Dr. Thomas has been nearly 17 years in his grave. The Truth's friends are vastly more numerous than they were at the time of his death. On the other hand, progress has been checked by internal convulsions. The formal renunciation of a vital element of the Truth concerning the sacrifice of Christ, and more recently the formal promulgation of the doctrine that the Bible is only partly inspired and is marred by errors due to the participation of human authorship, have caused division and alienation.
The blame of the dissension lies with those who set the cause in motion, and not with those whom that cause left no alternative but action against it. Supineness of action might have preserved the union of persons, but it would have been at the expense of purity and spiritual strength on the only basis that can hold people profitably together.
Both defections have been characterized by an animus against Dr. Thomas' writings. Events have justified the Providential arrangements by which their continuous publication has been secured against the hostility of such as have only partly loved or partly understood the Truth which the author of those writings has been instrumental in reviving in our day and generation. -- Chdn. Mag. Jan. 1888
Error, and opposition to bro. Thomas' sound expositions (including Revelations) go hand in hand.--G. V. Growcott.
