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The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

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    Cause of the Confusion

    We read in the same book of the necessity of harmony among the teachers: “Some who have formerly run deep into fanaticism would be the first now to run before God sends them, before they are purified from their past errors: having error mixed with the truth, they would feed the flock of God with it, and if they were suffered to go on, the flock would become sickly, and distraction and death would follow.”-Ibid., page 53.COOD 98.2

    This being the situation we can readily see that the very first thing “wanting” in establishing “order” among the Seventh-day Adventists was some regulation by which the flock might know who were approved ministers, who-not thus approved-were liable to teach them “pernicious errors.” About the year 1852, the Lord gave the following instruction, which was first published in “Supplement to Experience and Views,” in the summer of 1853:-COOD 98.3

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