No
New Organization
A Statement by W. C. White
I TOLD HER [MRS. LIDA SCOTT] HOW MOTHER REGARDED
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE REMNANT CHURCH,
AND OF HER POSITIVE TEACHING THAT
GOD WOULD NOT PERMIT THIS DENOMINATION TO SO FULLY APOSTATIZE
THAT THERE WOULD BE THE COMING OUT OF ANOTHER CHURCH.--W.
C. White to E. E. Andross, May 23, 1915.
"Oh, how Satan would rejoice if he could succeed
in his efforts to get in among this people and disorganize the work
at a time when thorough organization is essential and will be the
greatest power to keep out spurious uprisings and to refute claims
not endorsed by the Word of God! We want to hold the lines evenly,
that there shall be no breaking
down of the system of organization
and order that has been built up by wise, careful labor. License
must not be given to disorderly elements that desire to control the
work at this time. Some have
advanced the thought that, as we near the close of time, every child
of God will act independently of any religious organization. But I
have been instructed by the Lord that in this work there is no such
thing as every man's being independent."
--9T 257, 258 (1909).
"You
will take passages in the Testimonies that speak of the close of
probation, of the shaking among God's people, and you will talk of a
coming out from this people of a purer, holier people that will
arise. Now all this pleases the enemy.
. . . Should many accept the views you advance, and talk and act
upon them, we would see one of the greatest fanatical excitements
that has ever been witnessed among Seventh-day Adventists. This is
what Satan wants."
--1SM 179 (1890).
"The Lord has not given you a message to call
the Seventh-day Adventists Babylon, and to call the people of God to
come out of her. All the reasons
you may present cannot have weight with me on this subject, because
the Lord has given me decided light that is opposed to such a
message. . . . know that the Lord
loves His church. It is not to be disorganized or broken up into
independent atoms. There is not the least consistency in this; there
is not the least evidence that such a thing will be."
--2SM 63, 68, 69 (1893)
"I tell you, my brethren, the Lord has an
organized body through whom He will work. . . .
When anyone is drawing apart from the
organized body of God's commandment-keeping people,
when he begins to weigh the church in his human scales and begins to
pronounce judgment against them,
then you may know that God is not leading
him. He is on the wrong track."
--3SM 17, 18 (1893).
"We cannot now step off the foundation that
God has established.
We cannot now
enter into any new organization, for this would mean apostasy from
the truth." --2SM 390
"I am instructed to say to Seventh-day
Adventists the world over, God has called us as a people to be a
peculiar treasure unto Himself. He has appointed that His church on
earth shall stand perfectly united in the Spirit and counsel of the
Lord of hosts to the end of time."
--2SM 397 (1908).
"Let all be careful not to make an outcry
against the only
people
who are fulfilling the description
given of the remnant people, who keep
the commandments of God and have faith in Jesus. . . . God has a
distinct people, a church on earth, second to none, but superior to
all in their facilities to teach the truth, to vindicate the law of
God. . . . My brother, if you are
teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, you are
wrong."
--Testimonies to Ministers and
Gospel Workers p. 50, 58, 59
Conclusion
"When anyone is
drawing apart from the organized body of God's commandment-keeping
people.... then you may know that God is not leading him. He
is on the wrong track."
--3SM 17, 18 (1893).
