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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” As it was a
crime for Amalek to take advantage of the children of Israel in their
weakness and weariness, to annoy, perplex, and discourage them,
so it was no small sin for you to be closely watching to discover the
weakness, the haltings, the errors and sins of God’s afflicted people,
and expose the same to their enemies. You were doing Satan’s work,
not the work of God. Many of the Sabbathkeeping Adventists in---
--have been very weak. They have been miserable representatives
of the truth. They have not been an honor to the cause of present
truth, and the cause would have been better off without them. You
have taken the unconsecrated lives of Sabbathkeepers as an excuse
for your occupying a position of doubt and unbelief. It has also
strengthened your unbelief to see that some of these unconsecrated
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ones were professing strong faith in the visions, vindicating them
when opposed, and defending them with warmth, while, at the same
time that they professed so much zeal, they were disregarding the
teachings given through vision and were going directly contrary to
them. In this respect they were stumbling blocks to Brother U, and
were bringing the visions into disrepute by their course of action.
Brother V, I was shown that you had a proud heart, and when
you thought your writings were slighted at the Review office, your
pride was touched, and you commenced a warfare which has been
like Saul’s kicking against the pricks. You have joined hands with
those who turn the truth of God into a lie. You have strengthened
the hands of sinners and opposed the counsel of God against your
own soul. You have been warring against that of which you had no
knowledge. You have not known what work you were doing. I saw
your wife wrestling with God in prayer, her faith firmly grasping
you and at the same time fixed upon the throne, pleading the never-
failing promises of God. Her heart has ached as she has seen you
persisting in your warfare against the truth. I was shown that you
were doing this ignorantly, blinded by Satan. While engaged in this
warfare you were not increasing in spirituality and devotion to God.
You had not the witness that your ways pleased God. You had a
zeal, but not according to knowledge. You had no experience in my
calling, had scarcely seen me, and had no knowledge of my work.