To a Young Minister and His Wife
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partly wrong and the reproved was not just right, please the enemy.
Any way that Satan can devise to make the reproofs of none effect
will accomplish his design. Some will lay blame upon the one whom
God has sent with a message of warning, saying, He is too severe; and
in so doing they become responsible for the soul of the sinner whom
God desired to save, and to whom, because He loved him, He sent
correction, that he might humble his soul before God and put his sins
from him. These false sympathizers will have an account to settle with
the Master by-and-by for their work of death.
There are many who profess to believe the truth who are blind to
their own danger. They cherish iniquity in their hearts and practice
it in their lives. Their friends cannot read their hearts, and frequently
think that such are all right.
Black Hawk, Colorado,
August 12, 1873
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