Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

are ready to take any course to injure the Review; its friends must be awake and do whatthey can to save the children of God from deception. These men are uniting with a lyingand corrupt people. They have had evidence of this. And while they were professingsympathy and union with my husband, they (especially Stephenson) were biting like anadder behind his back. While their words were smooth with him, they were inflamingWisconsin against the Review and its conductors. Especially was Stephenson active inthis matter. Their object has been to have the Review publish the Age-to-Come theory,or to destroy its influence. And while my husband was openhearted and unsuspecting,seeking ways to remove their jealousy, and frankly opening to them the affairs of theoffice, and trying to help them, they were watching for evil, and observing everythingwith a jealous eye. Said the angel as I beheld them: “Think ye, feeble man, that ye canstay the work of God? Feeble man, one touch of His finger can lay thee prostrate. Hewill suffer thee but a little while.”I was pointed back to the rise of the advent doctrine, and even before that time,and saw that there had not been a parallel to the deception, misrepresentation, andfalsehood that has been practiced by the Messenger party, or such an association ofcorrupt hearts under a cloak of religion. Some honest hearts have been influenced bythem, concluding that they must have at least some cause for their statements, thinkingthem incapable of uttering so glaring falsehoods. I saw that such will have evidence ofthe truth of these matters. The church of God should move straight along, as thoughthere were not such a people in the world.I saw that decided efforts should be made to show those who are unchristian in lifetheir wrongs, and if they do not reform, they should be separated from the precious andholy, that God may have a clean and pure people that He can117