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Chapter 48—Remedy for Sentimentalism
Dear Sister B,
In the vision given me June 12 I was shown your case. You are
in a sad state, not so much because of actual disease, although you
are not well, but because of imaginary inability to labor. Several
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years ago I was shown that you suffered your mind to dwell too
much upon the boys. You have frequently made them the theme of
conversation, and your mind has run in a channel not profitable to
your spiritual advancement. You have fallen into a train of thinking
which has led to evil results. You have injured and abused your own
body, and brought upon yourself an imbecile state of mind. You
have indulged in a lovesick train of thought and feeling until you
are almost ruined, soul and body. Your indisposition to exercise is
very bad for you. Useful employment in bearing home burdens, and
engaging in useful labor, would overcome this sickly, sentimental
state of feeling sooner than any other means.
You have been sympathized with too much. To relieve you from
all responsibility has been a very great mistake. Nearly all your
thoughts are now upon yourself. You are fretful, and your mind
dwells upon sad things, and pictures your condition as very bad, and
you are even settling it in your mind that you can never get well
unless you are married. In your present state of mind you are not
fit to marry. There is no one who would wish you in your present
helpless, useless condition. If one should fancy he loved you, he
would be worthless; for no sensible man could think for a moment
of placing his affections upon so useless an object.
The sad, gloomy state of your mind, which leads you to weep
and feel that life is not desirable, is the result of allowing your
thoughts to run in an impure channel, upon forbidden subjects,
while you indulge habits that are steadily and surely undermining
your constitution and preparing you for premature decay. It would
have been far better for you had you never gone to-----. Your stay
there injured you. You dwelt upon your infirmities, and mingled in
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