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Duties of the Husband and the Wife
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them, in order to redeem you. But when you tried to put on an air of
injured innocence, did you think that God could not see your wrong
course? Did you think that He who made man out of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, could not
discern the intents and purposes of the heart? You have thought that
if you should confess your sin you would lose your honor—your life,
as it were. You thought that your brethren would have no confidence
in you. You have not viewed matters in the right light. It is a shame
to sin, but always an honor to confess sin.
Angels of God have kept a faithful record of every act, however
secret you may have thought you were in its committal. God discerns
the purposes of man and all his works. Every man will be rewarded
according as his works have been, whether good or evil. That which
a man sows will he also reap. There will be no failure in the crop.
The harvest is sure and plentiful. You have tried to blind your
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brethren in regard to your course. How could you do so, when you
knew that you were guilty in the sight of God? If you value your
soul’s salvation, make thorough work for eternity.
You will have to make a clean track behind you by thorough
confession. You need a thorough conversion—a transformation
of self by the renewing of your mind. Your self-esteem must be
overcome. You must learn to esteem others better than yourself.
Your exalted opinion of your own acquirements must be given up,
and you must obtain a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
God of great price.
You have possessed a spirit which has led you from the path
of rectitude, and now you are troubled. Doubts, and fears, and
despair seize you. There is but one way out, and that is by the way
of confession. Your only hope is in falling on the Rock and being
broken to pieces; if you do not, it will surely fall upon you and grind
you to powder. You can now right your wrongs; you can now redeem
the past. By a life of goodness and true humility you can yet walk
with acceptance before God in your family. May the Lord help you,
in view of the judgment, to work as for your life. Dear brother, I feel
deeply interested for you. You have been walking in darkness for
some time. You have not arrived at your present state of darkness all
at once. You have been leaving the light gradually. You first became