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Originally Posted by Ohio

Wm. Kelly was the "Ron Kangas" of the Darby world, who edited and compiled all of Darby's work. Kelly was loyal to Darby for decades, yet was excommunicated by the true Darby "Park Street" clan (could be considered the Blendeds of old.) His expulsion was every bit as absurd as Newton's and Muller's.

Here is something of Kelly's testimony, posted elsewhere on this forum:

Originally Posted by Wm Kelly

As you wish for some personal reminiscences of the late J.N.D., I go back to my first intercourse with him in the summer of 1845 at Plymouth. For though I had been for years in communion before this, it had not been my lot to see him for whom above all others I had conceived, because of his love and testimony to Christ, profound respect and warm affection. I was then living in the Channel Islands, in one of which I began to break bread with three sisters in Christ, before ever looking a "brother" in the face. It was in J. B. Rowe's shop, Whimple Street, that we met; and very cordial and frank was his greeting... But a little matter of a private kind will interest you and your readers, as it gave me (some twenty years or so his junior), a practical lesson. When dining with Mr. Darby, he by the way said, "I should like to tell you how I live. Today I have more than usual on your account. But it is my habit to have a small hot joint on Saturday, cold on Lord's day, cold on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, and on Thursday. On Friday I am not sorry to have a bit of chop or steak; then the round begins again." I too, like Mr. Darby, had been ascetic as a young Christian, and had been reduced, by general indifference to outward life, so low that the physician prescribed as essential what had been discarded in self-denial. How uncommon to find a mind endowed with the rarest power of generalisation, able to come down like the apostle, and impress on a young disciple, eating, drinking, or whatever is done, to do all unto God's glory!...

By so little Kelly came under Darby's sway, by his eating and drinking? Incredible! I'm all for self-control, but this is ridiculous. "The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit."