The Law in Galatians

³When they came into the meeting in the morning I was surprised to hear
Elder _____ make the kind of speech he did before a large audience of
believers and unbelievers‹a speech which I knew could not be dictated by
the Spirit of the Lord. He was followed by Elder _____, who made remarks
of the same order, before Brother A began his talk, which was all
calculated to create sympathy, which I knew was not after God¹s order.
It was human but not divine. And for the first time I began to think it
might be we di d not hold correct views, after all, upon the law in
Galatians, for the truth required no such spirit to sustain it.²

‹1888:221. 

³I am forced, by the attitude my brethren have taken and the spirit
evidenced, to say, God deliver me from your ideas of the law in
Galatians, if the receiving of these ideas would make me so unchristian
in my spirit, words, and works as many who ought to know better have
been. I see not the divine credentials accompanying you. I am warned
again and again of what will be the result of this warfare you have
persistently maintained against the truth.² 

‹1888:841, 842.

³I am asked concerning the law in Galatians. What law is the
schoolmaster to bring us to Christ? I answer: Both the ceremonial and
the moral code of ten commandments...²

‹1SM 233, 234; (Manuscript 87, 1900).


³The same spirit of resistance is to be found even among those who claim
to believe the truth for this time. The gospel of Christ, His lessons,
His teachings, have had but very little place in the experience and the
discourses of those who claim to believe the truth. Any pet theory, any
human idea, becomes of the gravest importance and as sacred as an idol
to which everything must bow.

³This has verily been the case in the theory of the law in Galatians.
Anything that becomes such a hobby as to usurp the place of Christ, any
idea so exalted as to be placed where nothing of light or evidence can
find a lodgment in the mind, takes the form of an idol, to which
everything is sacrificed. The law in Galatians is not a vital question
and never has been. Those who have called it one of the old landmarks
simply do not know what they are talking about. It never was an old
landmark, and it never w ill become such. These minds that have been
wrought up in such an unbecoming manner, and have manifested such fruits
as have been seen since the Minneapolis meeting, may well begin to
question whether a good tree produces such evidently bitter fruit.

³I say, through the word given me of God, ŒThose who have stood so
firmly to defend their ideas and positions on the law in Galatians have
need to search their hearts as with a lighted candle, to see what manner
of spirit has actuated them.¹

 ³With Paul I would say, ŒWho hath bewitched you, that you should not
 obey the truth?¹ (Galatians 3:1). What satanic persistency and
 obstinacy has been evidenced! I have had no anxiety about the law in
 Galatians, but I have had anxiety that our leading brethren should not
 go over the same ground of resistance to light and the manifest
 testimonies of the Spirit of God, and reject everything to idolize
 their own supposed ideas and pet theories.

³I am forced, by the attitude my brethren have taken and the spirit
evidenced, to say, ŒGod deliver me from your ideas of the law in
Galatians, if the receiving of these ideas would make me so unchristian
in my spirit, words, and works as many who ought to know better have
been.¹ I see not the divine credentials accompanying you. I am warned
again and again of what will be the result of this warfare you have
persistently maintained against the truth.²

‹9MR 716.