DEAR BRO. WHITE:—True and certain it is that we are living in an awful time, a time in which Satan is busily engaged, trying to deceive those who are honest, draw their minds from the truth and lead them captive at his will. I am astonished that intelligent people should be duped by these contradictory spirit manifestations. They manage somehow to tell just enough truth to make those whom they deceive, believe them when they lie. We read in the Word, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved," [Acts xvi, 31,] but these pretended spirits say believe on us; but "To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them." Isa. viii, 20. I am thankful that the blessed truth of the sleep of the dead found way to my heart in time to save me from this fatal delusion into which millions are insensibly falling. God forbid that any of his honest children, who are looking for our blessed Lord, should turn away their ears from the truth and be turned unto fables, but according to the testimony "Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear and let him be your dread."
O brethren and sisters let us stand fast and be firm in the truth, and we shall not be moved. Although spirits of devils working miracles, are around us, if we be followers of that which is good what shall harm us. Let us resist Satan in all his various forms and the God of Israel will protect us and be our refuge. There are those around us who are crying "peace, peace, when there is no peace," they heed not the watchman's voice and say, "We will not hearken." O that they would turn their ears to the truth and set their house in order for truly the day of God hasteth greatly—"That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wastiness and of desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as the dust, and their flesh as the dung." Zeph. i, 15-17. There are those who make light of that great day of God, in which says the Prophet, "the mighty man shall there cry bitterly," and Jer. xxx, 23, says "It shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. Behold their ear is uncircumcised and they cannot hearken. Behold the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it. Jer. vi, 10. Evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse, but "let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." May we all strive for the victory, and press forward trusting in God and he will keep us from the fowler's snare.