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after him. Duty and love like twin sisters, will be his helps in the
management of his children.
I saw that Sister B had much to grieve over in the course that her
husband had pursued toward her; that her life had been very sad, when
he was able to make it happy. She seemed to be dispirited and to
keenly feel that she was neglected and unloved by her husband. In
his absence she at times felt nearly distracted and became jealous and
distrustful in regard to him. Satan was present with his temptations,
and she looked upon some things in an exaggerated light. All this
might have been saved had Brother B preserved his consecration to
God. I was carried on still further and saw that he was walking in
unbelief and darkness while he was flattering himself that he alone
had the true light. The further he separated from God the less love did
he have for his brethren and for the truth.
I was shown Brother B questioning one after another of the points
of our faith which have brought us out from the world and made us
a separate and distinct people, looking for the blessed hope and the
glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. His unbelief
and darkness have not moved the main pillars of our faith. The truth
of God is not made of none effect by him. It remains the truth still,
but he has had some influence upon the minds of his brethren. The
reports of lying lips in regard to my husband and me, which he brought
from the East, had an influence to create suspicions and doubts in the
minds of others. Those unacquainted with us could not stand in our
defense. The church in-----, I saw, might have numbered three times
as many as it now does, and might have had tenfold greater strength,
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had not Brother B played himself into the hands of the enemy. In his
blind unbelief he has done all that he could to discourage and scatter
the believers in the truth. In his blindness he has not realized that
his course was grievous in the sight of God. The discouragement
and darkness which he has caused have made the labors of Brother
C doubly hard, for his influence has not only been felt by the church
in-----, but by other churches.
Brother B has strengthened unbelief and an opposing influence
which Brother C has had to meet. I saw that we would meet the
same and that it would take time to eradicate the old root of bitterness
whereby many have been defiled; that there is a time to speak and a
time to keep silent; that when God should lay upon us the burden to