To Those of Little Experience
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would live a little poorer, and give to the cause of God, to help forward
the truth, it would be a sacrifice on their part, and when God rewards
every man according to their works, it will be remembered by him.
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Irreverence.
I saw that God’s Holy Name should be used with reverence, and
awe. Said the angel, “Couple them not together; for fearful is His
Name.” I saw that God Almighty was coupled together, and used
by some in meeting in a careless, thoughtless manner, which was
displeasing to God. They have no realizing sense of God, or the truth;
or they would not speak so irreverently of the great and dreadful God,
who is soon to judge them in the last day. Those who realize the
greatness and majesty of God, will take his name on their lips with
holy awe. He dwelleth in light inapproachable; no man can see him
and live. I saw that these things would have to be understood and
corrected where they exist, before the church can prosper.
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False Shepherds.
I have been shown the false shepherds, that they were drunk, but
not with wine; they stagger but not with strong drink. The truth of God
is sealed up to them; they cannot read it. When they are interrogated
as to what the seventh-day Sabbath is, whether it is the true Sabbath
of the Bible, they lead the mind to fables. I saw that the prophets were
like the foxes of the deserts. They have not gone up into the gaps, they
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have not made up the hedge, that the people of God may stand in the
battle in the day of the Lord. When these shepherds see the minds of
any stirred up, and they begin to inquire of them about the truth, they
take the easiest and best manner for themselves, to quiet their minds
and effect their object, even to the changing of their own position.
Light has shone to many of these shepherds; but they would not
acknowledge it, but have changed their position a number of times to
evade the truth, and get away from conclusions that they must come
to, if they continued in their former positions; while the power of truth