the character building which must be carried on if a beautiful structure is raised
for the Lord. Minds that are awakened must be patiently instructed if they rightly
understand and duly appreciate the truths of the Word.
God calls upon His people to walk with sobriety and holy consistency. They
should be very careful not to misrepresent and dishonor the holy doctrines of truth
by strange performances, by confusion and tumult. By this, unbelievers are led to
think that Seventh-day Adventists are a set of fanatics. Thus prejudice is created
that prevents souls from receiving the message for this time. When believers
speak the truth as it is in Jesus, they reveal a holy, sensible calm, not a storm of
confusion.—The General Conference Bulletin, April 23, 1901.
Worship With a Bedlam of Noise
It is impossible to estimate too largely the work that the Lord will accomplish
through His proposed vessels in carrying out His mind and purpose. The things
you have described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has shown me would take
place just before the close of probation. Every uncouth thing will be demonstrated.
There will be shouting, with drums, music, and dancing. The senses of rational
beings will become so confused that they cannot be trusted to make right decisions.
And this is called the moving of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit never reveals itself in such methods, in such a bedlam of noise.
This is an invention of Satan to cover up his ingenious methods for making of none
effect the pure, sincere, elevating, ennobling, sanctifying truth for this time. Better
never have the worship of God blended with music than to use musical instruments
to do the work which last January was represented to me would be brought into our
camp meetings. The truth for this time needs nothing of this kind in its work of
converting souls. A bedlam of noise shocks the senses and perverts that which if
conducted aright might be a blessing. The powers of satanic agencies blend with
the din and noise, to have a carnival, and this is termed the Holy Spirit’s working.
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When the camp meeting is ended, the good which ought to have been done
and which might have been done by the presentation of sacred truth is not
accomplished. Those participating in the supposed revival receive impressions
which lead them adrift. They cannot tell what they formerly knew regarding Bible
principles.
No encouragement should be given to this kind of worship. The same kind
of influence came in after the passing of the time in 1844. The same kind of
representations were made. Men became excited, and were worked by a power
thought to be the power of God
History of the Past to Be Repeated
I will not go into all the painful history; it is too much. But last January the
Lord showed me that erroneous theories and methods would be brought into our
camp meetings, and that the history of the past would be repeated. I felt greatly
distressed. I was instructed to say that at these demonstrations demons in the form
of men are present, working with all the ingenuity that Satan can employ to make
the truth disgusting to sensible people; that the enemy was trying to arrange matters
so that the camp meetings, which have been the means of bringing the truth of the
third angel’s message before multitudes, should lose their force and influence.
The third angel’s message is to be given in straight lines. It is to be kept free
from every thread of the cheap, miserable inventions of men’s theories, prepared
by the father of lies, and disguised as was the brilliant serpent used by Satan as a
medium of deceiving our first parents. Thus Satan tries to put his stamp upon the
work God would have stand forth in purity.
The Holy Spirit has nothing to do with such a confusion of noise and multitude
of sounds as passed before me last January. Satan works amid the din and confusion
of such music, which, properly conducted, would be a praise and glory to God. He
makes its effect like the poison sting of the serpent.
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Those things which have been in the past will be in the future. Satan will make
music a snare by the way in which it is conducted. God calls upon His people, who
have the light before them in the Word and in the Testimonies, to read and consider,
and to take heed. Clear and definite instruction has been given in order that all may
understand. But the itching desire to originate something new results in strange
doctrines, and largely destroys the influence of those who would be a power for
good if they held firm the beginning of their confidence in the truth the Lord had
given them.
“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we
have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip [margin: “run out as leaking
vessels”]. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape, if we
neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and
was confirmed unto us by them that heard him?” (Hebrews 2:1-3). “Take heed,
brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from
the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of
you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of
Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end” (Hebrews
3:12-14).
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Brother and Sister Haskell, we must put on every piece of the armor, and having
done all, stand firm. We are set as a defense for the gospel, and we must compose
a part of the Lord’s grand army for aggressive warfare. By the Lord’s faithful
ambassadors the truth must be presented in clear-cut lines. Much of that which
today is called testing truth is twaddle which leads to a resistance of the Holy Spirit
Defective Presentation Regarding the Holy Spirit
Much is being said regarding the impartation of the Holy Spirit, and by some
this is being so interpreted that it is an injury to the churches. Eterna
