swift rate4 ,oh1 what vast expanse of the broad prairie6 ,some parts are rough and broken1 but the larger portion is beautiful and even and wanting only showers or irrigation to make a beautiful farming-country4444 ,when about fifty miles from ,denver1 we observed strange blue banks to the west1 which we first took to be dark clouds1 but which we soon perceived were distant foot-hills of the ,rocky ,mountains4 ,plainer and higher they loomed up before our eyes as our swift train kept darting like an arrow toward the base4 ,how beautiful and sublime the sight6 ,here at ,denver we are twelve miles from the foot-mountains4 ,they seem but a very short distance1 especially when the morning sun shines brightly against their eastern sides4 ,it seems impossible that they can be more than a mile and one half away4 ,a person would surely suppose that he could walk over and back before breakfast4 ,the foot-hills1 rather mountains1 are of a dark color1 being covered by timber1 and to all appearance just beyond them rise up the beautiful snow-covered range4 ,to our astonishment we are told that fifty miles stretch out between them and that there is a fertile valley there with towns1 etc4 ,the snowy range being so much farther off seems to be but a little higher than the foot-mountains1 and both ranges seem to stand together4 ,in the morning they all seem so close that one would surely suppose a man could be seen if standing there in the snow4444 ,it was quite a novelty to the company to see the many sod-houses we passed and dugouts in the hillsides4 ,sometimes there was scarcely anything to attract attention but a window door in a steep little hill4 ,sometimes we saw upon the level ground a roof about eight by ten covering a little underground house4 ,most of such were but herdsmen's dens4 ,we have not yet begun to work here4 ,let all the saints pray earnestly for the work of salvation4 ,the company remained in ,denver ten weeks1 holding meeting in various places4 ,when they went to that city there were only four persons who were in the light of the truth1 but they left a congregation of about forty who had taken their stand for the truth4 ,returning eastward they stopped in ,york ,county1 ,nebr41 where ,brother ,warner had labored in his ,nebraska mission in #ahgc-d4 ,a portion of his report from ,wayland reads as follows3 ,we preached and lived in this community thirteen and fourteen years ago1 then a member of the sect wearing the stolen name of ,church of ,god4 ,the ,lord blessed our labors in the salvation of some souls from their sins1 and we had good meetings4 ,there were very dear brethren and sisters here4 ,but since our departure the work has retrograded4 ,some of their preachers became horse jockeys1 others jealous-hearted1 dead formalists1 too cold and dry to keep men awake1 much less awaken and get any one converted4 ,the one on the work up to the time of our coming here has preached here four years without the conversion of a single soul4 ,during our meeting he resigned his charge1 and we are told he has now hired himself to preach for the ,christian sect at ,wayland1 some of the members of which were the most malignant enemies and opposers of the work of grace4 ,an unsaved citizen declared the other evening that about all the bad behavior and interruption he had seen during our meetings was by the sinners of the sects4 ,from ,wayland the company went by way of ,meriden and ,atchinson1 ,kans41 to ,whiteside ,county1 ,ill41 where they held meetings near ,albany and also near ,fulton4 ,the following is the report1 in part1 from ,albany3 ,we were happy to meet our dear beloved ,brother ,knight at his prairie home1 four miles east of ,fulton1 and he leaped and skipped like a lamb to see us4 ,the next day we all came eleven miles south to ,bro4 ,a4 ,byers'1 whose house is a happy home for the war-worn pilgrims4 ,the people are receiving the word with much interest4 ,after several days' work here and as long at ,brother ,knight's neighborhood we go on homeward1 for there is a great deal to do at home1 some small works to print and the new song-book1 ,anthems ,from the ,throne4 ,praise ,god for the precious and glorious songs he is sending us6 ,the music is nearly all written by ,brother ,barney1 whose inspiration in this gift is a marvel4444 ,o beloved1 will you help us8 ,a great responsibility rests upon us4 ,while we are praising ,god for the precious light of heaven let us not forget others in darkness and exposed to the numerous pitfalls now threatening souls for whom ,jesus died4 ,let no spirit of the devil nor any of his children tell you that we have any selfish motive in enlisting all willing and obedient hearts and hands in doing our duty in the rescuing of souls from ,satan in every possible way4 ,in the name of ,jesus we spurn such meanness4 ,god knows we do not draw a breath for self1 but 'for us to live is ,christ4' ,are we seeking self-interests1 as wicked men have belied us8 ,where can any facts be cited upon which to base such an unkind assertion8 ,on the present tour of nearly a year we have used about every cent we have received from the sale of books to supply the needs of ourself and little company4 ,so we go forth preaching night and day1 exposing this poor frail body to the cruel1 biting frosts and beating storms1 and toiling about every moment with the pen except when in meetings or going to and from1 and in about six hours sleep1 asking nothing for our labors either from ,god or man but the salvation of souls and the glory of ,god4444 ,life will soon be over4 ,you must leave your earthly treasures in the hands of others4 ,whether they will leave it to serve ,god or the devil is not yet known4 ,therefore1 had you not better put a little of it at least into ,god's bank1 laying it up in heaven1 where thieves do not break through and steal and where moth and rust do not corrupt8 ,as we return home from this long tour we feel impressed of the ,lord to devote ourself more fully to the preparation of matter for the press2 and we shall pray ,god with all our soul to move men and women to provide the means to purchase paper and other supplies to send it forth4 ,there should be some works sent forth by the million1 free of cost4 ,we feel sure that ,god will find willing hearts to help in the work1 and shall toil on in full assurance that when we breathe our last we shall have this consolation1 that we have done what we could to enlighten and save souls1 for whom ,jesus died upon the cross4 ,the company arrived at ,grand ,junction1 ,mich41 on ,april #be4 ,thus ended their ,western tour1 in which seed was sown in many hearts to spring up and bear fruit for ,god4 ,sister ,frankie ,miller said of this tour that it was marked by wonderful answers to prayer for rain4 ,it seemed that wherever the company stopped on their way ,west in ,illinois1 ,iowa1 and the other ,states the country was suffering on account of drought4 ,at every place their visit was either attended or followed by copious showers4 ,at one public service ,mother ,smith prayed earnestly for rain4 ,there was not a single indication of rain1 but before the service was over the heavens blackened and rain fell in abundance4 ,thus all along their course the drought was broken4 ,the summer of #ahhh was spent in attending camp-meetings and visiting the churches in various places in ,michigan1 ,indiana1 ,ohio1 and ,pennsylvania4 ,early in the winter a tour was made into ,ontario4 ,they found a good many souls in that country who had come out for the truth4 ,their labors there were blessed in the salvation of others and in the sowing of the good seed4 ,of the country and people ,brother ,warner had this to say3 ,we can say that we find a moderately fair farming-country1 and we can not observe the slightest difference between the people here and in the ,states4 ,more than ever we have learned that so long as governments allow a free1 conscientious worship of ,god1 their form is quite immaterial4 ,we do not see that people have any special advantages by living in the ,states over what are enjoyed here4 ,if any difference1 farmers do not pay as heavy taxes here as in the ,states4 ,local option temperance laws are given to the people1 and some counties have no saloons4 ,and one blessed thing ,canada has reason to thank ,god for is the fact that all liquor-selling establishments are strictly compelled to close early ,saturday evening and not open until ,monday morning4 ,this law enforced cuts off nearly one half the mischief of the nefarious business4 ,sabbath-observance is also far more complete here than in the ,states4 ,we were blessed with good order and find the way open for the gospel freely4 ,in ,august of the year #ahhi1 the company again made their way ,westward1 going as far as ,nebraska and returning through ,kansas and ,missouri4 ,they held meetings again at ,st4 ,james1 ,mo41 where a mob had given trouble two years before4 ,some of those who were guilty of that disturbance had become friends to the truth4 ,one old preacher1 however1 continued to abuse the saints in his preaching until one ,sunday evening1 after expressing his usual opposition to the saints1 he went home and dropped dead near his gate4 ,before this second visit of ,brother ,warner to this place one of the ,baptist ,church members made it known that he intended to break up this meeting also4 ,it was reported that he actually began to work up a mob2 but his child had a bean to lodge in its windpipe and died1 and this put a stop to the carrying out of his evil design4 ,brother ,warner intended to spend the winter in ,missouri1 but he felt drawn back to ,indiana4 ,having a great desire to settle down for a while1 he wrote as follows1 in ,december1 #ahhi3 ,for a long time we have felt the call of ,god to shut ourself away with him for a while and let him teach us the deep things of ,god1 that we may be able more perfectly to follow out the glorious lines of present truth4 ,we have a great desire to do so1 and yet when hungry souls in every direction are calling for the saving truth of ,god it is hard for us to keep from running2 but if the ,lord will1 we shall pass the calls around to the many able-bodied and warm-hearted soldiers of the white horse cavalry1 who are ready to rush to the battle wherever he leads4 ,we began preaching1 a poor1 frail invalid1 over twenty-two years ago1 and ,god has sustained us in a most remarkable manner during all these years of intense labor and great exposure4 ,oh how grateful we feel to our heavenly ,father that we are blessed with such good health6 ,but nevertheless we feel that more regular diet1 sleep1 etc41 for a season will prove a great blessing1 and increase and prolong our usefulness on earth4 ,we shall devote ourself principally to ,bible-study and poetical labor4 ,by the close of the year #ahhi1 it was seen that the work had been almost doubling itself annually4 ,that year there had been held twenty-five grove-meetings1 fourteen camp-meetings1 besides several general assemblies4 ,quite a strong working force was by this time in the field1 and evangelists were scattered out in the more distant parts of the country4 ,the next tour of any considerable extent was one that took them into the ,southland4 ,this trip was made in ,november1 #ahij4 ,they intended to make the trip by boat down the ,mississippi1 but found the water at a low ebb and traveling very slow4 ,they took a steamer at ,cincinnati1 but had to wait two days before it started2 and then it took them four days to reach ,cairo4 ,after waiting three days for a boat overdue from ,st4 ,louis1 they made the rest of the journey by rail1 and landed at ,meridian1 ,miss4 ,in this part of the country ,brothers ,bradley and ,bozeman and others had opened up the work4 ,the people were very hungry for the preaching of the word4 ,brother ,warner and the company spent several weeks in the eastern part of the ,state4 ,his bold manner in uncovering sin and false religion occasioned considerable opposition from various sectarian sources4 ,the country was cursed with a false holiness element called ,straight ,holiness1 representing the ,good ,way1 a paper then published at ,fort ,scott1 ,kans4 ,its teachers failed in the ,south to be uncompromising against tobacco and other evils and they incited no little opposition and prejudice against the ,new ,testament standard held by ,brother ,warner4 ,at ,beech ,springs1 ,miss41 the mob element was encountered1 as is shown by the portion of ,brother ,warner's report here given3 ,at that place there are a few ,babylon hearts of the most pernicious hue1 men steeped and dyed in tobacco and drunk on ,babylon's worst wine1 the wrath of which they infuse into the baser sort4 ,brothers ,bradley and ,bozeman have both been threatened in that place with violence and1 we believe1 even with murder1 and we could expect the same animus toward us4 ,hence1 the second night several pieces of brick and clubs came crashing through the window1 all doubtless hurled in wrath at us4 ,nearly half of the sash was broken in and the glass flew over the house4 ,the unsaved were much frightened1 and the whole house was thrown into confusion4 ,the glory of ,god was greatly upon us through all the evening1 and with the cowardly onslaught the heavenly tides so wondrously swelled in our soul that we had to leap for joy in the midst of the uproar4 ,oh1 the mighty river of peace and joy6 ,the excellent tide of glory only subsided into sleep at a late hour1 and it arose again with our waking in the morning4 ,we stood only about seven feet from the window and nearly opposite2 but the hand of ,god protected us from serious harm4 ,however1 the ,lord saw he could overrule a slight glancing wound on the side of our face and nose for his glory1 and so permitted the same4 ,it was very evident in the meeting the next day that either ,satan had made a great mistake or else his children were more wicked than he wanted them to be1 so that he could not restrain them from their wicked deed1 which proved a great blessing to the cause of ,christ4 ,all the saints were able to see more clearly than ever before the track that ,christ and his primitive saints had trod4 ,and about all testified that they had reached a clearer experience1 stronger faith1 and more joy in the ,lord through the last night's meeting than ever before4 ,the meeting that day was indeed very glorious4 ,the spiritual condition of the people as countenanced by the ,straight ,holiness teachers in that part of the ,south is set forth in the report written from ,spring ,hill1 near ,meridian3 ,our last report was from ,oak ,grove neighborhood4 ,when we entered there we found the powers of darkness and wickedness fierce and black4 ,threats were breathed about and written notices deposited in the dark4 ,after one night's meeting in the old meeting-house1 which is a neighborhood building1 it was locked up4 ,we went into the small schoolhouse near by and the ,lord most wonderfully blessed our souls4 ,satan then had the schoolhouse locked1 and though certain citizens had jerked the staples out of the old meeting-house and the doors stood wide open1 and the ,methodist class-leader1 being in favor of the right and truth1 invited us to enter1 yet because others were raging we preferred to hold a little service in the public road1 in the bright moonlight4 ,god blessed the songs1 prayer1 and a few words of exhortation1 and all the people seemed touched4 ,nearly every person present kneeled during prayer4 ,all these circumstances ,god overruled to the good of the people and the cause of ,christ4 ,the schoolhouse was again opened1 and we went on a few nights longer1 with glorious victory4 ,only a few sought the ,lord2 but there was a general blessing effected on the community in the removal of prejudice and hatred out of many hearts that had been influenced through lies and slanders1 such as of promiscuous kissing1 free-love1 etc41 propagated chiefly by the little ,fort ,scott-creed sect4#ba ,it is a bad and fallacious cause that depends upon defamation of others4 ,the course these schismatics resort to occasions some persecution and no little hatred1 and even danger of violent treatment1 which they will have to answer for in the day of judgment4 ,but the cause thus bolstered up can not stand1 and truth crushed down by foul means is sure to rise again2 and just in proportion as there has been evil-speaking against the truth will it enlist the hearts of the honest1 and at the same time forfeit all confidence in and elicit contempt for such as have defamed it and its lovers4 ,in accordance with these principles truth rose triumphant at ,oak ,grove4 ,the people saw we had been slandered1 yea and ,jesus ,christ also4444 ,the ,lord has raised up many friends for the whole truth in that place1 and could we have remained long enough to make a thorough effort1 doubtless a number of souls would have been saved4 ,but the way is opened for the true work of ,god to prosper there4 ,some who were much prejudiced when we went there1 seeing that the truth of ,god is in us1 had their minds changed1 and their countenances were divested of the sour and took on the pleasant4 ,god bless the people of that community4 ,from that place we came to ,spring ,hill1 several miles east4444 ,here were a few pure children of ,god1 whom we found yoked up with a majority who were professing salvation and yet walking after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness4 ,in our lifting the standard of ,god's ,word against such inconsistencies1 the wicked spirits were stirred in the baser sort1 so that many threats of violence were blown about in the neighborhood4 ,but the hand of ,god being over us1 we suffered no harm4444 ,oh1 how our soul longs to be excused of this most unpleasant task of lifting the gospel standard of holiness where profession has been countenanced in lives of filth and idolatry6 ,the preacher that simply tells the people he could not use tobacco1 and even earnestly admonishes men to quit1 and yet receives the testimonies of men who use it1 sets at naught the ,word of ,god1 pampers men in their sins1 and prepares a storm of persecution to fall on the head of the man who comes after him showing the real ,bible line between the works of ,god and the works of the devil1 between real holiness of heart1 soul1 spirit1 and body on the one side1 and all filthiness of the flesh and spirit on the other4 ,if holiness-teachers1 on going into a new field where people know nothing about the doctrine and experience1 would faithfully tell them at once that entire sanctification1 the second work of grace1 cleanses out of man all filthiness of the flesh and spirit1 which includes all unholy tempers and appetites1 that it can be obtained only by abandoning every sinful and unclean habit and giving the whole man--soul1 body1 and spirit--up to ,god for perfect purity of life and being1 no person is prepared to contradict him1 and such as conclude to seek that grace will expect to pay the full price4444 ,but when men are allowed to profess holiness without contradiction and yet practise the sin of tobacco-using or anything else contrary to godliness1 they1 in imagining themselves holy while living in unholiness1 as well as sinners in general1 learn to associate holiness and filth1 and the difficulties in rooting out the abomination1 are many times increased4 ,men1 by getting a degree of blessing of ,god upon their souls in consequence of abandoning some evils1 or at least imagining themselves blessed1 take the same as an endorsement from ,god upon the filth they yet continue in4 ,the longer they continue in their delusion the more they are confirmed in it and the more they will fight for their idols4 ,and their practise justifying the lusts of the wicked1 these are ready to assault and abuse ,god's ministers1 who must declare the whole counsel of ,god4 ,and so a lax preacher gives place for the devil and wrath of men to assault the faithful herald of ,god that follows him4 ,so by the fruits of the devotees of rehashed ,methodism in the ,fort ,scott creed1 which has cursed the ,south and filled hearts with bitter hatred toward all who follow ,christ1 and by their strife and contentions having brought a general contempt upon the name of holiness1 and also by their lack of radicalness against sin in every form1 our work here is beset with dark mountains1 which ,god alone can remove1 but which1 thank his holy name1 have been much obliterated in all places where we have labored4 ,later1 at ,spring ,hill1 the mob element was further encountered4 ,here1 as was always the case where a mob gathered to do violence to ,brother ,warner1 the chief instigators were sectarian preachers and professors who were incensed by the preaching of the truth that condemned them4 ,from ,spring ,hill meeting-house1 where we last wrote1 we went about seven miles to the southeast through a wild and almost mountainous woods1 to the house of ,brother and ,sister ,irby1 in whose dwelling we remained and held meeting about one week4444 ,a goodly number of hearers came out through the wet weather1 and the dear ,lord was pleased to pour his ,spirit upon us gloriously4 ,it seemed that ,god had taken us up upon the ,delectable ,mountains4 ,the leaps in our soul were too high for the height of the room1 as the house had a ceiling1 whereas1 nearly all the country houses here have nothing overhead but the roof1 and never has a whitewash brush touched the walls4 ,scarcely one out of ten of the houses in the country has a pane of glass in it4 ,the sisters talked with some women who did not know what a carpet is4 ,we have seen no such thing here4 ,the people in the ,south seem contented with fewer domestic comforts than any people we ever before met4 ,as one sister remarked the other day1 they take it out in tobacco4 ,there is much truth in this statement4 ,that weed deprives them of nearly all comforts and many actual necessities of life4 ,of course1 there is not the same need of carpeted floors here as in the ,north2 but how people can live for years in a house without a window is a mystery4 ,well1 our stay at ,brother and ,sister ,irby's seemed to my soul like old ,brother ,elijah's hiding-place in the wilderness1 where he dined on food brought by angels4 ,we also feasted on heavenly manna1 and shall never forget it4 ,some came to the altar1 and a few cast away their filthy idol2 but we hope the day of judgment will reveal much more good done than was manifest4444 ,some of ,god's little ones came over from ,spring ,hill1 who informed us that some were anxious for our return to that place4 ,now1 at that place is where ,satan's seat is4 ,before we left there we were much impressed that the mob spirit was at work1 and one night when the rain prevented our going to the place1 a disguised crowd was seen going there4 ,but now1 hearing that some souls were hungry for salvation1 we ventured back in the name of ,jesus4 ,when reaching the neighborhood1 we were joyfully surprized by the coming of our dear young brother ,andrew ,l4 ,byers1 from ,illinois1 who has come to join our little company4 ,having had a great deal of trouble and several days' ramble before he found us he was reminded of ,stanley in search of ,livingstone4 ,truly our hearts were mutually refreshed by his arrival4#bb ,the first night of meeting three souls came to the altar1 two consecrated for entire sanctification and one was gloriously pardoned4 ,the next night the fierce powers of hell were fully awakened from their brief slumber occasioned by our absence4 ,a couple of lead balls called buckshot were thrown through the open window by means of a rubber concern that we are told is even dangerous to life4 ,these wicked wretches also threw stones with slings at some of ,god's saints on their way home that night1 even regardless of women and children in the crowd4 ,one woman was hit4 ,that was a little the lowest and most cowardly work we have ever yet met with4 ,the next day four of ,satan's chief servants rode out in four directions five and seven miles to enlist by his lies and slanders such as were base enough in a great mob to assault us that night4 ,during the day we learned all about the movement1 and at a meeting at a brother's house we recalled the meeting for night1 seeing no possible chance of doing good4 ,hear ,o heavens1 and be ashamed ,o ,babylon1 when we tell you that one of the four spirits that went forth to gather together ,gog and ,magog was of the ,fort ,scott creed1 or the ,good ,way sect1 and the father of the only family of that sect in the neighborhood4 ,and at his cotton-gin was the appointed place for the mob to meet4 ,some five miles away he called on some young men who are reputed pretty wicked and invited them to join the mob1 telling them base lies4 ,but they1 having more principle than he1 said they would have nothing to do with it4 ,they also came and informed some friends of the ,lord all about the plot4 ,these told the ,fort ,scott man to his face what he was guilty of1 and he said he did not deny it4444 ,we expected to meet that creed with the ,word of ,god and had hopes of seeing some saved4 ,but they shun ,scripture investigation as a wolf shuns daylight4 ,brother ,bradley invited the editor and two of the leading preachers to meet him in discussion1 but they have failed to do so2 and now we have discovered their tactics4 ,they seem to regard slandering and mobbing as better calculated to subserve their cause than would honest discussion4 ,while we are happy to think that most of them in person would not condescend to mobbing1 it is only too true that many of them have given their tongues to slander whereby the other measures have been infused in the baser sort4 ,may ,god forgive them for ,christ's sake4 ,there being no meeting at which the mob could assault us1 they beset the house where we stayed until about twelve o'clock at night4 ,they reported their number between seventy-five and one hundred4 ,they were armed with guns and revolvers4 ,there were in the crowd a ,methodist preacher1 a class-leader with his axe1 many old gray-haired sectarians1 men recently out of jail2 the basest men in the country mixed up with a majority of sectites--so we were informed by brethren that knew the majority that came up to the house1 for a part kept in reserve with most of the guns4 ,they stated that their object was only to give us orders to leave the country next day4 ,a brave army1 about a hundred strong1 gathered from several miles around1 just to tell a few little children of ,god to leave the next day1 after we had announced in the meeting that we were going at that time6 ,there were a few fearless souls present who told them to their face that they were actuated to their dark work by the lies of ,satan and the wickedness of their hearts1 and shamed the ,babylon professors there mixed up in common cause with base outlaws4 ,the mob hung around until about midnight1 clamoring for us to come out1 stating they would not hurt us1 etc4 ,but when men are low down enough to fling buckshot into a congregation and rocks into a promiscuous crowd1 you might as well tell us that wolves and hyenas do not care for meat as to say that such did not want to hurt us4 ,doubtless some in the crowd did not1 and for what we know such as said so did not2 but judging the mob by what we had seen in the past we had good sense enough to avoid such beasts4444 ,after all left the house1 not a great way off1 they fired off their pieces1 which1 for a few seconds1 mimicked the din of war4#bc ,may ,god ever bless and keep the few pure children of ,god in that wicked region2 and may he reward their kindness to us and also that of the few non-professors1 whom we shall not soon forget and for whom we shall pray that ,god may bless and reward them with his great salvation4 ,following the campaign in eastern ,mississippi1 meetings were held in northern ,alabama1 near ,hartsells and near ,athens1 after which the company returned northward1 ,brother ,warner into ,indiana and the others into ,ohio4 ,in a report written from ,markleville1 ,ind41 he tells of a visit to ,indianapolis1 where the ,trumpet passed through the first year and a half of its existence4 ,we came on to ,indianapolis1 where we began the blasts of the ,gospel trumpet4 ,we remained all night1 and early in the morning walked out to the spot where we labored and prayed and trusted ,god nearly two years in great trials4 ,abandoned and hated of all the world1 opposed by all of ,babylon and rejected by the sectish associated holiness forces1 we were forced out upon the promises of ,god and endured a great fight of faith4 ,all the earth seemed dark as midnight1 and growling letters came thick and fast and friendly ones few and far between4 ,we were where1 a stranger in a city1 without money1 friends1 or credit1 give us this day our daily bread1 was not a mere formal prayer4 ,oh1 the riches of the goodness and the wonders of the mercy of ,god6 ,surely he hath never yet forsaken the righteous4 ,here we labored and prayed in intense poverty1 while the word of the ,lord tried us2 but his strong arm hath gotten him the victory over all the powers of hell and earth4 ,here we had a temporary summer office on our lot and occupied a room of the house1 about #ajad1 in winter4 ,now a large two-story building is occupied with the business1 and the circulation is rapidly enlarging4 ,we went back to the room we had occupied through the night and cast ourself down on the carpet in gratitude to ,god4 ,glory be to ,god for the triumph for his mighty present truth6 ,illustration3 ,,lena ,,shoffner4 ,,hattie ,,rupert4 ,j4 ,h4 ,,rupert4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,van1 ,,birkenhead1 ,,england4--#ahid4 ,the tour into the ,southern ,states was the last tour ,brother ,warner made in company with his little band of singers and helpers4 ,after holding a couple of grove-meetings in ,ohio and attending the ,beaver ,dam meeting in ,indiana1 during the summer of #ahia1 the company did not travel together any longer4 ,brother ,warner visited the churches in ,pennsylvania and ,ontario and then spent the following winter1 or most of it1 at the publishing office4 ,in ,april1 #ahib1 came a visit to the churches in the ,west1 including the one at ,denver4 ,before leaving home for this trip he suffered from a severe attack of rheumatism1 and recovered only by a constant fight of faith4 ,his report from ,denver furnishes an example of how he frequently had to contend with afflictions and how he found his victory only in the ,lord4 ,through exposure in a cold rain at ,kenesaw1 ,nebr41 ,i was taken with a bad lung-trouble2 was quite poorly and had lost about all appetite4 ,but1 thank ,god1 we held on by faith in him and he raised me up4 ,i was rapidly regaining strength when we left there4 ,but an apparently congested state of my lungs seemed still to oppress my being4 ,as the onward-flying train carried us higher and the air consequently became more and more light1 the difficulty of breathing increased4 ,i also found myself under a fever and lay one day very weak4 ,oh1 how my poor soul cried out all the day long for the blessing of health and strength once more to this frail temple that had been so long crushed down with one affliction after another6 ,but there was searching of the heart and consecration as well as prayer4 ,i realized a sweet willingness to suffer on more and more all the days of my life1 and almost more than a willingness to quit the theater of this life and of this dark world1 which had pressed so many bitter cups of tribulation to my lips4 ,i did not know1 indeed1 but that ,i had come here to join the dark train that moves silently and almost constantly out of this city to the large city of the dead1 where thousands who come here to regain health are furnished a grave instead of health4 ,but these thoughts brought no gloom to my redeemed soul4 ,three glorious things lit all up brightly3 ,first1 ,i knew my soul was all arrayed in the pure righteousness of ,god1 without spot1 and that by the grace of ,god ,i had kept the faith1 obeyed ,god1 and done what ,i could to glorify his holy name on earth4 ,second1 whether we wake--remain in the body--or sleep--leave the body--we shall live together with the ,lord4 ,i shall still have a conscious and joyful existence in a more near and blissful presence of the ,lord after leaving this clay house4 ,third1 this mortal body also shall put on immortality and be fashioned like ,christ's glorious body4 ,oh1 bless ,god for the beautiful hope of a child of ,god6 ,before sundown ,i awoke from a short sleep1 and instantly felt heavenly sweetness in my soul and comfort in body4 ,behold1 the ,lord had taken away all the fever6 ,that night some of the beloved came together and anointed me for complete healing4 ,we believed the ,lord granted the petition1 and after much trial of my faith ,i am now feeling well in body once more and rapidly gaining strength4 ,his account of his visiting the natural wonders at ,colorado ,springs is interesting and shows his love for the handiwork of ,god4 ,yesterday we all improved the time in visiting some of ,god's wonderful works about ,manitou and what is called the ,garden of the ,gods4 ,here we praised and worshiped the true ,god and creator of all things in heaven and earth1 when we beheld the wonderful works that his hands had wrought4 ,here rise from a level surface1 or1 rather1 project out of the earth1 yellow rocks to the height of over three hundred feet4 ,some of them look like a great castle1 others are a few thin slabs standing side by side with very fine crevices1 between which were doubtless at one time veins of rock more soft than the rest1 and the stream of time has worn them out4 ,some of these majestic formations could be ascended to a considerable height from one side4 ,on these elevations we shouted the praises of ,god1 feeling his presence with us4 ,many smaller rocks of very peculiar shape are seen in this romantic region4 ,from here we proceeded to the town of ,manitou1 which is a small but very attractive town in a deep passage of the mountains4 ,here we found a family that was interested1 in full salvation4 ,we talked with them and prayed with them1 and perhaps they will find a door open for ,jesus in that place4 ,we then drove about one mile beyond up the ,ute ,pass to ,rainbow ,falls1 after which we visited the celebrated ,iron ,springs4 ,the water is so highly charged with mineral substances that it is nearly as strong as hard cider2 and yet it has what most pronounce no unpleasant flavor4 ,it tastes like strong soda-water4 ,it is very electrifying to the system1 and the constant tide of visitors goes there to drink the healing waters4 ,near the upper springs is the beginning of the cog railroad that transports travelers up to the summit of ,pike's ,peak4 ,the distance up the mountain is about nine miles4 ,returning to ,manitou we stopped and drank freely of the soda spring1 of which soda-water is a good imitation4 ,visitors may freely drink of all these springs and each may carry away one quart of the precious water4 ,we brought some home1 and by adding sugar and lemon-juice the water foamed up and made a delicious drink4 ,here we sit and write in ,colorado ,springs on a plain that rises nearly six thousand feet above the place of our home4 ,how pure and light the atmosphere is6 ,and ,pike's ,peak near by us lifts its snow-covered summit over eight thousand feet still higher in the skies4 ,his return to ,michigan was in time to attend the general camp-meeting1 which this year was held on the new ground at ,grand ,junction4 ,before the summer was over he received an urgent call to go to the ,pacific ,coast and to attend the tabernacle-meeting at ,los ,angeles1 ,cal41 in ,october4 ,feeling it the will of the ,lord that he go he started on this journey in ,august4 ,after a few meetings in ,missouri1 ,iowa1 and ,kansas1 he proceeded to ,los ,angeles1 which he reached in time to attend the meeting appointed there4 ,his first report from the ,coast1 written at ,national ,city1 is in part as follows3 ,we were three days and nights making the trip1 with very little stopping4 ,we came over the ,santa ,fe system4 ,we passed over much wild and mountainous scenery1 but the lofty peaks called ,the ,needles we passed at night and failed to see4 ,our chariot brought us over one thousand miles of desert4 ,the awful blank was broken only by an occasional ,indian camp or village1 or a mining-point4 ,for perhaps a hundred miles or more the earth was as bare as the paved streets of a city1 and for many hundred miles nothing but tumbleweed had ventured life upon the dry region4 ,but it is believed that nearly all that lifeless desert would be productive if irrigated or blessed with summer showers4 ,one thing that broke the awful monotony of the long1 weary plains was the fact that we were seldom out of sight of mountain ranges4 ,in ,arizona we reached a very high altitude4 ,the morning found the ground covered with snow and the temperature quite cold4 ,in eastern ,california we traveled for hundreds of miles in the midst of a wild mountainous scenery1 much of the time running on or near the summit1 giving us a grand and awful view of the mountains for a vast distance around4 ,finally1 fertile nooks1 little houses1 and orchards made their welcomed appearance1 which began to relieve the mind wearied with the long scene of barren emptiness4 ,at ,san ,barnardino everything began to look as though we had returned to the land of the living4 ,a few hours more through almost perpetual vineyards1 lemon1 orange1 and fig orchards1 etc41 brought us into ,los ,angeles1 and seeing our dear ,bro4 ,j4 ,w4 ,byers through the window1 we felt like climbing over the slow-moving people to reach the door4 ,oh1 praise ,god for the privilege of greeting our dear fellow laborer in the gospel of ,god6 ,we found him and family well1 and he and ,sister ,byers wonderfully devoted to their calling1 laboring day and night with unwearied zeal for the salvation of lost men and women1 who are on the brink of everlasting ruin4 ,praise ,god1 we soon saw that their labors have been owned and blessed of ,god4 ,we found a precious and very zealous church in ,los ,angeles4444 ,truly dear ,brother and ,sister ,byers have been working the richest mine of gold ever opened in ,california4 ,their toils have known no moderation4 ,they have indeed1 according to apostolic example1 given themselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word4 ,and1 thank ,god1 there are those in ,los ,angeles who labored with their hands for the direct object of saving lost men and women1 using only enough to supply nature's wants4 ,oh1 that everybody who professes consecration of self and all to ,god would show it forth by a life wholly devoted to the spread of the pure gospel of ,christ and the deliverance of the lost6444 ,his stay in ,california was confined to the southern part of the ,state1 where he spent two and one half months laboring in various places4 ,on his return he wrote from ,denver and described some of the sublime scenery he witnessed on the line of the ,denver and ,rio ,grande ,railroad4 ,some of the most sublime scenery was passed in the night4 ,at ,glenwood ,springs the train stopped an hour and a half1 giving passengers a much-appreciated relief from long confinement and a very much enjoyed ramble amid the beautiful scenery of the little city1 which lies in a small glen1 surrounded by towering mountains on all sides4 ,here1 for the first time in our life1 we saw hot springs4 ,the weather was cold and snow was on the ground1 and the many stony springs and the great hot-water reservoir caused a steam to arise that made a person feel as if the infernal fires were not far off4 ,a stone wall separates between two large pools1 in one of which arise many cold springs1 and just over the wall the hot water boils up4 ,at this place is the junction of the ,grand ,river and the ,roaring ,fork4 ,our line followed up the ,grand ,river1 the canyon of which was very delightful4 ,the great red1 stone mountains towered up on both sides in the form of large old castles1 many of them nearly square and others oblong but with square corners like a building4 ,finally we left the ,grand ,river and followed the winding course of a tributary4 ,now the scene became yet more wildly grand1 which we greatly enjoyed4 ,at some time past eleven at night we reached the ,royal ,gorge4 ,having requested the porter to notify us1 we lay down without undressing1 and so1 blessed with good starlight1 we were enabled to behold one of the most sublime and awful scenes we ever witnessed in all our travels4 ,here the almighty hand of ,god had cleaved a narrow passage through the rocks1 which tower up thousands of feet on either side4 ,on our left we passed close to the base of the mighty wall2 on our right only a small stream lay between our track and the awful elevation4 ,this indescribably awful gorge extended perhaps for two or three miles4 ,we stood upon the platform of the car1 at first turning our eyes right and left1 beholding with solemn wonder the vertical cliffs that seem almost to touch the stars4 ,finally we had but to direct our eyes straight up between the two cars and behold1 by one straight upward gaze1 the cliffs on both sides as their proud summits seemed to draw together4 ,as we stood on the platform nearest the rocks we frequently saw the great peaks leaning directly over our heads4 ,we could not refrain from crying out1 ,oh6 oh6 wonderful6 wonderful6 ,never shall we forget that impressive sight6 ,it seems to us that we would have but to make that trip by daylight to be satisfied that nothing more sublimely awful and inspiring need be looked for amid all the wonders of this creation of ,god4 ,we would not have missed it for a great deal1 and hope it may please ,god to let our eyes behold the same by daylight4 ,on the previous afternoon we passed a freight-train that had the day before been wrecked by running upon a heap of earth and rocks that had broken loose perhaps a thousand feet up the sloping mountains and1 rushing down1 covered the track4 ,the engine and tender were pitched down the hill and lay upside down1 under which1 alas1 the fireman had met his death1 or rather he lay with his limbs crushed beneath the engine for over four hours and expired a short time after being taken out4 ,but as we went flying along under the lofty cliffs and around the short curving niches that were cut out of the solid rocks1 sometimes at a height that made one feel giddy to look down1 we thought how the strength of the everlasting hills is our ,father's1 and that his wings overshadowed us by the way4 ,we felt no fear of harm4 ,his poem ,good-by1 ,old ,rockies1 was written at this time4 ,he arrived home ,february #af4 ,with the portion of his report written after he had returned from his ,california tour we close this chapter4 ,never in all our past journeyings did our soul seem so thankful and joyful before ,god for the privilege of greeting all the dearly beloved ones at home once more4 ,oh1 bless the name of the ,lord4 ,we knew not how to thank ,god enough nor scarcely how to act for the great joy of our heart4 ,let all the dear saints help us bless the name of the ,lord for his wonderful care over us during the travel of over ten thousand miles since our departure last ,july4 ,our flying abroad has not been in vain4 ,all along the line of our tour ,god has been with us and saved souls at every stopping-place1 with perhaps two exceptions4 ,thank ,heaven also for the blessing of good health6 ,how wonderfully he strengthened us to preach his everlasting gospel1 often twice a day and sometimes on ,sabbath three times1 putting in as much as eight hours swift talk in one day1 added to which was the earnest altar service and the care for immortal souls6 ,we feel especially thankful to ,god for the grace of our ,lord and ,savior that we find resting upon all the beloved family4 ,,footnotes3 #ab ,desiring to trace the earlier history of the ,gospel ,trumpet1 ,i have permitted the preceding chapter to overlap this one a few years4 #ac ,she relates that her consecration occurred in the house of an ,elder ,walker1 and that so great was the power and manifestation of ,god in ,brother ,warner while he was praying for her that ,walker and his wife through fright fled into another room1 where he was found squatted in a corner4 ,in ,brother ,warner's report of this trip he speaks of a meeting near ,lacey's ,lake 7in ,eaton or ,barry ,county7 as follows3 ,was happy at this place to meet a people who have come out of various denominations1 ignoring human creeds and sects and endeavoring to walk in the oneness of the ,spirit4 #ad ,this vision is very similar to the one recorded in the ,shepherd of ,hermas1 in the second century4 ,it was a remarkable coincidence that while ,sister ,fisher had never heard of the vision of the ,shepherd of ,hermas1 she and her husband had ordered the set of books known as the ,apostolic ,fathers 7in which the ,shepherd of ,hermas is included71 and on the same day of her vision the books were received and unpacked1 and on looking into them her husband opened right at the vision in the ,shepherd of ,hermas4 ,they were astonished to find that her vision was there recorded and explained as the church4 #ae ,once after her second marriage1 while living in ,cincinnati1 she wrote a letter to her boy1 ,sidney1 who was in the care of his father4 ,brother ,warner had been to visit her twice since their separation1 and he was constrained to go again4 ,so he took the boy and went to the city address as given in her letter4 ,she happened not to be at the house just then4 ,so the two walked about leisurely until she should return4 ,while on the opposite side of the street from her house they saw her returning4 ,she reached the house first and entered the hall and stood waiting for them4 ,when they reached the door she railed out in terrible abuse on her former husband4 ,that was his only reception4 ,he had on his former visits to her felt the ,spirit dictating that there was no hope of a reconciliation2 and likewise on this occasion1 as his child clung the closer to him1 the ,spirit said1 ,it is enough2 leave off thy fond pursuit4 #af ,in reference to this apparent instance of a person's being in a justified state while at the same time in possession of evil spirits it can be said1 without attempting an explanation of whether such might be possible1 that ,brother ,warner was always very particular to insist on justification as an essential condition to sanctification1 and that if we knew all the circumstances in this case 7allowing that the account may not be full7 there probably would be no question in our minds4 #ag ,brother ,leininger relates that at this meeting a ,dunkard minister drew his fist to strike him4 ,a daughter of this preacher was a hired helper in ,brother ,leininger's family4 ,she had obtained the experience of sanctification1 which angered her father4 ,as ,brother ,leininger was going out of the meeting-house1 this man stood at the door ready to do violence to him4 ,he drew back his fist to strike1 but it seems his blow was rather misdirected1 as his thumb nail grazed his own nose and tore loose a bit of skin1 so that he went home bleeding and discomfited4 #ah ,a man who lived in the neighborhood said in one of the meetings that he was going to kick ,brother ,warner4 ,as the latter was among the last to pass out of the building1 this man lingered at the door1 while the crowd was waiting to see him do the deed4 ,as ,brother ,warner passed out he raised his foot to kick1 but he did not kick4 ,he was asked why he did not4 ,his reply was1 ,i was afraid the ,lord would kick me4 ,this man accepted the truth and became one of the permanent fixtures in the church in that place4 #ai ,on the second ,sunday the meeting was held in the grove4 ,after the people had assembled a very frightful storm threatened1 and people began to leave4 ,brother ,warner stopped in the midst of his preaching1 and with his hand lifted to heaven prayed ,god to scatter the storm and not let it hinder the meeting4 ,he assured the people that they need not leave1 that it would not rain4 ,some had begun to depart but stopped to see whether his prayer would be answered4 ,it did not rain4 ,there were other instances of this kind in ,brother ,warner's career4 #bj ,an interesting episode in connection with this trip is related by ,bro4 ,d4 ,leininger1 of ,beaver ,dam1 whose mother1 known as ,mother ,krause1 was at this time not expected to live4 ,mother ,krause had for some cause held a slight grievance against ,brother ,warner4 ,early in ,december1 on the night before she died1 she declared she must see ,brother ,warner and begged to have him sent for4 ,she was told that ,brother ,warner was over in ,la,grange ,county1 quite a distance away1 and that if the ,lord wanted her to see him he would spare her life until she should have that opportunity4 ,scarcely had this been said when ,brother ,warner arrived1 to the surprize of all4 ,two days before1 where he had been holding meetings1 he expressed the conviction that the ,spirit bade him go to ,beaver ,dam4 ,accordingly it was decided to go1 and he resumed his writing1 at which he had been engaged1 until the time to start4 ,perceiving that no preparations were being made he dropped his pen and asked the cause4 ,he was told that the weather was inclement and that traveling would be disagreeable4 ,he said1 ,never mind the weather2 the ,lord can take care of that4 ,the ,lord says1 ',go to ,beaver ,dam'4 ,thus it was that he and his company were prompted to make the trip4 ,landing at ,bro4 ,william ,ballenger's1 they stayed over night4 ,in the latter part of the night ,brother ,warner awoke ,brother ,ballenger and said he must go to see ,mother ,krause immediately4 ,mother ,krause died the following evening1 but not before she was comforted by the presence of ,brother ,warner4 #ba ,in addition to this a letter had been received in the community1 from ,carthage1 ,mo41 written by an opposer who misrepresented the saints as believers in amalgamation with the colored people1 the purpose of the letter being1 of course1 to stir up prejudice4 #bb ,these meetings in the vicinity of ,spring ,hill were almost the author's first experience in gospel work4 ,i was asked to join the company to supply a missing part in song1 ,mother ,smith having dropped out previously4 ,after arriving at ,meridian it was some time before ,i could locate ,brother ,warner4 #bc ,to one unaccustomed it was hard to realize that opposition to the truth would take the form of a mob4 ,we were quartered at the house of a ,brother ,smith4 ,when the mob first came1 ,brother ,warner asked if ,i wished to join him in his escape from the house4 ,i then accompanied him to the pine woods some distance from the dwelling1 and we remained there until we could hear that the mob had left4 ,bro4 ,b4 ,e4 ,warren had found a hiding-place under the house4 ,the first company of men that came proved to be only a detachment1 and the mob afterward came in greater force4 ,this second time ,i remained in the house with the women folks1 while ,brothers ,warner and ,warren took the hiding under the building4 ,the men wanted ,brother ,warner and lingered at the gate for some time talking with ,brother ,smith1 who would not allow them within the gate except to see for themselves that ,brother ,warner was not in the house4 ,finally1 after learning that ,i was present1 they asked to see me1 whereupon ,i went out and talked with them from the porch4 ,they asked a number of questions and then left4 ,illustration3 ,trumpet ,family1 #ahie1 at ,grand ,junction1 ,michigan ,music3 ,sing ,it ,again4 ,d4 ,s4 ,,warner4 ,b4 ,e4 ,,warren4 #a4 ,let us sing the name of ,jesus1 oh1 that name we love so dear6 ,sweetest anthem #b4 ,sing the love-ly name of ,jesus1 oh1 the precious ,lamb of ,god6 ,lo1 he died our #c4 ,sing1 oh1 sing the name of ,jesus1 he is wor-thy1 he a-lone1 ,glo-ry1 hon-or1 #d4 ,we will sing the name of ,jesus all a-long the path of life1 ,we will sing it1 earth or heaven ever breathed on mortal ear2 ,in that name we have salvation1 oh1 how souls to ran-som1 he redeemed us by his blood2 ,let the joy-ful o-ver-flow-ing of our and salvation1 chant with angels round the throne2 ,sing it soft-ly in the ,spir-it1 sing it hal-le-lu-jah1 'mid the battle and the strife2 ,we will sing it all to-geth-er when we pre-cious is the flow6 ,sing1 oh1 sing the name of ,jesus1 for it makes us white as snow4 hearts so full of love1 ,sound aloud the name of ,jesus with the might-y host a-bove4 loud as thunders roll1 ,sing with rapture1 hallelujah1 to the ,lamb that saved my soul4 meet upon that shore1 ,oh1 we'll sing the name of ,jesus1 blessed name forevermore4 ,,chorus4 ,sing it a-gain1444 sing it a-gain1444 ,sweetest of all the names that ,the precious name1 the precious name1 an-gels sing a-bove1444 ,jesus1 thy name's a fountain of redeeming love4444 ,,xvii ,,the ,,ministry ,,of ,,song ,scarcely a spiritual movement in the history of ,christianity has been without its service of song4 ,the emotions1 whether of victory or of devotion or of interest in the salvation of the lost1 naturally flow out in singing4 ,far back in ,biblical history we find songs of victory attending the triumphs of the people of ,god4 ,the ,wesleyan reformation1 through its gifted hymn-writer1 ,charles ,wesley1 furnished many of the standard spiritual hymns that are in use today4 ,witness also the immortal gospel hymns that originated with the ,moody and ,sankey revivals of the last century4 ,likewise the holiness movement of forty and fifty years ago was characterized by its holiness songs4 ,and so in these last times1 when we have come to the full standard of truth and the full development of the church independent of human creeds1 when the ransomed of the ,lord are returning over the highway prepared1 what wonder is it that they should come to ,zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads 7,isa4 #ce3aj78 ,in no respect was the inception of the present reformation more marked than in its ministry of holy song4 ,for the writing of spiritual hymns ,brother ,warner had a wonderful endowment4 ,it seems that the development of this gift came1 however1 only with his entrance upon the special work of the reformation4 ,in his earliest writings we find no examples of hymns or poems of any merit4 ,a few verses in his diary betray a lack of familiarity with the principles of prosody1 or hymn-writing4 ,considering the little time he had to devote to the study of those principles1 it is marvelous that he produced so many useful1 and we may say excellent1 hymns during the few short years of his intensive ministerial labor4 ,his first effort appears to have been the adaptation of existing hymns either by rearrangement of the words or by composing new words to fit the tunes4 ,thus we have the ,glory1 ,halleluiah song with new words appearing in an early copy of the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,the chorus is familiar to all and we omit it4 ,on the mountain top of vision what a glory we behold6 ,eighteen hundred years of victory are tinging earth with gold2 ,for the saints are overcoming with their testimony bold1 ,the truth is marching on4 ,for the glory of the ,father ,jesus taught in ,galilee1 ,and preached the great salvation that delivers you and me2 ,and a million voices shout it1 ,redemption's full and free1 ,the truth is marching on4 ,from the cabin on the prairie1 from the vaulted city dome1 ,from the dark and briny ocean where our sailor brothers roam1 ,we hear the glad rejoicing like a happy harvest-home1 ,salvation's rolling on4 ,eighteen hundred years of marching1 eighteen hundred years of song1 ,the ,conqueror advances1 and the time will not be long1 ,when he shall come in glory and overthrow the wrong1 ,our ,god is marching on4 ,nahum's chariots are speeding as the lightning on their way1 ,and their flying torches tell us 'tis the preparation day2 ,for the bride is getting ready and the ,lord will not delay4 ,the marriage feast is near4 ,precious knowledge is increasing1 evening light begins to glow1 ,with the trump of full salvation many running to and fro2 ,and the song of glory echoes1 ,christ has washed us white as snow1 ,all glory to his name6 ,the long dispersed remnant of ,jehovah's chosen race ,are flying from all nations to their ancient dwelling-place2 ,and the sinful world is surely in its closing-day of grace1 ,the ,lord is just at hand4 ,in the valley of decision there's a battle drawing near1 ,sectish ,gog and ,magog powers round about the saints appear2 ,but our ,god is our munition and our hearts shall never fear1 ,the victory is sure4 ,on the blissful heights of glory we will shout the battle o'er1 ,and in the golden city we will join the ,conqueror1 ,and when the war is over1 with the saints forevermore ,and crown him with all praise4 ,on the subject of the church--a prominent subject with him--we have ,brother ,warner's arrangement of ,frances ,ridley ,havergal's poem1 ,church of ,god4 ,we give but two stanzas4 ,church of ,god1 thou spotless virgin1 ,church of ,christ for whom he died1 ,thou hast known no human founder1 ,jesus bought thee for his bride4 ,sanctified by ,god the ,father1 ,built by ,jesus ,christ the ,son1 ,tempered by the ,holy ,spirit1 ,like the ,holy ,three in one4 ,god himself has set the members ,in his body all complete1 ,organized by ,jesus only1 ,oh1 the union pure and sweet6 ,church of ,god1 the angels marvel1 ,at the music of thy song2 ,earth and hell in terror tremble ,as thy army moves along4 ,another of the class of adapted hymns was one on the exercise of faith for sanctification1 sung to the tune of ,beulah ,land4 ,why should a doubt or fear arise1 ,as this poor little all of mine ,i lay a living sacrifice1 ,all on the altar1 ,christ divine4 ,chorus ,i'm fully thine1 yes1 wholly thine1 ,all on the altar1 ,christ divine4 ,the word of ,jesus ,i believe1 ,the ,sanctifier ,i receive2 ,all on the altar ,i abide1 ,and ,jesus says ,i'm sanctified4 ,ah1 not a moment more ,i'll doubt1 ,and not a moment longer wait2 ,he shed his blood to sanctify1 ,he suffered death without the gate4 ,by faith ,i venture on his ,word1 ,my doubts are o'er1 the vict'ry won2 ,he said the altar sanctifies1 ,i just believe him1 and 'tis done4 ,through all my soul ,i feel his power1 ,and in the precious cleansing wave ,i wash my garments white this hour1 ,and prove his utmost power to save4 ,still another was ,the ,hand of ,god on the ,wall1 of which we quote but two verses4 ,see1 the great king of ,babel in these latter days of time ,makes a feast that's universal1 all the nations drink her wine2 ,as they eat1 drink1 and revel in her lofty steepled hall1 ,god proclaims her desolation by his hand upon the wall4 ,how the nations are drunken and are sporting in their shame6 ,even scoffing at our ,savior and profane his holy name2 ,far more blind than ,belshazzar1 who so trembled with appal1 ,they still riot on to judgment1 with their doom upon the wall4 ,brother ,warner was not gifted in writing tunes4 ,this necessary counterpart was supplied in ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher and his wife1 ,allie ,r41 also in ,h4 ,r4 ,jeffrey1 a brother who lived in northern ,indiana4 ,fisher frequently wrote both words and music1 as did also ,jeffrey4 ,one of the first hymns of which both words and music were original with this reformation was ,the ,all ,cleansing ,fountain1 by ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher4 ,the first stanza and chorus are as follows3 ,there's a fountain opened in the house of ,god1 ,where the vilest of sinners may go ,and all test the power of that crimson flood1 ,of the blood that makes whiter than snow4 ,chorus ,praise the ,lord1 ,i am washed ,in the all-cleansing blood of the ,lamb1 ,and my robes are whiter than the driven snow1 ,i am washed in the blood of the ,lamb4 ,another early one was ,h4 ,r4 ,jeffrey's ,songs of ,victory1 of which the first stanza and chorus will also here suffice4 ,songs of victory bringing ,unto the ,lord most high1 ,victory1 victory singing1 ,let all the saints draw nigh2 ,for there can be no failure ,while ,jesus leads the van1 ,and victory1 victory1 victory1 ,is heard on every hand4 ,chorus ,vict'ry shall be the chorus1 ,vict'ry our watchword and song1 ,jesus is marching before us1 ,leading his army along4 ,a hymn that breathes a deep spirit of devotion was ,brother ,warner's ,i ,ought to ,love ,my ,savior1 music by ,fisher4 ,there were five stanzas in all4 ,we give it with music at the beginning of ,chapter ,,ix of this book4 ,i ought to love my ,savior1 ,he loved me long ago1 ,looked on my soul with favor1 ,when deep in guilt and woe2 ,and though my sin had grieved him1 ,his father's law had crossed1 ,love drew him down from heaven ,to seek and save the lost4 ,i ought to love my ,savior1 ,he bore my sin and shame2 ,from glory to the manger1 ,on wings of love he came4 ,he trod this earth in sorrow1 ,endured the pains of hell1 ,that ,i should not be banished1 ,but in his glory dwell4 ,we shall refer1 in what follows1 only to ,brother ,warner's hymns4 ,one that sung of the times as being prophetic was entitled ,prophetic ,truth1 and is shown with music at the beginning of ,chapter ,,xiii4 ',twas sung by the poets1 foreseen in the ,spirit1 ,a time of refreshing is near2 ,when creeds and divisions would fall to demerit1 ,and saints in sweet union appear4 ,chorus ,oh1 glory to ,jesus6 we hail the bright day1 ,and high on our banner salvation display1 ,the mists of confusion are passing away4 ,we stand in the glory that ,jesus has given1 ,the moon as the dayspring doth shine2 ,the light of the sun is now equal to seven1 ,so bright is the glory divine4 ,now filled with the ,spirit1 and clad in the armor ,of light and omnipotent truth1 ,we'll testify ever and ,jesus we'll honor1 ,and stand from sin ,babel aloof4 ,the prophet's keen vision1 transpiercing the ages1 ,beheld us to ,zion return2 ,we'll sing of our freedom1 though ,babylon rages1 ,we'll shout as her city doth burn4 ,the fig-tree is budding1 the evening is shining1 ,we welcome the wonderful light6 ,we look for the ,savior1 for time is declining1 ,eternity's looming in sight4 ,as he saw the church of ,god emerge out of confusion into the brightness which should characterize the evening of time1 he wrote the following1 which is given with music at the beginning of ,chapter ,i4 ,brighter days are sweetly dawning1 ,oh the glory looms in sight6 ,for the cloudy day is waning1 ,and the evening shall be light4 ,misty fogs1 so long concealing ,all the hills of mingled night1 ,vanish1 all their sin revealing1 ,for the evening shall be light4 ,lo1 the ransomed are returning1 ,robed in shining crystal white1 ,leaping1 shouting1 home to ,zion1 ,happy in the evening light4 ,free from ,babel1 in the ,spirit1 ,free to worship ,god aright1 ,joy and gladness we're receiving1 ,oh1 how sweet this evening light6 ,halleluiah6 saints are singing1 ,vict'ry in ,jehovah's might2 ,glory1 glory1 keep it ringing1 ,we are saved in evening light4 ,another hymn of the return1 and also embodying ,sister ,fisher's vision of the stone tower1 was the following3 ,we are coming1 halleluiah6 we are coming home to ,god2 ,jesus only we're beholding1 who has washed us in his blood3 ,we are marching back to ,salem at the trumpet's joyful sound1 ,and we're building ,god's own temple on it's ancient holy ground4 ,chorus ,we are coming1 ,oh1 we're coming1 with the glory in the soul6 ,grace we're shouting as we're bringing ,christ1 the headstone we extol2 ,though as captives long we've suffered1 we do feel the royal blood1 ,and we're rising to our freedom in the fulness of our ,god4 ,while we're working1 we are fighting all the mighty foes around2 ,tho' in wrath they do oppose us we will not desert the ground4 ,o my ,god1 do thou remember all those wicked plotting crews1 ,hear them saying in derision1 ,now what do these feeble ,jews8 ,thou art coming1 mighty ,jesus1 in the power of thy grace2 ,now our souls break forth in singing at the smiling of thy face3 ,fear of sect1 a mount of terror1 thou hast made an open plain1 ,and the misty fogs of error all have vanished in thy name4 ,our foundation strong is ,jesus1 he the topmost1 crowning stone2 ,halleluiah6 we adore him1 king upon his living throne3 ,and his crimson glory streaming through each crystal stone below ,tints the whole ecstatic temple with the beauty of its glow4 ,oh1 the glory of this temple far exceeds the former one6 ,all its stones are bound together in ,love's dear eternal ,son3 ,in this building1 what a wonder6 there's a dwelling-place for me2 ,yes1 thy beauty1 ,o my ,savior6 ,i shall here forever see4 ,many of his hymns1 as is usually the case with hymn-writers1 were prompted by some particular occasion or suggestion4 ,thus in connection with the terrific furnace trials at ,bucyrus1 ,ohio1 in #ahhc1 he wrote3 ,why should a mortal man complain ,at his trials in this wicked world8 ,nay1 let us thank ,god's holy name ,for all his love o'er us unfurled4 ,chorus ,o ,jesus1 bear our souls above ,each wave of trouble that we meet6 ,then in the furnace of thy love ,we'll sing thy praise with joy complete4 ,oh1 why should any one oppressed ,forget the promise of our ,god6 ,to thee each providence is blessed ,if in love thou bear the chastening rod4 ,oh1 who would cast away the gold ,we have gathered in the furnace flame6 ,and who would wish again the dross ,here purged in our ,redeemer's name8 ,once when a new printing-press was installed in the ,office 7he always rejoiced when there was an increase of printing equipment71 he wrote the following in anticipation of the ,trumpet's being raised to louder blasts4 ,see the music at the beginning of ,chapter ,,xiv4 ,onward moves the great eternal ,in the order of his plan2 ,louder1 nearer rolls the thunder ,of his awful word to man4 ,since by sin this earth was blighted ,god has whispered of his love4 ,dreams and visions by his prophets ,breathed of mercy from above4 ,louder speaks his love in ,jesus1 ,heaven sweetly chants his fame2 ,earth receives its glorious ,savior1 ,halleluiah to his name6 ,yet the world is wrapped in slumber2 ,louder raise the ,trumpet's blast2 ,oh1 in mercy let it thunder1 ,ere the day of mercy's past6 ,in the cages of deception ,souls are pining to be free2 ,quickly sound the proclamation ,of the glorious jubilee4 ,the hymn1 ,perishing ,souls at ,stake1 was one of the early productions4 ,we quote this hymn and its history as it appeared in the ,trumpet of ,dec4 #ae1 #ahhe4 ,the music will be found at the head of ,chapter ,,xvi4 ,perishing souls at stake today6 ,says the banner of ,christ unfurled2 ,pleading in love for help to save ,blood-bought sinners o'er all the world4 ,perishing souls at stake we see1 ,yet the ,savior has died for all2 ,go and invite them earnestly1 ,some will surely obey the call4 ,perishing souls at stake today1 ,there's a famine in all the land2 ,many are dying for the bread ,freely given by ,jesus' hand4 ,perishing souls at stake1 go tell ,what the ,savior has done for you1 ,how he redeemed your soul from hell1 ,and is able to save them1 too4 ,perishing souls at stake we know1 ,oh1 do pity the sinner's fate6 ,brother and sister1 will you go1 ,give them warning before too late4 ,perishing souls at stake today1 ,can you tarry for earthly dross8 ,fly to the rescue1 don't delay1 ,bring the needy to ,jesus' cross4 ,the foregoing song was suggested to our mind by a solemn vision given to ,bro4 ,c4 ,ogan1 of ,latty1 ,ohio1 on the night previous to ,september #ai4 ,he saw ,christ displaying a banner upon which was written these words3 ,perishing ,souls at ,stake4 ,that day we had a very solemn meeting at ,jerry ,city1 ,ohio4 ,the ,spirit of ,god was present1 making imperative calls for workers in the vineyard4 ,our soul was burdened with an awful sense of perishing souls at stake4 ,all hearts were melted before the ,lord4 ,a number acknowledged the solemn commission4 ,dear ,brother ,ogan was one of them1 relating this solemn and beautiful vision4 ,we pray that all who that day confessed the call of ,god may go forward1 lest that woe is me be upon them1 and perishing souls be lost for whom the blessed ,savior died4 ,in about all the meetings this fall the same great burden has come upon our soul for men and women of ,god to go forth and hold up the light of his saving truth4 ,o ye that have the real fire of ,god in your souls1 can you tarry at home to watch a few earthly effects1 when there is such a sore famine in all the land6 ,and you who have found the true salvation of ,christ ,jesus are the only ones that can bring the living bread to others4 ,college bread will not do4 ',dumb dogs can not bark'2 ,babylon priests are full of darkness1 and souls are dying all around4 ,oh6 if you have any gratitude in your hearts for what ,christ has done for you1 go and tell others1 and some will surely receive the joyful tidings4 ,oh1 how sad this world with no gospel but the wretched stuff given by ,babylon priests6 ,and most everywhere there are at least one or two honest souls who long for the light4 ,can you stay at home for the sordid dust of earth and let them perish8 ,oh1 fly to the rescue1 don't delay2 bring the needy to ,jesus ,christ6 ,after a few years both ,fisher and ,jeffrey dropped out of the ranks and ceased to contribute their melodies to ,brother ,warner's hymns4 ,in their place ,god provided ,brother ,b4 ,e4 ,warren4 ,no sooner did this young brother become a part of ,brother ,warner's company than he began to display a marvelous gift for writing melodies4 ,in the years that followed he filled a large place as a writer of music1 and he also learned to write the words as well4 ,when the company were on their ,western trip in the autumn of #ahhg1 ,brother ,warner wrote the hymn ,sowing the ,seed1 in anticipation of their having to brave the chilling blasts of the winter which was before them4 ,unheeding winter's cruel blast1 ,we venture heaven's seed to cast2 ,both late and early plant the truth ,in aged hearts and tender youth4 ,shall we be found with only leaves ,when ,jesus comes to gather sheaves8 ,nay1 sowing daily o'er the land1 ,we'll come with joyful sheaves in hand4 ,nor is the precious labor hard1 ,its glory is its own reward2 ,we plant in hearts of grim despair ,a life that blooms as ,eden fair4 ,oh1 were this life the utmost span1 ,the closing destiny of man4 ,no toil could half so blessed prove ,as sowing seeds of peace and love4 ,but heaven's bright eternal years ,have bottled up our sowing tears2 ,there we shall greet in holy bliss ,the souls we turned to righteousness4 ,then sow the seed in every field1 ,and grace will bring the golden yield2 ,we soon shall sing the joyful song1 ,and shout the blessed harvest-home4 ,the song ,who ,will ,suffer ,with ,jesus8 had its origin while the company were in the ,south in the winter of #ahij-ia4 ,it was written at the time a mob assaulted the house in which ,brother ,warner was preaching and a sharp1 flying missile struck him on the side of the face1 causing it to bleed4 ,who will suffer with the ,savior1 ,take the little that remains ,of the cup of tribulation ,jesus drank in dying pains8 ,who will offer soul and body ,on the altar of our ,god2 ,leaving self and worldly mammon1 ,take the path that ,jesus trod8 ,who will suffer for the gospel1 ,follow ,christ without the gate2 ,take the martyrs for example1 ,with them glory at the stake8 ,oh1 for consecrated service ',mid the din of ,babel strife6 ,who will dare the truth to herald ,at the peril of his life8 ,soon the conflict will be over1 ,crowns await the firm and pure2 ,forward1 brethren1 work and suffer1 ,faithful to the end endure4 ,lord1 we fellowship thy passion1 ,gladly suffer shame and loss2 ,with thy blessing pain is pleasure1 ,we will glory in thy cross4 ,one of the prominent features of the reformation was the sweet1 heavenly singing of the saints4 ,wherever ,brother ,warner's company went the people were attracted by the singing4 ,they were not what the world would call trained singers2 they were not even adept at reading music4 ,but ,god blessed the singing1 so that the songs1 sung in the element of the ,spirit1 were simply heavenly4 ,at the time the company held the first meeting at ,walkerton1 ,ind4 a theatrical troupe came to the town4 ,so many people had flocked to ,brother ,warner's meetings that the house was packed and there were not many left to attend the theatrical concert4 ,the troupe1 not having a sufficient audience1 came to the place of meeting and gave some instrumental music just outside in order to attract the people4 ,of course it interfered with the preaching4 ,brother ,warner said1 ,sing a song4 ,sister ,nannie ,kigar1 who was the soprano of the company and always ready with a suitable selection1 started a song4 ,the people decided to remain4 ,many and powerful were the effects of these heaven-inspired songs4 ,mention has been made already of the instance where the cattle listened and gazed with wonder when ,brother ,warner's company were singing at a place where they had stopped in the edge of the woods for dinner4 ,brother ,warren says that once when they were traveling on the road and singing they were passing a field where there were cattle1 horses1 and other live stock1 and that all of these followed along inside the fence until they reached the corner of the field1 seeming to be attracted by the wonderful charm of the singing4 ,at the time the company visited ,st4 ,james1 ,mo41 on the second ,western tour1 ,brother ,warner wrote the hymn ,sing it ,again1 at a place where they were stopping in the country4 ,brother ,warren then composed the music1 and they began singing it4 ,when the time came for them to be taken to the train to leave that part of the country1 it was decided that they should be conveyed to ,jefferson ,city in order to afford a little country ride for a change4 ,they camped out the first night1 and reached ,jefferson ,city the second day1 early in the afternoon4 ,they decided to visit the ,state prison1 and as the weather was warm they left their wraps in the baggage-room of the railroad-station until they should return4 ,when they came back the baggage-room was locked1 and the temperature was falling and becoming just a little chilly4 ,everything was quiet around2 not a sound could be heard except the clicking of the telegraph instrument in the office4 ,the train they were to take would not be due until in the night1 and as the waiting-room was open they gathered a little fuel and built a fire4 ,when this was done ,brother ,warner gave a little jump 7he always seemed happy enough to jump at any time7 and said1 ,let us have a song4 ,naturally enough they sang the new song1 ,sing it ,again4 ,soon the door opened and in came the operator1 and then shortly1 almost before they were aware of it1 a number of others had gathered and were listening intently4 ,when the song was ended1 the operator said1 ,this reminds me of my childhood days2 won't you sing that song again8 ,they sang it again1 and then ,brother ,warner1 as his manner frequently was1 took out his ,bible and said1 ,perhaps you would not object to a little of the ,word of ,god4 ,the operator had to attend to his office duties1 but the others listened4 ,next testimonies were proposed4 ,and so they had a precious little meeting in the waiting-room of the railroad-station1 and the new song had already begun to be useful4 ,we here reproduce the words4 ,the music is given at the head of ,chapter ,,xvii4 ,let us sing the name of ,jesus1 oh1 that name we love so dear6 ,sweetest anthem earth or heaven ever breathed on mortal ear2 ,in that name we have salvation1 oh1 how precious is the flow6 ,sing1 oh1 sing the name of ,jesus1 for it makes us white as snow6 ,sing the lovely name of ,jesus1 oh1 the precious ,lamb of ,god6 ,lo1 he died our souls to ransom1 he redeemed us by his blood3 ,let the joyful overflowing of our hearts so full of love ,sound aloud the name of ,jesus with the mighty host above4 ,sing1 oh1 sing the name of ,jesus1 he is worthy1 he alone1 ,glory1 honor1 and salvation chant with angels round the throne2 ,sing it softly in the ,spirit1 sing it loud as thunders roll1 ,sing with rapture1 halleluiah1 to the ,lamb that saved my soul4 ,yes1 we'll sing the name of ,jesus1 'tis the only name that's giv'n ,that can save a guilty sinner1 and no other under heav'n4 ,oh1 we love the name of ,jesus1 his salvation we adore6 ,blessed be the name of ,jesus1 we will sing it more and more4 ,we will sing the name of ,jesus all along the path of life1 ,we will sing it1 halleluiah1 mid the battle and the strife2 ,we will sing it all together when we meet upon that shore1 ,oh1 we'll sing the name of ,jesus1 blessed name forevermore6 ,i shall never forget the time when ,brother ,warner and his company first came to my father's home in northwestern ,illinois4 ,i have always considered it the brightest event in my life's career4 ,today1 as memory carries me back to that time1 and ,i imagine myself in that same situation1 ,i have indescribable feelings4 ,they arrived on a ,saturday afternoon in the spring of #ahhh4 ,my father and ,i had gone to engage a schoolhouse for the meetings when the company arrived4 ,my sister had been converted the previous year2 but during her attendance at school through the winter she had become somewhat cold spiritually and so had no particular pleasure in anticipating the coming of ,warner's band1 as she had heard them called4 ,when the company arrived in the house1 wearied with much travel1 they seemed particularly to enjoy the sense of home1 and they sang the hymn1 ,home1 home1 brightest and fairest1 ,hope1 hope1 sweetest and best4 ,my sister simply melted4 ,that song introduction was enough4 ,then they had prayer1 and their hearts welled up in thankfulness to ,god for his blessings and care over them4 ,if there ever were men who could pray1 ,brother ,warner was one of them4 ,after my father and ,i returned home1 my sister and mother wanted me to hear the company sing1 and of course another song was requested4 ,they sang this time1 ,the ,all-cleansing ,fountain1 and it seemed to be the sweetest singing ,i had ever heard4 ,during their stay in our home ,brother ,warren did some composing at the organ1 and this seemed wonderful to me4 ,i had never seen such people1 whose countenances were aglow with the victory of salvation and who were so filled with praise and song4 ,while the company were at our home we decided to give them a little outing by taking them across the ,mississippi to the city of ,clinton1 ,iowa1 then remarkable for its lumber trade1 and for having eight large sawmills1 one of them the largest sawmill in the world4 ,as we were driving along the road and singing ,the ,all-cleansing ,fountain1 a neighbor who was working in a field near by but who on account of an intervening ridge could not see us1 heard the song4 ,not knowing from whence the sound came he concluded it was angel music1 and when he went to his house he declared to his wife that he had heard the angels sing4 ,a large class of songs that were used were such as expressed victory and worship4 ,another large class were those of invitation and warning to sinners4 ,in the later books1 about all topics that are useful in ,christian work were represented4 ,songs of ,victory was the name of the first book published4 ,it was issued in #ahhe4 ,this was followed in #ahhh by ,anthems from the ,throne4 ,the third book was ,echoes from ,glory1 published in #ahic4 ,following these a new book of songs has been issued about every four to six years4 ,,xviii ,,poetic ,,inspirations ,to reflect on ,brother ,warner's career is to marvel at the accomplishment that was crowded into a few short years4 ,he was active in several callings at one time4 ,as a minister with the heavy burden of the gospel upon him he labored hard1 preaching often and being everywhere in demand4 ,on occasions he preached for three and even four hours in one discourse1 the audience as well as the preacher forgetful of the passing time4 ,though in physical endurance he was weak1 yet there were perhaps few speakers who could wear so well in the labor of the pulpit4 ,his private work of instructing seekers1 and his ministrations for the sick1 requiring the exercise of prayer and faith1 absorbed his strength and occupied much time4 ,as editor of the paper1 to which he contributed articles1 many of them doctrinal and requiring study1 and for which he had to edit articles written by others1 it was necessary that he spend much time with the pen4 ,his correspondence also was considerable1 and as stenographers were not so available then as now he had to do his writing with his own hand4 ,where would he get time for study and prayer1 and for writing hymns or poetry8 ,and yet he accomplished all of these4 ,in the latter years of his life he apparently was declining to some extent in ministerial vigor2 but as a writer his productions seemed only to grow richer with his years4 ,had his life been prolonged to the full period of what is commonly expected of man1 he would have given to the world some of the finest poetical productions4 ,his poems are not at all inferior1 though written during a strenuous career4 ,in #ahij1 he collected and published his poems in a book entitled ,poems of ,grace and ,truth4 ,it contained #cdc pages4 ,with the exception of a small book entitled ,bible ,readings1 and the limp-cover binding of a song-book1 this book of poems was the first cloth-bound book ever made at the ,gospel ,trumpet publishing office4 ,the press-work is imperfect owing to the poor stereotyped plates from which it was printed4 ,a number of beautiful poems were written since the publication of this book and therefore were not included in it4 ,his longest poem was his ,meditations on the ,prairie4 ,it occupies eighty-four pages of the book mentioned and is written in ten-syllable iambic verse4 ,it touchingly describes with beautiful imagery the author's acquaintance with and his subsequent marriage to ,sarah ,a4 ,keller1 and the circumstances that led to her deception and separation from him4 ,his own description of its origin1 as given in the preface to the poem1 is as follows3 ,in the summer of #ahgc1 the author took a mission-field in ,nebraska1 much of which had just been settled the previous year4 ,my companion had died one year previously4 ,just before going ,west a correspondence was arranged with ,sister ,sarah ,a4 ,keller1 which soon kindled into a glowing flame of love4 ,a year later ,i returned and we were happily joined in marriage4 ,with her precious company ,i came again to this blooming plain1 where one year was sweetened with the most transporting conjugal bliss4 ,in #ahge we returned to ,ohio1 where life and labors flowed on in uninterrupted happiness1 until in #ahhd the dear object of our love was deceived by the wily foe and torn from our soul1 a crisis that threatened our frail life1 and which we survived only by the grace of ,god4 ,in the fall of #ahhg1 while on an extensive ,western tour1 we came into a new part of the great prairie1 which strikingly reminded us of our travels on the new plains twelve and thirteen years before4 ,there the ,spirit touched our mind with vivid recollections of that cherished one1 who made for us this prairie a blissful ,eden4 ,an inspired imagination also portrayed what dire wreck of our own life might have ensued from the crisis of broken love had not the grace of ,god averted the sad issue4 ,this cast us on the sod beneath a load of gratitude1 where the poem was inspired as our heart's humble tribute for ,heaven's pity and sustaining arm4 ,a quotation from this poem appears in ,chapter ,,xv of this book4 ,brother ,warner was a great admirer of nature as the handiwork of ,god1 and several of his poems are on nature subjects4 ,what we give here are in most cases but selections from the poems named1 the omissions being indicated by stars4 ,,autumn ,gone is the spring with all its flowers1 ,and gone the summer's verdant show2 ,now strewn beneath the autumn bowers1 ,the yellow leaves await the snow4 ,behold1 this earth so cold and gray ,an emblem of our life appears2 ,its blooming robes sink to decay1 ,to rise again in round of years4 ,earth cheers its winter sleep with dreams ,of springtime's warmth and gentle rain1 ,when she shall wake to murmuring streams ,and songs of merry birds again4 ,so we come forth like springtime flowers1 ,soon into manhood's summer go1 ,then1 like the leaves of autumn bowers1 ,lie down beneath the winter's snow4 ,and there our bodies slumb'ring wait ,till time's short winter day has fled1 ,and ,christ1 our ,lord and ,advocate1 ,shall come again to wake the dead4 ,then winter's storm and summer's heat ,shall end in everlasting spring1 ,and all immortal we shall meet1 ,and round the throne of glory sing4 ,,new ,,year',s ,,greeting ,january #a1 #ahij ,another year has come and gone ,so swiftly flows unceasing time4 ,forever on and on and on1 ,with sorrow's groan and merry chime4 ,commingled in its surging tide1 ,time bears along upon its flood ,poor human wrecks by sin destroyed2 ,yet o'er its stream1 the hand of ,god ,still bends his bow of hope divine2 ,its hues of love in beauty shine4 ,another year of hope and fear ,has swept around its dial-plate1 ,and with it thousands disappear ,to higher bliss or awful fate4 ,god grant to us who yet survive ,a heart of fervent gratitude1 ,and grace that we may wholly live ,to glorify the ,source of good2 ,then1 should this be our final year1 ,we'll sink to rest without a fear4 ,another year hath brought its store ,in rich profusion at our feet1 ,that we should1 heart and soul1 adore ,our ,maker's love so broad and deep4 ,and have you cast your bread upon ,the waters of the passing year1 ,in hope that what your hands have done ,will in much future good appear8 ,then as thy faith so shall it be2 ,in coming days thine eyes shall see4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the poem ,to the ,alien1 is addressed to his wife1 ,sarah1 who1 early in the year #ahhd1 through the influence of a spiritual deceiver1 as already stated1 left her husband4 ,,to ,,the ,,alien ,three years have fled since billows wild ,wrecked our domestic bark1 ,and chilled your love for husband1 child1 ,mid waters cold and dark4 ,how wonderful the mystery1 ,astonished men exclaim1 ,that hearts so knit in unity ,could ever part in twain6 99 99 99 99 99 ,we suffered some adversities1 ,a portion all must find1 ,when compassed round by devotees ,whose creeds we'd left behind4 ,when pressing to the harvest-field ,of everlasting truth1 ,and just before the golden yield1 ,alas6 you turned aloof4 ,oh1 how ,i wish that you could share ,in these ecstatic days1 ,enjoy the light of ,god so pure1 ,and help to sing his praise6 ,my soul had longed for more of ,god1 ,more glory in the cross2 ,but never dreamed that it must come ,through such a bitter loss4 ,i can not chide his providence1 ,but count it all the best2 ,for in each storm of violence ,i sink to sweeter rest4 99 99 99 99 99 ',twas not a rival filled thine eyes ,with colored fancies rare2 ,but ,satan came in deep disguise1 ,and wrought the dread affair4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we still are joined in ,eden's bond ,of matrimony true2 ,while life endures1 yet undissolved ,it binds my heart to you4 ,no court of man nor ,satan's power ,can disannul the tie2 ,though spirits rent1 in evil hour1 ,one flesh are you and ,i4 ,no face so fair1 no heart so warm1 ,upon this verdant sod1 ,shall alienate with rival charm ,the wife received of ,god4 ,so ,i will walk with ,god alone1 ,and bless his holy name1 ,till he shall bring the alien home ,to dwell in love again4 ,in vision of the night ,i saw-- ,and woke to joyful praise-- ,true nature reimprint her law ,that ruled thy former days4 ,from nature's pure affections then ,grace led to love divine2 ,then heaven's bliss alone can bound ,our mutual joy sublime4 ,god grant that this may real prove ,through coming years of time1 ,and in his shining courts above1 ,an endless crown be thine4 ,the hand of ,god alone can take ,the broken chords of love ,and knit them in a union sweet ,as love's pure reign above4 ,here ,i will close my present rhyme2 ,but ever pray for you1 ,that ,god may give you back again ,the heart of woman true4 ,then touched by sweet seraphic strains1 ,with all the heavenly throng1 ,i'll shout aloud my ,savior's praise1 ,and sing another song4 ,,to ,,my ,,dear ,,sidney ,the heart that feels a father's love ,and swells with love's return1 ,will kindly bear this overflow ,toward my only son4 ,yes1 ,sidney's love so blent with mine1 ,a poem shall employ-- ,a token left to coming time ,that father loved his boy4 ,one gentle vine--thy tendrils sweet ,around my soul entwine2 ,a comfort left in sorrows deep1 ,one heart to beat with mine4 ,thy life has dawned in peril's day4 ,mid wars that heaven shake2 ,thy summers five1 eventful1 they ,like surges o'er thee break4 ,thy little soul has felt the shock ,of burning ,babel's fall1 ,when hell recoiled in fury black ,and stood in dread appal4 ,but wreaking out his vengeance now1 ,like ocean's terror dark1 ,hell's monster came athwart the bow ,of our domestic bark4 ,thy guardian angel wept to see ,this brunt of fury sweep ,the girdings of maternity ,from underneath thy feet4 ,but pity still her garland weaves ,around thy gentle brow1 ,and angels on thee softly breathe ,their benedictions now4 ,they soothe and bless thy manly heart1 ,and wipe away thy tears2 ,so tempered to thy bitter lot1 ,the bitter sweet appears4 ,an exile now is each to each1 ,as banished far at sea2 ,a martyr on his island beach1 ,i daily think of thee4 ,and stronger love has seldom spanned ,the mocking billows wild1 ,than are the chords that ever bind ,to my beloved child4 ,though sundered not by angry main1 ,compelled from thine embrace1 ,we flee abroad in ,jesus' name ,to publish ,heaven's grace4 ,thy little heart can not divine ,why ,papa stays away1 ,but coming years will tell1 if thine1 ,the great necessity4 ,when sickness crushed thy little form1 ,i knew my boy was ill2 ,i heard thee in my visions call1 ,but duty kept me still4 ,a trial deep1 to feel thy pain1 ,and yet debarred from thee1 ,to show that sinners lost are in ,a greater misery4 ,oh1 may this lesson speak to thee ,when ,father's work is done6 ,and highest may thy glory be1 ,a soul for ,god is won4 ,and now1 my son1 attentive hear ,my benediction-prayer1 ,and ever tune thy heart and ear ,to heaven's music rare2 ,for ere the light of day had shone ,in thy unfolding eyes1 ,we gave thee up to ,god alone1 ,a living sacrifice2 ,and oft repeated when a babe1 ,to ,god our child was given2 ,and ,jesus heard the vow we made1 ,and wrote it down in heaven4 ,so1 like a little ,samuel1 you ,must answer1 ,here am ,i2 ,give all your heart to ,jesus1 too1 ,for him to live and die4 ,like ,samuel1 serve the living ,god1 ,his temple be thy home2 ,in love obey his holy ,word1 ,thy gentle heart his throne4 ,the ,lord is good1 my darling boy2 ,he made thy body well1 ,and he will bless thee evermore1 ,if in his love you dwell4 ,a new edition may you be ,of ,father's love and zeal1 ,but yet enlarged so wondrously ,that earth thy tread may feel4 ,the poem ,throwing ,ink at the ,devil1 refers to the printing and publishing of the ,gospel ,trumpet4 ,the place where two lightning tracks lie crossing is ,grand ,junction1 ,mich41 where the publishing office was then located4 ,at ,wartburg ,castle sat a son of thunder ,dealing heaven's dynamite1 ,when1 lo6 before him 'peared an apparition1 ,fury-threatening demon sight4 ,the piercing words of truth1 so long besmothered ,flashed the burning wrath upon ,the devil's patent monk and pope religion1 ,which confronts the dread reform4 99 99 99 99 99 ,before the dauntless1 lion-hearted ,luther ,forth the hellish monster stood1 ,drawn from his prison by the scattering theses ',gainst the ,romish viper brood4 ,he lifted up his eyebrows knit with thunder1 ,to the hellish specter said1 ,with stern address1 ,du bist der wahre ,teufel6-- ,hurls an inkstand at his head4 ,the doctor's splattering missile1 proving potent1 ,drove old ,satan from his door2 ,but ink he threw on paper at the devil ,battered down his kingdom more4 99 99 99 99 99 ,not now1 as did the sturdy ,wittenberger ,fling an inkstand at the foe1 ,but by the mighty force of steam1 much faster ,we the battle-ink can throw4 ,just at a point where lightning tracks lie crossing1 ,northward1 southward1 east1 and west1 ,the ,lord has planted his revolving cannon1 ,firing ink at ,satan's crest4 99 99 99 99 99 ,not only toward the main forewinds of heaven ,sin-consuming ink is shot1 ,but right and left in force1 'tis outward given1 ,striking sin in every spot4 ,when round ,mansoul ,immanuel plants his army1 ,to retake the famous town1 ,on eye-gate hill he plants this mighty engine1 ,till surrendered to his crown4 ,if chance a pilgrim's shield of faith is drooping1 ,and his heart with fear oppressed1 ,then comes the ink-winged angel1 trumpet sounding1 ,and his soul anew is blessed4 ,,truth ,and what is truth8 asked ,pilate1 sober4 ,immersed in deep perplexity1 ,and trembled while in judgment over ,the ,one his final judge must be4 ,he asked1 but waited not the answer2 ,for in his majesty there stood ,the ,truth himself at his tribunal-- ,yea1 the incarnate ,truth of ,god4 ,shine on with all thy constellation1 ,the precious attributes of ,god1 ,love1 mercy1 justice1 and compassion2 ,for second in thy magnitude ,thou only art in love's effulgence4 ,i am the truth4 and ,god is love2 ,from both in one omnific fulness ,proceed the streams of truth above4 ,high honored and from everlasting ,thou art1 ,o ,truth1 a pillar strong1 ,upholding justice1 faith1 and virtue4 ,before the stars together sang ,our ill-doomed planet's new creation1 ,thy hand didst hold1 on heaven's throne1 ,the balance weighing every nation1 ,upon the worlds that round thee shone4 ,thou art the firm and deep foundation ,of hope and universal good1 ,and on thy broad eternal bosom ,is based the awful throne of ,god4 ,the myriad stars that gem the ocean ,of boundless space1 at thy command ,pursue their even-tenored motion1 ,and are supported by thy hand4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,autumn ,,leaves ,a mournful sermon greets my ear6 ,the pensive season of the year ,now preaches in a muffled tone1 ,from nature's fast-decaying throne4 ,come to the woodland's cold retreat2 ,the leaves that rustle at thy feet1 ,with all that linger o'er thy head-- ,commingling1 yellow1 green1 and red-- ,and all that1 trembling1 leave their place ,and softly greet their mother's face1 ,as sailing from their lofty top ,they in your presence mournful drop1 ,remind the thoughtful passer-by1 ,thy falling autumn1 too1 is nigh4 ,life has its gay and happy spring1 ,when birds of every feather sing2 ,its warm and verdant summer1 brief1 ,which hastens to the yellow leaf1 ,soon winter's icy hand will lie ,upon our cold and lifeless clay4 ,but oh6 our soul--where will it be ,throughout the long eternity8 ,how can this question pass your mind ,as falling leaves drift in the wind8 99 99 99 99 99 ,ah6 there's a sweet and sacred spell ,that draws me to the shady dell2 ,here could my soul with ,god remain ,in meditation's holy frame4 ,ho6 all ye men that know not ,god1 ,come seek him in the shady wood2 ,and1 all ye saints of feeble love1 ,when will ye come and wisely prove ,the blessedness that crowns the hour ,that's spent with ,god in leafy bower8 ,if only heard your prayers ye say1 ,then unto ,god ye never pray2 ,for did ye truly seek his face ,and pray to win his saving grace ,you'd pray when mortals are not near1 ,right in your heavenly ,father's ear4 ,in public1 too2 yea1 everywhere1 ,but most of all with secret prayer2 ,where only silent leaves applaud1 ,there would ye bow and worship ,god4 99 99 99 99 99 ,then in the hush of solitude ,come listen to the voice of ,god2 ,come oft1 and he shall teach thine ear ,his gentle words of love to hear4 ,there is no place on earth so sweet ,as forest shades1 where streamlets meet ,and sing aloud their rocky ways1 ,with birds1 and universal praise4 ,do not the lover and his maid1 ,delighted1 walk the balmy shade1 ,and there unlock1 with words so blest1 ,the pent-up love within their breast8 ,the crazy-quilt spread on the ground1 ,of beauty-tinted leaves around1 ,each bright sunbeam and fragrant flower1 ,and nature's music in the bower-- ,but1 most of all1 the cooing dove-- ,lend inspiration to their love4 ,and does not nature's solitude ,inspire a soul to worship ,god8 ,behold1 he framed her majesty1 ,cast up her hills1 and carved the way ,for babbling brooks that flow between ,and tread the winding valley's green4 ,the many lovely trees that spread ,their sheltering wings above our head1 ,rose up by his supreme behest1 ,with all their nuts and fruitage blest1 ,he taught the vine their trunks to climb1 ,like cords of love their boughs entwine4 99 99 99 99 99 ,hear thou1 ,o man1 our autumn chant ,while sunbeams coldly o'er us slant1 ,and mournfully we fall so low ,to don our winding sheet of snow1 ,there doomed in silence to decay4 ,so1 too1 thou1 man1 must pass away2 ,thy springs of love shall lower run ,until thy life's last setting sun2 ,then in thy grave-suit1 coldly wound1 ,like us return to mother ground4 ,but we are not without a seed1 ,from which anew there may proceed ,our kind to grow and multiply1 ,as round and round the seasons fly4 ,so1 man1 within thy mortal breast ,there is a soul1 immortal quest1 ,that shall reanimate thy clay1 ,and both1 immortal1 live for aye4 ,thou shalt from winter's sleep arise1 ,and meet thy ,savior in the skies4 ,with this blest hope so sure and bright ,all seasons beam with golden light1 ,in winter's storm and summer's heat ,the pure in heart have joys complete2 ,and when the close of life appears1 ,their pleasures ripen with his years-- ,unlike the sinner1 dark and cold ,who graceless1 godless1 hopeless1 old1 ,sits lowly down in autumn's vale1 ,his life all fruitless to bewail4 ,each falling leaf his conscience stings ,and thoughts of future judgment brings2 ,yea1 warns him that the time is nigh ,when he in black despair must die4 ,unlike the life in folly spent1 ,and now with sinful years is bent ,low at the grave with dismal moan2 ,nay1 for the righteous light is sown1 ,yea1 light that brightens in the vale ,of falling leaves1 where he can hail ,the glories of another world2 ,where mortal shafts are never hurled1 ,nor cruel frosts can ever sting4 ,there life begins another spring ,to flourish in eternal green1 ,in heaven's high celestial scene4 ,,beautiful ,,spring ,ah1 gentle spring1 thy balmy breeze1 ,new chanting 'mid the budding trees1 ,a glorious resurrection sings6 ,and on thy soft1 ethereal wings ,sweet nectar from ten thousand flowers1 ,that bloom in nature's happy bowers ,thou dost as holy incense bring ,to ,him who sheds the beams of spring4 ,far in the ,south thy bloom appeared1 ,and all our journey northward cheered2 ,a thousand miles in sweet embrace1 ,we northward held an even race2 ,or if by starts we did outrun ,thy even tenor from the sun1 ,ere long we blessed thy coming tread ,and quaffed the oders thou didst spread4 ,o brightest1 sweetest of the year6 ,when all is vocal with thy cheer1 ,thy lily-cups and roses red ,with us some tear-drops also shed4 ,the cherry-trees1 in shrouds of white1 ,bring back to mind a mournful sight-- ,a coffined brother 'neath the bloom1 ,just ere they bore him to the tomb4 ,ah1 yes1 thou sweet1 beguiling spring1 ,of thee1 my inmost heart would sing4 ,the time of love1 all bards agree ,to sing in merry notes to thee4 ,yea1 such thou art1 and happy they ,who walk in love's delightful day ,along the path thy flakes hath strewn1 ,and know indeed her constant boon4 ,but what of him who walks alone1 ,with past love fled and turned to stone8 ,shall not the springtide music's roll ,mock withered joys and sting the soul8 ,not in the heart embalmed in love ,transported from the worlds above1 ,nor seasons1 no1 nor else can bring ,heartaches where only ,god is king4 ,that soul an endless spring enjoys ,where life the will of ,god employs4 ,he 'mid the fields of bliss may tread1 ,and feast on joys that long have fled1 ,by sacred memories' glowing trace ,more than the heart untouched by grace1 ,can drink from full fruition's stream1 ,or paint in fancy's wildest dream4 ,o ,god6 thou art the life of spring1 ,the source of all the seasons bring1 ,the soul of all the joys we know1 ,the fountain whence our pleasures flow4 ,while nature wakes from winter's sleep1 ,and gentle clouds effusive weep1 ,we join creation's grateful lays1 ,and celebrate our ,maker's praise4 ,the deaths of individuals furnished inspiration for many a verse from ,brother ,warner's pen4 ,celia ,kilpatrick ,byrum was one of the early workers in the ,gospel ,trumpet ,office1 when the paper was published at ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,her death occurred on the #aath of ,december1 #ahhh4 ,and is she gone--dear ,celia gone8 ,such news would tax credulity ,did not the ,spirit's previous tone ,toll in our bosom mournfully ,the thought1 ,she's left this mortal clime1 ,and we shall see her face no more ,until we pass the bounds of time ,and meet upon celestial shore4 ',twas in our heart to tune our lyre ,to sing thy cheerful wedding-day2 ,but debts are made by fond desire1 ,more than our fleeting time can pay4 ,so now we sing our mournful lay-- ,another epoch followed soon ,to thy poor soul1 a brighter day ,than that when blessed beside thy groom4 ,the ,author of these feeling hearts ,chides not affection's flowing tears2 ,but with them soothing balm imparts1 ,and in his arms of love he bears ,poor nature's heavy burden up3 ,so when bereavements press our mind1 ,grace drops such sweetness in the cup ,that even then we comfort find4 ,but is she gone whose heart e'er burned ,with such devoted1 fervent zeal8 ,to bless mankind her spirit yearned1 ,wished every heart ,god's love might seal4 ,she thought no sacrifice too dear1 ,no painful toil and care too great1 ,that all this world the truth might hear ,and gain redemption's blissful state4 ,o sister1 while thy eyes beheld ,whate'er thy willing hands could do1 ,no needed rest thy footsteps held1 ,no moderation couldst thou know2 ,regarding not thy slender frame-- ,to pious toil so passionate-- ,till thy enfeebled limbs refrained ,to execute thy heart's mandate4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when sickness had already cast ,its waning paleness on thy cheek1 ,god folded thee within the breast ,of love1 connubial1 warm and deep4 ,thank heav'n for this provision kind1 ,to bless1 support1 and comfort thee2 ,on those strong arms thy life declined ,till from thy suffering body free4 99 99 99 99 99 ,dear ,celia's gone6 ,how sad the news1 ,dear saints1 this mourning ,trumpet brings6 ,the hands that dropped refreshing dews ,upon its flying-angel wings ,and toiled so hard to set the lines ,that burned upon your hearts with love1 ,inspired your souls a thousand times1 ,has gone to blissful toils above4 99 99 99 99 99 ,ah6 now invert the column rules1 ,and dress the ,trumpet sad with crape1 ,that all who read may know it feels ,and weeps the loss of friend so great4 ,her artful fingers shall no more ,set up its many vocal peers1 ,nor shall her anxious heart yet pour ,upon its sheets her moist'ning tears4 ,her gentle voice1 so fine and sweet ,the ,trumpet organ's highest key ,is singing now1 at ,jesus' feet1 ,with heaven's joyful minstrelsy4 ,oh6 could we near the pearly gate ,and listen to her ransomed song1 ,our souls would more felicitate ,the bliss of that immortal one4 ,the poem ,the ,marriage of a ,mr4 ,hope1 is a play on the word hope and has a slight touch of the humorous4 ,it appeared that ,mr4 ,hope1 ,entertained the pleasing hope ,that some hopeless one among the fair ,was seeking hope from life's despair1 ,and was pleased with ,hope to share1 ,the cheerful name of ,hope to wear4 ,and so good ,hope went smiling 'round ,till the object of his hope was found2 ,then sitting by the fair one's side1 ,hope beamed with prospects of a bride4 ,the question asked1 the prompt decision ,turned hopeful's hope to full fruition1 ,and so it happened very soon1 ,the beau of hope became a groom4 ,then hopeless changed to ,hope by name1 ,and two hopes but one ,hope became4 ,their bark now launched on the stream of hope1 ,may all the blessings hope bespoke ,their voyage crown along the way ,of hope's uncrowded blissful day1 ,and may their happy little bark afford ,a lively crew of sunny ,hopes aboard2 ,and when to anchor in the harbor driven ,may all their hopes be realized in heaven4 ,an interesting imaginative story of some length is his poem ,soul ,cripple ,city1 in which he represents sectarian religion as a city wherein the inhabitants walk on crutches4 ,the following is the first stanza4 ,not a mere imaginary ,object1 borne on fancy's wing1 ,is the city of this story1 ,but a real historic thing4 ,though by troupes and proper figures ,we delineate her fame1 ,though she has some mystic features1 ,she's an entity the same4 ,he takes up the different denominations as particular brands of crutches on which people hobble4 ,but whereunto shall we liken1 ,or with what similitude1 ,paint this foolish generation8 ,ah6 behold the sinful brood6 ,all within that mystic city ,walk not upright on their feet1 ,but on crutches play the cripple-- ',tis a custom they must keep4 ,not a man in all ,soul ,cripple1 ,not a woman1 girl1 or boy1 ,but must go it on quadruple1 ,must the wooden legs employ4 ,not one ever tried it walking ,on created feet alone2 ,not on crutches to be stalking ,were a scandal to the town4 99 99 99 99 99 ,next appeared the ,english crutches1 ,and the ,high ,episcopal4 ,thence the mania fast increases1 ,every style conceivable4 ,wycliffe crutches1 ,calvin crutches1 ,quaker1 ,shaker1 ,mennonite1 ,wesley crutches1 twenty branches1 ,m4 ,e4 crutches1 black and white4 99 99 99 99 99 ,then there are the ,baptist crutches1 ,hard-shelled and inflexible1 ,free-will ,baptist1 bond-will ,baptist1 ,and the creed ,six ,principle4 ,there are ,baptists called ,ephrata1 ,saturnarian ,baptists1 too1 ,anabaptist1 ,calvinistic ,baptist crutches we'll undo4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in this mart of vain religions ,you will find on ,water ,street1 ,and at all her river stations1 ,crutches vaunted as complete4 ,but the clubs that they are vending1 ,are as hollow as a horn2 ,they that buy need no repenting1 ,in cold water they are born4 99 99 99 99 99 ,all these bapto 'sociations ,have a god of water made1 ,leaving fire and salvation ,and the blood without the trade1 ,more than all the sects who clamor1 ,just to make the sinner wet1 ,who have swallowed down a ,campbell1 ,and are straining at a gnat4 ,he allots special ,additions to the city for ,adventism1 the ,salvation ,army1 ,russellism1 and ,lyman ,johnson of the ,stumbling stone4 ,the last of the poem is devoted to ,god's call to his people to come out of ,babylon4 ,we give but three stanzas4 ,but adieu1 for we must travel ,with the remnant who return1 ,fleeing from the fall of ,babel1 ,to the new ,jerusalem4 ,hark6 a noise like many waters6 ',tis the captive's jubilee1 ,like the voice of mighty thunders1 ,halleluiah6 we are free6 99 99 99 99 99 ,jesus is our head and ruler1 ,and his ,word our only guide1 ,and his gentle ,spirit leader1 ,he our peace1 a constant tide ,flowing in our tranquil bosom1 ,where is reared the mystic throne ,of the ,king of peace eternal1 ,where he dwells and reigns alone4 ,oh1 the glorious hope of ,zion6 ,oh1 the riches of her grace6 ,ever happy are the people ,who abide in such a place4 ,god is over all in glory1 ,and is through them great and small1 ,and he's in them by his ,spirit1 ,jesus1 ,jesus1 all in all4 ,the ,crusades of ,hell is the title of a serial poem describing the fall of man1 the plan of salvation1 and the different epochs of ,christian history4 ,it shows how ,satan attempted to destroy the church by martyrdom and1 failing in that1 next attempted counterfeiting the church by making false churches4 ,his poems ,to the ,ocean and ,good-,by ,old ,rockies were written on his ,pacific ,coast trip in the autumn of #ahib4 ,,to ,,the ,,ocean ,help me1 ,o sweet voice of inspiration1 ,help me sing one gentle lay ,to the ocean's wide and deep creation1 ,singing for us night and day4 ,and thou restless sea1 with all thy wonders1 ,touch my heart with melody2 ,for no bard can sing thy awful numbers ,uninspired indeed by thee4 ',twas a balmy evening in ,october1 ,as our train sped on its time1 ,that we came in sight of ,god's great ocean1 ,to the old ,pacific brine4 ,swiftly gliding down its ancient orbit1 ,the great monarch of the light ,dropped his golden smiles upon the water ,ere he bid us all goodnight4 99 99 99 99 99 ,thou a preacher art to all the ages1 ,and thy audience all the world2 ,lo6 we read thy sermon on the pages ,of the book that ,god unfurled4 ,and to all that tread thy sand evirons ,thou dost thunder1 yea1 and show ,how the human heart in sin's dominion ,never1 never peace can know4 ,as thy waves in ceaseless turmoil labor1 ,and in fury beat the shore1 ,as they writhe and moan and dash asunder1 ,rise and fall for evermore1 ,so the blasting hopes and guilty terrors ,of the sinner's wretched heart1 ,restless1 fearful1 and despairing ever1 ,from his bosom never part4 ,only ,one has sailed upon the bosom ,of the tempest-troubled sea1 ,who could hush the winds and calm the billows-- ,he who spoke to ,galilee4 ,only he can break the storms of passion1 ,and rebuke the fears of hell2 ,only he can calm the struggling spirit1 ,speak the word1 ,be still1 be still4 99 99 99 99 99 ,oh1 ,i bless thy kindness1 friend ,pacific1 ,for thy temporizing breath2 ,for the climate wafted from thee truly ,is an enemy to death4 ,sweet and soft and balmy are thy breathings1 ,keeping winter blasts away2 ,and ,i thank thee1 ,providence1 that brought me ,here to ,san ,diego ,bay4 99 99 99 99 99 ,on this seacoast ,i would fondly linger1 ,where the zephyrs gently breathe ,o'er the vineyards vast1 and lemon orchards1 ,where the bright pomegranates wave2 ,and the golden orange1 figs1 and guavas1 ,apples1 pears1 and prunes abound2 ,with delicious nectarines and peaches1 ,blessing all the season round4 ,where the ocean moans its solemn numbers1 ,and the sun outpours its gold ,on the clouds which hang1 while twilight lingers1 ,o'er the sea-waves rising bold4 ,and the glorious king of day1 descending1 ,bids the vintage toilers rest1 ,while he cools his fevered brow each evening ,on the great ,pacific breast4 ,,good-,,bye1 ,,old ,,rockies ,i love your wild1 romantic beauties1 ,ye forms that seem to vie ,each with the summit of his neighbor1 ,and pierce the giddy sky4 ,old ,rockies1 now to you ,i bid adieu1 adieu1 ,but hope we part not here forever4 ,i leave you as ,i found you1 covered ,with winter's chilly shroud1 ,reaching toward the starry heavens1 ,and manteled in the cloud4 ,while ,i ,god's mercy preach1 ,and you his greatness teach1 ,we jointly glorify our ,maker4 ,i read upon your lofty bulwarks ,the might of nature's ,god1 ,what fortresses thy hands have builded ,where human feet ne'er have trod6 ,the strength of these are thine1 ,and round their apex shine ,jehovah's bright creative glory4 99 99 99 99 99 ,divine ,guidance was a poem of his later years in which he reflects on the kind hand of ,god upon his whole life4 ,i own a providence supreme1 divine1 ,has ruled and overruled this life of mine1 ,yes1 ruled in all that heaven's love bestows1 ,o'erruled in that from ill-intending foes4 ,but oh1 what mystery ,veiled all his policy1 ,and made this life a solemn wonder6 ,to trace the mystic path my feet have trod1 ,and note how every step is marked of ,god1 ,how mercy hovered o'er my single blank ,till at ,love's throne my haughty spirit sank1 ,and saw my pardon free ,flow down from ,calvary1 ,unlocks my bosom's grateful fountain4 ,but greater1 wider1 higher1 ,o my ,lord1 ,my humble walk with thee unfolds thy ,word1 ,unfolds thy plenitude of love and grace1 ,and helps thy hand in providence to trace4 ,and yet high o'er my soul1 ,like ocean billows roll1 ,unsolved1 ten thousand sacred wonders4 ,i bless thee1 ,o thou wise and loving ,guide1 ,that thou didst lead to full salvation's tide1 ,and there my heart didst wash in crimson blood1 ,restore into the image of my ,god4 ,thenceforth my soul hath been ,the palace of a ,king2 ,the joyful place of royal banquet4 ,and ,i1 who kingly honors never dreamed1 ,am raised with him who hath my soul redeemed1 ,to jointly reign ,on ,love's eternal throne1 ,his peace and joy and glory all my own4 ,o mystery ,providence6 ,why lavishly dispense ,thy gifts on one so meanly suited6 ,lord ,jesus1 when ,i retrospect my life ,down through the varied scenes of mortal strife1 ,at every change ,i stand in wonder wrapt1 ,how thou hast saved and used and blessed and kept1 ,and by thy blood hast bought ,a thing of utter naught2 ,and well may all the angels marvel4 ,besides the foregoing were a number of short poems1 also a lengthy poem on ,faith1 which covers over sixty pages in his book4 ,his poem on ,innocence is referred to in our first chapter4 ,,xix ,,last ,,years ,during the last years of his life ,brother ,warner's time was devoted in greater proportion to writing than during the preceding years of more active ministerial work in the field4 ,possessing a weak physical constitution he aged rapidly and seemed elderly at fifty4 ,due to an earnest desire to accomplish much for the cause of ,god he had1 however1 a hope that the ,lord would 'satisfy him with long life1' as the ,psalmist expresses it4 ,whether he had any idea that his life might soon draw to a close1 it is not known1 but at any rate he felt prompted1 after the few years he spent in evangelistic tours1 to devote more of his time to writing on specific lines of truth4 ,he wished in particular to write a book on prophetic subjects4 ,he spent the winter of #ahia-ib mostly at home writing1 but he was not altogether satisfied to be out of the field entirely4 ,he desired in some manner to combine writing with field work4 ,we have been very desirous that ,god should manage this poor frail temple so as to get the most effectual service and highest degree of glory4 ,that he has enabled us to preach the gospel for twenty-six years through constant weakness and many infirmities has been a marvel of divine grace and a miracle of divine power4 ,should any one ask why he did not heal us up soundly1 we answer4 ,many years ago as we cried to ,god to remove this thorn from our flesh1 he taught us that he had weighty responsibilities to lay upon us1 and that our afflictions would contribute to that humility and utter dependence upon ,god that were necessary to fill our calling2 that in our weakness he would manifest his own power4 ,so the ,lord chose to display his power in upholding us in our afflictions rather than in utterly removing them4 ,so we with the apostle 'glory in afflictions1 that the power of ,christ may rest upon us4' ,of late years our experience has been something like this3 ,when out in the gospel field and spending our time between meetings chiefly in conversation with the dear brethren1 who are always eager to talk about the good ,lord and his dealings1 an uneasiness would arise in our heart1 a conviction that could we be away quietly with the ,lord writing the precious things he has given us to set forth1 time would be better used and ,god more glorified4 ,these feelings created a longing to retire to our editorial sanctuary4 ,but remaining at home this winter1 our mind has not yet been exactly satisfied1 owing to the many earnest calls to the field4 ,last fall in ,wooster1 ,ohio1 we were kindly provided with a room to ourself4 ,it being only a few moments walk from the hall1 we could retire in good time1 arise about three in the morning1 have a good long time to wait before ,god1 and yet get an early start to work4 ,during that time the ,lord blessed us in preaching daily1 and we got more writing done1 it seems to us1 than if at home4 ,ever since1 that arrangement has appeared to my mind as the best possible plan for effectual service to ,god4 ,since the ,spirit seems to stir our heart to go forth and preach the word and at the same time requires our time uninterrupted by surrounding company and conversation1 except when we can be a special help to some soul1 we can see no way but to labor chiefly in towns and cities and have a retired place to spend the intervals between meetings before the ,lord4 ,this will enable us to make the best use of our time and also avoid the exposure and fatigue of going about from place to place4 ,god knows it is not because we are not willing to endure hardness as a good soldier of ,jesus ,christ1 but only for the glory of ,god1 that we may do more good in this short life4 ,illustration3 ,facsimile of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner's handwriting ,illustration3 ,the family1 as it last appeared ,he never could remain long out of the gospel field4 ,it was not his privilege1 however1 to carry out the plan of working in cities while engaging in writing4 ,he rather had to be subject to calls as they came4 ,to remain in one place very long and engage in writing he found to be weakening1 due to the fact that he was likely not to take sufficient exercise4 ,we have already noted his illness with rheumatism just before making the trip to ,denver in the spring of #ahib1 and his sickness he had during that trip4 ,he was not at home long after this trip until he was called to the ,pacific ,coast4 ,while on the latter tour he spent two weeks1 during the holiday season1 at ,farmersville1 ,cal41 writing on his book on prophecy1 ,the ,cleansing of the ,sanctuary4 ,he returned in ,february and attended some of the camp- and grove-meetings during the summer4 ,in the latter part of the following winter he spent some time in the home of ,bro4 ,b4 ,e4 ,warren1 in ,springfield1 ,ohio1 writing hymns for a new song-book he was helping to edit4 ,this book1 ,echoes from ,glory1 was ready by the time of the ,june camp-meeting at ,grand ,junction4 ,on ,aug4 #ab1 #ahic1 he was married to ,frances ,miller4 ,this was his third marriage1 his second wife having died in ,cincinnati some time previously4 ,during the summer ,brother and ,sister ,warner made a tour to ,illinois and ,missouri1 and later to ,pennsylvania4 ,in the ,new ,year's ,greeting1 in the ,trumpet1 for #ahid he expressed a desire to make a world tour4 ,he thought seriously of doing so1 but concluded later that his health would not permit4 ,his years were drawing to a close4 ,at the end of the ,greeting he wrote the following verses3 ,my years of time all flee away1 ,and1 swifter than an arrow1 ,i glide along my pilgrim way1 ,and hasten to the morrow4 ,away1 away1 see the moments fly1 ,we can not hold them waiting2 ,then on their pinions let us try ,to drop a future blessing4 ,my years of time1 how fast they flee6 ,and yet the scribe of heaven ,records whate'er my actions be1 ,the thoughts my life has given4 ,thanks be to ,god for his boundless grace ,that keeps the record holy2 ,just ready1 ,lord1 to see my face1 ,and enter into glory4 ,my years of time are meted out1 ,a moment of probation1 ,upon which hangs the awful weight ,of endless destination4 ,press on1 press on1 ,o my soul1 and seek ,eternal life's fruition1 ,since everlasting ages reap ,the fruits of short duration4 ,my years of time run on in peace1 ,all seem a golden summer2 ,and each one1 blessed with heaven's grace1 ,shines brighter than the former4 ,o ,god1 thou crownest the happy years ,with thy unbounded goodness1 ,thy wondrous love has changed my tears ,to songs of joy and gladness4 ,my years of time will close ere long ,where blooms an endless spring1 ,where all the ransomed swell the song ,the angels can not sing4 ,roll on1 sweet years1 for ,i know my last ,will end high up in glory1 ,the toil ,i love will sweeten rest ,and gem my crown of duty4 ,in the meantime there had opened up a rather unique method of evangelistic work4 ,bro4 ,g4 ,t4 ,clayton1 who had been engaged in the ,eastern field1 had planned an ,ohio ,river campaign4 ,he had purchased a boat #bf #hj and fitted it up for a dwelling and a meeting-hall4 ,the plan was to float down the ,ohio and tie up at every town on each side of the river and hold meetings for a season4 ,january and ,february of #ahid were spent on this ,floating ,bethel1 as it was called1 with ,brother and ,sister ,clayton4 ,by this means he could do writing and at the same time hold meetings4 ,late in ,may1 #ahid1 he held a discussion with an ,adventist leader4 ,he attended during this summer1 as usual1 the general camp-meetings and grove-meetings4 ,he began the erection of a house on the camp-ground near ,grand ,junction and by the following winter it was sufficiently completed that it could be occupied4 ,we are making some quotations from his ,new ,year's ,greeting for #ahie4 ,little did he know that this would be his last message of this kind4 ,he died in ,december of that year4 ,to all our dear friends and readers we devoutly wish a happy ,new ,year4 ,may each of you enter the year with a holy zeal to glorify ,god in your soul and body1 which are the ,lord's4 ,nothing better can we wish you than the meekness of ,christ in your heart and life and the omnipotence of faith in your work for him4 ,how solemn and awful the place where we stand today6 ,we have been carried down the stream of time until we approach its very outlet into the boundless expanse of eternity4 ,upon us have fallen the ends of the world4 ,we are called in the providence of ,god to take a part in the last great struggle against the principalities and wicked powers of this sin-stricken earth4 ,oh1 how significant to us are the words of ,john1 ,beloved1 it is the last time6 ,the harmonious testimony of all truth and of current facts on earth show us that we are rapidly approaching the last day of the last days4444 ,but we know nothing with any degree of certainty4 ,god alone knows the awful day and hour1 and we may err even in naming the approximate time4 ,yea1 before another ,new ,year's bells ring on earth the trump of ,god may proclaim the death of time4 ,one thing is sure1 the ,lord's coming is not very far off1 and men of all creeds and faiths seem to agree in this4444 444 ,in great weakness of body we began the erection of a house last ,september4 ,bless ,god1 he has in every way wonderfully blessed us in this work2 and now we expect in a couple of weeks to move into our house on the camp and take up the writing of prophetic truth with a physical and consequent mental energy we never before possessed4 ,we were consecrated to go to the foreign lands1 and indeed thought the ,lord would soon send us forth4 ,but he showed us we were physically unfit4 ,however1 we may yet go4 ,our only wish is that ,god may get the greatest possible glory out of all our remnant of time and feeble abilities1 coupled on to his omnipotent power and infinite wisdom4 ,at the close of the ,grand ,junction camp-meeting of that year1 the last year of his life1 he wrote the poem ,after the ,battle4 ,lo1 they are gone2 that armored host ,whose feet have daily pressed ,these grounds have fled their several ways1 ,and all is hushed to rest4 ,but hark6 the leaves upon the trees ,in echoes lisp their song1 ,and on the wings of every breeze ,salvation floats along4 ,oh1 sacred ground6 oh1 honored site6 ,behold1 ,jehovah's feet ,have stood among us here1 and light ,eternal1 pure1 and sweet ,has glittered from his sword of truth1 ,and from his awful eyes ,two fiery streams have issued forth1 ,revealing sin's disguise4 ,no battle-field where armies stood ,in rank1 with musketry1 ,and garments dyed in human blood1 ,achieved such victory1 ,or turned a scale of destiny ,of such momentous weight1 ,or ever reared a monument ,of liberty so great4 ,not with the cannon's roar of death1 ,nor din of battle wild1 ,but by the burning fuel of fire ,salvation won the field4 ',twas not a crown of earthly state1 ,nor freedom's empty boast1 ,but souls upon an awful brink ,called forth this mighty host4 ,the thrones of earth must crumble down1 ,all nations fade away2 ,dominions of antiquity ,can not abide for aye3 ,but spirits captured here from sin1 ,and marshalled with the free1 ,shall live and reign and sing and shine ,through all eternity4 ,but they are gone1 those heralds strong1 ,who stand within the sun1 ,and all that army dressed in white ,to other fields have run3 ,and from this holy battle-field ,new waves of glory roll1 ,and these1 in turn1 will others wake1 ,to spread from pole to pole4 ,amen6 amen6 let heaven shout1 ,and earth break forth in song6 ,a thousand camps1 ten thousand groves1 ,in every city throng4 ,along the rivers1 o'er the sea1 ,in ,jesus' mighty name1 ,the present truth that set us free1 ,to all aloud proclaim4 ,this was his last poem1 so far as is known1 excepting a few verses he wrote in connection with obituaries4 ,he assisted in meetings in the northern part of the ,state during the summer4 ,in this series of meetings he obtained very little rest or time for writing1 which emphasized the desire to devote more time to pen preaching at home4 ,it was always hard for him to deny himself the glory of the field work1 for he enjoyed it2 but he felt he must settle down to write4 ,illustration3 ,library and home1 ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,illustration3 ,camp-ground and lake1 near ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,besides some other small works1 he prepared a new tract showing the fallacy of the millennium tradition1 revised the tract on ,marriage and ,divorce1 and wrote a book entitled1 ,salvation1 ,present1 ,perfect2 ,now or ,never4 ,his major work1 however1 to which he had for some time given attention1 was his book on prophecy1 ,the ,cleansing of the ,sanctuary4 ,of this he had written nearly four hundred pages4 ,by this time a children's school was started on the camp-ground1 near ,grand ,junction4 ,he took quite an interest in the school4 ,among the last things that engaged his mind was the arranging of a system of ,bible-study4 ,it is evident that he had in mind some sort of training-school1 for he had planned courses in history1 music1 penmanship1 etc41 in addition to ,bible-study4 ,and now we come to the end of the journey of life for ,brother ,warner4 ,that frail body which had often been so wondrously touched and sustained by divine power was to be left in the grip of an affliction that should end his earthly career4 ,his work was done4 ,the purpose to which ,god had called him had been accomplished4 ,he was to give place to others4 ,this wonderful man of ,god1 whose physical temple had so often by the ,holy ,spirit been quickened to new life when about to fall1 and through whose touch the same divine power had many times brought help to the afflicted bodies of others1 must himself now succumb to the hand of ,death1 for in this world all must die4 ,his vitality1 always weak1 and now declining1 had but slight resisting power against the forces of disease and decay that humanity is subject to in this life4 ,an undermining affliction seemed to be at work in his body4 ,on ,sunday1 ,dec4 #a1 #ahie1 he preached a sermon on ,christian ,growth in the schoolhouse 7also used for a chapel7 on the camp-ground4 ,that he should preach while physically weak was no uncommon thing and no one realized that he was so near the end4 ,that discourse was his last4 ,the following ,sunday he suffered very much from an attack of lung trouble and was unable to speak above a whisper4 ,but after prayer was offered he arose1 walked across the room1 and praised ,god aloud1 also joining in singing4 ,thus he fought the fight of faith till the very last4 ,his illness soon developed into pneumonia1 and he went down rapidly4 ,about midnight on the night of ,december #aa his watcher1 noticing that he seemed to be resting easy1 left the room to have his midnight lunch2 but ere he returned the spirit of ,brother ,warner silently took its flight to the glory world above4 ,thus he died in solitude1 at about #ab3cj ,a4 ,m4 ,thursday1 ,december #ab4 ,our friend and brother dear1 whose life ,made bright this world of ours1 ,has passed away mid early snow1 ,soon after ,autumn's flowers4 ,no days of lingering sickness came ,to warn us of his death2 ,no vision from the silent land ,to tell of parting breath4 ,a post-mortem examination revealed an enlarged heart but no trace of tuberculosis1 which he had in his younger days and from which he was miraculously healed and preserved4 ,his spirit was very tenacious of life4 ,as ill as he was1 he arose every morning at his regular early hour1 and through the day engaged to a slight extent in writing4 ,even the day before he died he was on his feet a part of the time4 ,the funeral was held on the camp-ground on ,sunday1 the #aeth4 ,a brief notice of his death was inserted in the ,gospel ,trumpet of ,december #ab4 ,in the succeeding issue the obituary appeared in full between draped column rules4 ,of the last hymn he attempted he completed only the first stanza1 one half of the chorus1 and the first line of the second stanza1 the hymn as he left it appearing thus3 ,shall my soul ascend with rapture ,when the day of life is past8 ,while my house of clay shall slumber1 ,shall ,i then with ,jesus rest8 ,chorus4 ,o my soul1 press on to glory1 ,worlds of bliss invite thee on4 ,oh1 shall my immortal spirit ,this hymn was afterward completed by ,sister ,georgia ,elliot4 ,music was composed for it1 and it appears as ,number #cfe in ,select ,hymns4 ,,xx ,,as ,,others ,,knew ,,him ,the following statements by individuals who knew ,brother ,warner personally are of interest4 ,our home was at ,lindsey1 ,ohio1 when we first met ,brother ,warner4 ,we were then members of the ,evangelical ,association4 ,we were both sanctified1 but were dissatisfied with the formality of sectism4 ,we attended the regular appointments faithfully2 but we craved for deeper spiritual devotion and felt the need of special services where we could talk freely of the glorious doctrine of sanctification4 ,when the people throughout the country heard what we taught1 many doors opened among the denominations and many were converted4 ,this stirred the ministers with envy1 and they tried to stop the work1 but failed1 because it was ,god's work4 ,this continued for five years4 ,we felt we should be better out of the ,church than in it1 and often wished to withdraw1 but did not know where to go4 ,we made this a subject of special prayer and meditation4 ,we were assured ,god would bring us and lead us in a way we did not understand4 ,we had not known ,brother ,warner1 but had heard that he was a deceiver and that everywhere he went he caused the most spiritual to believe his doctrine4 ,we received a card from him stating that he had just closed a meeting and that the ,lord was directing him north for the next meeting4 ,he said if we could furnish a place for meeting1 either public or private1 he with his company should be glad to visit our place4 ,i asked husband what to do4 ,he said1 ,mother1 do you know this is the man that we were warned against8 ,i said1 ,yes1 ,i know1 but we are praying for ,god to send us a man who will preach and practise the whole truth4 ,now1 if this man is of ,god we must receive him4 ,i went to the ,lord with the matter and said1 ,lord1 if thou dost want these people to come and hold a meeting and can use them here1 send them right on1 without my answering this card4 ,this was on ,monday morning4 ,at one o'clock a load of six drove up to the gate4 ,brother ,warner came to the door and knocked4 ,when ,i opened he said1 ,peace be unto this house4 ,i can not tell my feelings1 but after ,i gave them a hearty welcome ,i was conscious they were of ,god and decided they should stay as long as ,god could use them4 ,while ,i was preparing the noon meal for my new guests and my family1 they sang numbers #dc and #gb out of ,songs of ,victory4 ,these songs were1 ',twas ,love that ,found ,out ,me1 and1 ,the ,hand of ,god on the ,wall1 respectively4 ,we never before heard such heavenly music4 ,the tears streamed down husband's cheeks4 ,my daughter was so affected she left the house2 it made such an impression on her she afterward gave her heart to ,god4 ,god used ,brother ,warner to help us discern the one body of ,christ and the evils of sects4 ,we rented a hall4 ,sometimes it was crowded with earnest listeners1 and ,i am sure much good would have been done had it not been for the five ministers who lived in our town4 ,one night ,brother ,warner preached with such power one of the preachers said1 ,this is too strong for me1 and went out4 ,the hall was closed against us and we held our meetings in private homes4 ,on occasions rotten eggs1 gravel-stones1 and mud balls were thrown at us1 and through it all ,brother ,warner praised ,god and manifested such a calm and gentle spirit one could not help but feel he was a man of ,god4 ,during these meetings some walked thirty miles to hear the truth4 ,brother ,warner had been undergoing the great trial of his wife's separation from him1 and many earnest prayers went up for her4 ,he gave us some of his letters to read1 which he wrote to her1 and oh6 the gentle spirit1 and the kind pleadings which he wrote1 were enough to break any heart of stone4 ,later we moved to ,st4 ,louis1 ,mich41 and it was our privilege to have him in our home often4 ,he always preached with power4 ,i can say his life and conduct were worthy of imitation4 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,walter1 ,st4 ,louis1 ,mich4 ,the first time ,i met ,brother ,warner was in ,february1 #ahhc4 ,he came to our home and assisted in cottage-meetings4 ,he was a very humble man of faith and one ,i dearly loved4 ,at the first camp-meeting at ,bangor1 ,mich41 in #ahhc1 he was called away1 and ,i took him to the train4 ,as he stepped from the vehicle ,i handed him eleven dollars4 ,he raised both hands and praised ,god1 as he had had no money for car-fare4 ,i was with him one time in ,chicago in search of a printing-press4 ,at the breakfast-table in a restaurant he poured out his heart to ,god in deep1 earnest prayer and thanked ,god for the food1 which drew the attention of many listeners4 ,at noon we bought a lunch1 so as to save the ,lord's money4 ,in an alley just off a busy street we found a dry-goods box1 which served as a place for our meal4 ,here he again lifted up his hands and in a deep sense of gratitude gave thanks to ,god4 ,s4 ,michels1 ,south ,haven1 ,mich4 ,in ,october1 #ahha1 ,i was visiting in ,north ,eagle1 ,michigan1 at my father's1 ,daniel ,b4 ,howe4 ,a brother sent us a ,trumpet1 the first we had seen4 ,in a few days ,j4 ,c4 ,fisher and wife came there4 ,father asked him to come and hold a meeting1 which he did in ,december1 and was there all winter4 ,many received the light4 ,in ,october1 #ahhb1 ,brother ,warner came and some others1 and held a meeting lasting several days4 ,that was a wonderful meeting to us4 ,when ,brother ,warner came he seemed to be under a heavy trial on account of some difficulty that had come into his life1 and was very sad1 apparently unreconciled4 ,he stayed at our house1 and while there ,god wonderfully blessed him and the clouds began to lift4 ,when he was preaching on ,sunday morning1 the power of ,god came down on him and on the people4 ,all wept and shouted4 ,he leaped up a foot or more1 turned completely around1 and came down facing the audience4 ,from that time the sorrow and sadness were gone4 ,i did not see him again until in #ahid at the ,june camp-meeting at ,grand ,junction4 ,i went to where he was staying at the ,trumpet ,family residence and met him at the breakfast table4 ,he asked me how the people were at ,north ,eagle4 ,i told him all were well4 ,he put his elbow on the table1 his face in his hand1 and wept like a child for a few moments4 ,then he said1 ,pardon me1 ,i have to think of how the ,lord blessed me there4 ,i never knew that the ,lord could bless a mortal man as he blessed me at that meeting4 ,in #ahie1 in ,march1 he came to preach my father's funeral4 ,while he was waiting for the train at ,grand ,ledge he wrote a poem and read it at the funeral4 ,i next saw him at a grove-meeting south of ,eagle4 ,he preached a great sermon on the ,church4 ,he said nothing of other ministers or denominations1 but his discourse when finished left no place for any other church1 no possibility of there being another4 ,i never saw him again1 as he died the following ,december4 ,in my estimation1 there never lived a more holy or godly man than he4 ,i doubt whether any other reformer was any more devoted to the cause of ,christ than he1 or ever preached sermons that were more deep or soul-stirring than his4 ,he lives in the hearts of the people today1 and in his writings will be heard until the end of time4 ,julia ,m4 ,cheeseman1 ,liberty ,center1 ,ohio4 ,brother ,warner was one of the most godly men ,i ever met2 he was so consecrated and devotional4 ,he had great power with ,god and men2 was very humble1 and all persons1 regardless of rank or position1 could approach him for help4 ,i was at a meeting at ,carthage1 ,mo41 where he was preaching4 ,an awful storm came up1 and we were in its path with a cloth tabernacle4 ,at the roar of the wind people became alarmed and began to run4 ,brother ,warner cried out1 ,stay in the tent2 not one shall be hurt4 ,lifting his eyes and raising his hand heavenward1 he said1 ,father1 calm this storm so thy word can be preached4 ,the storm ceased within a short distance1 not more than a block1 away4 ,much damage was done to buildings4 ,the top was blown off the large woolen-mill and box-cars were thrown from the track4 ,i was amazed and said1 ,what manner of man is this that even the winds obey8 ,at another time some boys whose people opposed the truth gathered in a body and began to drink1 and finally came to disturb the meeting4 ,they did this on two nights4 ,on the third night1 when ,brother ,warner was preaching he heard them coming4 ,he said1 ,father1 rebuke the devil in these carousing boys4 ,that was the last of their disturbance4 ,he was a man of faith and was always praising ,god1 even in the deepest trials4 ,he was a reformer indeed4 ,lena ,l4 ,matthesen1 ,moore1 ,okla4 ,my memory is poor and ,i now recall but a few instances4 ,at one time while ,brother ,warner was preaching a terrible storm came up4 ,the heavens were black4 ,the congregation was becoming uneasy and fearful4 ,he told them to remain seated2 that ,god had given him a message and would not let it rain4 ,he asked ,god to hold the rain till he had delivered the message4 ,i do not know how long he was preaching1 but it was unusually long4 ,god surely held the rain1 for when he had finished and the people reached their homes the rain poured down tremendously4 ,once when sectarians were framing all manner of falsehoods and sending them broadcast over the country1 some of his friends came to him saying1 ,how can you stand all this8 ,he paused a moment and then said1 ,this all came about since ,i died4 ,william ,n4 ,smith1 ,north ,star1 ,mich4 ,once when he was away from home holding meeting1 ,brother ,warner felt a strong impression that he should return home4 ,some one offered to take him to the train1 though the time was short till the train was due4 ,brother ,warner was praying the ,lord to hold the train4 ,when they came in sight of the station1 the train was there and soon began to move off4 ,he cried aloud1 ,my ,god1 stop that train for me4 ,the train slowed down4 ,the conductor signaled to back-up and stop1 and took him on4 ,he expressed his gratefulness to ,god and to the railroad men and confessed ,god in it4 ,he told me that at one time he received a telegram from the ,west requesting him to come in haste4 ,he went to his room and placed the matter before the ,lord4 ,he had no means2 but the ,lord told him to go1 doubting nothing1 that all things were possible with ,him4 ,he then packed his grip and hastened to the depot4 ,when he arrived there he continued in supplication to ,god4 ,people began to gather to take the train4 ,all at once his eye caught sight of a man hurrying toward the station4 ,the man came in1 and when he saw ,brother ,warner1 rejoiced1 and said1 ,well1 ,i see you are packed to go4 ,yes1 ,i received my orders from ,god to go on a ,western trip4 ,well1 a man needs money to travel on1 the man replied1 and then handed him a bunch of money4 ,after he had purchased his ticket he noticed he had plenty of change left to defray all necessary expenses1 and he went on his way rejoicing4 ,he arrived at his destination and had success4 ,when he was ready to return and was in a conveyance to go to the depot1 an old sister called to him to stop and said1 ,here is a little budget2 take this4 ,as he was in a hurry he just put it in his pocket4 ,later1 when he opened it1 he found one hundred dollars in gold4 ,he came home rejoicing1 like the disciples when they were sent out without purse or scrip4 ,a4 ,j4 ,shelly1 ,alma1 ,mich4 ,i was much impressed with ,brother ,warner's remarkable patience under trying circumstances1 and when his frail body was racked with pain4 ,on one occasion he and ,i were on our way to a tent-meeting on the north side of ,denver4 ,being quite late on account of having gone to pray for the sick1 we were waiting for a car at a transfer-point1 and it seemed to me the car never would arrive4 ,i became anxious and paced up and down the sidewalk 7as though in so doing ,i could hurry up the car71 because it was then time for meeting to begin4 ,but to my astonishment1 ,brother ,warner was humming a song and 'making merry in his heart to the ,lord4' ,i said1 ,brother ,warner1 do you ever become impatient8 ,impatient6 he replied1 ,i have not felt impatient for fifteen years4 ,i believed it then and ,i believe it now and have ever since that evening4 ,i was striving to overcome anxiety and restlessness because of pain1 delay1 or opposition1 and have succeeded to a great extent in submitting all to the ,one who is able to cause all things to work together for our good4 ,john ,e4 ,roberts1 #chcj ,stuart ,st41 ,denver1 ,colo4 ,a ,,true ,,example ,,of ,,humility ,one of the most striking examples of true humility that ,i ever saw was on the day ,i first met and became acquainted with ,brother ,warner4 ,with his company of workers1 he came to the place where ,i was expected to preach that day4 ,i was just beginning in the ministry1 and had a very high ideal of a minister1 to which ,i was trying hard to attain4 ,when ,i arrived at this place1 the company had already come1 and we simply met and were introduced before the ,sunday-school began4 ,after the exercises were over1 and before time to begin preaching1 ,brother ,warner came to me and said he understood that ,i was expected to preach that day4 ,i answered yes1 but not when a man of such reputation and ability as he was present4 ,he insisted that ,i go ahead1 as he was very tired from the labors he had been in and from the trip which they had just made from the ,west4 ,i answered that ,i could not preach much yet1 and if he would speak only a little while1 it would be a treat to the congregation and me4 ,he still insisted that ,i should preach1 and did not seem to care to take the pulpit4 ,i plead with him to do so1 and said1 ,brother ,warner1 ,i simply could not preach in the presence of such a great man as you are4 ,he came up to me and placed his arm around my neck and his head on my shoulder1 and said1 ,god bless you1 my brother1 ,i am only one of ,god's little ones4 ,this action seemed very strange to me1 as ,i was not acquainted with such a spirit in a man of such reputation2 but ,i kept insisting that he take the pulpit1 if not for more than but a few minutes4 ,he then said1 ,well1 then1 if you feel that way1 ,i will2 but ,i need your prayers4 ,he really did look weary1 and seemed so frail in body that for a moment ,i feared ,i did wrong in urging him so hard4 ,well1 he began1 and ,i felt that ,i should be prepared to follow him in case he should stop suddenly1 and ,i would finish the sermon4 ,he preached on the subject of sanctification1 and ,i was so desirous that he might be able to give us a full sermon on this precious subject4 ,well1 he had hardly begun when he seemed to change into another man1 and my fears were soon gone that he might have a physical breakdown before the close4 ,that weary look and the appearance of frailty soon disappeared1 and the wonderful words that he spoke were full of power and authority4 ,i was soon lost in the glorious truths of the sermon and was unconscious of my surroundings4 ,when he sat down1 we were surprized to find that he had preached just three hours1 which seemed such a short time to all of us4 ,the deep impression of the humility of this man of ,god and the divine power with which he preached had this effect upon my heart3 ,if this is but one of ,god's little ones1 where will there ever be a place for such an ignorant beginner as ,i8 ,my ideal of a minister was wholly changed1 and it was for some time that ,i had great difficulty to believe there was a place for me4 ,but having the privilege of sitting at ,brother ,warner's feet in a series of meetings following that day1 ,i was greatly helped to try to sink into deeper humility1 and through the grace of ,god find my place in the body1 the church4 ,this impression of humility has remained with me these years1 and has often been a protection when at times there would be presented temptations to self-exaltation4 ,a ,,wise ,,answer ,in one of the meetings that ,brother ,warner and his company held in our home neighborhood my older brother had become very much interested in the good singing of this company4 ,he was passionately fond of good singing1 and though working hard all day1 could not stay away from the evening meetings4 ,but he had become backward in his spiritual life1 and knew he was living far below the standard that ,brother ,warner was holding up4 ,at the close of one of the evening services ,brother ,warner met my brother and asked him how it was with his soul4 ,the answer was this3 ,i simply confess to you that ,i don't have enough brains to understand sanctification4 ,these words were spoken in a spirit of resistance and self-justification4 ,brother ,warner looked into his face with a kindly and humble smile and said3 ,god bless you1 ,brother ,john1 it doesn't take brains4#bd ,,how ,a ,,victory ,,was ,,won ,,by ,,prayer ,while ,brother ,warner was with us in ,san ,diego1 ,cal41 he gave a series of lessons on the ,revelation1 and preached hard against the errors of ,millennialism4 ,a man who had come amongst us1 who was a preacher1 and seemed to be accepting the truth very well1 but had not received the light on this line1 became very much offended at the sermon ,brother ,warner preached that evening4 ,he seemed to lose his patience altogether1 and manifested anger4 ,he came forward to ,brother ,warner before the congregation had left the hall and in a loud voice and with a face expressing real bitterness said1 ,the ,lord shows me that you are of the devil4 ,he had hardly finished his words when ,brother ,warner fell on his knees and began to pray1 right at the feet of his accuser4 ,i never before heard such a pitiful prayer1 as he poured out his heart to ,god for this dear man who had brought such a charge against the servant of the ,lord4 ,he prayed that the man might be able to see his wrong1 that ,god would reveal the truth to his understanding1 and also bless the people who were standing and looking on at this scene of ,christian discourtesy1 etc4 ,we were all so shocked at the unusual act that it was hard to know just what to do but stand there1 which we did1 until the prayer was over4 ,after finishing the outpouring of his soul in prayer1 he quietly rose from his knees1 and went away4 ,the accuser was one of the most surprized people ,i ever saw4 ,during the prayer he stood as though riveted to the floor1 his deathly pale face turned down toward ,brother ,warner4 ,his hands hung by his side1 and he had the appearance of one paralyzed4 ,for a while after ,brother ,warner had risen from his knees1 the man remained fastened to the spot4 ,the congregation began going out1 and finally the man also took his hat and left1 without one word4 ,the next night1 in the presence of a large audience1 this man arose and came forward to ,brother ,warner1 weeping and humbly asking that he might be forgiven for the great offence toward him and the people4 ,he said the ,lord had shown him that ,brother ,warner was right1 and he did all that could be expected to right himself with ,god4 ,from that time he was a strong advocate of the truths of the reformation4 ,the wisdom of ,god that was manifested in this moment of sudden surprize1 in this critical condition1 had a wonderful effect upon the people4 ,j4 ,w4 ,byers1 #fah ,palm ,ave41 ,fresno1 ,cal4 ,very early in my experience in the reformation ,i was staying at the home of ,brother and ,sister ,fry1 in ,michigan4 ,i had been under accusation for some time4 ,brother ,warner was coming to hold a tabernacle-meeting right near their home4 ,i determined that when he came ,i would go to him and tell him ,i was backslidden and ask him to pray with me4 ,i did not go to see him until just before he arose to preach1 hence said nothing to him regarding my condition2 but ,i shall never forget that sermon4 ,he arose1 and with his eyes filled with tears he broke the bread of life1 and my accusations were swept into oblivion1 and my soul received a glorious refreshing4 ,it made one think of the saying of ,jesus1 ,feed my sheep4 ,at another time1 on the old ,deerfield 7,ind47 camp-ground1 ,i fallowed him to the meeting one morning1 and though he was always frail it seemed he was worse that day1 so that he almost reeled as he walked4 ,after singing1 we all knelt in prayer1 and ,brother ,warner prayed1 ,now1 ,lord1 thou hast laid this message upon me2 give me strength4 ,he sprang to his feet and leaped all over the floor4 ,he preached for a long time4 ,that made a lasting impression upon me1 for ,i knew he received help directly from heaven4 ,j4 ,w4 ,daugherty1 ,glenville1 ,nebr4 ,it would require much more space than is at my disposal to narrate even half of the things that stand out prominently in my memory concerning the life of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner and its influence upon me4 ,as his last years were spent in my home community1 and he was often in the home of my parents1 ,i was intimately acquainted with him from my childhood's earliest recollection until ,i was past fifteen years of age1 when he died4 ,this association being at the impressionable period of my life1 multitudes of events were stamped indelibly upon my memory4 ,i shall mention but three of these incidents4 ,the first occurred in the autumn of #ahij4 ,an assembly was being held at ,geneva ,center1 a short distance southwest of ,lacota1 ,mich4 ,one day while a special service for children was being held ,i sat upon the front seat1 listening to the kind1 persuasive words of instruction and admonition being given by ,brother ,warner4 ,at the close of a short talk he asked1 ,how many of you children want to give your hearts to the ,lord8 and then without waiting for a reply he turned to me1 and with love and tenderness beaming from his kindly eyes1 asked1 ,do you not want to get saved now8 ,instantly my heart was stirred4 ,i knelt at the altar and ,brother ,warner came and prayed for me4 ,laying his hands upon my head1 he said1 ,lord1 give this boy a new heart2 take away from him the stony heart and give him a heart of flesh4 ,i felt immediately the touch of ,god4 ,i was born of the ,spirit4 ,my young heart was filled with holy joy4 ,can ,i ever forget that glad moment8 ,not so long as ,i have a being4 ,when time1 as we know it1 has ended1 when old earth itself has grown weary and ceased to go round1 and when all the stars of the heavens have forgotten to shine1 ,i shall still praise ,god for the revelation of divine life that thrilled my soul on that glorious morning4 ,and when ,i wander over the green fields of the heavenly paradise1 or sit down with my ,lord in the city of ,god1 ,i want to renew that association with ,brother ,warner and thank him for what he did for me4 ,brother ,warner's preaching always possessed for me an irresistible charm4 ,his doctrinal sermons took hold upon me1 especially those devoted to prophetic subjects4 ,i remember distinctly one sermon on prophecy1 delivered at the camp-ground1 near ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,it created a lasting impression upon my mind4 ,although he preached for four hours and ten minutes1 the time did not seem long4 ,i have no doubt that my later interest in doctrinal themes is due1 in a great measure at least1 to those early impressions1 when the ,spirit of ,god stamped the truths of his ,word upon my soul4 ,the third incident that ,i shall mention was a sermon preached by ,brother ,warner1 just a short time before his death4 ,it was delivered at the camp-ground4 ,the subject was ,heaven4 ,so inspiring was this message that it created in me an intense longing to go to that place of light and life--a longing that abides with me still4 ,f4 ,g4 ,smith1 ,anderson1 ,ind4 ,i can not find words to express the help and comfort ,brother ,warner was to me4 ,i well remember the bitter persecutions he and his company met while here in the ,south4 ,his pure1 holy life and the radical preaching are still living in the ,south4 ,i remember hearing him preach one night1 in a private house1 on the oneness of ,god's people4 ,he was so filled with the ,holy ,spirit he would leap and praise ,god4 ,the ceiling overhead was very low4 ,he said the leaps in his soul were higher than the ceiling of that house4 ,i thought every time he left the floor he would hit the ceiling4 ,he and his company were in our house at ,spring ,hill when the angry mob came after him2 but the ,lord took care of him4 ,mrs4 ,demaris 7,smith7 ,vance1 ,meridian1 ,miss4 ,brother ,warner was the man under whose preaching ,i was convicted for salvation4 ,i had gone fifteen miles to hear him1 and when ,i arrived on the ground ,i was met by an old friend of mine who had been one of the worst men ,i have ever known4 ,he said to me1 ,praise ,god1 ,i am glad you are here4 ,this made me feel that after all there might be a chance for me to obtain freedom1 from the sins that held me4 ,when ,i went to meeting that night and ,brother ,warner was pointed out to me1 ,i thought to myself1 ,i fear there is not much to him4 ,but they sang and ,brother ,warner began preaching4 ,i never had heard a man preach as he did4 ,after the meeting1 several were prayed for and healed4 ,something came over me as ,i stood and seemed to go off the ends of my fingers1 and ,i said to myself that this was the first camp-meeting ,i ever attended that was not ruled by ,satan1 and that if ,i could get this religion ,i could keep out of hell4 ,one day some one arose and testified that he was still chawing tobacco and asked all to pray that he might hold out4 ,brother ,warner remarked that all the saints were testifying for ,jesus but this man got up and testified for his tobacco4 ,this was a new kind of talk to many of us4 ,brother ,warner was one of the greatest preachers ,i ever heard4 ,god was with him in such power as no one else seemed to have in those days4 ,r4 ,h4 ,owens1 ,mt4 ,pleasant1 ,la4 ,at a grove-meeting near ,antwerp1 ,ohio1 some roughs came to break up the meeting4 ,they divided into two squads1 one to pass to the one side of the congregation and the other to the other side4 ,they were prepared to throw eggs1 but the leaders of the two squads said1 ,don't throw until something is said to justify4 ,they marched to their places and waited4 ,brother ,warner was preaching with wonderful anointing1 and shouting4 ,finally the leader on one side said1 ,there shall be nothing thrown at that man by my consent4 ,he is preaching the truth2 he is a man of ,god4 ,so they started back4 ,strange to say1 those on the other side did the same1 and the two parties met4 ,one said1 ,why didn't you throw8 ,the other said1 ,why didn't you8 ,the leader repeated as before remarked4 ,finally one big fellow said1 ,well1 ,i am going to take one shot1 anyway1 and he threw an egg right into the congregation4 ,there was a man sitting near the front who was a sectarian2 the egg struck him directly in the face and broke over him4 ,he made quite a splutter4 ,at a meeting at ,rising ,sun1 ,ohio1 ,brother ,warner was praying in an opening service when some one threw a pack of cards over their heads4 ,after the preaching the people were gathering up the cards4 ,he said1 ,amen1 gather them up2 the devil has surrendered2 he has given up his testament4 ,j4 ,n4 ,howard1 ,nappanee1 ,ind4 ,it was in the spring of #ahia1 in southern ,indiana1 that ,i first met ,brother ,warner4 ,i shall never forget the impression he made on me as he stepped into our home4 ,i felt so sensibly the presence of ,god with the man4 ,he held a two weeks' meeting at our place at that time4 ,a number of souls were saved4 ,opposition ran high4 ,the meeting was held in the schoolhouse near to a sectarian meeting-house4 ,the preacher who preached at this place tried to get a revival started1 but failed4 ,one minister rode all day on a ,sunday trying to gather up a mob to drive the brother out of the country2 but the people so much enjoyed his preaching and were so won to the man by his gentleness and the clearness of his teaching that they would not rally to the opposers' standard4 ,i had the pleasure of having him in our home at a later time for about three months4 ,it was at this time that we learned more about his prayer-life4 ,my father-in-law once drove him out of the woods where he had gone for prayer4 ,those prayers1 however1 and his patience and calmness while being driven out of the woods resulted in my mother-in-law's salvation4 ,he had a great1 sympathetic heart and consequently could comfort the sorrowing as few men could4 ,he preached the funeral of my little boy1 and his words of comfort were as a healing balm4 ,he and ,i roomed together at one time1 when he held a ten nights' debate with a ,seventh-day ,adventist preacher4 ,here he again impressed me with his mighty prayers4 ,after going to our room he would wrestle long and earnestly with ,god in prayer before retiring4 ,i have always felt much indebted to him for his example in prayer and holy living4 ,c4 ,e4 ,orr4 ,everett1 ,wash4 ,for about seven years we traveled with ,brother ,warner in the ministry4 ,our work was incessant1 winter and summer4 ,my intimate association with him impressed me with his deep devotion and sterling ,christian character4 ,he was a student of rare ability and an efficient ,new ,testament minister and writer4 ,he was not given to lightness1 sentimentality1 or idle words4 ,he was sober1 serious1 and impressive in both words and actions4 ,no one could enjoy his presence and association unless he1 like him1 would live spiritual and close to ,god4 ,his whole life and ambition were the spread of the pure gospel and the well-being of souls4 ,he used no empty words in his manner of preaching4 ,his messages were weighty and impressive4 ,i remember one time in ,canada where ,god's presence was so manifest in one of his sermons that when he was through preaching the entire congregation to an individual knelt in prayer and sought the ,lord for pardon and peace4 ,he was a very busy man4 ,he was up early in the morning and late at night studying1 writing1 preaching1 or helping some needy soul4 ,he was charitable1 sympathetic1 hospitable1 and self-denying4 ,his life was full of constant peace and victory4 ,i can not estimate the value and worth to me of my intimate association with him through those years4 ,he was evidently chosen of ,god as a great reformer4 ,while he was meek1 mild1 and gentle1 he was heroic and fearless as a ,martin ,luther4 ,we shall do well to preserve his words of writing and to remember his example1 for we shall thereby be worth more to ,god and souls4 ,b4 ,e4 ,warren1 ,springfield1 ,ohio4 ,it is indeed a pleasure to me to contribute a few lines of kindly remembrance of our departed brother ,d4 ,s4 ,warner4 ,it was the good pleasure of our heavenly ,father that my dear wife and ,i live with ,brother and ,sister ,warner as members of their household for some fifteen months before he died4 ,i can say with all truth that the gospel he preached he lived4 ,he was always cheerful1 kindly1 and affectionate in brotherly love to all about him1 ready to give wise and fatherly advice and counsel4 ,he was very devoted and much given to prayer in his home4 ,he spent much time in his library with his books and translations of the ,scriptures1 and did much writing and correspondence1 his wife assisting him much4 ,the book ,salvation2 ,present1 ,perfect2 ,now or ,never1 he wrote at this time and he read the manuscript to us before it was printed4 ,he loved to talk of ,god's dealings with him2 how ,god led him step by step out of error and confusion and many deep difficulties1 how he was violently persecuted by false brethren1 how his wife became deceived and separated from him1 etc4 ,he would tell of how ,god revealed to him the sect ,babylon of the ,revelation and gave him to understand that he must cry out against her and expose her sins2 how ,babylon loomed up before him as a great black mountain1 and that ,god was taking him as a worm to thresh it1 and how he shrunk back at the thought of being thrown against such a seemingly impregnable wall1 ,god made me see1 he said1 that ,i was nothing but a little mouse1 but that he had his hand over me1 then he would feel encouraged4 ,what ,god accomplished through him some of us know something about1 and the results are glorious4 ,verily he being dead yet speaketh6 ,curtis ,w4 ,montgomery1 #bg ,chestnut ,st41 ,marcus ,hook1 ,pa4 ,in the winter of #ahhh-hi ,bros4 ,geo4 ,t4 ,clayton and ,charles ,koonce came to our community1 near ,cochran's ,mills1 ,armstrong ,co41 ,pa41 preaching what was generally termed a new doctrine1 a turning the world upside down4 ,i was a boy sixteen years old1 and the first night of the service walked four miles to the meeting4 ,the first sermon made a deep impression on my mind4 ,during that meeting quite a congregation was raised up for the truth4 ,a few weeks after the close of this meeting1 ,brother ,warner and company came4 ,they arrived in spring wagons from ,blanco1 ,pa41 a distance of about thirty miles4 ,i was working with my father in the field when they passed down the road1 singing ,the ,river of ,peace1 and shouting1 ,halleluiah6 ,we never witnessed such a scene4 ,singing and shouting along the public road was characteristic of ,brother ,warner's company in those days4 ,at night people would rush to their windows to hear the singing1 and remark1 ,the angels are coming4 ,in this meeting ,brother ,warner's preaching was all doctrinal4 ,it was all new to us2 but ,i never was able to shake off the convictions that fastened on my heart that these people had the truth4 ,i said ,i wanted their kind of religion4 ,in ,august of #ahib we attended the ,perryville 7,pa47 camp-meeting4 ,i well remember going to the depot from the camp-ground for some baggage1 and of meeting on the way ,brother ,warner and company1 who had just arrived4 ,at first they did not recognize me2 but when ,i said1 ,praise the ,lord1 ,brother ,warner arose in the spring wagon and lifting his hand to heaven shouted at the top of his voice1 ,halleluiah6 praise our ,god for eternal salvation6 and all the company joined with loud amens and1 ,glory to ,god6 ,at this meeting also ,brother ,warner's preaching was about all doctrinal4 ,the great fundamental truths of full salvation1 holiness1 the church1 unity1 the downfall of sect ,babylon1 and the command to come out of her1 the great apostasy1 the last reformation1 divine healing1 etc41 were preached uncompromisingly4 ,i will say1 brethren1 this kind of preaching confirmed the saints and brought out clearly the holy remnant from the folds of confusion and drew the line in the manner that people knew the way to ,zion and rejoiced in their freedom4 ,sinners were soundly converted under this preaching4 ,they were not born dead4 ,people usually came through at the altar shouting4 ,it was not unusual during a sermon to see one hundred saints on their feet shouting and ,brother ,warner leaping and crying1 ,fire6 fire6 ,we all got this inspiration1 and leaping and shouting were characteristic of most of the early preachers in the pulpit4 ,in the summer of #ahic1 wife and ,i attended the ,grand ,junction1 7,mich471 camp-meeting4 ,when the train from ,south ,haven stopped at the station ,i heard a great shout1 and looking over near the ,trumpet ,office saw ,brother ,warner leaping and shouting1 crying at the top of his voice as the saints were getting off the train1 ,the holy remnant is pouring in4 ,that was a great meeting1 the most powerful ,i ever attended4 ,miracles were wrought and devils crying with a loud voice1 came out of many that were possessed with them4 ,brother ,warner impressed me as a man of deep piety and spirituality4 ,he was very humble and tender-hearted4 ,many were the warm-hearted counsels and admonitions he gave to the younger ministers1 and these were delivered in tears1 with a1 ,god bless you1 my dear brother4 ,he was a very able man in the ,scriptures1 and one of the deepest in prophecies ,i have ever heard4 ,he was slow to see the faults of others2 but able to expose wrong-doing when he clearly discerned it in any one4 ,he was very definite and radical in his preaching1 and eternity alone will reveal what he suffered because of his bold defense of what he believed to be the truth4 ,we who knew him best would never question his sincerity4 ,he was a reformer in every sense of the term4 ,the influences of his life and ministry will sweep onward till time shall end4 ,the principles he advocated are more and more being recognized by spiritual people everywhere1 and the fires of reformation are destined to sweep the earth until ,we girdle the globe with salvation1 ,and holiness unto the ,lord2 ,till light shall illumine each nation1 ,the light from the lamp of his word4 ,h4 ,m4 ,riggle1 ,akron1 ,ind4 ,as a young worker in ,brother ,warner's company for a few months ,i was deeply impressed with his kindness1 courtesy1 and humility4 ,he often exhorted the young ministers and workers to seek humility of heart1 and often related an incident of his personal experience in talking with the ,lord1 when the ,lord said to him1 ,be humble1 my child1 be humble4 ,he had a great burden for the gathering of ,god's people1 the prosperity of ,zion1 and the salvation of the lost4 ,to this end he dedicated his time1 talents1 and means1 and was so self-denying that he would share his last penny with those in need4 ,he said1 when he finished a ,bible subject or outline for a sermon1 ,there's the skeleton1 ,i'll trust the ,lord to put the meat on it4 ,i heard him say1 ,satan puts us in his sieve that he may sift all the good out of us2 ,god puts us in his sieve that he may sift all the bad out of us4 ,brother ,warner was a son of thunder in delivering truth against false religions1 but as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove in dealing with the erring ones4 ,nora ,hunter1 ,san ,diego1 ,cal1 ,i also wish to bear personal testimony of ,brother ,warner4 ,the first time ,i met him was on ,apr4 #g1 #ahhh1 at our family home1 near ,albany1 ,ill4 ,he with his company were on their return from their ,western tour4 ,i had been teaching school in ,iowa during the previous winter and had also engaged myself for the spring term1 but had a two weeks' intermission for vacation1 which ,i decided to spend at my home4 ,how wonderful that the course of life may turn on a mere decision1 which at the time may seem to involve no particular consequence4 ,it was during that two weeks' interval that ,i met ,brother ,warner and came in contact with the reformation movement4 ,on the date mentioned1 the little company of evangelists arrived at our house4 ,they were brought thither by ,brothers ,knight and ,daniels from the former's home1 near ,fulton1 where they had arrived the day before4 ,my father and ,i had gone to engage a schoolhouse for meeting4 ,when we returned two men were standing at our front gate conversing1 one of whom was ,brother ,warner4 ,my father made himself acquainted and then introduced me1 informing ,brother ,warner that ,i had been converted only a short time before4 ,as he reached to shake my hand he said1 so appreciatingly1 ,well1 that's good news1 and there beamed out of those soft blue eyes a ,christian love and tenderness that made a lasting impression on me4 ,that he should so rejoice in spirit at the knowledge of my conversion seemed to give me a spiritual uplift and to place my appreciation of things spiritual on a higher level4 ,it seemed that during that week when ,brother ,warner and company were with us our home was a heavenly paradise4 ,i regard that week as the brightest and most full of destiny to me in all my life's history4 ,there was something about the happy1 victorious spirit of those dear saints that exalted ,christianity in my conception and made it a thing very much to be desired4 ,the impression made upon my young heart at that time can never be erased4 ,my mother had been reading the ,trumpet and had formed the opinion of ,brother ,warner that he was a great and wonderful man4 ,so when she met him she exclaimed1 ,and is this ,brother ,warner6 ,his reply was1 ,yes1 and he is the least man you ever saw4 ,in the meeting that followed he instructed me in my consecration for sanctification4 ,as ,i arose1 ready to venture on ,god's promise1 he discerned my faith and broke the way before me by claiming the promise with me4 ,when my mother died1 in ,july1 #ahid1 ,i was engaged in the publishing work at ,grand ,junction4 ,the telegram notifying me of her death said also1 ,bring ,brother ,warner4 ,this message was received late in the evening1 and ,brother ,warner had retired4 ,i went to his room and informed him of the request4 ,he was feeling bad physically and wondered if ,brother ---- could not go instead4 ,i knew that no other person available could give the satisfaction ,brother ,warner could1 and so expressed myself to him4 ,finally he consented4 ,although he was weak and tired he arose from his bed and prepared to go4 ,it was never in him to shirk what might be interpreted as duty4 ,he believed in taking the ,lord for his sufficiency1 and the ,lord did not disappoint him4 ,we had to take a night train for ,chicago1 and before we reached the city he said he felt stronger than when he started1 and this in spite of his having been deprived of rest4 ,he preached the funeral discourse1 wrote quite a lengthy obituary and poem1 and even responded to a request to preach in an evening service4 ,it was wonderful how he could take ,god for his strength and his every need4 ,his life seemed to be a constant miracle4 ,i have traveled with him1 slept with him1 taken part in his meetings1 and have been associated with him in editorial work1 and thus have known him at close range and he was always ,god-fearing1 humble1 loving1 devoted1 full of faith1 and possessed of singleness of heart1 to a degree rarely known among men4 ,his life1 so exemplary1 was an object lesson of ,christian attainment and of what ,god can do for and through weak humanity4 ,it was an inspiration to feel the touch of his ,christian spirit4 ,and thus we exalt1 not the man--for apart from the divine influence that ruled his life he would have been very commonplace--but we exalt the ,god who can take such humble instrumentality and by a transformation of being use it to accomplish his work in the earth4 ,it is the ,christ in man that we are to exalt and to follow4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,grave of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 near ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,illustration3 ,the new monument ,the body of ,d4 ,s4 ,warner lies1 near where it fell1 in a rather lonely spot some distance off the thoroughfare1 in the sparsely-wooded edge of the camp-ground near ,grand ,junction1 ,mich4 ,this place1 where are situated a few other graves and where the proximity to the empty cottages on the camp-ground gives an aspect of desertion1 is a place for reflection4 ,here nature undisturbed1 through the succession of bursting buds of spring1 refreshing dews of summer1 sighing breezes and gently falling leaves of autumn1 and rigorous storms of winter covering all with a shroud of snow1 is heard to speak silently but eloquently of the brief cycle of life on this earth1 of the grave as our last resting-place1 and of the fact that here we have no continuing city1 but we seek one to come4 ,one thinks1 when standing beside this grave1 of the wonderful accomplishment crowded into that short career1 and of the reward of a life of faithful service4 ,and one feels springing from the depths of the heart this choice1 that come what may of toil and self-sacrifice in the ,christian service1 come what may of reproach and persecution for ,christ's sake1 let me die the death of the righteous1 and let my last end be like his4 ,,footnote3 #bd ,it was characteristic of ,brother ,warner to give ready and wise response and oftentimes to answer an objector on his own ground or in his own terms4 ,it is related that in a certain meeting after he had preached on holiness an opposer arose and vociferously denounced the doctrine1 saying in his closing remarks1 ,i pray ,god to scatter this old holiness doctrine to the four winds of the earth4 ,immediately ,brother ,warner responded with a shout of ,,amen6 ,the effect was terrific1 and the opposition was confounded4 ,,end ,,of ,,original ,,book ,,on ,,the ,,following ,,pages are added pictures of ministers for this reprint edition1 most of whom were co-workers with ,bro4 ,warner in the ,reformation4 ,supplement for this ,reprint ,edition ,illustration3 ,e4 ,e4 ,,byrum4 ,editor of ,trumpet after ,warner's death ,illustration3 ,,mary ,,cole4 ,,geo4 ,l4 ,,cole4 ,superintendents ,faith ,missionary ,home1 ,chicago1 ,ill4 ,illustration3 ,f4 ,g4 ,,smith1 ,,lacota1 ,,mich4 ,illustration3 ,j4 ,w4 ,,byers1 ,,lodi1 ,,cal4 ,,jennie ,,byers1 ,,wife ,,of ,j4 ,w4 ,,byers4 ,illustration3 ,s4 ,m4 ,,helm1 ,,stafford1 ,,kans4 ,illustration3 ,,ella ,,and ,,drusilla ,,trent4 ,c4 ,a4 ,,and ,s4 ,s4 ,,sunderland1 ,,granby1 ,,mo4 ,illustration3 ,,wm4 ,g4 ,,schell1 ,,moundsville1 ,w4 ,,va4 ,illustration3 ,,geo4 ,e4 ,,bolds1 ,,brice1 ,,mo4 ,illustration3 ,r4 ,h4 ,,owens1 ,,sherwood1 ,,la4 ,illustration3 ,,julia ,,myers1 ,,st4 ,,james1 ,,mo4 ,illustration3 ,,lena ,l4 7,shoffner7 ,,matthesen ,illustration3 ,,ostis ,b4 and ,,mattie 7,bolds7 ,,wilson ,illustration3 ,f4 ,m4 ,,williamson1 ,,hammond1 ,,la4 ,illustration3 ,,elder ,h4 ,m4 ,,riggle ,illustration3 ,ministers at ,church of ,god ,camp-meeting1 ,carthage1 ,missouri in #aije ,illustration3 ,,cornelia ,,bateman1 ,,wichita1 ,,kans4 ,names of ,known ,ministers ,appearing in the ,picture on the ,opposite ,page ,w4 ,j4 and ,luella ,henry ,drusilla and ,ellen 7,trent7 ,porter ,cornelia ,a4 ,sunderland ,george ,w4 ,johnson ,e4 ,m4 ,zinn ,sam ,mc,alister and wife ,j4 ,w4 ,youngblood ,george ,e4 ,harmon ,henry ,w4 ,white ,clara 7,mc,alister7 ,brooks ,mabel ,hale ,w4 ,h4 ,shoot ,l4 ,l4 ,porter and wife ,willis ,m4 ,brown ,s4 ,g4 ,bryant ,j4 ,b4 ,peterman and wife ,samuel ,m4 ,helm ,george ,e4 ,bolds ,j4 ,d4 ,ferrill ,hugh ,caudell ,george ,cole ,fred ,rapp ,s4 ,m4 ,rich ,james ,trask ,charles ,mansfield ,charles ,williams ,w4 ,h4 ,smith ,grant ,teter ,w4 ,t4 ,seaton ,a4 ,d4 ,seaton ,c4 ,w4 ,seaton ,a4 ,c4 ,bennett ,r4 ,b4 ,stafford ,frank ,porter ,a4 ,l4 ,hutton ,m4 ,l4 ,hutton ,annie ,shipley ,claudine ,heald ,sister ,pearce ,bro4 ,keeran ,the other ministers have not been identified4 ,illustration3 ,,willis ,m4 ,,brown1 ,,hickman1 ,,ky4 ,illustration3 ,,chas4 ,e4 ,,orr1 ,,federalsburg1 ,,md4 ,illustration3 ,,charles ,e4 and ,,sadie ,,orr ,in #aibh at ,guthrie1 ,okla4 ,bro4 ,charles ,e4 ,orr1 co-worker with ,bro4 ,d4 ,s4 ,warner1 began about #aiaj the publication of the paper1 ,herald of ,truth1 contending for the reformation truths and against the worldly innovations that had been accepted in the movement by the majority4 ,also1 many other ministers and saints would not bow to the goddess of this world1 so the holy remnant continued in the old paths and the good way4 ,jer4 #f3af1ai4 ,however1 this paper was suspended in the early #aibj's4 ,then in #aibh ,bro4 ,orr began editing ,the ,path of ,life1 a paper especially for children and young people4 ,he continued this publication until #aicb1 when he merged it with the ,faith and ,victory 7begun in #aibc71 and assumed the editing of six pages of this monthly paper until his death in ,sept41 #aicc4 ,now in its #ddth year of publication1 the ,faith and ,victory stands for the teachings of the ,reformation prior to #aiaj and open for more light on ,god's ,word1 but not the new light which hides or eclipses the precious truth which brought forth this evening light ,reformation in fulfillment of ,bible prophecy4 ,we quote and emphasize the exhortation by ,bro4 ,orr in #aicb3 ,let us unite our efforts in upholding those glorious truths and keep this reformation moving on in purity and power4 --,lawrence ,d4 ,pruitt1 ,editor ,faith ,pub4 ,house1 #ibj ,w4 ,mansur1 ,guthrie1 ,oklahoma ,,transcriber',s ,,note ,italic text is denoted by underscores4 ,bold text is denoted by equal signs4 ,for consistency1 all bible references have been made to have no spaces in the numbers1 for example ',thess4 #b3c1d' or ',rev4 #ag3d-f'4 ,obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources4 ,except for those changes noted below1 misspelling in the diary quotations1 and inconsistent or archaic usage1 have been retained4 ,for example3 powerfuly2 fellowshiped2 fulness2 galded2 backset2 bedroom1 bed-room2 bloodwashed1 blood-washed2 fourfold1 four-fold4 ,pg #cb4 'attemp' replaced by 'attempt'4 ,pg #ic4 'tweny-three' replaced by 'twenty-three'4 ,pg #abj4 'p4 m4' replaced by ',p4 ,m4'4 ,pg #aeh4 'conseration' replaced by 'consecration'4 ,pg #aie4 'dairy' replaced by 'diary'4 ,pg #bfg4 ',van,buren' replaced by ',van ,buren'4 ,pg #bgh4 'langguage' replaced by 'language'4 ,pg #bgh4 'conditon' replaced by 'condition'4 ,pg #cje4 'agressiveness' replaced by 'aggressiveness'4 ,pg #cdj4 'word form' replaced by 'word from'4 ,pg #ced4 'consisit' replaced by 'consist'4 ,pg #cfj4 ',brothey ,key' replaced by ',brother ,key'4 ,pg #cff4 ',sprit' replaced by ',spirit'4 ,pg #cfi ,footnote #bj4 ',la ,grange' replaced by ',la,grange'4 ,pg #cgj4 'tweny-four' replaced by 'twenty-four'4 ,pg #cgb4 ',phillipi' replaced by ',philippi'4 ,pg #djc4 'canon' replaced by 'canyon'4