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through the help of the divine Physician. Your moral powers are weak
for want of nourishment. You are starving spiritually for Bible truth—
the bread of life. You need to draw daily nourishment from the living
Vine. The church receives no strength from you and in your present
condition would be better off without you, for now, if anything arises
to cross your track and you cannot control matters, you settle back
with stubbornness, a dead weight on the church. You bear no burden
or weight of the cause. God has borne long with you, but there is a
limit to His forbearance, a line beyond which you may venture, when
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His Spirit will no longer strive with you, but leave you in your own
perversity, defiled with selfishness, and debased with sin.
Brother-----does not possess a right spirit. His disposition to lead
hurts him, for he is not fitted for any such work. He can act a good
part in the church if self is not made prominent. More meekness and
lowliness will make his efforts a blessing to the church instead of a
burden.
Brother and Sister-----, I saw opposite your names also, in the
heavenly record, the word, “Wanting.” You need to be emptied of self
and the soul temple cleansed. Both of you have ability to do good,
but it is unsanctified. You are greatly deficient in the simplicity of
godliness. Were the church left to be molded by your standard of
religion, it would be demoralized into a worldly, unconsecrated form.
You might have been a great blessing to the church, but you have
greatly failed. Jesus bids you come out from the spirit of the world.
Sister-----, I am alarmed for you and for those who are brought in
contact with your influence. You reach a low standard. “Whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap.” By your words and actions you
are now casting the seed. You are either sowing to the flesh or to the
Spirit. In the day of final reckoning everyone must take the sickle and
mow down the crop his own hand has sown.
Your husband is mistaking his work. When he shall humble his
heart as a little child, and when he shall feel his own importance less
and his need of help from God more, then he may be where he can be
used to God’s glory. But, as he is, he does not realize the wants of the
cause. There is so much great I, and so little Jesus exhibited in the life
and character of many, that God will accept nothing from their hands.
But few realize the solemnity of the time in which we live—the day
of God’s preparation. Should you both be converted and devote your
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