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Chapter 60—A Cross in Accepting the Truth
Dear Sister U,
I am somewhat acquainted with your peculiar temperament, your
caution, your fears, your lack of hope and confidence. I sympathize
with you in your sufferings of mind, as you cannot see everything
in regard to our position and faith as clearly as you could wish. We
know you to be strictly conscientious, and have not a doubt that,
could you have the privilege of hearing on all points of present
truth, and of weighing the evidences for yourself, you would be
established, strengthened, settled, so that opposition or reproach
would not move you from the sure foundation. As you have not
had the privilege, as many others have, of attending meetings and
experiencing for yourself the evidences attending the presentation
of the truth we hold sacred, we feel the more solicitous for you. Our
hearts are drawn out after you, and our love toward you is sincere and
fervent. We fear that amid the perils of these last days you may make
shipwreck. Be not grieved with me for thus writing. You cannot
have a full sense, as I have, of the wiles and sophistry of Satan. His
deceptions are many; his snares are carefully and cunningly prepared
to entangle the unwary and unsuspecting. We want you to escape
his wiles; we want you to be fully on the Lord’s side, loving, and
waiting and earnestly longing for, the appearing of our Saviour in
the clouds of heaven.
Since your first efforts to keep the Sabbath, many things have
arisen to discourage you; yet we hope that these things will not divert
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your mind from the important truths for these last days. Although
the advocates of the truth do not all do as they should, because they
are unsanctified by the truths they profess, the truth is the same; its
luster is undimmed. Although these may stand between the truth and
those who have not fully taken hold upon it, and their dark shadow
may appear for a time to cloud its bright luster, yet it does not in
reality; the truth of heavenly origin is undimmed. Its purity and
exalted character are changeless. It lives; for it is immortal.
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