unclean thing; and I will receive you."-2 Cor. 6:14-17.

Hear what the Lord says: Come out from among such ones. These religious creeds and associations organized by men, make a regular spiritual confusion, which the word of God terms Babylon; and the time has now come when God is calling his people out of such. He says in Col. 2:10, "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."-Ver. 9." And in Rev. 18:4 he says, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." As the light and truth of God's word goes forth it draws the line between God's church and the creeds of men. God has many children in the various creeds, but from the scripture just quoted we find that he is calling them out, because their rules and disciplines and regulations so separate and divide the people of God that they do not dare to believe alike, and God in his word says it is his will that they be of one mind, one accord, one heart, and all speak the same thing. They will never do so as long as they stay in the various creeds of division. This is one of the yokes that needs to be taken off, or for a person to get out from under in order to get the experience set forth in the word of God. People often think they must join some so-called church or association in order to have a home, just as if the Word was not true where it says,

"Ye are complete in him;" and he is our Father, Jesus Christ our elder brother, and all who are children of God our brothers and sisters; all belong to the same family, and are at home when we are in Christ Jesus. The children of God who are in heaven and those who are on earth are all of the same family. Eph. 3:15. "And by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body."-1 Cor. 12:13. And he says: "There should be no schism or division in the body." -1 Cor. 12:25. There are so many who fail to meet the conditions on this line, who are unwilling to take the Lord alone. Some say they must join a visible church. The Word says, "Ye are members in particular," and, "He sets the members in the church as it pleaseth him," and his body is the church. And in 1 Cor. 12:27 we read: "Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." We are born into this family through a spiritual birth; therefore being members of the family of God, or his church through a spiritual birth, can we not be seen? are we not visible just as much as if we were to join some creed?

Now to make it more plain to the minds of some who may not fully understand that these religious denominations do divide God's children, we will give an illustration: Suppose a minister were to come into a place, and preach the word of God and say nothing about joining anything but Christ, and one hundred people were to get saved. If they had never been

taught anything about sectism, they would be of the same mind, they would all be one. But now suppose

soon after four other ministers were to come into the same locality, one a Roman Catholic, another a Methodist, another a Quaker, another a Baptist, and they begin to preach that they must join something else besides the Lord. So each minister gets twenty-five of the one hundred to join his creed. Their disciplines or rules of their so-called churches are different in so many ways, that the one hundred now do not dare to believe alike or they will be turned out of their sect. The Baptists will not have them unless they are baptized; the Quakers will not baptize; the Roman Catholics sprinkle with holy water, do penance, say mass, pray for people in purgatory; the Methodists do not believe in this. Some of these in one or the other of the creeds may believe in living a holy life, while others fight it. Many points in the belief of their creeds will not permit them to be of the same mind, whereas before this sectish doctrine was imbibed through this false teaching they were all of one mind, and belonged to Christ alone, the same as people in the days of the apostles, the same as God desires his children to be, and says they will be in the last days; and we are now living in the last days, in the time when God is calling his children out from all such divisions wherein they have been unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

The Holy Ghost is the sanctifier (Rom. 15:16), and

is received by those who obey him. Acts 5:32. There must be a covenant made with the Lord to do his whole will, and to walk in all the light of his word, and we are to offer ourselves a "living sacrifice," according to Rom. 12:1. Everything that is in opposition to the will of God must be laid aside, and a separation be made from such; and until we reach that point where we are willing to do these things the conditions will not have been met.

THE CONSECRATION.

It is one thing to know what to do and how to do it, and what the results will be, and another to get at it and see that the work is done. Consecration, when brought to the Bible standard for full salvationmeans far more than many people have an idea, or realize. It means a separation from everything that is not of God, and a willingness to obey the whole will of God, a perfect submission to the same. Everything must be placed completely into the hands of the Lord; time, talents, reputation, self, and, in fact, everything we know, and everything we do not know: and we must reach the point where we can call upon God for the cleansing, and say, "Thy will, Lord, not mine, be done." We dare not let the least thing stand in our way of making a perfect consecration. There may be many obstacles which the enemy would try to make us

believe are in the way of our ever attaining to this experience, but God requires no impossibilities of us. When we put all on the altar, all we know, all we do not know, that includes the future as well as the present, and then whatever comes up we can truly say, "Lord, that was in the covenant, that is included in what was placed upon the altar, Christ Jesus." But now when all is given up to God in this way, then the consecration is complete.

Some, again, give up all but one thing, and often give that up in their own way; but God requires a perfect consecration, a perfect sacrifice. In olden times under the law the people brought an animal for sacrifice, and it was examined by the priests, and if only a very small blemish was found upon it the sacrifice was not acceptable, but was rejected. And none were accepted, only such as were perfect, or free from every blemish. Just so it is when a person comes and offers himself a sacrifice unto the Lord for cleansing. Nothing but a perfect consecration and sacrifice without blemish will be received of the Lord. He knows very well when it is complete, and just as soon as it is complete and the Word fulfilled on our part, then his part stands already fulfilled. One may be able to give up readily all except some friend. Another may have no trouble in giving up friends, but may have some property, or some business, or worldly conformity, or some idol of like nature, which he is not quite willing to give up; but unless people are willing to separate as