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from http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=LDE&lang=en&pagenumber=293 The Salvation of Infants and Imbeciles   As the little infants come forth immortal from their dusty beds, they immediately wing their way to their mother's arms. They meet again nevermore to part. But many of the little ones have no mother there. We listen in vain for the rapturous song of triumph from the mother. The angels receive the motherless infants and conduct them to the tree of life.— Selected Messages 2:260 (1858) . Some questioned whether the little children of even believing parents should be saved, because they have had no test of character and all must be tested and their character determined by trial. The question is asked, “How can little children have this test and trial?” I answer that the faith of the believing parents covers the children, as when God sent His judgments upon the first-born of the Egyptians.... Whether all the children of unbeliev...

David’s   Dancing   Not a Precedent —David’s   dancing   in reverent joy before God has been cited by pleasure lovers in justification of the fashionable modern dance, but there is no ground for such an argument. In our day   dancing   is associated with folly and midnight reveling. Health and morals are sacrificed to pleasure. By the frequenters of the ballroom God is not an object of thought and reverence; prayer or the song of praise would be felt to be out of place in their assemblies. This test should be decisive. Amusements that have a tendency to weaken the love for sacred things and lessen our joy in the service of God are not to be sought by Christians. The music and   dancing   in joyful praise to God at the removal of the ark had not the faintest resemblance to the dissipation of modern   dancing . The one tended to the remembrance of God and exalted His holy name. The other is a device of Satan to cause men to forget God and to di...

Harp And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. Rev 14:2 etc...  Trumpet And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. Rev 8:2 etc...  Drums  none, see 100 reasons not to use drums Timbrels, Tabrets [Description of Lucifer and his fall] Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone   was   thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou   art   the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee   so : thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou   wast...

Bible Revelation 12:7-17 King James Version (KJV) 7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. EGW/SOP Avoid Party Strifes Men have confederated to oppose the Lord of hosts. These confederacies will continue until Christ shall leave His place of intercession before the mercy seat, and shall put on the garments of vengeance. Satanic agencies are in every city, busily organizing into parties those opposed to the law of God. Professed saints and avowed unbelievers take their stand with these parties. This is no time for the people of God to be weaklings. We cannot afford to be off   our guard for a moment.— Testimoni...