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the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” No
greater delusion can deceive the human mind than that which leads
men to indulge a self-confident spirit, to believe that they are right and
in the light, when they are drawing away from God’s people, and their
cherished light is darkness.
The class in-----who have been drawing off from the body have
possessed a hard, bitter spirit against those whom God is using as His
instruments to bring His people up united upon the only true platform.
Their spirit is opposed to the work of God, and their influence has
brought reproach upon the cause of God, and has made our faith
disgusting to unbelievers, and caused Satan to exult. Those who are
walking in church capacity and trying to serve God, may for a time be
annoyed with those among them who are not right, and who have been
shown me as self-righteous and pharisaical; but if they are patient, and
walk humbly before God, earnestly praying for His power and Spirit,
they will advance, and those who are unsound in the faith will be left
behind.
Brother J was presented before me, and I was shown that his course
has not been pleasing to God. He was unstable. He has been befogged
with the Age-to-Come, and as there is not the least harmony between
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the Age-to-Come theory and the third angel’s message, he lost his love
for and faith in the message, and felt irritated because so much had
been said in regard to it. The third angel is proclaiming a most solemn
message to the inhabitants of the earth; and shall God’s chosen people
be indifferent to it, and not unite their voice to sound this solemn
warning? Brother J is deceived, and is deceiving others. His theme
has been consecration, when his heart was not right. His mind has
been divided. He has had no anchor to hold him, and has been floating
about without a settled faith. Much of his time has been occupied in
relating to one and another reports and stories calculated to distract and
unsettle minds. He has had much to say in regard to my husband and
myself, and against the visions. He has stood in a position, “Report,
... and we will report it.” God sent him not on such a mission. He
has not known whom he has been serving. Satan has been using
him to throw minds into confusion. What little influence he had he
has used to prejudice minds against the third angel’s message. He
has by false reports presented the visions in a wrong light, and weak
souls who were not established in all the present truth have fed upon