Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

degree of fanaticism, for he felt that both they and the cause of God were in danger.He has looked upon things in about the right light.There are many restless spirits who will not submit to discipline, system, andorder. They think that their liberties would be abridged were they to lay aside theirown judgment and submit to the judgment of those of experience. The work of Godwill not progress unless there is a disposition to submit to order and expel the reckless,disorderly spirit of fanaticism from their meetings. Impressions and feelings are nosure evidence that a person is led by the Lord. Satan will, if he is unsuspected, givefeelings and impressions. These are not safe guides. All should thoroughly acquaintthemselves with the evidences of our faith, and the great study should be how theycan adorn their profession and bear fruit to the glory of God. None should take acourse to make themselves disgusting to unbelievers. We should be chaste, modest,and elevated in conversation, and blameless in life. A trifling, joking, reckless spiritshould be rebuked. It is no evidence of the grace of God upon the heart for personsto talk and pray with talent in meeting, and then give up to a rough, careless mannerof talking and acting when out of meeting. Such are miserable representatives of ourfaith; they are a reproach to the cause of God.There is a strange mixture of views among professed Sabbathkeepers in—–. Someare not in harmony with the body, and while they continue to occupy the position theynow do, they will be subject to the temptations of Satan and will be affected withfanaticism and the spirit of error. Some have fanciful views which blind their eyesto important, vital points of truth, leading them to place their own fanciful inferencesupon a level with vital truth. The appearance of such, and the spirit which attends them,makes the Sabbath which they profess very objectionable to the sensible unbeliever. Itwould be413