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Day after day have they slighted salvation, and prized earthly pleasure,
and earthly riches, higher than any heavenly inducement and treasure.
They have rejected Jesus, and despised his saints. The filthy must
remain filthy forever.
A great portion of the wicked were greatly enraged, as they suffered
the effects of the plagues. It was a scene of fearful agony. Parents
were bitterly reproaching their children, and children reproaching their
parents, brothers their sisters, and sisters their brothers. Loud wailing
cries were heard in every direction, It was you who kept me from
receiving the truth, which would have saved me from this awful hour.
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The people turned upon the ministers with bitter hate, and reproached
them, telling them, You have not warned us. You told us all the world
was to be converted, and cried, Peace, peace, to quiet every fear that
was aroused. You have not told us of this hour, and those who warned
us of it you said were fanatics, and evil men, who would ruin us. But
the ministers, I saw, did not escape the wrath of God. Their sufferings
were ten fold greater than their people’s.
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