development of fresh circumstances and new complexities to bring fully to light, for new events will drive home this destructive wedge more and more, and unless God interfere, we know too well what the end will be—an end in full accord with the course of this world, the consummation of which we are so fast approaching. Let him that readeth understand!
CHAPTER V.
We have now to trace schism unrepented of developing itself into heresy, and that no longer accidentally brought in, but systematically maintained. It was, as we have seen, about twenty years ago that Mr. Darby commenced his attack on Mr. Newton on the ground of heresy, and now we find two of his leading followers, Mr. Dorman and Captain Percy Hall, leaving him for holding views which they regard as identically the same.[1] We had heard of these views put forth by Mr. Darby, as has been already alluded to, but we had hoped that they were rather hastily written thoughts than firmly rooted opinions, for the maintenance of which he was prepared again to sacrifice his party of “the one assembly” on the altar of his ambition. From various quarters have been heard rumours of dissatisfaction amongst his followers because of views promulgated by their chief and re-echoed by others; but we were unprepared for the state of things which the pamphlets written by Mr. Dorman and Capt. Hall bring to light. The pamphlets reveal nothing new in regard to Mr. Darby’s own views, to those who have seen what
- ↑ Captain Hall, writing of Mr. Darby’s views, says, “So like are they to Mr. Newton’s doctrines, that even had they not been as bad in themselves as I judge them to be, I should be quite unable to maintain the place of what is called testimony against Mr. Newton while connected with those who hold what I think to be as bad.” We hope our brother will soon be led out of his testimony as against Mr. Newton or any one else, into a simple testimony for Christ, which would clear his path of many difficulties that seem still to encompass it.
