would be taught to examine more carefully the foundation of their faith , and to reject everything , however widely accepted by the Christian world , that was not founded upon the Scriptures of truth .
With these believers , as with the first disciples , that which in the hour of trial seemed dark to their understanding would afterward be made plain . When they should see the " end of the Lord " they would know that , notwithstanding the trial resulting from their errors , His purposes of love toward them had been steadily fulfilling . They would learn by a blessed experience that He is " very pitiful , and of tender mercy ;" that all His paths " are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies ."
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