LETTER FROM ELDER DAVID BARTLEY 1886

[An early Letter from David Bartley.  He may not have been ordained yet. - ed]

Dear Brother Respess: 

When we can speak and write, not as it seems to us — not as we understand — but as "Thus saith the Lord" then there will be unity and peace, and then would discord and strife cease.

I seem too poor and low to write for the Messenger, but I welcome its coming and read it with benefit, I hope. May the Lord and His people sustain and bless it and its editors, and- may He guide its writers and comfort its readers. The Scriptures are profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness; and when our writers and preachers properly expound and apply the Scripture, then these results will follow, and peace and comfort will be promoted. Therefore, every speaker and writer of Divine things should speak as the oracles of God, and avoid all else. 

When we can speak and write, not as it seems to us — not as we understand — but as "Thus saith the Lord" then there will be unity and peace, and then would discord and strife cease. James asks: "From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?" Therefore Peter says: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." So, then, wars and fightings in the household of faith, and among the saints, come from their fleshly lusts or desires, and not from following after the spirit of Christ. John gives a simple and safe rule to the church as to who should be received, saying, "He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house," etc. Then, the only test of fellowship should be, abiding in the doctrine or teaching of Christ; for such have both the Father and Son, and to reject them would be to reject the Father and Son. 

A voice from Heaven said to Peter, "What God hath cleansed, that call thou not common." It is to be feared that many whom God hath cleansed are refused, and many who abide in the doctrine of Christ are rejected by other brethren who can claim no more than this for themselves, and such rejection leads to deplorable effects. We would suppose that those who know and love the truth in Christ, would welcome and love all who have obtained like precious faith, and who bring the doctrine of Christ, and so unite the dear children of God, and not divide and scatter them. John instructs us why this is not so: "I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth us not. Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. 

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good." "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall, be called the children of God." "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another." May one and all give earnest heed to all these sacred words of divine instruction and warning. 

With love to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Yours in affliction, 
D. Bartley.

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