Heralding the Loud Cry: Progression of Light from 1888

Part 4 - Light for Our Generation 202
Christ My Right-doing 218
A Call to Immediate Action 236
References 258
FOREWORD
Heralding the Loud Cry is a precious book, containing progressive light and truth for our time in relation to the Loud Cry of the Fourth Angel. Each chapter of the book reveals newer and deeper spectrums of this multifaceted diamond of truth – as if one were holding the diamond up towards the sun, light permeates off its illuminated sides in every direction, radiating outward, upward, downward and inward. In beautiful simplicity Camron Schofield shares the 18 gems of wisdom he has collected on Righteousness by Faith in his personal sojournings out of spiritual Egypt to the Red Sea Shore. Consider each one of these sermons on Righteousness by Faith a unique and precious stone that can you can yet polish and beautify further in the experience of your own life.
Perhaps as you proceed through the studies, you will hear the voice of Jesus saying to you in a gentle whisper: “Take my yoke (doctrine) upon you. For my yoke (doctrine) is easy, and my burden is light.“ (Matthew 11:29-30). This message of a personal, living Saviour, who has become at-one with us in our experience, to give us complete victory over sin, and power to obey the gospel, could not be more dear to the Christian pilgrim who hungers and thirsts for Christ’s righteousness in a time where pure truth is not widely found.
‘Tis true the message of Righteousness by Faith is an old message! From the commencement of the reformation until the early 1900’s it has spilled forth from the lips and pens of Martin Luther, John Bunyan, Charles Spurgeon, Ellen G. White, Elett J. Waggoner and Alonzo T. Jones and many others. However, the reality is that this message has never been properly understood by Christendom at large. So God in His providence has provided yet a clearer message in the pages of this book, to open up this understanding to the minds of His people so they cannot miss it this time around in the closing scenes of earth’s history!
The prophetic theme of this book is the Loud Cry of Revelation 18:2, which is the warning message given to the world, by a company of people here on earth (represented by an angel in prophecy) to “come out of Babylon.” The problem is, many Christians do not realise that the Loud Cry itself is a message that is designated to fit a people in righteousness (Christ’s perfect obedience) before God without an intercessor, so they can give the final message to the world to come out of Babylon.
The world’s most accomplished female writer, Ellen Gould White, who penned the Spirit of Prophecy, clearly identified the Loud Cry was infact the message of Christ Our Righteousness or Righteousness by Faith which she had been preaching for 45 years prior to the Minneapolis Conference.
The message is certainly a common thread in all her prophetic writings but as with past generations the people were spiritually blind and could not discern it. Henceforth God out of necessity raised up two new messengers in the succeeding generation to voice and pen the message in even clearer tones.
The book The Everlasting Covenant should have become a famous literary work by Ellet J. Waggoner in Adventist circles. At the 1888 Minneapolis Meeting he communicated the message of Righteousness by Faith in the simplest language from draft notes that would later compile the chapters of his book. In the proceeding years Ellet J. Waggoner and Alonzo T. Jones had the full support of Ellen G. White, who travelled far and wide across the country to be at the very side of the messengers as they spoke to Christian congregations.
Despite God’s extenuating efforts to communicate the Loud Cry message more simply through His servants, to prepare a people to give the Three Angels Messages to the world, the message was again misunderstood, unheeded and rejected by the majority of people.
Ellen G. White states in several places in the Spirit of Prophecy that had the people understood the message of Christ Our Righteousness and been faithful in proclaiming it, the Lord would have come in only a few years from that time (1888). But as a consequence of the ministers and the people rejecting the message, the sealing time was delayed and the Church was sent back into the wilderness, spiritually speaking.
In the 1895 General Conference Bulletins, Alonzo T. Jones gave the address to the ministers that we cannot call a people out of Babylon (out of the world and the fallen churches), if we are not out of Babylon (sin) ourselves. He reiterated the point: how can you call people out of sin if you are still sinning – it can’t be done.
This was the dilemma of a sister in 1888, who did not feel she was making progress fast enough to be ready for Christ’s soon return. A brother in the faith expresses her sentiments in the following quote:
“A sister told me not long ago that before that time four years ago she had just been lamenting her estate and wondering how in the world the time was ever going to come for the Lord to come if He had to wait for His people to get ready to meet him. For she said the way she had been at it--and she had worked as hard as anybody in this world, she thought--she saw that she was not making progress fast enough to bring the Lord in any kind of reasonable time at all, and she could not make out how the Lord was going to come.
“She was bothered about it, but she said when the folks came home from Minneapolis and they said, ‘Why the Lord’s righteousness is a gift; we can have the righteousness of Christ as a gift, and we