Early Writings
by Ellen G. White
The Blind Leading the Blind
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Popular ministers are blind, and they are leading others who are as blind as themselves.
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Bob Bresnahan |
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I have seen how the blind guides were laboring to make souls
as blind as themselves, little realizing what is coming upon them. They are
exalting themselves against the truth, and as it triumphs, many who have looked
on these teachers as men of God and have looked to them for light, are
troubled. They inquire of these leaders relative to the Sabbath, and they, with
the object of getting rid of the fourth commandment, will answer them thereto.
I saw that real honesty was not regarded in taking the many positions that were
taken against the Sabbath. The main object is to get around the Sabbath of the
Lord and observe another day than that sanctified and hallowed by Jehovah. If
they are driven from one position, they take an opposite one, even a position
that they had but just before condemned as unsound. {EW 68.1}
God's people are coming into the unity of the faith. Those
who observe the Sabbath of the Bible are united in their views of Bible truth.
But those who oppose the Sabbath among the Advent people are disunited and strangely
divided. One comes forward in opposition to the Sabbath and declares it to be
thus and so, and at the conclusion calls it settled. But as his effort does not
put the question to rest, and as the Sabbath cause progresses and the children
of the Lord still embrace it, another comes forward to overthrow it. But in
presenting his views to get around the Sabbath, he entirely tears down the
arguments of him who made the first effort against the truth, and presents a
theory as opposite to his as to ours. So with the third and the fourth; but
none of them will have it as it stands [69] in the
Word of God: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." {EW 68.2}
Such, I saw, have the carnal mind, therefore are not subject
to the holy law of God. They are not agreed among themselves, yet labor hard
with their inferences to wrest the Scriptures to make a breach in God's law, to
change, abolish, or do anything with the fourth commandment rather than to
observe it. They wish to silence the flock upon this question; therefore they
get up something with the hope that it will quiet them and that many of their
followers will search their Bibles so little that their leaders can easily make
error appear like truth, and they receive it as such, not looking higher than
their leaders. {EW 69.1}
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