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told that they could give him but 25 per cent discount. My husband
thought this very hard, yet he tried to bear it in a Christian manner.
God in heaven marked the unjust decision, and from that time took
the case in His own hands, and has returned the blessings removed,
as He did to faithful Job. From the time of that heartless decision, He
has been working for His servant, and has raised him above his former
health of body, clearness and strength of mind, and freedom of spirit.
And since that time my husband has had the pleasure of passing out
with his own hands thousands of dollars’ worth of our publications
without price. God will not utterly forget nor forever forsake those
who have been faithful, even if they sometimes commit errors.
My husband has had a zeal for God and for the truth, and at times
this zeal has led him to overlabor to the injury of physical and mental
strength. But the Lord has not regarded this as so great a sin as the
neglect and unfaithfulness of His servants in reproving wrongs. Those
who praised the unfaithful and flattered the unconsecrated were sharers
in their sin of neglect and unfaithfulness.
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God has selected my husband and given him special qualifications,
natural ability, and an experience to lead out His people in the advance
work. But there have been murmurers among Sabbathkeeping Adven-
tists as there were among ancient Israel, and these jealous, suspicious
ones, by their suggestions and insinuations, have given occasion to the
enemies of our faith to distrust my husband’s honesty. These jealous
ones of the same faith have placed matters before unbelievers in a false
light, and the impressions made stand in the way of many embracing
the truth. They regard my husband as a schemer, a selfish, avaricious
man, and they are afraid of him and of the truth held by us as a people.
When the appetite of ancient Israel was restricted, or when any
close requirement was brought to bear upon them, they reflected upon
Moses, that he was arbitrary, that he wished to rule them, and to be
altogether a prince over them, when he was only an instrument in
God’s hand to bring His people into a position of submission and
obedience to God’s voice.
Modern Israel have murmured and become jealous of my husband
because he has pleaded for the cause of God. He has encouraged
liberality, he has rebuked those who loved this world, and has censured
selfishness. He has pleaded for donations to the cause of God and, to
encourage liberality in his brethren, has led off by liberal donations