The Bible Herald Volume 2

Download or read book The Bible Herald Volume 2 written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... took in hunting." The closing hour has come. Are our hearts seeking to learn what is the mind of the Lord at this closing hour? In my judgment Philadelphia is waning. It is not that there are not many in the grace of it, but its moral influence with greater pretension is not what it was with a fewer number. 1 When the cry, "Behold the Bridegroom" was first begun to be heard, satan attempted to neutralise it in a most malicious way; namely, some of the most ardent and foremost of those presenting the truth of the immediate coming of the Lord, preached and pressed that as believers had not the gift of the Holy Ghost they could not meet the Bridegroom, and therefore they should pray for the descent of the Holy Ghost, thereby diverting the minds of the saints from the coming of the Lord to the descent of the Holy Ghost. From this grievous subtlety many were preserved or restored by the simple truth that the Holy Ghost had come down, and that every, believer coming to Christ did drink of Him. The cry came and the grace to answer it--" I am He that is holy and He that is true." What was the practical effect of the answer to the call? Some were exercised others were afraid to look into it. Many hold dispensational truth now without affecting them practically. The truth has lost its force for them. Laodicean indifference has set in. I believe the great. thought on the Lord's mind now is, to save and extricate His people from indifference, from the wave of Laodicea, which has set in. Church barriers are relaxed or disregarded; no church order is now insisted on, except by Bomanists, as indispensable. The truth has lost its force on souls. It is not that the truth itself is weakened, but a wonderful amount of truth can be accepted without...