his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him.” She had never been to any of the meetings but had fol lowed them by the reports of friends and the papers. Five days later she told the young pastor she had not been able to eat or sleep since she read that verse, and that she had five different proper ties, and that he could choose the one he thought best as a site for the Church. - He picked a corner lot 100' x 150' with an eight-room house on it. The house was taken apart carefully so that all lumber, etc. could be used again. As money came in necessary materials were purchased for cash. Plans were prepared and the cheapest bid for steel sash win dows was $485. Another day of fast ing and prayer was called and just be fore signing the contract for the win dows he had a check in his spirit, “ Don’t sign.” Returning to their little apart ment they saw a card on the door. “ You don’t know us and we don’t know you, but we hear you want Church windows. Come and see us.” They went next day to find over $800 worth of leaded stained glass windows, enough for the whole church, which they were able to buy for $40.00. The church was completed free of debt. When they went there only $10.00 had been paid in for missions that year. During the building program and in spite of the building program $610.00 was paid in for foreign missions. The next year $1,750 was paid in for mis sions. By 1945—$4,000. In 1945 he was called to Indianapolis, to a city church which was known in the district as a graveyard for preachers. He got permission to hold shop meet ings and to have a regular Bible class in a hospital, as well as conducting a radio program. In the first two years he took in 110 new members and the mis sionary offering jumped from $2,900 to $10,000. During that time 10 doctors, 18 nurses, business executives and men from all walks of life crowded into the church. In 1947 the missionary offering was $10,000; 1948, $12,500; 1949, $18,000; 1950, $21,000 pledged, $&3,000 paid. In 1951 the pledge was $26,410 and they are expecting $30,000 to be paid in. Dur ing this time $50,000 has been paid in in cash for a new church building which will be occupied in September free of debt. This young pastor is still growing and glowing. Like the Apostle Paul he has a world vision, a fierce loyalty for the truth, an unfailing love for humanity, and sacrificial service that can only be measured by his love for his Lord. In other words he is fully discharging his function as God’s steward. “ But YOU—hold to your convictions.” “ I charge YOU—proclaim His mes sage.” “ But YOU — fully discharge your function as God’s steward.” And may the rich blessing of Al mighty God rest upon each one of you.
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I was interested and I have followed his ministry to the present day. In his testi mony as a student said he, “ I had to leave Nyack and go home because of lack of funds. As I journeyed along in my old Ford car I complained to God regarding the situation, knowing that God had called me to Nyack. My family were unsaved. Arriving home I found my sister stricken with appendicitis and ready to be moved to the hospital. I knelt beside her bed and pointed her to Jesus. She accepted Him as Saviour. After the operation, she testified clearly to doctors and nurses as to her salva tion and the result was mother got saved, and father got saved. I called on my relatives and one uncle, two aunts, and two cousins accepted Christ. My Uncle gave me the money to return to Nyack to finish my course. My heart was full of praise.” After graduation he and his wife ac cepted the call to minister to a little group in Union City, Pa. The first Sun day four adults and seven children came to the service, and the offering was $1.14. The meetings were held in the W.C.T.U. Hall. On oneoccasion the offering went as low as nine cents. He started evangelistic services and people began coming to the meetings. In spite of the cramped quarters, thirty souls professed Christ in six weeks. One night during the meetings he was discouraged at the cramped quarters and as he prayed God said, “ Build a church.” He argued with God, “ It can’t be done,” thinking of the three and four dollars a week they were living on. God assured him, “ It can be done. Build a church.” Next night he told the congregation, “ Tonight’s offering will go towards a building fund for a new Tabernacle Church.” Two dollars and fifteen cents came in. God honored his little faith and within a month a hundred dollars was in this fund. They turned this $100.00 into cement hnd gravel and began to make cement blocks, with no place as yet to even excavate as a basement to lay the blocks. A day of fasting and prayer was called for to ask God for guidance where tp build. The day they were fasting and praying, a Mrs. Helen Hayes, a wealthy woman of the city, was reading her Sunday School lesson and convicted as she read First John 3:17: “ But whoso hath this world’s goods, and beholdeth
have known of, and have deliberately concealed, her deceptiveness. These per sons realized that to permit the facts to become known would prove disastrous to “the cause” ; so in shameful weakness they kept silent, and by their crafty suppression of the truth became parties to the perpetuation of this evil hoax. And so this unholy thing—the number one proof of Seventh-Day Adventism’s inherent characteristic of deception, the chief evidence of dishonesty in the cult —goes on and on from year to year, re sulting in the continued delusion and soul-enslavement of unnumbered thou sands of trusting adherents. (2) Some “Early Day” Teachings of Seventh-Day Adventism in Which Error Was Finally Discovered, and Then Quietly Dropped. The Seventh-Day Ad ventist movement came into existence during the fore part of the last century, as a direct result of the false time setting prophecies of one William Miller, an earnest but untaught, self-sent Bible teacher. William Miller’s prophecy that Christ would return to earth on October 22, 1844, failed of fulfilment. Turbulent days of fanaticism and irresponsible guesswork followed. During this period, a few of Miller’s “ die hard” disciples— the Bible-ignorant founders of the Sev enth-Day Adventist sect—invented some strange theories. Then, after publicly teaching them for a few years, they de cided to discard several of these. The following “ abandoned truths” adorn the group’s early-day publications: As a result of Satan’s fall, his “king ly form” was cursed, and this caused “his flesh” to hang loosely upon “his frame.” . . . When created, Adam was more than twice as tall as men now living on the earth. . . . The tower of Babel was built before the Flood. . . . Since the Flood, man and beast have practiced amalgamation, and as a result, certain divisions of the race are part beast. . . . Probation for sinners came to an end in the year 1844, and the “ door” of salvation was then “ forever shut.” It is because of these, as well as other fantastically false beliefs (also fanatical practices) of the founders, that the pres ent Adventist leaders feel compelled to use deceptive methods. They realize that there are indeed, “ skeletons” in the sect’s historical “ closet” which they must by all means conceal, and they hope thus to avoid the risk of tell-tale facts regarding the “ early day” record becoming known. Seventh-Day Adventists are ashamed of their past; and, considering their present “message” faultless and all-im portant, they do not hesitate to resort to subtle measures and shady methods in its propagation. (To Be Continued Next Month)
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