- Preface
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- Power of the Word
- A New Lifestyle
- Counterfeit Revivals—What's the Difference?
- Why Be Deceived?
- Can God's Law Be Changed?
- Alienated and Reconciled—How Does It Happen?
- Sanctification—Who Does the Work?
- No Room for Boasting
- Counterfeit Sanctification—Is It “Only Believe”?
- Sanctification—Total Commitment
- A Changed Life
- No Longer Condemned
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- This Is the Test
- Why Aren't Miracles Enough?
- Healing Can Be From the Devil
- False “Tongues” Identified in 1864
- Drums, Dancing, and Noise
- Bodies Out of Control
- Nudity
- Confusion
- Order Versus Impressions and Feelings
- Satan's Slaves
- “Inspired” by Drugs
- Pantheism, Spiritualism, and Free Love
- Irrational Behavior
- Pretending
- Claims to Holiness
- Whose Voice Can I Trust?
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- The Contest Following the Revival
- Peril of Confusing the Spirit's Work With Fanaticism
- Easy Ways to Lose the Blessing
- Danger of Light Becoming Darkness
- Spiritual Victory Lost to the Passions for Games
- The Child of God a Laborer With God
- Was the Blessing Cherished?
- A Blessing Turned Into a Curse
- Be Exceedingly Careful
- The Sin of Rejecting Evidence
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- At Battle Creek in Early Days
- Earnest Work at Tittabawassee, Michigan
- A Good Response in Battle Creek
- After Some Hesitancy a Response
- As She Begins Work in Switzerland
- At Christiana [Oslo], Norway
- Determination Indicated by Standing
- Backsliders Reclaimed in Basel
- An Outstanding Experience in Australia
- Non-Adventist Visitors Respond at Ashfield Church
- The Special Call at the Battle Creek College
- Called Forward in San Francisco
- A Similar Work in Every Church
- Response at General Conference of 1909
Pantheism, Spiritualism, and Free Love
The theory that God is an essence pervading all nature is one of Satan's most subtle devices. It misrepresents God and is a dishonor to His greatness and majesty. Pantheistic theories are not sustained by the Word of God. ... They gratify the natural heart and give license to inclination.—Testimonies For The Church 8:291.TR 60.1
The theory that God is an essence pervading all nature is received by many who profess to believe the Scriptures; but, however beautifully clothed, this theory is a most dangerous deception. It misrepresents God and is a dishonor to His greatness and majesty. And it surely tends not only to mislead, but to debase men. Darkness is its element, sensuality its sphere. ...These theories, followed to their logical conclusion, sweep away the whole Christian economy. They do away with the necessity for the atonement and make man his own savior.—The Ministry of Healing, 428, 429.TR 60.2
I have seen the results of these fanciful views of God, in apostasy, spiritualism, and free-lovism. The free love tendency of these teachings was so concealed that at first it was difficult to make plain its real character. Until the Lord presented it to me, I knew not what to call it, but I was instructed to call it unholy spiritual love.—Testimonies For The Church 8:292.TR 60.3
As in the days of the apostles men tried by tradition and philosophy to destroy faith in the Scriptures, so today, by the pleasing sentiments of higher criticism, evolution, spiritualism, theosophy, and pantheism, the enemy of righteousness is seeking to lead souls into forbidden paths. ... By spiritualism, multitudes are taught to believe that desire is the highest law, that license is liberty, and that man is accountable only to himself.—The Acts of the Apostles, 474.TR 60.4