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manifestations will be more and more common in these last days. They
do not lead to unity, into all truth, but away from the truth.
One decided evidence we have that these exercises are not of God,
is that they concur with your views, which we know to be erroneous.
Things she says she sees in vision are not sustained by the Word of
God, but are contrary to it. Satan is constantly at work to imbue her
with his own spirit, that through her, under a cloak of righteousness,
he may bring in commonness, heresies, and defilement. As you regard
her utterances as from God, your faith in the true testimonies is val-
ueless; and thus Satan hopes to disconnect you, and all who have any
confidence in your ideas, from the agencies that God has ordained, that
you may be left to believe a lie. The Scriptures speak of those who are
deceived and are being deceived. This is your case. You deceive your
daughter; she deceives you—the blind leading the blind. The enemy
seeks to accomplish his purposes by various means, as shall best meet
the circumstances and situation of those whom he sees he can allure
by temptation.
I tell you plainly, the messages of your daughter Anna are not from
God. This the Lord has shown me, and He will not lie. She may say
many good things, may speak much that is truth, but so does the enemy
of souls. The counterfeit will in many respects resemble the true. It is
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the fruit borne that testifies of the character
History Repeated
In the work in which my husband and I were called by the provi-
dence of God to act a part, even from its very beginning in 1843 and
1844, we have had the Lord to devise and plan for us, and He has
worked out His plans through His living agents. False paths have been
so often pointed out to us, and the true and safe paths so clearly defined
in all the enterprises connected with the work given us to do, that I can
say of a truth I am not ignorant of Satan’s devices, nor of the ways and
works of God. We have had to tax every power of mind, relying upon
wisdom from God to guide us in our investigations, as we have had to
review the different theories brought to our attention, weighing their
merits and defects in the light shining from the Word of God and the
things God has revealed to me through His Word and the testimonies,
in order that we might not be deceived nor deceive others. We surren-