Truth

Truth

The truth is an inspiration which gives health to the soul, through which operates nothing but good to the outward man.
Brother John Thomas**
The progress of the Truth is like the moving of a house;
it makes many dead halts, and when it moves, it is with much straining, and tediously slow.
The obstacle of the Gospel is the worldly prosperity of the people.
 Brother John Thomas**
The truth connects us with “the shoreless ocean of eternity,”
while the friendship of the world is confined to “a narrow neck of land”
– the brief existence of this animal probation.
The Christadelphian; 1915
“How much of the Truth may I give up
without imperiling my salvation?”
Not Any.
The Truth is our city of refuge:
-in it we are safe.
Immediately we wander outside of it,
our life is in danger.
– Brother Robert Roberts
Wisdom lies deep.
You have to dig for it: sweet when found, but hard to get at.
– Brother Robert Roberts
How came into our possession the literature which, in these last days,  makes the Bible again an unsealed book – Eureka, Elpis Israel, Christendom Astray , etc., etc.?


In what circumstances were these works produced?
Those who have read the “Life of Dr. Thomas,” and brother Roberts’, “My days and my ways,” know the answer.
They were produced amid difficulty and trouble, hostility, and misrepresentation,
as some similar work is being done to this day.
Well, for whose sake?
Let Christ say in the day of account.
Happy will they be to whom he will say:
Thou hast labored, and for my Name’s sake hast not fainted.
And these shall sing the song of the redeemed from among men.
Honor to whom honor is due. Such men do not seek it now, though not unthankful for a word of encouragement.
 And God approves this from faithful lips.
 The law said
“Thou shall not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.” 
Doth God take care for oxen, or said He it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, says Paul, this was written. Yet was he careful not to take his right in this, lest the doctrine be blasphemed.
And happy are the brethren to-day whose work is still a work of faith and labor of love, for God is not unrighteous to forget ( 1 Corinthians 15).
– The Christadelphian; 1913
When truth has once set her indelible seal on the minds and hearts of those who profess to love her, it forms the strongest and most enduring cement or bond of union that can be found to exist.
It unites our aims, and hopes, and desires;
“we share each others sorrows, and weep each others tears,” and partake each others joys.
– Sister Eusebia Lassius, (brother Thomas’ daughter); The Christadelphian 1868 pg 352
The Truth, followed in health, is sure to be balm in sickness.
There is no courage at the last like that which comes from the Truth.
– Brother Robert Roberts 1870
The truth is a tender plant and easily killed,
as shown by its extinction after an age of miracles. The reason is evident.

The truth in its leading doctrines is opposed to the natural mind.
Its wisdom is higher than the thoughts of man, as heaven is higher than the earth.
It is, to the natural man, foolishness; because God’s ways are not as man’s ways.
A constant attendance upon the word, which is the voice of the Spirit, will educate a man into the wisdom of God, and will hold him there if he continue the earnest heed  begun.
But in the absence of vigilance, the natural bias of the savage will gradually assert itself, and incline the heart to departure from the high thoughts and strict ways of the Spirit, which are distasteful to the mind of the flesh.
– Brother Robert Roberts; 1874
It is not the wise, the noble, and the rich of this world whom God employs in calling out a people for His Name.
He hath conferred this honor upon the unschooled, the weak, the ignoble, and the despised.
Neither does He condescend to seek patronage for His Truth.
It will patronize all men who will heartily accept it; but asks patronage of none.
– Brother John Thomas; Herald of the Kingdom & Age to Come; 1851 p. 211
Truth, like a prism, has many sides – all beautiful and consistent one with another.
Childlike docility in its study will open up treasures that are hid from the eyes of the proud.
– Brother Robert Roberts
Dr. Thomas is not an apostle as a matter of commission: but as a matter of fact, he has fulfilled the function of an apostle for the truth in relation to this age of the world.
He has brought to light and expounded the gospel when humanly speaking, it would never have been known in the nineteenth century.
His patient and clear minded studies, providentially directed, have extracted from the mists of theological absurdity on the one hand, and philosophical speculation on the other, the clear shining of the truth as harmoniously developed in the whole scriptures of Moses, the prophets, and the apostles, and his self-sacrificing labors have made it known over an extended circle which would otherwise have remained unilluminated.
This is a fact which no generous and candid mind can ignore.
It is a fact which entitles Dr. Thomas apart from all other considerations, to the deference and esteem of those who are sufficiently wise to appreciate the truth he has made manifest.
In saying this, we do not inculcate hero worship.
It is a scriptural principle to hold in reputation, and esteem highly those who are distinguished in the work of ministering the truth to perishing men; and this principle needs no defense.
It is only strictly accordant with the feeling which actuates the bosom of Deity, and which will find judicial expression in causing to shine as the stars those who have turned many to righteousness.
– Brother Robert Roberts; The Christadelphian; 1865
A three thousand years’ steady fulfillment
 of bible prophecy  is not to be brushed aside with a sneer or to be got rid of by wrapping our heads in a blanket.
God has revealed His purpose, and is steadily marching on, whether men understand it or not.
– Brother Robert Roberts
Our pioneers did not possess the material means available today, nor the help of large communities –
but because faith dominated their activities,
they did good in laying a sound foundation upon which we have been able to build.
Let us never forsake that foundation.
– Logos 1993
The Truth is but the doctrinal expression of the love which dwelt in the bosom of the Father from eternity; and when men get hold of the doctrines without the love, they get hold of a rose without the perfume.
– Brother Robert Roberts
The Truth has been recovered at much pains from the rubbish of the ages – and it is too precious to be treated carelessly.
It is very easy to bring down the heaps of rubbish again on the good foundation-
– Brother Robert Roberts
When we consider that God is from everlasting to everlasting, we may realize that the work He has been working in the earth since the day he put Adam upon it is a short work, though it seems so oppressively long
to small mortals like ourselves.
– Brother Robert Roberts
I have said with sincerity, and will say perhaps many times over again, because they are the  words of sober truth – that God has revived the Truth in our age by Dr. Thomas, and that the best work a man can put his hand to do, in this age,
is to defend the work against all assaults, whether the open antagonism of those who
call the Truth “blasphemy”
or the insidious attacks involved in theories that make the Word of God of none effect.
– Brother Robert Roberts
Let us not forget the object for which we have been called even now, “that we might shew forth the praises of Him who hath called us from darkness into His marvelous light.”
Even now are we the sons of God.
Even now are we His temple – if we are anything real in Christ.
Even now His praise will be our delight; thanksgiving the daily incense of our hearts; supplication the daily staff on which we lean.
If it be not so, how can we be fitted to enter the state in which “every one doth speak of His glory?”
– Brother Robert Roberts; The Christadelphian 1887
There is no love so genial, none so rich,
so pure and lasting as that which springs from a unity of interest in spiritual things.
The real joys of existence are all connected with the truth; outside the truth, there is nothing but doubt, anxiety, fear, distress, sin, and death.
They, therefore, make a great mistake who let the truth slip from any cause,
or who give the truth the second place in the economy of their life.
There are no circumstances that will justify such a mistake.
God will not accept any justification of it.
– Brother Robert Roberts; The Christadelphian; 1868 p.135
It is always good to have a reliable doctor to consult in times of ill-health; and the Brotherhood has one in Dr. Thomas!
The best cure for the present malaise is a good dose of the medicine found within the pages of Elpis Israel.
The Truth is there set forth vigorously, clearly, decisively; the difference between the ecclesia and the church is soundly stated; the key to prophecy that forms the Third Section cannot be effectively faulted.
Many problems in the Brotherhood come from derating such books as Elpis Israel; or from suggesting that to study the Bible with the aid of it is to surrender one’s independence, and give slavish deference to man.
Those who are interested in their eternal well being will ignore such talk.
– Brother H.P. Mansfield; 1984
No truth, much less the truth in whole or in part, has been established in this world without controversy.
So long as error exists, controversy must continue.
It is indispensable, not only to the overthrow of error, but to the preservation of truth.
– Brother Robert Roberts
“Truth needs few words;”
And we may add, that if the truth had never been  perverted by human tradition and folly, it would be self-evident.
– Brother John Thomas;  Herald of the Future Age; 1846
There is no evil we can think of that a cure is not provided
for in the gospel: no good we can desire but what is embraced in its covenants.
Having been put in possession of this most blessed hope, let us hold fast the confidence of it with the tenacity inspired by the conviction of its truth, and the certainty that at the last it will burst upon the world in glory, like the sun long hidden on a cloudy day.
– Brother Robert Roberts
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
And all are slaves besides.
Dr. Thomas
The Christadelphian
1865

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