The Third Angel’s Message and God’s Law
By Hiram Bingham
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I feel to praise the Lord for his tender mercy to me, in following me by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and keeping my mind open to the teachings of his blessed Word; so that I was prepared to hear the angels of warning, sent in mercy to fit the mind of the honest truth-seeker to walk out upon the claims of the Royal Law. And thus repair the Papal breach, and strive to honor God's holy law (as well as his Son, by keeping his sayings which we felt called to do before the Temple in Heaven was open, and the commandments seen to shine out,) and thus call our attention to the claims presented in the third and last angel's note of warning, given to bring us to the primitive state of holiness, faith and practice. That when our dear Redeemer returns, he may find his church speaking the same saving truth, and being of one mind, and that mind submissive to the will of our Lord's rule of discipline, instead of being led by the discipline of the Image Power. O, praise the Lord, his children are being brought into that state of oneness that Christ prayed for.—And when this is done the rage of the Image Beast will be experienced but a short time by us before the sign of the Son of man (the white cloud) will be seen. And then their time of sorrow, and prayer for rocks to fall on them and hide them from a Saviour which they have set at naught, will come. O may the Lord in tender mercy grant the influence of his Spirit, to hold our minds to the last sealing truth, that we may have no will of our own, but be subject to the will of our heavenly Father. That we may be kept by his power through faith unto salvation, and, finally, by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of our testimony, be found worthy to be changed, is the prayer of your unworthy brother, HIRAM BINGHAM. Morristown, Vt., Nov. 28th, 1852.