Let Pioneers Identify Truth

When  the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand  forever as the truth. No after suppositions, contrary to the light God  has given are to be entertained. Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, but which are not truth. The  truth for this time, God has given us as a foundation for our faith. He  Himself has taught us what is truth. One will arise, and still another,  with new light which contradicts the light that God has given under the  demonstration of His Holy Spirit. {CW 31.2}

A  few are still alive who passed through the experience gained in the  establishment of this truth. God has graciously spared their lives to  repeat and repeat till the close of their lives, the experience through  which they passed even as did John the apostle till the very close of  his life. And the standard-bearers who have fallen in death, are to  speak through the reprinting of their writings. I am instructed that thus their voices are to be heard. They are to  bear their testimony as to what constitutes the truth for this time. {CW 32.1} {1SM 161.1} {Lt329-1905.18} {Ms99-1909.49}

We  are not to receive the words of those who come with a message that  contradicts the special points of our faith. They gather together a mass  of Scripture, and pile it as proof around their asserted theories. This  has been done over and over again during the past fifty years. And  while the Scriptures are God’s word, and are to be respected, the  application of them, if such application moves one pillar from the  foundation that God has sustained these fifty years, is a great mistake.  He who makes such an application knows not the wonderful demonstration  of the Holy Spirit that gave power and force to the past messages that  have come to the people of God.—Preach the Word, p. 5 (1905). {CW 32.2}

When  men come in who would move one pin or pillar from the foundation which  God has established by His Holy Spirit, let the aged men who were  pioneers in our work speak plainly, and let those who are dead speak  also by reprinting of their articles in our periodicals. Gather up the  rays of divine light that God has given as He has led His people on step  by step in the way of truth. This truth will stand the test of time and  trial. {Ms62-1905.20}