THE TESTIMONY by H. C. Miller

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1868

“THE TESTIMONY.”

By H. C. Miller

It is a common view held by those who oppose the present manifestation of the gift of prophecy, that those gifts ceased with the apostolic church, that the church at subsequent periods had only the word of God, the Bible, as we now have it. But to the evidence showing the necessity for those gifts to the church in all time until the perfection and unity of the churches is completed, there is also added this testimony, which, to my mind, goes to show that the church had the gift of prophecy to a much later period. Rev. vi, 9, is admitted to refer to the martyrs slain by the Papacy. It reads: “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God [the Bible which they loved, read, and obeyed,] and for the testimony which they held.”

To my mind, this plainly shows that the manifestation of spiritual gifts was in that church and that this was one of the causes which aroused the ire of the old Dragon then, and which still stirs him up to war with the saints, and will until the last saint is perfected.

H. C. MILLER.