CHAS. O. TAYLOR by Chas. O. Taylor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1858

CHAS. O. TAYLOR

By Chas. O. Taylor

From Bro. Taylor.

BRO. SMITH: The conference at this place closed last evening, and in the eight lectures given, much good was sown, and many points of truth that belong to this generation were brought out. The church that attended through the meeting was strengthened. The meeting was timely. We were much in want of such plain, strict testimony as was given. The voice of God's servants must be raised like a trumpet, they must cry aloud and spare not. As a church we are quite too lukewarm. We are not drinking from the clear fountain of light and knowledge as we should. We are still wanting in the gold, white raiment and eye-salve.

Satan is at work with all power, and all signs, and all lying wonders, and with all deceivableness. 2 Thess. ii, 9, 10. Having all power, what can he not do? Man has been the object of his deception for ages past. Not that there was no way for mankind to escape his satanic influence, but they have chosen to be thus deceived, or by rejecting the counsel of God, have been left to the enemy's influence. As it has been, so it is now. This generation has rejected line upon line, and precept upon precept. Rays of light and knowledge that have been shining out from God's word, dispelling the errors of the past ages of ignorance, superstition, and bigotry have nearly all been turned away from and rejected, and God has left them to the strongest delusion that has ever fallen on man. Many false spirits are truly abroad in the world; but thank God, we have a detector; for the Spirit and the Word agree. The Word is our only tower into which we can run and be safe. If we reject it, or fail to believe it, we are left to the enemy's power.

Yours hoping to overcome with the saints.

CHAS. O. TAYLOR

Rouse's Point, N. Y., March 30th, 1858.