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the people, then the course for them to pursue in order to be consistent
is to renounce the entire work as a delusion, a fraud. In order to be
consistent, they must throw all overboard. This Brother B has almost
imperceptibly to himself been doing, and this others have done. He
will at some future time, if not now, review his work with different
feelings than he now has. He will see the work which he has been
doing during the past few years as God sees it, and will not view it
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with the satisfaction he now feels. When he sees the miserable work in
which he has been engaged for a few years past, his proud boasting of
wisdom and superior knowledge will have an end, and he will repent
in bitterness of soul, for the blood of souls is on his garments.
If Brother B had wanted to view things correctly and had felt the
possibility of being deceived, he would have come to Brother and
Sister White with the reports injurious to their reputation and would
have given them an opportunity to speak for themselves. The reports
which he brought away across the plains to the Pacific Coast bear false
witness, thus breaking the law of God. He will one day meet the hard
speeches, as well as the deceptive sophistry instigated by Satan, which
he has instilled into minds to injure the influence of my husband and
myself. This matter lies not between Brother B and me, but between
him and God.
God has given us our work, and if He has given us a message to
bear to His people, those who would hinder us in the work and weaken
the faith of the people in its truth and verity are not fighting against
the instrument, but against God, and they must answer to Him for the
result of their words and actions. All who have spiritual discernment
may judge of the tree by its fruits. Brother B stands forth as one
enlightened by God to undeceive the people in regard to our work and
mission. All may see, if they will, the fruit growing upon this tree.
Brother B, is it to eternal life, or is it to death?
After Brother B received from Battle Creek this special knowledge,
which led him to take a course to belittle our work and mission, he felt
at liberty to join with the unbelieving in the dissipation of pleasure,
and by his levity of conduct he brought reproach upon the cause of
Christ and great suffering upon his wife. Was he so blinded that he
had no conviction that he was seeking to tear down what God was
building up? Had he no thoughts that he might be fighting against
God? The work which he has been doing angels have recorded in