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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 23.

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READ THEM AGAIN.

By C. G. Daniel

I WRITE from experience. When I first heard and received the truth, I read the Bible with a greater interest than ever before. I also read a number of books published at the Review Office, with care, and especially the History of the Sabbath, and found a beautiful harmony existing between the teachings of the Bible and that of the books. Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 1 and 2, also Testimonies to the Church, I read. I saw a harmony between them and the Bible, but failed to realize their importance as I now see I should have done. Permit me here to say that I did not reject the visions as from the evil one, as some have done, and fallen from the truth and gone back to the world; but I simply read them and laid them up on the shelf. I have always read the Review with interest; but the Bible, Spiritual Gifts, Testimonies to the Church, and many other books I have neglected to some extent, and the consequence has been, I was drifted down into the deep, wild waters. But I was strongly impressed with these words, Read them again. I commenced with the Bible, next, Spiritual Gifts, next, the Three Messages of Rev. xiv, and the Sanctuary and 2300 days, and Ministration of Angels, &c., &c.; and I think I am gaining some strength to overcome, and am trying to make some advance toward the Mt. Zion. And I can more fully indorse Spiritual Gifts than ever before, and can say that I believe they are of the Lord. The health reform looks reasonable and appears to belong to the present truth, but I have not as yet been able to fully adopt it.
Dear, doubting brother: you who have laid up your Bible, or doubted the visions, take them down and read them again with care before you reject them entirely, and good angels forever leave you to be influenced by evil angels. The enemy of all righteousness came very near causing me to reject Spiritual Gifts, and Testimonies to the Church, which I realize would have been fatal. Then read them again. To the erring there are kind rebukes and sweet words of counsel to return to the Lord. To the desponding there are words of encouragement and comfort. Has not the Lord done all things well?
Brethren, pray for me, that Satan may not be allowed to overpower me and lead me away from the truth.
C. G. DANIEL.
Defiance, Ohio.