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tenaciously. If you were more willing to be counseled by those you
should confide in, and trust less to your own feelings and impressions,
the result for yourself and for the cause of God would be far better.
I was shown that you made a mistake in starting to Europe without
a companion. If you had, before starting, selected you a godly woman
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who could have been a mother to your children, you would have done
a wise thing, and your usefulness would have been tenfold to what it
has been.—
Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce,
34, 35
.
Remarriage of S. N. Haskell
[
Elder Haskell’s first wife died in 1894. In 1897, when he remar-
ried, he was 64 and his new wife, Hettie Hurd, was 40.
]
We received Brother Haskell’s letter the evening after the Sabbath.
We were glad to hear from you that your interests are united as one.
May the Lord bless this union, that you may be a strength and support
to one another at all times. May the peace of God rest upon you, is
my sincere desire and earnest prayer. “Go, stand and speak ... to the
people all the words of this life” [
Acts 5:20
].
I am pleased, Brother Haskell, that you have a helper [Mrs.
Haskell]. This is that which I have desired for some time. The work in
which we are engaged has made us one in Christ Jesus to diffuse the
knowledge of Jesus Christ. It is your privilege to have happiness in
your new relation to each other, in ministering the gospel to those who
are in darkness and error. We can sympathize and unite in the grand
work that you and I love, and which is the one great object ever before
us—the enlargement of the kingdom of Christ and the celebration of
His glory. In everything which relates to this we are united in bonds of
Christian fellowship, in companionship with heavenly intelligences....
Because of the light given me, I am fully possessed with the convic-
tion that through your united agencies, as sanctified instrumentalities,
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light shall be reflected to the salvation of many souls that are now in
darkness and error. I know you have not lived unto yourselves but unto
Him whom you love and whom you serve and worship.—
Testimonies
on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, 33, 34
.