Vol. 1  The Symbolic Code  No. 15

                  THE SYMBOLIC CODE NEWS ITEMS
                                
                                
Volume One     September 15, 1935  
No. 15    Waco, Texas             
                                
           In The Interest Of The S.D.A. Denomination
                                
              NEWSBREAKING WAVES FROM MOUNT CARMEL
                    "Back to the Old Paths"

   In the symbolic Code for the month of August we reported the progress on Mt. Carmel in so far
as the building program and the increased population is concerned, and as we have started nothing
new in this line save the finishing of the buildings which were then under construction, we shall
not say more about it at this time. However, we are glad to report of the progress made in
spiritual lines; that is, in dress and health reform, which step has drawn us nearer to the Lord and
we feel His blessings resting upon us, for which we are very thankful.

   We feel sure that all the friends of the cause for reform will be pleased to see the entire company
in perfect harmony with our profession, such as has never been witnessed since the days of the
apostles. We are not saying this boastingly, for we know that there is much to be done for every
one of us before our characters be transformed into His glorious image, and before we shall be
worthy to be called "The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord" by those who shall embrace the
Third Angel's Message after the sealing of the 144,000. (Isa. 62:12.)

   We are sure that this forward step on Mt. Carmel is greater than any previous one, and if
continued, says the Lord: "Thy light" shall "break forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy
rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I
am." (Isa. 58:8, 9.)

   Though it is hard to depart from some of the things which we have inherited by birth, and which
we have been cultivating for years, and because we have practiced them while holding
membership in the S.D.A. denomination, and because the church has many who think God has
given them a sort of license to perpetuate the customs of the world, yet Mt. Carmel has stripped
itself of "crisping pins," artificial embellishments, of the "veils" and the "bonnets," low necks, high
skirts, naked arm pits, rolled down stockings, high heels, and all the vain customs and the idols of
the land, and has cast them into perpetual desolation. Thus freeing its inhabitants -- men, women,
and children -- from all these iron bands!

   It is surprising to learn that many of our people who are "standing in the light of present truth"
and who are even taking a part in the proclamation of the reform message have failed to reform
themselves! Therefore, the attention of every believer in present truth is again being called to
restudy the message of the SRod and the "Testimonies for the Church," and quickly, without a
moment's delay, make all such alterations. This is your final warning.

   Do not allow your children, nor yourselves, on the streets scantily clothed, or without stockings
except when bare footed. Dress sleeves should be below the elbow, while the length of the skirt is
to be regulated by dividing in two the number of inches from the bend of the knee to the floor. In
other words, if your limb from the knee to the floor measures 20 inches, your skirt should nor be
higher than 10 inches from the floor. For children under 12, the number of inches from the bend
of the knee to the floor may be divided in three parts, and let the skirt be one-third below the
knee, or two-thirds above the floor. If you desire to preserve your respect and modesty, and the
morals of your children and receive the seal of God in your foreheads, do not yourselves, or
permit your children to display their naked bodies to men and boys.

   Do not go into extreme. Dress yourself and your children in such a way as to prevent special
attention and immodesty, yet clean and neat, and though inexpensive, the material may be of
durable quality.

   "I was shown that the people of God should not imitate the fashions of the world. Some have
done this, and are fast losing the peculiar, holy character which should distinguish them as God's
people. I was pointed back to God's ancient people, and was led to compare their apparel with the
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What a change! Then the women were not so bold as now. When they went in public, they
covered their faces with a vail. In these last days, fashions are shameful and immodest. They are
noticed in prophecy. They were first brought in by a class over whom Satan has entire control,
who, 'being past feeling, have given themselves over into lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness
with greediness.' If God's professed people had not greatly departed from Him, there would now
be a marked difference between their dress and that of the world. The small bonnets, exposing the
face and head, show a lack of modesty....The inhabitants of earth are growing more and more
corrupt, and the line of distinction between them and the Israel of God must be more plain, or the
curse which falls upon worldlings will fall on God's professed people."

   "Young and old, God is now testing you. You are deciding your own eternal destiny. Your
pride, your love to follow the fashions of the world, your vain and empty conversation, your
selfishness, are all put in the scale, and the weight of evil is fearfully against you....And I saw that
the Lord was whetting His sword in heaven to cut them down. Oh that every lukewarm professor
could realize the clean work that God is about to make among His professed people! Dear friends,
do not deceive yourselves concerning your condition. You cannot deceive God." -- "Testimonies
for the Church," Vol. 1, pp. 188, 189, 190. Read the third chapter of Isaiah, verses 16-26.

   Avoid white flour and refined sugar products and do not eat fruit and vegetables at the same
meal. The average stomach will hold less than a quart. Do not commit suicide by overloading it.
Do not confine yourselves to a diet of a few articles. Let your table be furnished with foods which
God provides for your use each season of the year, prepared in as simple and natural a manner as
possible. Do not try to keep well on cooked food alone. Coffee, tea, cocoa, and chocolate should
find no place in a S.D.A. home.

   "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which
satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight
itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will
make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David."

   "They that sanctify themselves,...eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall
be consumed together, saith the Lord."

   "Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away
this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be
among you a root that beareth a poisonful herb [margin] and wormwood; and it come to pass,
when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have
peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst; the Lord will
not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy shall smote against that man, and
all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name
from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law." (Isa. 55:2, 3;
66:17; Deut. 29:18-21.)

   "Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of
her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord." (Isa. 52:11.)

   No two persons should sleep in one bed except it be in an emergency. Those who neglect this
health principle are sowing seeds of sorrow instead of seeds of health and happiness.

   When you go to meetings, whether it be in the S.D.A. churches or where present truth is being
taught, do not dishonor your God by talking whispering, or laughing. Shaking hands with others
in the church of God encourages common conversation, distracts others from the object of the
meeting, and leads into evil. Greeting one another at church should be done at the close of the
service on the outside of the building, but if in a cottage meeting it may be permissible on the
inside after the meeting is dismissed. "Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for He is raised up
out of His holy habitation." (Zech. 2:15.)

   Our attention is called to another great neglect on the part of God's people. Says the Holy
Spirit, "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the
woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (1 Cor. 11:3.) Note the way the chain of
divinity links humanity -- God, Christ, the man, the woman. "Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered, dishonoreth his head [God]. But every woman that prayeth or
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uncovered dishonoureth her head [the man]: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if
the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or
shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the
image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman;
but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the
man." (verses 4-9.)

   The above scripture teaches that a man ought to take his hat off when praying or prophesying
(teaching the Scriptures) while the woman should put hers on. Why? Because the head of the man
is God but the head of the woman is the man. If the man covers his head he dishonors God.
Hence, if the woman uncovers her head when praying she dishonors her head -- the man, and by
dishonoring the man she dishonors God, for the man is the "image and glory of God." Moreover,
the covering of the woman's head when approaching God symbolically sets the man -- (her head)
aside and thus comes before God.

   Do not conclude by reading verse 15 that the woman's hair is the covering above required, for if
that be the case, then the man should shave his head in order to make the distinction between the
two, and as we know that man has never been required to shave his head, it proves that the
woman's covering when praying is not her hair but her hat or some other head covering. Again, if
the Spirit of God is teaching that the woman's hair is the covering above required, why say, When
"praying or prophesying"? How could she take off her hair (covering) when not praying unless
she wears a wig? Can she put on or remove her natural hair at random? Furthermore, as women
never bobbed their hair in Paul's time, it would have been unnecessary to ask them to leave it on,
and again he says, "If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn or shaven. These words
plainly lay down the rule that if the woman is neither shorn nor shaven, then "let her be covered."
In these verses is stated that the "woman having long hair, it is a glory to her." Therefore, the
covering of her hair also denotes humbling before God or, as it were, laying aside her glory.

   When asking grace at meals it may not be necessary to follow this rule, but it certainly is
essential when teaching or worshipping whether it be at home or in church.

   "God leads His people on, step by step. He brings them up to different points calculated to
manifest what is in the heart. Some endure at one point, but fall off at the next. At every advanced
point the heart is tested and tried a little closer. If the professed people of God find their hearts
opposed to this straight work, it should convince them that they have a work to do to overcome,
if they would not be spewed out of the mouth of the Lord. Said the Angel, 'God will bring His
work closer and closer to test and prove every one of His people.' Some are willing to receive one
point; but when God brings them to another testing point, they shrink from it and stand back,
because they find that it strikes directly at some cherished idol. Here they have opportunity to see
what is in their hearts that shuts out Jesus. They prize something higher than the truth, and their
hearts are not prepared to receive Jesus. Individuals are tested and proved a length of time to see
if they will sacrifice their idols and heed the counsel of the True Witness. If any will not be
purified through obeying the truth, and overcome their selfishness, their pride, and evil passions,
the angels of God have the charge, 'They are joined to their idols, let them alone,' and they pass on
to their work, leaving these with their sinful traits unsubdued, to the control of evil angels. Those
who come up to every point, and stand every test, and overcome, be the price what it may, have
heeded the counsel of the True Witness, and they will receive the latter rain, and thus be fitted for
translation." -- "Testimonies for the,Church," Vol. 1, p. 187.

   Mt. Carmel Center has set the example and let all our brethren follow by strictly complying with
God's requirements if they wish to depart from the sins of the world, receive the seal of God and
escape the destruction. All should make the necessary adjustments by the next issue of this paper
and show to God that you are glad to obey all His righteous requirements, and by your sacrifice
demonstrate your love for the salvation of His people that they may not stumble over your sins
but be drawn to Him by your good example, and thus also prove true to the message we bear.
Those who neglect to strictly comply to the testimony of the True Witness in this reform will be
left without an excuse, and when asked: "Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding
garment?" they will be speechless. (Matt. 22:12.)

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   "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it that
He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it
to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be
holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it,
even as the Lord the church: for we are members of His body, of his flesh, and of His bones. For
this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two
shall be one flesh." (Eph. 5:25-31.)

   "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Children, obey your parents in all
things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
they be discouraged." (Col. 3:19-21.)

   And display not your bodies, watch chains, and other vain trinkets for they cast reflection on
your characters and cheapen your bodies -- the image of God.

WHOM SHALL WE BLAME? THE BODY OR THE "OFFSHOOTS?"

   The "Spirit of truth" makes it clear that no circumstance in life, be it ever so trying, will justify
us in deviating from the plain path of duty. Paul declared that nothing would "move" him, and that
he was willing to die if necessary, only that his Lord might be glorified in his life and his nation
saved.

   Says the Spirit of Prophecy: "To stand in defense of truth and righteousness when the majority
forsake us, to fight the battles of the Lord when champions are few, -- this will be our test. At this
time we must gather warmth from the coldness of others, courage from their cowardice, and
loyalty from their treason." --  "Testimonies for the Church," Vol. 5, p. 136.

   Departing from the old landmarks is clearly evident from the following that it is not confined to
the offshoots which have arisen from time to time through the years. We have wandered away
from the old landmarks. Let us return. If the Lord be God, serve Him; if Baal, serve him. Which
side will you be on?" -- "Testimonies for the Church," Vol. 5, p. 137.

   "The church has turned back from following Christ her Leader, and is steadily retreating toward
Egypt. Yet few are alarmed or astonished at their want of spiritual power." Id. 217. "I saw our
Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness. Stripping them off, He laid bare the
defilement beneath. Then He said to me; 'Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up
their defilement and rottenness of character? "How is the faithful city become an harlot?" My
Father's house is made a house of merchandise, a place whence the divine presence and glory have
departed!' For this cause there is weakness, and strength is lacking." -- "Testimonies for the
Church," Vol. 8, p. 250.

   "As Jesus views the state of His professed followers today, He sees base ingratitude, hollow
formalism, hypocritical insincerity, Pharisaical pride and apostasy." - "Testimonies for the
Church," Vol. 5, p. 72.

   The above citations clearly forewarn us that the church as a body has "turned back from
following Christ her Leader," and that "apostasy" is right among His "professed followers" to the
extent that the "divine presence and glory have departed" from the church. These facts should
cause every one of us, with fear and trembling, to "sigh and cry for all the abominations that be
done in the midst thereof," lest we gnash our teeth for sorrow in the eternal ruin. Shall we not be
as responsive as were the Ninevites of old or shall we pay the terrible price?

   Speaking of those who indulge in criticizing those who reprove at the gate, we read: "They will
question and criticize everything that arises in the unfolding of truth, criticize the work and
position of others, criticize every branch of the work in which they have not themselves a part.
They will feed upon the errors and mistakes and faults of others, 'until,' said the angel, 'the Lord
Jesus shall rise up from His mediatorial work in the heavenly sanctuary, and shall clothe Himself
with the garments of vengeance, and surprise them at their unholy feast; and they will find
themselves unprepared for the marriage supper of the Lamb.' Their taste has been so perverted
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they would be inclined to criticize even the table of the Lord in His kingdom." -- "Testimonies for
the Church." Vol. 5, p. 690.

   The above is clear that the true leader of the church will "rise up from His mediatorial work in
the heavenly sanctuary" and bring to a close forever "unholy" feasting, not after the close of
probation but "in the unfolding of truth."

   In view of this fearful apostasy, caused by "doubt and even disbelief of the testimonies of the
Spirit of God" (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 217), by both preacher and layman, and
inasmuch as "the ancient men, those to whom God had given great light,...had betrayed their
trust" (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 211), and are now criticizing "everything that arises
in the unfolding of truth," because it reproves them, shall we not be all the more faithful in our
"trust" of warning our dear brethren and sisters before it is too late? But let us do it with the same
spirit of Christ, taking heed to ourselves first lest we who claim to be "standing in the light" shall
fall into the same trap set by the enemy and become apostates by repeating the mistakes of the
quotations in this paragraph, and also fulfilling the following prophecy:

   "There will be those among us who will always want to control the work of God, to dictate
even what movements shall be made when the work goes forward under the direction of the angel
who joins the third angel in the message to be given to the world. God will use ways and means
by which it wilt be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be
surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of
righteousness." -- "Testimonies to Ministers," p. 300.

RESCUED INSTEAD OF "SPUED OUT"

   I am more than happy, just thrilled; the message of the SRod has found a warm place in my
heart. I love my Saviour and feel that He has favored me by giving me a second chance and an
opportunity to prove my love in accepting reproaches of my brethren who are much incensed
against the ones who have brought the message of Revelation 18:1 of which they are ignorant and
are shutting the homes and hearts against the light that Sr. White predicted would come.
(Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300.)

   "Testimonies on Sabbath School Work," pp. 62-66 impressed me so forcibly that I purchased a
copy for myself, also "Testimonies to Ministers" and, what I have read in them is enough to
convince me that the enemy has crept into the church since 1844 A.D. and by his deceptive arts
has spun a web of error by which he has "snared" all of God's children "in holes" and if possible he
will deceive them all, but we must help them.

   I feel that my heavenly Father has so magnified His Word to me that I can see plainly why He
must bring to pass "His strange act" of Ezekiel Nine. Just now the message, "Cry aloud and spare
not, show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins" and also the cry,
"prepare to meet thy God, O Israel," is due the church. Truly the Lord has been my constant
companion and I have become better acquainted with Him in the last few months than in all the
twenty or more years I have been an Adventist!

   I am sure that up to a short time ago I was a 100% Laodicean -- satisfied in my blindness -- but
I have bought the "gold tried in the fire," and am more determined than ever before to be an
overcomer, and by His grace and help to all who will allow me, I will endeavor to show them by
word and example the true way that leads home. I want to have a part in the Lord Cry and that I
may join in singing the song of "Moses and the Lamb.

   May I find a place on your prayer list? I am desirous of having my family of seven children in
the heavenly Canaan. This message alone can fulfill the promise, "The willing and obedient shall
eat the good of the land."
     Yours for turning many to righteousness.
     (Signed) Mrs. Emma Spencer, Denver, Colo.

FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO

   It seems almost incredible to think that men and women professing to believe the Third Angel's
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dying world, would so completely lose control of themselves in the house of God as to actually
lay hands on one of the mothers in Israel and eject her from the building, all because they look
upon her as a heretic and unworthy to sit in the house dedicated to the worship of God, but such
is the case as the following words from a letter to this office will indicate:

   "When the Sabbath School superintendent saw me sitting in the church, her expression changed
and she came back with the missionary secretary and they both said, 'Some people have more gaul
than brains! ' " The elder and the missionary secretary came and lifted me out of my seat and I
pulled myself down. Then they jerked me out tearing my sleeve, and pushed me out doors. What a
terrible spirit! The Jews thought they were doing God's service in crucifying Christ. Truly when
we reject light, darkness is all we have left."

   Shall we not pray earnestly that God will help us to manifest the Spirit of Christ even when our
dear brethren and sisters lose control of themselves to such an extent as is shown by the above?

"FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE"

   I am so thankful that the message of present truth found me. My determination is to live as I am
instructed by the Word, and it is my desire to give this message to others, that they may see their
true condition and rejoice in this wonderful truth with me.
     (Signed) Mrs. "Millie Freeman, Denver, Colo.

A "NATHANAEL" OF TODAY

Dear Brethren in the faith once delivered to the Fathers:

   I first want to thank you for the two booklets sent me a few days ago,...and I have now read
several of the early numbers of the Symbolic Code which you sent to my address.

   I read everything that comes to me. I do not care from what denomination it comes. I am not
prejudiced against any. You know Paul tells us to "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good,"
and "Despise not prophesyings." (1 Thess. 5:21, 20.) I believe if we study our Bible and the books
of Sister White diligently, we cannot be deceived no matter what we read.

   I have been an Adventist since May 14, 1921. I was baptized then but I had been keeping the
Sabbath and other truths as far as I knew them since the 10th of December the year before. I came
out of the Lutheran church. I long knew that our leadership did not live up to what they preached,
but did not know where else to go, for the other churches are worse. But if someone would have
told me that the S.D.A.'s have put brethren out of the church, even by force and bodily, I would
have called them liars. I mean if the members had done no other wrong than to accept additional
truth from the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy.

   Often I have wondered how it would be possible to get ready for translation in this generation
since it is so near to its end. For we must be without fault before the throne of God. The church in
its present condition would not get us prepared for that event unless we walk ahead of the leaders
such as we have.

   According to the letters published in the Symbolic Code (which I do not doubt in the least), our
churches have been turned into secret societies with their closed doors to those even of the same
faith. Jesus washed Judas' feet and let him partake of the Last Supper although He knew his heart
was not right and that he would betray Him in a few hours. Jesus also knew that Peter would deny
Him before morning, yet He treated both of them like brothers, and even called Judas "Friend."
(Matt. 26:50) Jesus never put anybody out of the synagogue except them that bought and sold
there. If Jesus would do that today, there would be few left in the synagogue (church).

   Please continue to send me the Symbolic Code every month.
     (Signed) E.A.P.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Question: "You make the statement in the July Code that, 'If the individual does not reform at the
moment he is convinced of the truth neither will he reform later.' If this is true then I am a lost
man. I believe the message you bear to the church although I do not yet fully understand it, but I
know I have done things that if what you say is true, I am lost."

   Answer: The Code does not mean by the word "reform" that one must become perfect all at
once, for perfection is attained through continuing in the truth and climbing step by step.
"Testimonies for the Church," Vol. 1, p. 187. A true Christian never drags behind but as perfect
corn of the field is complete in its sphere so he also is without blemish in as far as the light brings
him forth. Hence, if you have made a start and are still running in the race there is no reason why
you should be lost -- "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again" (Prov. 24:16), "And
if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." (1 John 2:1.)

   The class which does not reform, according to the Code, are those who do not start in the race
when convinced of the truth but, like Agrippe, may say, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a
Christian" (Acts 26:28), then excuse themselves as did Felix, saying, "Go thy way for this time;
when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." (Acts 24:25.) The fact that you are striving
to overcome sin by walking in the light, is sufficient evidence that you are not lost, and if you thus
continue you shall be saved, else we are all lost.

   The enemy would like to deceive us one way or another, he cares not which, and we should not
give him any occasion. Says Paul: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let
us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of
our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb. 12:1, 2.)

Question: I have been reading your tracts and I am deeply impressed. I wonder if you could help
me with some scriptures that I don't understand. I wrote twice to W.G. Wirth of the Signs, but
received no answer either in the Signs or by correspondence. The texts that trouble me are Isaiah
65:20, John 3:13 (How about Enoch and Elijah?). 1 Tim. 4:3, 4 (Then why does Sr. White say to
abstain from meat?). I will appreciate it very much if you can explain them and Isaiah 66:20."

  Answer: Isaiah 65:20 the questioner will find explained in "The Shepherd's Rod, "Vol. 1, pp.
164, 165.

   Isaiah 66:20 is explained by verse 16 and 19. In the 16th verse appears the description of a
slaughter performed by the Lord, and in the 19th we read these words: "And I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations,...to the isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, neither have
seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles."

   The above question makes it plain that though the slaughter took place it did not harm the
Gentiles, for those who escaped from the slain of the Lord, as described in verse 16, were sent to
ail the nations. And as they were to proclaim His glory among the Gentiles who had not as yet
heard of His fame, it follows that the slaughter took place among God's professed people, for
those who escaped were sent to declare His glory among the Gentiles. Therefore, those who were
sent could not be Gentiles but rather Christians who knew of His fame and of His glory.

   Moreover, as it is said in the 20th verse that those who escaped of the slaughter "shall bring all
your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations...to My holy mountain Jerusalem,
saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
Lord," it proves that the slaughter took place before the close of probation and before the
message was carried to all the nations and that God's church was purified by it, for they brought
their brethren "in a clean vessel." Hence, the slaughter of Isaiah 66:16, and of Ezekiel 9:5-7,
Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 211, Vol. 3, p. 267 are the same thing -- the purification of
the church (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5, p. 80), after the sealing of the 144,000
(Testimonies to Ministers, 445), at which time it could be said: "Clad in the armor of Christ's
righteousness, the church is to enter upon her final conflict. 'Fair as the moon, clear as the sun,
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an army with banners,' she is to go forth into all the world, conquering and to conquer." --
"Prophets and Kings," p. 725.

   John 3:13, --"And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven,
even the Son of man which is in heaven."

   As the verse above quoted does not explain itself and if we shall attempt to interpret it isolated
from its context, it is certain that we shall err in our conclusion. Therefore, by studying the
preceding verses, we find that Jesus is explaining spiritual things to Nicodemus by the use of
material objects, and as Nicodemus failed to comprehend the meaning, the Master endeavored to
show him how stupid he was, by saying, "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,
how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but
He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." (verses 12, 13.) That
is, not that no man has ever ascended into heaven, for Enoch and Elijah had, but rather that no
man had ever ascended and learned the things of heaven and then descended to earth and tell It
all, save He Who "came down from heaven, even the Son of man;" that is, Christ is the only one
who had been in heaven; and who came down and could explain the things of heaven.

   1 Tim. 4:3-5. -- "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath
created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every
creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is
sanctified by the Word of God and prayer."

   It is not Biblical to conclude from this scripture that we are at liberty to eat everything God has
created, but rather that which "is sanctified by the Word of God." Note carefully what the Spirit
saith: "Commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received." These words
plainly tell that some, on their own responsibility, will command to abstain not from those meats
which God has not sanctified but which He has created to be received with thanksgiving. That is,
no man has the right to forbid another the things God has permitted us to eat, and which only
could we receive with "thanksgiving," for no one who knows the truth would dare give God
thanks for eating the things which He has prohibited.

   Nevertheless, God Himself reserves the right to take it away or give a special diet to His
servants at any time when He sees fit. For instance, He forbade the use of flesh food to ancient
Israel during the forty years of wilderness sojourning; the fruit of the vine to Samson; and to John
the Baptist He prescribed "locusts and wild honey." Though it was wrong for Samson and John to
eat the fruit of the vine, it was right for others and Christ Himself made use of it. So it is today. If
God gives us a special diet, we should not rebel but rather be glad to abide by it. It can be proved
by the Bible that God's servants at this time, like the above mentioned examples, are to be
vegetarians.

   Thus far the only people known to us who perfectly fulfill this prophecy of 1 Tim. 4:3, 4 are the
Roman and the Greek Catholics, especially the Roman, who forbid the priests and the nuns to
marry and command to abstain from meats on Wednesday and Friday, and Lent days, which God
has never commanded by His prophets.

   True Sr. White advocates a vegetarian diet but she does not forbid marrying. Therefore, she
does not fulfill the specifications of the prophecy. Moreover, the commandment to "abstain from
meats" and the forbidding to "marry " is not where the sin lies but rather in that they "shall depart
from the faith [truth], giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron." (verses 1, 2.) Our attention is called to
the act of forbidding of "meats" and "to marry to enable us to identify the people who have
departed from the faith and that we should not affiliate ourselves with them though they may
claim to be Christians.

Question: "If the 144,000 sing the song which no other company can, it being a song of
experience, why can not the great multitude sing this song of experience, too, if they have also
lived through the seven last plagues and are translated?"

   Answer: It will be noted that the SRod is stating this of the 144,000 in comparison with the
dead, and not with the "great multitude." However, the 144,000 have the experience of Ezekiel
Nine, which the great multitude do not possess, and this is the difference. But it is stated that as
the "harpers" sang, no man could learn that song but the 144,000, "which were redeemed." (Rev.
14:3.) It is made plain that this company were redeemed, and that is the reason why they only
could sing the song; that is, at that particular time. It is not saying that the 

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great multitude, who were not as yet redeemed, could not learn that song after they are redeemed,
for we read in Revelation 15:2, 3 that all who "had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name....sing the song of Moses...and the
song of the Lamb."

Question: "Is not the slaughter of Ezekiel Nine to be fulfilled by the seven last plagues?"

   Answer: The prophetic destruction as described in Ezekiel's prophecy is directly applicable to
the church of God only -- "The house of Israel and Judah." (Ezek. 9:9.) Hence, this destruction
only indirectly could apply to the seven last plagues.

   The destruction in the S.D.A. denomination -- "Israel and Judah" (where the 144,000 are -- the
twelve tribes) is not in the time of the plagues, for by the "voice from heaven" God's people are
entreated to come out from all the places where there is sin and join the purified church of God
where there is no sin, so that they "be not partakers of her sins, and that" they "receive not of her
plagues." (Rev. 18:4.) If this is not so, then their coming out would be of no special benefit to
them, because of the fact that the plagues are to fall wherever sin is. Therefore, to make this
possible, God's church must be purified and made free from sin and sinners, which fact is
prophetically made known by Ezekiel's prophecy, and in the following the Spirit of Prophecy
further explains, saying:

   "Only those who have withstood and overcome temptation in the strength of the Mighty One
will be permitted to act a part in proclaiming this message when it shall have swelled into the
Loud Cry." -- "Review and Herald," Nov. 19, 1908.
   The above plainly states that only those who have proved true to God will have a part in
proclaiming the Third Angel's Message in its Loud Cry. But in "Testimonies for the Church," Vol.
5, p. 211, speaking of the time when the slaughter of Ezekiel Nine is to take place we read: "The
ancient men, those to whom God had given great light, and who had stood as guardians of the
spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust."

   As both citations in the above must be correct, it proves that the slaughter of Ezekiel Nine takes
place before the commencement of the Loud Cry. This same truth can be proved by the Bible
from several different angles.

Question: "Will all but the 144,000 of the present S.D.A. denomination actually be slain in the
separation?"

   Answer: All but those who do not receive the mark or seal, old or young, male or female, will
fall under the slaughter weapons of the angels. (Ezek. 9:6.) Only those who sigh and cry for all
the abominations in the midst thereof will receive the mark. (verse 4.) John saw 144,000 sealed
(marked). If others from within the S.D.A. denomination besides the 144,000 should escape, it is
not known to us.

To Those Standing in the Light:

   Complaints have come to us that some of our people, in their zeal for spreading the message,
have been passing out present truth literature inside the S.D.A. churches, talking to church
members during preaching, etc., and thus distract and disturb.

   Our past experience has taught us not to believe all we hear. Nevertheless, we forewarn the
friends of present truth to be very careful, for it is possible to cast reproach on Christ by casting
reproach on the message, and also cause others to stumble over your unwise judgment. Therefore,
we ask all who are interested in spreading present truth to refrain from passing out any literature
on the church premises or speaking during preaching. The sidewalks belong to the public; you can
meet your friends there.

   No one is wanted on "Carmel" who has not studied the message of the SRod through and
through; who is not fully convinced on every point of its teaching; who is not walking in its
penetrating light; and who is not willing to comply with the divine rules and principles which
govern the inhabitants on this mount of "green pastures" except their coming be for a visit only.

   Others than visitors, before coming, must first communicate with Mt. Carmel's Information
Bureau.

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"That Thou Mayest Prosper and be in Health"

   One of the most necessary steps for reform in this sin-cursed age is "health reform," especially
in the big commercial centers of earth's so-called civilized habitations, because of the fact that
there is where commercialized food products which do not contain the necessary elements and
vitamins to keep up the human machine in a fit condition for its wonderful daily performance
originated.

   Let it be understood by all that our existence is dependent upon four indispensable fundamental
facts each of which is subdivided into three undeniable factors.

I.    The first of these fundamentals is the indwelling of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, and "whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in
God for there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one." (1 John 4:15; 5:7.)

II.  So, in the second fundamental which is the medium for obtaining the first group of factors,
"there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and these three
agree in one." (1 John 5:8.)

III. The third fundamental fact embraces food, air, and water.

IV.  The fourth fundamental fact consists of sunshine, exercise, and rest. As the two first
fundamentals are spiritual, the last two are material -- the visible and the invisible.

   These four groups of invaluable gifts make us complete in God's creation the same as the four
directions of the compass, the four seasons of the year, the four periods of time (before noon,
afternoon, before midnight, after midnight) complete the earth's mechanism. For the time being
one may exist on the material while destitute of the spiritual (the light), but he can perpetuate his
life no longer than can the flowers of the field -- they bud, bloom, then wither away. Therefore, as
the material life when destitute of the spiritual withers away, so does the spiritual when destitute
of the material. Hence, only the one who possesses all these God-given gifts is complete in God's
creation, and though he may decease in the flesh as Christ did, he will be "quickened by the Spirit"
which was in him. (1 Pet. 3:18.)

   "And this is the will of Him that sent He, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on
Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:40.) Consequently
the one who attempts to subsist on an impoverished diet is as a so-called Christian who does not
accept the whole truth as it is in Christ, and who hopes to inherit eternal life but fails, so the one
who endeavors to keep the human machine in a fit condition for its daily tasks on a diet deficient
in the necessary elements and vitamins shall also fail in his attempt.

   We are made up of sixteen essential elements which are replenished only by our daily food
consumption, and when our diet does not contain all of these, as soon as we run out of one or
more of them trouble will break out in the weakest part. Hence, no one should presume that it is
natural for us to be sick and suffer pain, etc., but let it be understood by all that when we
transgress the natural laws which the Creator has established in us, the only way nature can warn
us of this transgression is by some symptom of pain or distress, and we should not be with less
understanding than the dumb animals, but let us check up on ourselves and find the cause, then
remove it and the trouble will begin to vanish away. This is the only sure remedy and the one
which God wants us to apply.

(To be continued)

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