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and again in the progress of this cause. It is the device of the great
adversary of souls to hinder the work of God. When souls that are upon
the point of deciding in favor of the truth are thus left to unfavorable
influences, they lose their interest, and it is very rarely that so powerful
an impression can again be made upon them. Satan is ever seeking
some device to call the minister from his field of labor at this critical
point, that the results of his labors may be lost.—
Manuscript 1, 1878
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