Chapter 19—A Housewif
Ruin of a Wife’s Happiness—My spirit is stirred within me. I
cannot hold my peace. Recent developments have caused me anguish
of spirit and agony of soul; and then when I think of the misery of poor
Sister J, whose happiness you have ruined forever, then I inquire, What
will be your reward for these things? We are to be judged according
to the deeds done in the body. We feel that it would be just and right
for you to be brought to receive the punishment you so justly merit,
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but we remember the words of Scripture, “Vengeance is Mine; I will
repay, saith the Lord.” That which you have sown you shall reap. Yes,
you will reap a bountiful cup. No frost shall blight it; no mildew blast
it; no cankerworm devour it. You have sown to the flesh; you shall
reap corruption. A heavy retribution awaits you.
Not only have you sinned against your family and cast a stain upon
your children, the fruit of your body, which shall cleave to them like
the leprosy, but you have plucked the joy, the happiness, from Sister
J’s fireside forever.
Have you become so hardened that you have no fear of God, of the
judgment, of eternity, when your acts, however secret, are to pass in
review before God? Do you realize that your evil doings are faithfully
chronicled in heaven, written in the book, and that the Word of God,
the statute book, is to judge you in that day?
Eternal Results of Unrepented Adultery—What did God com-
mand Moses to do with those who were guilty of adultery? They
should be stoned to death. Does the punishment end there? No, they
are to die the second death. The stoning system has been done away,
but the penalty for transgressing God’s law is not done away. If the
transgressor does not heartily repent, he will be punished with ever-
lasting destruction from the presence of the Lord.
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[A married woman who had become infatuated with another woman’s husband to the
point of committing adultery.]
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