p. 261 | THOSE ROBES AGAIN by J. A. Oppy

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

THOSE ROBES AGAIN.

By J. A. Oppy

BY J. A. OPPY.

While on a visit to my parents in Illinois last winter, a certain minister with whom I had occasion to converse said, “The Adventists at Ind., in 1844, had their robes ready to go when the Lord came.” I asked, “Did you have robes?” He replied that he did not. “How do you know they had any?” I said, “I heard they had them,” he replied. I assured him that that was as near as any ever came to seeing the ascension robes of 1844 Adventists.

I protest against wearing robes which other people, especially our enemies, make for us. The robes we are anxious to wear are given to us not by our enemies, however, but by the Lord Jesus Christ. Speaking to his remnant people, he says, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;” and again, “They shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.” The blood-washed robes can be worn in the kingdom of God. Those who do not choose to wear the white robes (Rev. 19:8), are those who, when the King asks why they have not put on the wedding garment, will be “speechless.”

There are but two restrictions which the Bible places upon anything. It forbids that which is evil and wrong, and excess in that which is