Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1888-05-11

D ing it in our papers Where now live,
!, the churches in southern California, hav,
Q sent their messengers to annual meet
4 ings for seven years to do missionary
: work. | have commission (?l from
| their evangelizing committee. You can
, see it, and my church letter, il you
: choose. Had YOU called for these you
= might have been spared all your very
, unbrotherly insinuations as to my mis-
; sion to Kentucky and how very far and
how maniiestly you have misstated the
matters of fact on this subject. You can
find no word or act of mine to indicate
that ever confined missionary work Ia
a single congregation, ar to justify your
insinuations that am not consistently
and scripturally on my present mission.
Had you troubled yourself to learn the
facts, surely you would never have made
such statements or illusions. Will you
stand corrected? Will YOU do yourself
justice? Ii there is a sin of ignorance
See Lev. 4th and 9Th chapters and espec-
tally 5th-how can you escape it? You
might have certainly known better.
I. On the above absolutely groundless
misstatements OF my lifelong plan of Ia
Dor for converting the world, YOU base
all your fourishes and cxclamations.
You say would recall all of our mis-
sionarics from foreign fields, each one
return to his home congregation and do
nothing unless that body as Gods only
missionary society shall command him
and sustain him in the doing"
No, Bro. W., you never made a great
ogy for your mistake and yet would
not judge you. Possibly your very poor
health may excuse you. deal only with
the facts. would recall none Of our
missionaries. | should add many more.
And would sustain them all by con
gregational cooperation, as partially ex-
planned above, aud as We are doing in va
rious countries. True, would disband
all human organizations, a. harnacles on
the old ship of Zion and would, Us did
the fret christians, and the fathers of
this reformation work only on the divine
plan, which is fully set forth in the life
and labors and teachings Of Paul. Be
cause Gods plan il better than mans
plan.
}. lon speak OF these human organ-
cations and their work as the only Ell
III. 20. xxFapll "
Ii this were true, then there were no
effective efforts" before and are none /
other now. Ii is well and fully known
that all these humanity organized mis-
sionary societies are very recent and that
others are now doing more effective
work on Pauls plan. You could not get
further wrong at this point. What You
say here has no shadow OF truth in il. .
And put it this way because milder ,
words would not do justice 10 injured I
history and sacredtruth. We succeeded /
far better before and without human or
CARNATIONS. - did the Apostles and I
others. Hence | call them barnacleS
hindrances.
q. You ask What missionary work
has he and those that agree with him un-
dertaken?" "What have they ever done?
What do they propose to do?" | would
not speak OF myself, except in answer to
these personal questions. They imply Il
and insinudtc much. Of others | have
spoken generally and could add individ-
ual examples much to the credit OF the
divine system. But ] know my own la
bors better and may answer for myself
briefly.
Before left Kentucky in 1881 ! had
without any human society, organiza-
ton or ORGAN witnessed about 10000 adj {
ditions, counting those reclaimed, and
from the denominations. In Texas, on
a close count, some three years before | .
left there for California, which was in
1877, counted another 10000. Since i
that have not counted up the mem :
bers. When ! gave my valedictory in
the Ecclesiastic Reiormer in 1850 dis
tinctly stated my purpose to 20 as mis-
sionary to Texas-then virtually a for
eign field-and to support myself In +,
Texas, besides the additions named, we
formed many congregations, made many ,
preachers an 4 sent out many missiona-
II to Is some years-from our
State meetings; the churches acting by ,
their messengers and so demonstrating
the inutility of human plans and the Ell
iectiveness vi the divine system. am
still trying to work on Gods plan and ,
am ever ready to answer at any proper |
or to Bro. Williams. The la
bors OF many others, like my own, GER
iainly show not only the efficiency but I
the superiority OF Gods way.
1t is well known that none of these So ,
.ieties were in existence till recent
late and hence evangelical labors, with
Dut these societies, brought our cause to ,
It's best estate. Then come these society
men and to try TO persuade us that We /
never did anything, that we never can I
10 anything without human organiza- j