Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-30

| pect, then, that the gospel of the king
| dom VIII be announced, and that all the
| !sraeiltes indeed Will be glad to hear the
| Joyful news We are to expect that 1t
| VIII be an attraction for such; that It
| Will attract them away from the errors
and falsehoods which to a greater or
lesser degree have been binding all, not
| only during the dark ages, but since. We
| should expect that it would attract all
| OF this class from every denomination
| not to new denomination. but to a
| closer heart-fellowship with the Lord
hlmSelf-that their union should not be
| a sectarian one, but a heart union with
the Lord and with all of like precious
Ialth In Him and In His word. The Scrip
, lures represent that in the end of the age
the tares will be so abundant as to prac-
tfcally oyerwhelm the wheat and obscure
1t.
DO you ask, then what the Lord would
expect his true people to do today? We
answer that for our day there is particu-
Lar message Of the Lord. In the same
breath that it declares that Babylon is
fallen, Is fallen, from divine favor rejected
as f1eshly Israel was rejected. and for SINH
lar reasons. there comes additionally the
message, Come out of her. my people that
ye be not partakers of her sins and that
We receive not of her plaques Rev. 1873.
Let IT be distinctly noticed that these
words recognize that the Lords people have
been in Babylon, and that they were not
considered blameworthy for being there un-
til the appointed time-until her rejection
until their eyes being opened they perceived
wherein she had erred and misled them
away from the Lord and the beauty of his
word and planinto doctrines of devils, which
wholly miSrepresent the divine character
and plan. These words apply not to those
who see nothing of what we see who have
no ears to hear the present message. They
apply not to those who consider the doc
trines of the nominal churches thoroughly
satisfactory and scripturaI. They apply
merely to those who have been granted the
hearing ear and the discerning heart to
L. 1f.rxyfI hafxxr
true shepherd and the voice of strangers
to know the difference between the true
gospel Of Gods dear son, redemption
through his blood, from the gospel of
higher criticism and evolution They are
for those who can discern to some extent at
least between the doctrine of devils which
misrepresent the divine plan. and the doc
urine or redemption, ransom and restitution
which the World Of God sets forth He
that hath an ear let him hear He that
nafh not an ear for the truth and no eye to
discern the beauty of the divine plan In
contrast with the horrible confusion of SEQ
tarlanfsm.. is not addressed by these words
but should stay In Babylon and be bound
more and more tightly into her various bum
dies for the great day of trouble which is
rapidly approaching.
AS the Lord left period Of time in the
end Of the Jewish age between the utter re-
lection of that people and the elimination
of the time Of trouble and wrath upon
them, so here he has left q space of
time in which his people are to come
out of her before she shall be utterly swal-
lowed up as great milestone cast into the
sea- Those who are truly the Lords peo-
pie and who see, yet refuse to abandon the
false systems and their false teachings.
make themselves proper subjects for q
share In the plaques that are coming upon
Babylon: because knowing her errors and
blasphemies against the divine Character
they become participants In those blespho-
mics to a larger extent even than do many
Of the tares who constitute Babylon. and
who might be said to know no better be-
cause they do not truly know the Lord"