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“We hear a great deal today about the Sunday law of the Roman Emperor Constantine, 321 AD. Why is it that we do not hear about the corrupt Bible which Constantine adopted and promulgated, the version which for 1800 years has been exploited by the forces of heresy and apostasy? This Bible, we regret to say, lies at the bottom of many versions which now flood the publishing houses, the schools, the churches, yes, many homes, and are bringing confusion and doubt to untold millions. Down through the centuries, the pure Bible, the Living Word of God, has often faced the descendants of this corrupt Version, robed in splendor and seated on the throne of power. It has been a battle and a march, a battle and a march. God’s Holy Word has always won; to its victories we owe the very existence of Christian civilization and all the happiness we now have and hope for in eternity. And now, once again, in these last days, the battle is being renewed, the affections and the control of the minds of men are being contended for by these two rival claimants.” (B.G. Wilkinson, Our Authorized Bible Vindicated, 1930, p.5)

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“We have no need of justifying the idea that the material universe was created out of absolutely nothing. But “nothing,” as generally understood, means merely no substance appreciable by our senses. It does not exclude spiritual substance as pre-existing with God Himself. Paul explains this in Hebrews 11: 3. He says we understand by faith that the worlds were not framed “of things which do appear.” God may have created, and doubtlessly did create, what we call matter out of spiritual substance coexisting with Himself from eternity.” (Geo. McCready Price, Outlines of Modern Science and Modern Christianity, 1902, p. 16)

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“The services at this Exeter encampment were dragging perceptibly. Joseph Bates was in the speaker's stand, seeking to quicken the hearts of the hearers and to enlighten their minds. But he was making little progress. In the rather informal style of those open air meetings a middle- aged, quiet- spoken woman arose and addressed him thus:

‘It is too late to spend our time upon these truths with which we are familiar, and which have been blessed to us in the past, and have served their purpose and their time ‘
The preacher sat down. Every eye was fixed on this woman as she continued:

‘it is too late brethren to spend precious time as we have since this camp meeting commenced. Time is short. The Lord has servants here who have meat in due season for His household. Let them speak, and let the people hear them. Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him’

[Samuel] Snow had come on the campground. He had hardly dismounted from his panting horse before the word spread around that there was a man who had a message. That is what the middle- aged sister meant when she interrupted Bates’ discourse. When Snow had presented his views the whole spirit of the camp meeting was changed. A tentful of fanatics from Watertown, Massachusetts, who had inflicted themselves on the camp, and whose influence was growing because of the idle curiosity of many who gathered about them, now became silent. They seemed smitten dumb by the awesome message. The campers had something more important to give ear to. They must make ready for the coming of the Lord in a little more than two months. Writing of this camp meeting only three years afterwards when the memory of it was still vivid, Bates told of setting out for the meeting with the thought constantly coming to his mind: ‘You are going to have new light here, something that will give a new impetus to this work.’” (F. D. Nichol, The Midnight Cry, 1944, 214-215)

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“Satan has no power to force a man arbitrarily to do wrong. If he did have that power, the wrong would be solely in him, and not in the man thus forced. All evil, as all good, lies in the mind that directs the action…

So God cannot force the mind arbitrarily to dictate good actions. To do that would be to destroy individual identity, and make all men but machines to manifest God's mind. The power of Satan is therefore solely the power to lead men who submit their minds to him, into evil. And the power of God to redeem the world is solely the power of his love to lead men who submit their minds to him, into righteousness God's power is there for his love.” (G.E. Fifield, God is Love, 1897, p.16-17)

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“If Egypt offered ground for the germination of the seed of pagan education, Greece brought the plant to its seed- producing state; and Rome, acting as the wind with the thistle down, scattered pagan education broadcast. Of Rome we read: “it gathered into its arms the elements of Grecian and Oriental culture, and as its end drew nigh, it scatters them freely over the rest of Europe. Rome has been the bearer of culture to the modern world.” (E.A. Sutherland, Living Fountains and Broken Cisterns, 1900, p. 101)

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“It is possible for men to possess wealth and be philanthropic, unselfish and truly pious. To make money honestly is no sin. It is God who gives men power to get wealth. To possess riches is no offence, if they are honorably and honestly acquired. the Bible condemns no man for being rich, if he has got his riches honestly and uses them properly. It is the love of money that is the root of all evil. Money itself is not an evil. It is neither good nor bad. It is simply an agency or power through which good or ill may come. By it blessings may be distributed, or evils entailed. Wealth may prove a great blessing to its possessor, if he realizes that it is not his own, but that it has been given him of God to be used in blessing mankind. But if hoarded and unused, or possessed and misused, it can be only a blight and a curse.” (Edgar Torrey Russell, The Conflict between Capital and labor, 1905, p.19)

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“Into this picture of poverty and ignorance framed in racial discrimination step these workers [J. E. White, Will Otis Palmer, F.W. Halladay etc.] on January 10, 1895, to work exclusively for negroes.

Previous to their arrival an unfortunate disturbance involving a white religious worker among negroes had occurred, but this did not seem to hamper the work of White and his group. Several innovations helped them gain entrance into the homes of the people. Since many colored lived on or near the levees, a loud blast of the ship's horn was enough to bring them to the water's edge to see what was going on. Old clothes gathered for the purpose of winning the people's hearts were passed out along with broken crackers from the Battle Creek Foods Company. These acts did win hearts, and White and Palmer were invited to a Baptist Church to preach. Meetings were also held in the open air, on the boat and occasionally back from the river. Aid from an unexpected quarter was found in the Women's Christian temperance Union. White cooperated with them when they spoke in the white Methodist and Baptist churches. As negroes sat on the back rows of the churches, it was easy to find interested as well as rather capable negroes, secure their names, and visit them in their homes.

On Sabbath, White and his group would go out upon the lake to hold their Sabbath services. One evening as they came down the plank, they were met by a group led by Hannah Washington who inquired if Cap’n White was having a service out on the boat. When he replied in the affirmative she burst forth that she had known of the Sabbath for some time as a relative of Burrell Creecy, Will Street, a railroad fireman, had read to them from a book found on the train that the Sabbath was right. By the summer of 1895, there were 25 Sabbath keepers in Vicksburg. Theirs was the “chain gang church”- the church building was across from the jail.” (Jacob Justiss, Angels in Ebony, 1975, 25-26)

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“What is called public opinion is the basis of all our lawmaking. If public opinion is wholesome and intelligent, we may reasonably expect wholesome and beneficent laws. If, through ignorance or the dissemination of untruthful information, public opinion becomes misguided or perverted, the effect is shown in our laws; for our lawmakers are expected to obey the express wishes of a majority of the people.

If the people are misled, as has been known to happen, they may demand and obtain legislation that is not only dangerous to their interests but destructive of the very agencies that should defend their rights and preserve their liberties; for a law may be very bad in its application, and at the same time constitutional. the people's great bulwark against oppression and injustice, the Supreme Court of the United states, cannot make laws. It can only interpret them. The responsibility for bad laws usually rests upon misinformation spread among the people.” (Benjamin Dulaney, Caesar’s Tax, 1924, p.24-25)

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“Under the previous dispensation, when almost every spiritual truth had its material form and expression, in the types and symbols of the ceremonial law, the special dwelling of God, by His spirit, in the hearts of the true Israel, the spiritual children of believing Abraham, and thus his dwelling “among” them, as composing one household of faith, was signified by a visible sign, a magnificent house, in the holy city, of the holy land, of the peculiar people; and in that house a Mercy Seat; and above that symbol of the throne of the reconciled and gracious Jehovah, a visible Glory, the sacramental sign of the special presence of God.” (Charles Petit M’ilvaine, The True Temple, 1861, p.7-8)