DESERTING THE LANDMARKS.
By James White
We always read and contemplate with pleasure the arguments by which the “loud voice” of the message of Rev. xiv, 6, 7, was produced; and we have looked with an affectionate respect upon the men whom God, in his providence, raised up to meet a gainsaying world with incontestible proofs of the Lord’s near coming. But as one after another virtually denies the faith, and labors to subvert the truths put forth in the Spirit in that movement, we feel sorry for them, and pray that their course may be a warning to us, that we may not fall after the same example of unbelief. Not many that left Egypt under the guiding hand of Israel’s God—that followed the pillar of his glory through many dangers and triumphs—entered the land of promise. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” He who finds a truth finds a treasure which may open the way to many more; he who denies one truth darkens his mind, and shuts up the way against an increase of light. As they fell all along the way from the Red Sea to Jordan, so have they been falling all the way from the fulfillment of the prophetic-time message to this present; and they are falling still. The following from a late Advent Herald will astonish many. May the Lord give us that “other spirit” possessed by Caleb and Joshua, and lead us clear through to the goodly land.
J. H. W.