"I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die" (Deut 18:18-20).

It seems to me that when a preacher presumes to stand before a dying people and teaches them that other things will "do as well as what Christ commands, because it is more fashionable, and looks better," is standing on very dangerous ground, to say the least.

I know I am not a pessimist, when I contend for "thus saith the Lord" in every thing we do in worship, or in governing the church; but that. I am warning the people, my brethren, that I love, as Moses did, but they seem to think I am interfering with their rights as Christians.

Brethren, please listen again to the warning of one who loved his brethren more than life, and also knew he must soon be separated from them and lie down and die for their hateful mouthings. "What things soever I command you, observe to do it, thou shalt not add thereunto, nor diminish from it" (Deut 12:32). Human nature has always been the same it seems.

"He came to His own, and His own received him not, 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" (John 1:11, 12). "Unto you first God, having raised up His Son, Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning every one of you away from his iniquities" (Acts 3:26). "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, it was necessary that the word of God should be spoken unto you; but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the ends of the earth" (Acts 13:46, 47). "Behold thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not and nations that knew not thee, shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, for He will abundantly pardon…So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where unto I sent it" (Isa 55:7, 11). So, it matters very little how men cut out God's word and substitute their own instead, as far as His purpose is concerned; God is not mocked. Introduce your fashionable fads, and follow "the Beast" to the end. It will only be the worse for you. It will be as in the days when the Jews rejected the teaching of Christ, except it will be an eternal instead of a temporal punishment.