"Yes, sir."

"If the cause of truth is being strengthened, and good is being done, don't you think you and your people ought to help pay for the use of the hall?"

"I would like to speak to that proposition for a moment. We came to this town last winter and occupied the schoolhouse for a while. When that was closed against us, we hired the hall, night after night, week in and week out. We paid our own expenses, and asked no man for a cent, feeling richly repaid by seeing precious souls coming out of darkness into light. We felt we had solemn, sacred truth for this day and generation, and we were willing to sacrifice something in order to give the bread of life to the people.

"Some opposing our work, sent for Elder Allen to tear it down. He came, and said, "Gentlemen, I have great light for you; I can tear down Adventism easy enough, but you must pay me a dollar per day and board. If you do that, I will cause the true light to shine forth; if not, I pass on, and leave you in your darkness.' You see, gentlemen, he loves you at the rate of one dollar per day and board. He has been overthrowing Adventism for a number of evenings, and is having a hard time of it, and wants help. The kind friends who are defraying his expenses do not think they are getting their money's worth, and so he asks us to help him tear down what we are building up. We beg to be excused." We thought best to let them hear their own burdens.

The Third Angel’s Message

We now come to the third and last message. Rev. 14: 9-12. It threatens the unmingled wine of the wrath of God against the beast worshipers and receivers of the mark. Any one can see that this is a last-day message. First, it is immediately followed by the coming of Christ on the white cloud to reap the harvest of the earth. verse 14. Second, "The wrath of God poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation," must be pure wrath without any mercy mingled with it, which can never be until mercy is no longer offered to sinners. So long as Jesus pleads for poor sinners before the throne, the unmingled wine of the wrath of God cannot come. So this message is to prepare men for the closing up of the gospel, and the day of wrath that follows. It is the most solemn, the most awful warning found in