went
forth to sacrifice and suffer for Christ. They sought not places of ease
and affluence, but of privation and suffering. They gloried not in their
big salaries, fine parsonages, and refined congregations, but in the souls
that had been won for Jesus. Oh, how changed! A hireling ministry will be
a feeble, a timid truckling, a time-serving ministry, without faith,
endurance, and holy power. Methodism formerly dealt in the great central
truth. Now the pulpits deal largely in generalities and in popular
lectures. The glorious doctrine of entire sanctification is rarely heard
and seldom witnessed in the pulpits."

There is not a Methodist minister but knows the truthfulness of these
statements, however much they may deny it. In the quoted texts of
Scripture from Revelation 11, the ninth and tenth verses say: "And they of
the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead
bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be
put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them,
and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another."

By the "dead bodies" is meant the two witnesses, the Word and Spirit.
These throughout Protestantism were dead. While they professed to be led
by the Spirit and to believe and practise the Word, they did neither. Thus
they would not entirely and openly in words deny the power of the Holy
Spirit and verity of God's Word, yet in works they did deny them. "They
profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable,
and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." Titus 1:16. These
two witnesses were dead, yet they would not allow their dead bodies to be
buried: they professed to receive them.

The tenth verse tells of the worldliness of sectism at the time the Spirit
of life from God entered into the Word and Holy Spirit, after the 350
years or the ushering in of the evening light. They were making merry and
sending gifts. Sectism is straining every nerve, and adopting most every
scheme for money-getting. The fundamental object in the socials, fairs,
concerts, etc., is to get money. They adopt these worldly, sensual
amusements to rob men of their money. We have in possession a clipping
from the _New York Sun_ which is a fair sample of the present-day
performances and merry making for money, and well explains the rejoicing,
merry making and sending of gifts as mentioned in Rev. 11:10. It is as
follows:

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