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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
Cultivate a love for doing good; seek to be rich in good works. In
many things you can do more than you do. You have an individual
responsibility before God. You have a duty to do, from which you
cannot be excused. Maintain a close walk with God; pray without
ceasing. You will have close work if you save your soul. Seek to
have a counteracting influence in your family. Take your stand nobly
for God. Your organization is unlike your husband’s, and you will
be condemned of God unless you act for yourself. Make diligent
work in saving your own soul, and in exerting an influence to save
your family. Let your example show that your treasure is in heaven,
that you have invested all in a better home and a better life, which
are eternal. Train your mind to value heavenly things, to be elevated,
to love God, and to manifest a willing obedience to His will.
You may be tested; you may be proved to see how strong your
affection is for the things of this world. You may be made to under-
stand a page of your heart with which you are now unacquainted.
God knows your trials as you view the state of your husband and
children, who so greatly lack saving faith. Much more depends
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upon you than you realize. You should put the armor on. Spend
not your precious strength in exhaustive labor which another can do.
Encourage your daughter to engage in useful employment and to aid
you in bearing the burdens of life. She needs discipline. Her mind
is vain. She needs to render all to God; then she can be useful and
please her Redeemer.
My sister, work less, and pray and meditate more. Eternal in-
terests should be primary with you. God forbid that your children
should be molded into money lovers. True refinement and gentleness
of manners can never be found in a home where selfishness reigns.
The truly refined always have brains and hearts, always have consid-
eration for others. True refinement does not find satisfaction in the
adornment and display of the body. True refinement and nobility of
soul will be seen in efforts to bless and elevate others. The weight
of eternal things rests very lightly upon your children. May God
arouse them before it shall be too late, and they exclaim in anguish:
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”
Brother J, your case was presented before me. You occupy a
responsible position. You are entrusted with talents of money and
of influence. To every man is given a work—something to
do
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