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organization their feelings of dissatisfaction have greatly increased.
Strong prejudice has governed them.
I was shown the case of Sister H. She was presented before me in
connection with a professed sister who was strongly prejudiced against
my husband and myself, and opposed to the visions. This spirit had
led her to love and cherish every lying report in regard to us and the
visions, and she has communicated this to Sister H. She has had a
bitter spirit of war against me, when she had no personal knowledge of
me. She was unacquainted with my labors, yet has nourished the most
wicked feelings of prejudice against me, and has influenced Sister H,
and they have united together in their bitter remarks and speeches. The
person shown me in connection with Sister H was a strong-minded
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woman, sanguine, and exalted in her own estimation. She has thought
that her views were correct, and that others must rely upon her word,
when she only darkened counsel by words, and manifested the spirit
of the dragon host to war against those who would be united on the
commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Since Sister H has been at-----, she has despised the visions, and
has related hearsay reports, as though she knew that they were true.
She has resisted no influence calculated to injure me. She did not know
but that the visions were of God; she had no personal acquaintance with
the humble instrument; and yet she has united with unconsecrated ones
in-----to exert a strong influence against me. They have strengthened
one another by loving and reporting false stories coming from different
sources, and in this way have nourished their prejudice. There can be
no union between their spirit and the spirit of the messages which the
Lord sees fit to give for the benefit of His humble people. The spirit
which dwells in their hearts cannot harmonize with the light given of
God.
Many poor souls do not know what they are doing. They unite their
influence with Satan’s forces, and aid him in his work. They manifest
great zeal and earnestness in their blind opposition, as though they
were verily doing God’s service by fighting against the visions. All
who desire to do so can acquaint themselves with the fruits of these
visions. For seventeen years God has seen fit to let them survive and
strengthen against the opposition of Satan’s forces, and the influence
of human agencies that have aided Satan in his work.