To Wealthy Parents
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Brother C has been favored with superior privileges, and if these are
not improved, condemnation and darkness will follow equal to the
light he has had, for the nonimprovement of the talents lent of God for
him to improve.
The brethren in Vermont have grieved the Spirit of God in allowing
their love for the truth and their interest in the work of God to decline.
Brother D B overtaxed his strength last season while laboring in
new fields with the tent without suitable help. God does not require
this brother, or any of His servants, to injure their health by exposure
and taxing labor. The brethren at-----should have felt an interest that
would have been shown by their works. They could have secured help
if they had been awake to the interest of the cause of God and felt the
worth of souls. While Brother D B felt a deep sense of the work of
God and the value of souls, which called for continual effort, a large
church at-----by their petty difficulties held Brother A B from helping
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his brother. These brothers should come up with renewed courage,
shake themselves from the trials and discouragements which have held
them at-----and crippled their testimony, and should claim strength
from the Mighty One. They should have borne a plain, free testimony
to Brother X and Y, and urged the truth home, and done what they
could to have these men make a proper distribution of their property.
Brother A B, in taking so many burdens, is lessening his mental and
physical strength.
If Brother C had been walking in the light for a few years past, he
would have felt the value of souls. Had he been cultivating a love for
the truth he might have been qualified to teach the truth to others. He
might have helped Brother D B in his work with the tent. He might at
least have taken the burdens of the church at home. If he had had love
for his brethren, and been sanctified through the truth, he could have
been a peacemaker instead of a stirrer-up of strife, which, united with
other difficulties, called Brother A B from his brother’s side at a most
important time and resulted in Brother D B’s laboring far beyond his
strength. And yet, after Brother D B had done all that he could, the
work was not accomplished that might have been had there been the
interest there should have been in-----to supply help when it was so
much needed. A fearful responsibility rests upon that church for their
neglect of duty.