Chapter 46—Fanaticism in Wisconsin
I saw that the Lord especially directed my husband in going west
last fall instead of going east as he at first decided. In Wisconsin there
was a wrong to be corrected. The work of Satan was taking effect, and
would destroy souls if not rebuked. The Lord saw fit to choose one
who had had experience with fanaticism in the past, and had witnessed
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the working of Satan’s power. Those who received this instrument of
God’s choosing were corrected, and souls were rescued from the snare
which Satan had prepared for them.
I was shown that this device of Satan would not have taken so
readily in Wisconsin if the minds and hearts of God’s people had been
united and in union with the work. The spirit of jealousy and suspicion
still existed in the minds of some. The seed sown by the Messenger
party had not been entirely rooted out. And while they professed to
receive the third angel’s message, their former feelings and prejudices
had not been given up. Their faith was adulterated, and they were
prepared for Satan’s deception. Those who drank in the Messenger
spirit must make clean work, and have every particle of it rooted out,
and receive the spirit of the third angel’s message, or it will cleave to
them like the leprosy, making it easy for them to draw off from their
brethren in present truth. It will be easy for them to think that they
can go, an independent company, alone to heaven, and easy for them
to fall into Satan’s snare. He is very unwilling to let go his hold in
Wisconsin. He has other deceptions prepared for those who are not
united with the body.
I saw that persons who had been so enshrouded in darkness and
deception that Satan had controlled not only the mind but the body,
would have to take a most humble place in the church of God. He
will not commit the care of His flock to unwise shepherds, who would
mistake and feed them poison instead of wholesome food. God will
have men care for the flock who can feed them with clean provender,
thoroughly winnowed. Oh, what a blot, what a reproach, have these
fanatical movements brought upon the cause of God! And those who
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