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rooted out, their destruction will be as sure as Achan’s was. Many have
taken the sacrifice from God’s altar, and they love the world, love its
gain and increase, and unless there is an entire change they will perish
with the world. God has lent them means. It is not their own; but God
has made them his stewards. And because of this, they call it their
own, and hoard it up. But oh, how quick, when the prospering hand of
God is removed from them, is it all snatched away in a moment. There
must be a sacrificing for God, a denying self for the truth’s sake. Oh,
how weak and frail is man. How puny his arm. I saw that soon the
loftiness of man is to be brought down, and the pride of man humbled.
Kings and nobles, rich and poor, alike shall bow, and the withering
plagues from God shall fall upon them.