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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 17.

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By M. W. White

DEAR BRN. AND SISTERS: About twenty-five years ago, I embraced the Free-will Baptist doctrine, in which I continued until about eighteen months ago, when Elder R. F. Andrews came to this place, Alida, to preach what I thought was a new doctrine. But I made up my mind that I would hear, and see if it would stand the test of the Bible. With this determination I searched the Bible for myself, believing that if I was after truth, the Lord would open my mind and let me see it. And I feel to praise the God of Heaven, that he by his Spirit led me to the light. I see things now as I never saw them before. I see now that God’s revealed word is a storehouse of knowledge, and is calculated to make every one wise unto salvation, that will obey the precepts therein given. But it has pleased the Lord to hide these things from what men call the wise and great. See Luke 10: 21; Matt. 13: 44.
I have conversed with a great many unconverted people about religion. They say that there are so many different doctrines taught at the present time, that they do not know which is right. All take the Bible for their faith. I have searched for an answer for this thing. There are, according to history, about six hundred different doctrines in the world to-day. Men profess to have a call to preach. Then they go to college, to learn—what? The doctrines and commandments of men. Then they go out to preach, and preach any and everything but the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; and if they get some Bible with it, it is so adulterated with the commandments and doctrines of men that there is no food for the poor soul that is hungering and thirsting after righteousness. Now, if none had attempted to preach but those who were called of God, and instructed by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven, there would have been but one doctrine preached in the world. God grant that his Spirit may enlighten the understanding of honest hearts to see the danger of heeding the doctrines and commandments of men, is my prayer. Yours in the love of truth. M. W. WHITE.
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