d in God’s Word. I am afraid of it; I am afraid of it. We must
bring our minds within the bounds of reason, lest the enemy so come in as to set
everything in a disorderly way. There are persons of an excitable temperament
who are easily led into fanaticism; and should we allow anything to come into
our churches that would lead such persons into error, we would soon see these
errors carried to extreme lengths, and then because of the course of these disorderly
elements, a stigma would rest upon the whole body of Seventh-day Adventists.
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Fanaticism to be Seen Again
I have been studying how to get some of these early experiences into print again,
so that more of our people may be informed, for I have long known that fanaticism
will be manifest again, in different ways. We are to strengthen our position by
dwelling on the Word, and by avoiding all oddities and strange exercisings that
some would be very quick to catch up and practice. If we were to allow confusion
to come into our ranks, we could not bind off our work as we should....
During the years of Christ’s ministry on earth godly women assisted in the
work that the Saviour and His disciples were carrying forward. If those who
were opposing this work could have found anything out of the regular order in
the conduct of these women, it would have closed the work at once. But while
women were laboring with Christ and the apostles, the entire work was conducted
on so high a plane as to be above the shadow of a suspicion. No occasion for any
accusation could be found. The minds of all were directed to the Scriptures, rather
than individuals. The truth was proclaimed intelligently, and so plainly that all
could understand.
How afraid I am to have anything of a fanatical nature brought in among our
people. There are many, many who must be sanctified, but they are to be sanctified
through obedience to the message of truth
We cannot allow excitable elements among us to display themselves in a way
that would destroy our influence with those whom we wish to reach with the
truth. It took us years to outlive the unfavorable impression that unbelievers gained
of Adventists through their knowledge of the strange and wicked workings of
fanatical elements among us during the early years of our existence as a separate
people.—Manuscript 115, 1908.
Counsel to the Brother and His Wife
Dear Brother and Sister L:
Recently, in visions of the night, there were opened before me some matters
that I must communicate to you.
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I have been shown that you are making some sad mistakes. In your study of the
Scriptures and of the Testimonies you have come to wrong conclusions. The Lord’s
work would be greatly misunderstood if you should continue to labor as you have
begun. You place a false interpretation upon the word of God and upon the printed
Testimonies; and then you seek to carry on a strange work in accordance with your
conception of their meaning. You have even supposed that power is given you to
cast out devils. Through your influence over the human mind men and women are
led to believe that they are possessed of devils, and that the Lord has appointed you
as His agents for casting out these evil spirits.
Your wife, in speech, in song, and in strange exhibitions that are not in
accordance with the genuine work of the Holy Spirit, is helping to bring in a phase
of fanaticism that would do great injury to the cause of God, if allowed any place
in our churches.
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My brother and sister, I have a message for you: you are starting on a false
supposition. There is much of self woven into your exhibitions. Satan will come in
with bewitching power through these exhibitions. It is high time that you call a halt.
If God had given you a special message for His people, you would walk and work
in all humility—not as if you were on the stage of a theater, but in the meekness of
a follower of the lowly Jesus of Nazareth. You would carry an influence altogether
different from that which you have been carrying....
The sincere desire to do others good