The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

Message to the Objectors

We quote the following from a message sent to the leading man, to show how the Lord regarded the opposition of these men to the system of church order established among this people: “You will one day realize what you have lost by placing yourself in a defiant position, warring in spirit against the servants of God. Your bitterness of feeling toward Elder----—is astonishing. He has endured, and sacrificed, and toiled on this coast to do the work of God, but in your blindness, while unconsecrated in heart and life, you have ventured, in connection with-----and-----, to handle the servant of God in a cruel manner.... COOD 137.2

“Satan has been using you as his agent to insinuate doubts, and to reiterate insinuations and misrepresentations which have originated in an unsanctified heart, which God would have cleansed from its pollution, but you refused to be instructed, refused correction, rejected reproof, and followed your own will and way.”-Testimonies for the Church 4:229. COOD 138.1

This testimony clearly endorsed the position of the Lord’s servants in the conference at Bloomfield, and as clearly condemns the course of those men who there set themselves in battle array against it. COOD 138.2