Good Tidings from Topeka, Kansas • 3

GOOD TIDINGS. '3 is the word of God, which is "come out from among them and be ye seperate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you and will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty. And if professed holiness teachers cannot endure it, then we say, ye are not straitened in us but ye are straitened in your own bowels;" (and this we speak tenderly and lovingly, yet earnestly) "be ye alsoenlorged." "And I heard another voice from heaven saying come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Now the fact is holiness preachers, teachers, evangelists, and people, In spite of Association and convention resolutions must meet this word of the Lord, and they may expect to meet it In holiness camp meetings, if they will publish such notices as the following vis. "may the Lord send workers to help us Come one, come all; come filled and to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Come to work for Jesus; It Is his meeting.

Come to be saved and glorify God." Dear brethren we are anxiously and earnestly pressing this petition before the throne that ye also be enlarged, and it is now one and twenty days since the Holy Ghost has made the question of your deli verence from the yoke of sectism a special burden; and the deliverance of some souls about us, testifies that God is hearing prayer and that 'It is time for thee Lord to work, for they have made void thy laws." Yes sectism proposes to make void Gods law of seperation from sinners, and foist, in Its place the creed. "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precests concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way." Blessed is The 3Ian. We wish to preach the gospel to the poor: and to this end have been led of the Lord to offer the Good Tidings, (whieh is free salvation to all) free to inmates of prisons, and poor houses and such like institutions, also to get it into the hands of destitute families there has been a fund placed Inour hands, to pay their subscription: and We wish here to suggest to our readers that as you have the poor with you always here is an opertunity to do them good, it may be either by ascertaining if they would read the paper in case It were sent to them, or if the Lord's money is in your hands to contribute to that fund. But to return to the subject, this offer is already tending the Tidings to hundreds of these poor; and feeling impressed to write for the especial benefiit of these.

The Lord has given us the first "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scorn-full. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doeth he meditate day and night And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind dri-veth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand iri the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Now as this is a long text and may las' through some weeks we especially re-1 quest that each reader commit it to memory and it might be a convenient and profitable subject for meditation in the night watches. Perhaps the first question that would arise on the part of the reader, would be how can this text comfort the unfortunate or poor in this world sgoods We reply the text contains the most complete promise of prosperity that language can convey to the soul of man and the condition brings it within the reach of every inmate of the poorhouse, or mark or condition of misfortune; making this promise as it were a ladder on which to climb to an altitude of prosperity above all the power of man to we must never for a moment forget that this ladder hangs on the hook of ungodliness will turn the hook over and give us a fall.

We see that that this promise Is so coupled to the condition, that we cannot hold to it or urge its claims one instant of time after we commence to walk in, or take, or receive, the counsel of the ungodly. So on the other hand when the soul shall grasp with the entire force of the will power, the deter, mination to be strictly loyal to God, and abandon all the counsel of the ungodly it may with ssurance grasp this promise of the text. "Whatsoever he doeth shall pros per," and as sure as that the "word of God shall not pass away," so sure may that 6oul at that moment commence climbing up with as much invincibility as there is power to support the kingdom of God, not to be defeated by outward circumstances, and although to the careless observer there may be at that instant no perceptable change; let faith in the power of God tighten the grasp on the promise, and the will all aglow with loyalty to God, continue to walk every step, be it ever so short, not in the counsel of the ungodly; and it will soon discern that it is planted close by the rivers of the water of eternal life, from which the nourishment will be drawn to invigorate every fiber of its existance, so that it "shall be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the hight, and depth, and length, and bredth, and to knowthe love of God which passeth knowledge." To be continued. Heribah. As an item of good tidings we wish to quote vis.

John I "But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. also 2 Cor. thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ." Now we wish to ask would not this promise be practical at a holiness camp meeting over in Illinois or In Missouri? And ought it not to be expected to deliver God's children from being vanquished or hindered, in the work of the Lord Now from the report In the Highway of the Huntsville Camp Meeting, which Bro.Reid would have called the meribah camp, one would be led to suppose that the comeouters were responsible for Introducing a strife, which In a great degree defeated the efficiency of the meeting. Now to our mind the report of that strife seems much like another meribah which occurred recently at still another camp meeting, and instead of the strife being introduced by come outers it was act-ualy crowded in by the holiness people for it was not a holiness camp meeting and yet the leaders were continualy anoyed by the testimony and Bible arguments of the sanctified children. The fact was, the truth did its work.

Now to our mind that was correct, and if we never preach the gospel till sinners invite it; we shall never preach it at all. So if comeouters have got enough of the Holy Ghost to preach comeoutism according to the bible and make sectism with its unbelievers draw off, and whisper haply we be found even to fight against We say praise the Lord, let the'strife go on, or, if the Lord leads the holiness people to any place where holiness is rejected, let them out with gospel testimony or if the resolution of the great Jacksonville Holiness Convention against come outism be set forth in straight threatRings, then out with the sword of the spirit which Faith Care for Inebriates. Bro, Blosser asks, "Have You ever thought of making the reform of drunkards a part of the work of your Faith Cure?" he also adds "I believe it should be. I believe that nothing else but the prayer of faith will save the drunkard and if any class of sufferers need to be taken into an Institution for instruction in faith it is the drunkard. We reply yes we believe Christ includes all clases In the "whosoever believeth in him should not perish" Therefore as we design to let Christ be the head in all this work we will not clasify, or limit the Holy One in his work, so we say come without delay.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven having greatpower; and the earth was lightened with his glory-,.