The Warning to Come Out of Babylon
By Asa Kimball
BRO. SMITH: I would say that the Review is a welcome messenger to myself and others in this place who are in the faith of the Third Angel's Message and Sabbath. To sit down and read it after the labors of the day, is almost as refreshing as to attend a conference meeting of brethren and sisters. Although we do not see each other's faces, yet our hearts run together like two drops of water that cannot be separated. While the Third Angel sounds, we should not forget the solemn warning, Come out of her my people, and be not partakers of her sins. I have seen the danger of not strictly adhering to it. If it is the will of God that his people should come out of Babylon, it is certainly his will that we should stay out. I believe Sunday worship is the mark of the beast, and we shall get the mark and become partakers of their sins unless we remain away from them. With regard to our band, I would say, while one has been seduced by the doctrines of devils, another has come into the faith and is going along with us. O the danger of listening to Sabbath-breaking preachers whoever they may be. They will open the holy Bible with all the sanctimonious appearance of a saint, and tell us the Commandments are all done away, and before they get through the services of the Sunday, they will thank God for the privilege of meeting together on his holy Sabbath to worship him! I would say to those who are inexperienced in the spiritual life, you will soon be deceived and easily seduced, unless you relinquish the guidance of your own opinions, and hearken to the counsel of tried and successful wisdom. But they who are wise in their own conceit have seldom humility enough to submit to the direction of others. An understanding therefore that is only able to receive the truths of the kingdom of God with the meekness and simplicity of a little child, is infinitely better than that which arrogantly glorying in its extent, can comprehend the utmost circle of science. Better is it to be an humble spirit with the ignorant, than to divide the spoils of learning with the proud. Yours for the truth and light. ASA KIMBALL. Hampton, Ct. Aug. 13th, 1857.