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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 12.

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WALK IN THE LIGHT.

By Wm. Pepper

The light of truth is an advancing light; therefore those who have accepted present truth should be ever ready to receive additional light. The truth is like a lantern on a dark night; those who would be benefited, must walk in its light.
The following address, which Robinson made to the Pilgrim Fathers at their embarkation on board the May Flower about 258 years ago, is worthy of our consideration:—
“I charge you before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no further than I have followed Christ. And if God shall reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as you were to receive anything by my ministry; for I am confident that God hath more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
“I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed churches, who have come to a period in religion, and will go no further than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be driven to go beyond Luther; for whatever part of God's will he hath further imparted by Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. And so also the Calvinists stick where Calvin left them—a misery much to be lamented; for though they both were shining lights in their time, yet God hath not revealed his whole will to them.
“Remember now your church covenant, whereby you engage with God and one another to receive whatever light shall be made known to you from his written word. For it is not possible that the Christian world is so lately come out of such thick anti-Christian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.”
Well does the historian remark: “This was the errand he gave them, and in this we have the fixed ideal of their undertaking. And they meant by ‘reformation’ all that God should teach them and their children of the coming ages, by the light that should break forth from his holy word.”
Wm. Pepper.
Woodburn, Ill.