Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 EDITORIAL 285
time of his passing away, kept ever in mind the needs
of God's chosen people, His children who were to become
kings and priests unto God and reign on the earth,
and to compose the body of the first ripe souls, the 144,
000. The purpose of the founder was to instruct the
people in the methods of life that would enable them to
fit themselves to become active, intelligent workers in
the establishing of God's on
kingdom earth. And in
every act of our Brother's life, we saw this one purpose
actuating. His life was so perfectly consecrated that
everything he did was for the furtherance of this work.
Now. we who are left to continue with this work have
also this one fixt desire, that all we do may be for the
furtherance of this work, toward the end of ushering in
the kingdom of God on earth.
We desire to carry it forward
solely for the purpose for which it was established.
And because of this, we have been earnestly considering
what is the best thing to be done at the present
time. The methods of instruction that will show God's
people how to fit themselves to become members of this
body that is to be gathered, have been plainly and fully
given in the writings of our Brother Butler, he was the
instrument called of God for the purpose of instructing
the people; but we who are left have not been called as
special instruments for that purpose, and we do not feel
that it is our work to give out our writings and try to
retell these grand truths, but rather that our main work
now is to reprint and keep before the people those writings
that have already been given. There is now no one
left who can give these truths our Brother gave
them. Why? Because he had traveled over the road
and spoke from experience, while we are only now traveling
on that road and far from the place that he had
attained. We believe that had the people needed more
instructions that the Father would have used the instru-