More Light and Truth

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 43.

More Light and Truth.

The Rev. A. H. Quint, retiring moderator of the Congregational Council, of Syracuse, delivered an address in which he quoted the following words, from John Robinson to the Puritans as they were about to leave Holland for the New World:—

“We are now, erelong, to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether ever he should live to see our faces again; but whether the Lord had appointed it or not, he [says one of the Puritans] charged us before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ. And if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry, for he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his Holy Word.”

It is obvious to the intelligent reader that if the Puritans had heeded these words, they would never have persecuted Roger Williams nor the Friends. They would have at least learned the further truth that religious liberty was not alone for the Puritans. Would to God that those who profess to be walking in the same line would follow the same principle, would see the light and truth now shining from the word of God to prepare people for the second coming of Christ.