Chapter 32—Brother G
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W. C. White statement: “Regarding Brother G, I can speak quite
freely. About 1875 he married a very brilliant schoolteacher.... She
was very talented, but after a number of years she became quarrelsome
and made his life miserable. At that time he was associated with a
very brilliant young woman who was an accountant at X College,
and formed a fondness for her. Sister White wrote him a very plain
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warning, which he promised to heed. Shortly after Sister White had
gone to Europe, Brother G resigned his position at X College, went to
Michigan to visit his sister, and offered no obstruction to his wife in
getting a divorce
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“Thus far, those who knew the case approved, but shortly after this
he married the bookkeeper before mentioned; then all his friends were
greatly grieved. He taught a while at , then settled near , and for many
years worked very hard, his wife helping him to make a living on a
little fruit and vegetable farm. They came to see the wickedness of
the course they had taken. They repented of it very bitterly, and their
brethren and sisters were satisfied that their repentance was genuine.
They had three beautiful children growing up, and no one, as far
as I know, encouraged them to separate. When the matter was put
before Sister White, she did not encourage a separation, nor could
she encourage any movement to exclude him from participation in
the work of the third angel’s message. In his later life he labored in a
humble way in self-supporting work in the South
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“If persons living in the light of the third angel’s message purpose
to leave one companion for the sake of uniting with someone else, it is
our duty to warn and reprove and discipline
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“If persons before embracing the message have entangled them-
selves, and afterward have repented, confessed their sins, received
forgiveness of God, and won the confidence of their brethren, it is
better for both ministers and laymen to leave them alone, enjoying
the forgiveness and justification which have been wrought through
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