Chapter 25—A Literature Evangelist
Counsel to a Woman Literature Evangelist—I have received
two letters from you, and have a desire to relieve your mind if I can.
Your position was a very remarkable one, and God gave me a decided
message for you. I did not consider from the facts presented that
your case was without hope; but your perception of what constituted
right and wrong was so low in the scale that it was entirely unsafe for
you to be traveling and be canvassing and giving Bible readings, and
be exposed to temptations. [You are] one who could not distinguish
in the Word of God what sin is, in giving your body to be polluted
by a man, whatever may be his profession, and claim to be relieved
[forgiven]. This matter was shown to me to be a heinous sin in the
sight of God, and yet your senses were so benumbed and demoralized
that you would continue to canvass for our religious books and give
Bible readings, and you committing fornication.
Reproof From God—The law of God proclaimed upon Mount
Sinai, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and yet you who transgressed
that law in so marked a manner were teaching others the Bible. God
did not accept your labors. You ask if the Lord gave me that letter to
give to you. I say He did. The holy God of Israel will not serve with
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your sins. That message was given of God. If you have had, since that
message was given, a new sense of what constitutes sin, if you have
become truly converted, a child of God in place of being a transgressor
of His law, there is no one who will be more pleased than myself. I
could not present your sin before you in too strong language.
So Little Sense of Sin—I had presented before me several, living
in different States, who were engaged in the canvassing work who
were unfit to have any connection with the work of God. They would
dishonor God, and bring the truth into reproach. They would make
light of sin. They were dishonoring their own bodies. But not one
among the number was having so little sense of what sin was, as you.
Anyone pursuing the course you did, and belied apparently to the
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