p. 538 | MORE TRUTH by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1880

MORE TRUTH.

By Editor

WHEN our pilgrim fathers were in readiness for their departure from Leyden to this country in 1620, they kept a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. It was a most solemn and interesting occasion, and the devoted Robinson improved it in a most fitting manner, charging them ever to keep their minds open to conviction. We commend the following extract from his charge to all who may read this paper:—

"Brethren, we are now quickly to part from one another, and whether I may live to see you face to face on earth any more, the God of heaven only knows; but whether the Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveals anything to you by any other instrument, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, that the Lord hath more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw. Whatever part of his will our God revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God; but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received."