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of too much importance for us to leave it and come down to answer
such falsehoods, misrepresentations, and slanders as the Messenger
party have fed upon and have scattered abroad. Truth, present truth,
we must dwell upon it. We are doing a great work, and cannot come
down. Satan is in all this, to divert our minds from the present truth
and the coming of Christ. Said the angel: “Jesus knows it all.” In a
little from this their day is coming. All will be judged according to the
deeds done in the body. The lying tongue will be stopped. The sinners
in Zion will be afraid, and fearfulness will surprise the hypocrites.
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