p. 317 | WARNING WORDS by Dean of Carlisle

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 19, 1883

WARNING WORDS.

By Dean of Carlisle

To my judgment the great peril of the day is compromise, amalgamation and suppression of truth by mutual consent; a plausible but insincere union and co-operation not merely with known, avowed and shameless conspirators and traitors, but with Sacramentalists, Sacerdotalists and Nothingarians, who are all smiles and beaming piety, but who in heart hate the doctrine of justification by faith, who ignore the works of the Spirit, the conversion of the soul by grace, and such like grand and fundamental truths. Neither the pope nor the infidel would make such havoc among us if the little band of faithful men would come out and be separate! Our most dangerous foes are not the decorative and monastic ritualist, nor the loud-barking atheist or skeptic; but the plausible, courteous, affiliating, “dearly-beloved-brethren,” who would knit all the so-called churches in one patchwork quilt, which might cover them in a soft and downy bed of spiritual sleep, leaving them to dream of security and charity, while the noxious errors which prevail among them are eating out the vitals of true godliness, spiritual experience and sound doctrine.—Dean of Carlisle.