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Violated Conscience
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You have felt that it might be your duty to teach the truth to
others instead of being taught yourself. But you must be willing to
be a learner, to receive the truth from others, and must cease your
faultfinding, your jealousies, your complaining, and in meekness
receive the engrafted word which is able to save your soul. It rests
with you whether you will have happiness or misery. You have
once yielded to temptation and cannot now trust your own strength.
Satan has great power over your mind, and you will have nothing
to hold you when you break from the restraining influence of the
truth. This has been as a safeguard to you to restrain you from crime
and iniquity. Your only hope is to seek for thorough conversion and
redeem the past by your well-ordered life and godly conversation.
You have moved from impulse. Excitement has been agreeable
to your organization. Your only hope now is to sincerely repent
of your past transgressions of God’s law and purify your soul by
obeying the truth. Cultivate purity of thought and purity of life. The
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grace of God will be your strength to restrain your passions and curb
your appetites. Earnest prayer and watching thereunto will bring the
Holy Spirit to your aid to perfect the work and make you like your
unerring Pattern.
If you choose to throw off the sacred, restraining influence of
the truth, Satan will lead you captive at his will. You will be in
danger of giving scope to your appetites and passions, giving loose
rein to lusts, to evil and abominable desires. Instead of bearing
in your countenance a calm serenity under trial and affliction, like
faithful Enoch, having your face radiant with hope and that peace
which passeth understanding, you will stamp your countenance with
carnal thoughts, with lustful desires. You will bear the impress of
the satanic instead of the divine.
“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the
divine na-
ture
, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.” It is now your privilege, by humble confession and sincere
repentance, to take words and return unto the Lord. The precious
blood of Christ can cleanse you from all impurity, remove all your
defilement, and make you perfect in Him. The mercies of Christ are
still within your reach if you will accept them. For the sake of your
wronged wife, and your children, the fruit of your own body, cease