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A Warning Dream, May 9
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to
him, and makest him drunken!
Habakkuk 2:15
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I dreamed I was wondering why you, [
this brother owned a pleasure boat
on the west coast.
] were so much away from your home and your family, and
from the house of God on the Sabbath, and absent from the prayer meeting.
In a moment I was on board your boat. There was a jovial class of men,
talking and laughing, joking and card-playing. You were one with them. I
saw the tables prepared with a quality of food to meet the vitiated appetite of
the company. I heard them call for liquor.
I looked up in astonishment to hear your voice,_____ _____, a professed
disciple of Christ, professedly looking for and hasting unto His appearing,
say, “Here, gentlemen.” Wine of different kinds was placed before them, and
they partook of it, and you drank with them....
The young man who has so many times explained to me my dreams, spoke
to you and said, “Eating and drinking with the drunkard.... Who bought those
bottles of drink?” Said you, “I bought them, for I could not get companions
to sail with me unless I pleased their appetites in this respect.”
This is sufficient evidence that you are not pleasing God, and that you
are placing yourself on Satan’s field of temptation. You are making a fearful
sacrifice to gratify your inordinate love of being on the water. If this is your
choice before doing the work which God would have you do, you will not
long be allowed to pursue your course. You will lose both worlds....
I have, since this dream, had another. I dreamed you were again using
tobacco. I thought that these miserable habits, once overcome, were being
taken up by you and that you were going back, step by step, to darkness,
selling your soul at a cheap market. But I will now ask you, _____ _____,
what do you propose to do? You stand in imminent peril....
I warn you, as a mother would her son, to avoid those things which will
endanger your morals, involve you in disgrace through the cultivation of
perverted appetite.... I commit these few pages to you as an ambassador
of Christ. Beware lest you turn from the warning given. In love, Ellen G.
White.—
Letter 5, May 9, 1877,
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