Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-04-11
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folly and to be led of unreason.
nConne Out eff Her. NV Peonis

various systems would be 10 confess
folly and to be led of unreason.
"Come Out eff Her, My People"
In such a matter we need the wisdom
which comes from above and the faixh
and courage to follow it. The Lords
prayer must be our guide respecting
His will concerning as-us who have
by faith and conservation and begetting
of the Holy Spirit been adopted into
the One True Church ''tohose names are
ioritten in hearn He prayed for us
and not for the nominal mass, whe are
really parts of the world and thorough
ly deceiving themselves in supposing
that they have either part or lot or In
heritance with the Church. Thank
| God that we now see that this does not
mean that ali except the sanity will
be eternally tormehted. but merely that
none except the sanity. copies of
Gods dear Son." can be members of
the glorious little i'ock," which God
predestinated He would gather from ev-
cry nation, people. kindred and tongue.
OF this faithful Church the Lord de-
Cid1Co. MY 0ACNR. hAOn NY NO1CC anu
they follow Me-" We hear His Voice
assuring US that it is His viii that we
who belong to His chaste. espoused
virgin class should all be one-should
no longer be separated into sects and
parties by creedal fences. The Lord
declares that He gave Babylon time
for repentance and she repented not.
He declares that His sentence against
the Babylonian system has already
gone forth-that. from the Divine
standpoint, already Babylon is fallen!
is fallen from Divine favor. What
would be the wish of our Beloved. 10
whom we are betrothed? What is lis
message to us? 1t is written. Come
out of her. my people. that We be not
partakers of her sins and that We re-
ceive not of her plagues"-her trou-
bles Revelation xviii. A..
Since the nominal systems are not
in that consecrated condition of heart.
hungering and thirsting for the Truth
and for righteousness and dead to self
of their surrender of their interests,
theories. etc. The very most tBey
could think of doing would be to fed
erGte-to agree not to war with each
other. Far better would it be to have
some theological battles and air their
inconsistencies before the wiser public
of today But whatever Babylon may
do. mother and daughters. the course
of the sanity few. the real Church.
which is shortly to come from the
wilderness" leaning upon the arm of
her Beloved Bridegroom, is clearly set
forth. The sanity should unite in
heart on the principles and doctrines
of Gods Word. and should stand free
in the liberty wherewitn Christ has
made them free from all human
bondage and sectarianism.
Why should the Lord permit the for
nation of these great wards and divi-
sions in mystic Babylon? He has per-
mitted only such things as He is able
to make work o 1t blessings for His
very elect. His little flock" who soon
shall be joint-heirs with Christ in His
Kingdom. Babylon's strong sectarian
walls. styled Orthodoxy" and the
great brazen gates of wordliness will
afford the sanity few the very test
they need to demonstrate themselves
''overcomers''- more than conquerors."
for such overcomerS only will consti-
tute the members of the Bride class
All the promises are made TO the
''overcomerS" and there must needs be
permitted subtle evils for their testing.
Union of the One True Church.
In a word. our Lords prayer will be
realized by the ''overcomers." They
will be one with Himself and with the
Father; there will be zone Lord, one
Faith. one Baptism. one God. the
Father" But as for the nominal sys-
TENS their future will be destruction
as systems. though many of Gods dear
people in them, failing to overcome
will be saved so as by fire" in great
time of trouble with which this Age
will terminate and the New Age will
be ushered in q Corinthians iii. 15D.
You have my plea. Christian breth-
rem. for the fulfllment of the Masters
pra yer in the union of "the Church
,Chich is the Body Of Christ" 1.-THE
Church of the First-Born. whose names
are written in heaven" This union
will not necessitate any reorganization
as new sect or new Church. 1t Is
the true Church. the only one which
God has ever recognized. Babylon,
without it. would not be in any sense
of the word recognized of God, and.
as soon as the "oyercomers" shall have
escaped from Babylon. Babylon will
come in remembrance before God that
He may give to her the cup of the
wine of His wrath. and suddenly. in
one hour. her fall will occur Revela-
ton xvi. 10; xviii. 10). To the true
Church the Lord all along intimated
that their oneness is as members of
Christ, and not in earthly organiza-
tons We do not read. Gather togeth-
err unto Calvin. Luther. Wesley, Paul,
Apollos or Peter. hut Gather together
my saints unto Me, saith the Lord, those
who have made a Covenant with Me
by sacrifice" They shall be Mine,
saith the Lord. in that day when
come to make up My jewels psalm
|, 5: Malachi iii. III
When all of the sanctified shall have
been delivered. the clock of the Uni
verse viii strike the hour which closes
the present Dispensation and opens
the New: and "the salt of the earth
having been removed from Babylon.
corruption will swiftly ensue. Flee
out of Babylon! Deliver every man
his soul, Let us use the light of pres
ent Truth" to the extent that each en-
joys it. 1t viii guide us in respect TO
all the affairs of life-into closer fell
lowship with God and the Savior and
the brethren: and into separateness of
mind and heart and service from Bah
ylon Let Babylon proceed with the
good works In which she takes pride.