Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

them, and that they should move understandingly, and prepare themselves for theattacks of Satan. Matters pertaining to the church should not be left in an unsettledcondition. Steps should be taken to secure church property for the cause of God, thatthe work may not be retarded in its progress, and that the means which persons wish todedicate to God’s cause may not slip into the enemy’s ranks. I saw that God’s peopleshould act wisely, and leave nothing undone on their part to place the business of thechurch in a secure state. Then after all is done that they can do, they should trust theLord to overrule these things for them, that Satan take no advantage of God’s remnantpeople. It is Satan’s time to work. A stormy future is before us; and the church shouldbe awake to make an advance move that they may stand securely against his plans.It is time that something was done. God is not pleased to have His people leave thematters of the church at loose ends, and suffer the enemy to have the whole advantageand control affairs as best pleases him.I was shown the wrong stand taken by Brother B in the Review in regard toorganization, and the distracting influence he exerted. He did not sufficiently weighthe matter. His articles were perfectly calculated to have a scattering influence, to leadminds to wrong conclusions, and to encourage many in their slack ideas of managingmatters relating to the cause of God. Those who do not feel the weight of this causeupon them do not feel the necessity of anything being done to establish church order.Those who have long borne the burden look to the future and weigh matters. They areconvinced that steps must be taken to place the matters of the church in a more secureposition, where Satan cannot come in and take advantage. Brother B’s articles causedthose who fear order to look with suspicion upon the suggestions of those who by thespecial providence of God move out in the important matters of the church. And whenhe211