WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES.
By H. S. Gurney
It is true that a multitude of men and women, with their children, are deceived, and their ministers are whispering, peace! peace! and nothing would disturb them more than to tell them the Lord is coming, and undertake to show them the evidence. It is by no means pleasant to be persuaded that the churches professing to put on Christ have fallen to a level with the fashionable world, and that the only testimony God has to her is, "Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." It is true we have fallen upon perilous times. There is almost an overwhelming combined current setting against the heart of true religion, and nothing short of a corresponding effort on the other hand will overcome and give the victory. This deplorable state in the religious world is the foundation of the perils the apostle speaks of. To take a view on the bright side of the fallen position occupied by the church, is to see how inspiration has described her state as belonging to the last days. True christians will rejoice at the presentation of evidence that our Lord is coming to set up his glorious kingdom, and put an end to sin with all its train of evils. Jesus himself told what the evil servant would say to those who would give meat in due season, viz., My Lord delayeth his coming. Now the proof is in the language itself, that those who use this language are professors of religion. They use the familiar term, "My Lord," &c. But they eat and drink with the drunken, and before the Lord comes their portion is appointed with hypocrites and unbelievers. May God save the remnant.