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various systems would be TO conress
folly and to be led Of unreason.
"Come Out Of Her, Ny People,

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In such matter we need the wisdom
which comes from above and the faith
and courage to follow II. The Lords
prayer must be our guide respecting
His will concerning us-us who have
by faith and conservation and begetting
of the Holy Spirit been adopted Into
the One True Church "iohose names are
written IN hedUen." He prayed for us
and not for the nominal mass, who 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 all except the sanity will
be eternally tormented, but merely that
none except the sanity, "copies of
Gods dear Son" can be members of
the glorious 'little flock" which God
r~edestinated He would gather from ev-
cry nation, people, kindred and tongue.
OF this faithful Church the Lord de-
clares, my sheep know My Voice and
they follow Me-" We hear His Voice
assuring us that II Is His will 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 fortb-that, from the Divine
standpoint. already Babylon is fallen!
is fallen!' from Divine favor What
would be the wish of our Beloved, to
whom we are betrothed? What is His
message to us? 1t is written, "Cope
out of her, my people, that We be not
partakers OF her sins and that ye re-
ceive not of her plagues"-her trou-
bles Revelation xviii, a.
Since the nominal systems are not
in that consecrnted condition Of heart.
hungering and thirsting for the Truth
| and for righteousness and dead to self
will. therefore tis hopeless to think
of their surrender of their interests,
theories, etc. The very most they
could think of doing would be to fed
erdte-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 wherewith 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-
slons in mystic Babylon? He has per-
mitted only such things as He is able
to make work out blessings for His
very elect. His little flock" VINO 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
"ovefcomers"- 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 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. 15).
You have my plea, Christian breth-
rem, for the fulfillment of the Masters
prayer in the union OF "he Church
tohich 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 1t, would not be in any sense
of the word recognized of God, and
as soon as the "overcomers" shall have
escaped from Babylon, Babylon VIII
come in remembrance before God that
He may give to her the cup of the
wine of His wrath. and suddenly. in
cne 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'
tions. We do not read, Gather togeth-
err unto Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Paul,
Apollos or Peter, but, Gather together
my saints unto NE. saith the Lord, those
who have made Covenant with Me
by sacrifice" '"They shall be Mine,
faith the Lord. in that day when
come to make up My jewels psalm
|, 8; Malachi Iii, ~.
When all of the sanctified shall have
been delivered. the clock of the Uni.
| varsa will STRIKE tIla hOur which closes