W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

your houses, and do not bid him Godspeed; for he that says to him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds.” I
made an awful issue of it, saying to them, “This man whom I find to be an infidel, not even believing in the
soul's immortality, and utterly repudiating the new birth and all spirituality, has come to you and you have
received him into your house, actually joined his church and are bidding him Godspeed; all this notwithstanding
the fact that God positively tells you in His Word that if any one comes to you and does not bring this great
fundamental doctrine of the soul's immortality and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit you are not to receive him
into your house, nor to bid him Godspeed. If you do, you become “partakers of his evil deeds.” Then I said to
them: “God has sent me here to show you the awful thing you have done, receiving an infidel for your preacher,
who is worse than the heathen in the fact that they believe in the soul's immortality, but he rejects it altogether,
and at the same time repudiates our Savior's great and glorious doctrine of spiritual regeneration, the new birth
and the kingdom of God, thus establishing the heart by the Holy Ghost in this life. Therefore God will put me on
the witness block in the day of judgment to testify against you, if you do not repent of this awful mistake and
ask His pardoning mercy.”
About that time the old class-leader, who was serving as Skeel's moderator, just cried out, “Brethren, I have
been deceived and I want you to pray for me.” Then others around said the same.
So we had to turn the debate into a seeker's meeting to get the people reclaimed who had gone off after him. The
result was that they all saw what a mistake they had made and dropped him like a hot potato, then resumed their
places in the churches. The Campbellite Church discontinued altogether and the Methodists, rebuilding the
house, revived and live on to this day. You cannot find a Seventh Day Adventist anywhere about there. I live
within seven miles of that place and am satisfied that there is not a single one, though that man had built up a
big membership. I know no country anywhere that is clearer from that heresy than Kentucky, and especially all
of that region.
Thus you see the importance of open investigation which we are enabled to give the people in these public
discussions. Seventh Day Adventism is an awful infidelity, as the people saw when that man was brought face to
face with an opponent and forced either to defend his doctrine, which I had in the books, or reject it publicly. He
chose the former and as consequently forced to uncover his unapologizable infidelity to all of the people, and
they said outright they had been deceived.
Therefore they dropped him, and his church and every vestige of his movement evanesced away, leaving not a
trace, nor a track.
This heresy of Seventh Day Adventism is widely spread over the whole country. It is verily a soul poison,
destitute of a solitary redeeming truth. It is sugar-coated infidelity. Satan very adroitly sugar-coats all of his pills,
so that people will take them thus imbibing the soul poison which brings certain destruction soon or late. How
significantly God says, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” That case was peculiar in the fact that this
heresy was utterly new and they had enjoyed no available opportunities to study it; therefore this able and
captious preacher lassoed them quickly.
Another point peculiar in their case was that they were all acquainted with me and had confidence in my
veracity; so that: when I lifted the mask and revealed the infidel monstrosity they shrank with horror and gladly
retraced the steps but recently taken. Hemerolatry,, I, e., day worship, is the idolatry peculiar to the Seventh Day
Adventists. They idolize the Mosaic Sabbath, preaching the holyday instead of a holy heart, without which all
are forever lost, day or no day. “Sabbath” is a Hebrew word and means rest. It is the perfect, rest which the
sanctified soul receives in Jesus. Therefore with holy people all days are holy; The first Christians were all Jews,
and consequently kept, both of the Sabbaths, the Mosaic and the Christian, as long as they lived. The Gentile
Christians never did keep the Mosaic Sabbath and were not required to do it, Acts 15, but they did keep the first
day of the week, Acts 20:7; I Cor 2:16. The Seventh Day Adventists tell us the Pope changed the Sabbath. It is
easy to tell it, but they cannot prove it, because there never was a Pope until the seventh century, and the
disciples kept the first day of the week without a break from the Lord's resurrection.
Confirmation of this we have in Roman history in abundance. Sallust, Seutonius and Pliny, who lived and wrote
in the first century of the Christian Era and faithfully chronicled all the notable current events, though pagans
themselves manifested great candor and veracity which I cannot doubt in their narration of the coming and