I DEDICATE to you the following pages, with my continued prayers to God,
through our Great High Priest and coming King, that they may, in
connection with God’s Holy Word and guidance of the Divine Spirit, enable
you more clearly to discover the deceptive arts of the Devil, and the
agents he is employing in these last days, to betray and ensnare you in
his (almost) innumerable and complicated variety of sins and snares; and
see your true position _just here_ under the HIGH LANDS of IMMORTALITY! Do
not forget, while seeking to understand the Scriptures with a simple and
honest desire to live _here_ by every word of God, to read again and again
the warning that God in his infinite mercy gave to Jesus more than fifty
years after his glorious resurrection and triumphant ascension to his
Father’s seat in his Sanctuary in the heaven of heavens; and he sent it by
his angel, who presented it before John in holy vision, recorded in his
Rev. xii: 13 and 17, and in xvi. chapter, first part of the 13th, and 14th
and 15th verses. You will see the opening developement of these very
things in the work before you. None will fully realize them but those who
are keeping _all_ of the Commandments of God, especially his Holy
Seventh-day Sabbath. Without fear of contradiction here or hereafter
before the great WHITE THRONE, I tell you there is not an Advent paper
(that I have heard of) published in the land, that is leading to the
kingdom. I do not say but what they publish many truths; but their
heretical doctrines will, if followed, never, no never, lead you to God!
And as you pass along through these peace and safety _valves_ in your
prophetical history, watching and anxiously waiting for God to give the
fourth sign of the coming of Jesus by shaking the heavens and earth, the
sea and all nations, and give you the _time_ of Jesus’ coming, you will
more clearly discover the widening track these advocates are pursuing with
almost to a _unit_ every professed advent minister in their train. You
will also see that the _Waymarks_ and high heaps in your pathway, _past
and present_, are the only sure earthly guides to the peaceful haven of
eternal rest. From my watch-tower I have discovered and pointed out to you
some of the devouring WOLVES in sheep’s clothing. Let us avoid them, and
live prayerful, humble and watchful, for more will yet be seen, and
perhaps start right out of your midst!
As I am unable to pay the Printer, your means—as God has given you
ability—will be needed. I trust that God’s true children are ready.
Fairhaven, Mass. Jan. 1848.
J. B.