[Manna - August 20]
Whom therefore, ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you. Acts 17:23
THE apostle's method is worthy of imitation.
All
wise people distrust novelty, and incline to say that
whatever is valuable has long been.
We, like the
apostle, should endeavor to show that the true gospel
is not a new theology, but the old theology; not a
new gospel, but the old gospel,—the one foretold to
Abraham;...the one declared by the Lord Jesus Himself
and by all His apostles.
In proportion as we
would show that errors prevail today, which had their
origin in the "dark ages", we must show that we are
not forging a new theory equally erroneous, but that
we have discarded the errors of the dark ages, and
have gone back to the first principles and precepts
and instructions of the gospel, as announced by the
Lord and His authorized representatives, the apostles. Z.'03-29 R3139:4