TRUE TESTIMONY

TRUE TESTIMONY

I feel that separation from systems has been regarded as the testimony to which we are called instead of the introduction in marked lines and colours of the life and ways ^[p. 283] of the blessed One, rejected from this scene where His body continues to express and maintain His name. We have become too Pharisaic; while adhering to the services and the usefulness which commends us to men, we have disregarded too much the weightier matters of unworldliness and devotedness. There has been often a convulsive activity without a vigorous constitution. I feel we must be sifted. The Lord cannot continue His light to be useless. In order to use it the laxity must be repudiated.

I was speaking at ———— last night on the characteristics of the remnant — unswerving devotedness to the chief interest of Christ. The colours, as it were, for the time. I was giving as examples Anna the prophetess, who departed not from the temple; she greeted Him on His first entry into it; and the widow who giving the two mites, was in heart in company with Him as He for the last time was in the temple. Usefulness has usurped the place of devotedness. Man can recognise and commend the former, but the heart of Christ values the latter above everything. Separation from systems is only the first step to the testimony. The testimony is the maintenance by the Holy Ghost, through Christ’s body, of the beauty and ways and works of Christ here on the earth in spite of every adverse influence. This is most wonderful, the grandest morally, and the most entirely unique, exceeding anything seen or expected among men, and therefore outside and apart from the politics and judgment of man as to education, fashion and everything.

The Lord give us to find Him a strong tower into which the righteous run and are safe.