persons unknown to each other, and strangers to our conflicts in England, unite in testimony that they could get nothing honest from those who were connected with it, or who did not openly reject it all.”[1]
Strong enough, you will admit, especially when you remember those godly men, whose praise is in all the churches—Craik and Müller—and also that nothing honest can come from us if we do “not openly reject it all.” Reject it all! God forbid! Mr. Craik was my Hebrew examiner at college. I had opportunities of hearing him preach, and looking upon his saintly piety. And Mr. Müller, too—that man of faith and prayer! Reject it all! Again I say, God forbid! for the one is now before the Throne, and the other is a standard-bearer, who cheers many a faint heart by his simple faith and valiant courage. God has received them ; and who art thou that condemnest another man’s servant? To their own Master they shall stand or fall. Yea, they shall be holden up; for God is able to make them stand.
And, that you may not think the citation we have made a mere casual expression of the moment, I note that in a new edition of one of Mr. Darby’s works the same sentiments are found. He says “I reject Bethesda as wickedness, as I ever did.” Again, “I broke with Bethesda, and I reject it still.”[2] Nor is this condemnation spoken only of the system. Mr. Groves tells us in the pamphlet cited above, that by one of Mr. Darby’s party, Messrs. Craik and Müller were spoken of as “the two blasphemers at Bristol,” that others called the Orphan Houses “a work of the devil;” and that Mr. Craik was said to be “a Socinian.” From another pamphlet published at Bristol, entitled Shibboleth, I might easily collect stronger (!) language, but I forbear. I will only add that the acts of “the Brethren” of the Darbyite party have corresponded
- ↑ Christian Obedience, etc. p. 23.
- ↑ The Sufferings of Christ, pp. 9-10.
