istening to deceptive representations regarding the messages that God has given
me. Through many twistings and turnings and false reasonings on what I have written,
they try to vindicate their personal unbelief. I am sorry for my brethren who have
been walking in the mist of suspicion and skepticism and false reasoning. I know that
some of them would be blessed by messages of counsel if the clouds obscuring their
spiritual vision could be driven back, and they could see aright. But they do not see
clearly. Therefore I dare not communicate with them. When the Spirit of God clears
away the mysticism, there will be found just as complete comfort and faith and hope
in the messages that I have been instructed to give, as were found in them in years
past.
Truth will surely bear away the victory. The One who gave His life to ransom man
from the delusions of Satan, is not asleep, but watching. When His sheep turn away
from following the voice of a stranger, whose sheep they are not, they will rejoice in
the voice they have loved to follow.
We can learn precious lessons from the study of the life of Christ. The envious
Pharisees misinterpreted the acts and words of Christ, which, if properly received,
would have been beneficial to their spiritual understanding. Instead of admiring His
goodness, they charged Him, in the presence of His disciples, with impiety—“Why
eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?” (Matthew 9:11). Instead of
addressing our blessed Saviour Himself, whose answer would at once have convicted
them of their malice, they talked with the disciples, and made their charges where, as
a leaven of evil, they would do great harm. If Christ had been an impious man, He
would have lost His hold upon the hearts of His believing followers. But because of
their confidence in Christ, the disciples would not give ear to the insinuations of His
wicked accusers.
Desiring to bring censure upon the disciples, these wicked accusers went again
and again to Christ with the question, Why do Thy disciples that w
