Let Them Alone by Jesse Dorcas

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1865

“Let Them Alone.”

By Jesse Dorcas

“They be blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.” We are in a dark world, in which the power of the Devil is being made very manifest; so much so, that, if ever in the history of our race it was our duty to watch and pray it is doubly so now; for evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse, and there are more of them. But if we are the children of light, and walk in the light of God's truth, we may have all the confidence that Paul expresses when he says, “We are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe unto the saving of their souls.”

The ditch of difficulty and perdition will be avoided by such as “hold fast their confidence and rejoicing unto the end,” for they will not follow the lead of such men as turn aside.

That the Bible teaches the perpetuity of the gift of prophecy to the end of probation, is a clear and very wholesome doctrine, and that it is now being especially manifested in connection with the third angel's message, in the restoring of the commandments, I have no doubt; and moreover, that since the apostle's days there has not been a work, or manifestation of this gift, more prominent, clear, uniform, continuous, consonant with the Scriptures, clear of just grounds of objection, comprehensive, and to the point, and last but not least, free from fanaticism, than that being manifested in our midst, through sister White.

If any man or woman can furnish me with a work of this kind, for, and in these last days, accompanying the people of God, savoring more of God and Heaven, and more free from all objections in relation to the above, they will confer on me a great favor. God's work has always been opposed by the Devil, and the Devil always finds men blind enough to make tools of to accomplish his work. For example, see Gen. iii. The plausible manner in which the “Serpent” beguiles our mother Eve, seems to be in keeping with the course of certain men in our midst, who say, The gifts of the spirit and of prophecy are all right. Hath not God said this should exist to the close of time?” But they deny the practical working, or the “operation.” It was so with the Jews at the first advent. The Messiah in prophecy, was all right; but the veritable Saviour was rejected and crucified.

Our safety is to let them alone. They will all soon fall into the ditch.

JESSE DORCAS.

Tipton, Iowa, 1865.