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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 20.

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LET THE LIGHT SHINE.

By Geo. B. Wheeler

GEO. B. WHEELER. (South Lancaster, Mass.)
In an address upon the effects of the higher criticism, given before a ministers’ meeting in Boston recently, the speaker said: “We do not know how sin originated, but we do know that there is sin.” As I read this, I could not but think how greatly favored our people are in having the Spirit of Prophecy. We know, not only that there is sin, but we know how it originated. A flood of light has been thrown upon the word of God, the meaning of which has been covered up by a mass of tradition and false interpretation so deep that its true meaning has been in a great measure lost sight of: and this, too, in the providence of God, at the most opportune time, just before the coming of the Lord, “whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.”
The working of Satan is seen to-day in the religious world. The moorings of its faith, the word of God, are being rejected; belief in the Bible as the word of God is being undermined in the very institutions made to establish it. Religious leaders, who shape in a great measure the thought of the people, place it upon the same level with other books written by uninspired men. The principles of Christ and those of Satan are being confused in such a way that Satanic principles are being held up before the world by professed Christians as true Christian principles. This is the last great effort of the powers from beneath, and the character of their deceptions is such that we are told that, if possible, they would deceive the very elect.
The light that God is now giving us enables us to distinguish clearly Christian from satanic principles; it foretells the signs and lying wonders of Satan; and shows us how to avoid the deceptions of these last days. Do we appreciate the light? Are we meeting the responsibility that comes to us with it? The light we have was not given to be hid, but the call now is exceedingly urgent to let the light shine.