How One Found the Truth
By Editor
ONE earnest Christian writes: “I am not a member of your Bible Band, but I would like to suggest to you to ask the members of the band what verse in the first five books gave them the most comfort.” She evidently follows the Band, for she writes: “Deut. 33:27 was of most blessed help to me. I have read the Bible thru as many as twenty times and I do not want any of the New Theology.” Another writes: “I have been attending meetings for about two weeks in Redlands. Have been trying to be a Christian for about ten years, but had about concluded that the Bible was of little worth. I see it all differently now, since it was so clearly explained to me by Brethren Whitehead and Hare. I asked the Lord to show me the way, and He has done so. I kept the Sabbath for the first time last week and the Lord wonderfully blessed me. Praise His glorious name.” A brother writes us: “I feel to rejoice and give thanks to God for what the great Threefold Message has done for me and my wife. Last year when on our way to the theater we saw a large tent, where a meeting was almost over. When we came along the speaker, the late Wm. Simpson, gave a pressing invitation to about 1,500 people to come back the next night. The subject he announced interested me, so I collected a goodly number of my neighbors together to hear why Satan was not destroyed in the beginning. We were members of the Catholic Church; my wife was very devout, and I thought there was very little truth except in the church of which we were members. A few weeks later I noticed that he was going to speak on Daniel and the Revelation, so I gathered my good Protestant friends together again and we went to the meeting and took a front seat, and as he explained the visions of Daniel we were intensely interested. He invited me back again, so I went with my wife for fifty-two evenings. I then made up my mind that I could not let the church do my thinking any longer. I saw how clearly God’s word had pointed out the apostasy and its developments, and rejoice that I have found something better than going to the theater, using tobacco, and playing games. I praise God that there is power in His word to change me. So I would plead with my Catholic friends, Study the Bible, as each one of us is responsible for his own salvation; each one of us must give account of himself to God. I to-day rejoice that I have heard the books of Daniel and the Revelation explained.” An old pilgrim in the Christian way writes: “I must testify to the truth. Since I became a member of the Bible Band I have gained more light by the reading and study of the Bible than I had in twenty years of my past life. Two articles were of special help to me,—one on the ‘Outpouring of the Spirit,’ on page 8; and one, ‘Bound by the Law,’ on page 9,—Christ sets us free, was made so plain that an infant could almost understand it. While the Lord sees fit to spare me to journey on toward three score years, I hope to enjoy the privilege of journeying toward that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem, the home of every one who endures to the end.” Bible Band Member, No. 234.