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talking about. I protested against persons’ sitting as inquisitors upon
my course of action. It has been the disagreeable work assigned me
to reprove private sins. Were I, in order to prevent suspicions and
jealousy, to give a full explanation of my course, and make public
that which should be kept private, I should sin against God and wrong
the individuals. I have to keep private reproofs of private wrongs to
myself, locked in my own breast. Let others judge as they may, I will
never betray the confidence reposed in me by the erring and repentant,
or reveal to others that which should only be brought before the ones
that are guilty. I told those assembled that they must take their hands
off and leave me free to act in the fear of God. I left the meeting
relieved of a heavy burden.
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