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that Satan has been engaged in since his fall. You have disheartened
the church who had little enough courage at best. You have presented
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the truth in almost every objectionable light. This is the work Satan
is doing. You have no occasion to be proud of your words; for they
will bring confusion of face, shame and despair, in the day when every
man shall receive according to the deeds done in the body.
Your wife has heard your expressions of darkness until she is
molded in a great degree to your ideas. The fear of the Lord is almost
entirely removed from you both. You are now sowing seeds of unbelief,
and they will produce a plentiful harvest by and by, in the reaping of
which you will take no satisfaction. You have lent yourself to the
enemy to be his agent to lead souls to doubt and unbelief. Your whole
work has been to scatter from Christ. You glory in your sharpness, your
aptness in confusing minds. You think it a mark of intelligence; but it
is the same kind of intelligence that the prince of darkness possesses,
and will receive the same reward that he is winning by his intense
activity and shrewdness. The tendency of this age is to unbelief, to
making light of godliness and true religion. This is Satan’s plan, and
when you yield your powers to unbelief you are led captive by his
devices to do his work.
Your wife will have a hard fight to conquer the devices of the
enemy, to overcome her own defects of character, and bring all her
powers into subjection to the will of God, planting her feet firmly upon
the platform of eternal truth. She is not naturally devotional, and you
have placed things before her in such an uncertain light that she is left
to drift without anchorage. She takes no real comfort in faith and hope,
for she has not an intelligent knowledge of the truth. She is greatly
affected by the atmosphere of unbelief she breathes, and if she is lost,
the blood of her soul will be found on your garments.
You are just as surely doing the work of Satan as is any one of
his open agents. The doubts which you have introduced into many
minds will bear fruit. Your harvest is ripening for the final gathering.
Will you be proud of it then? You may turn to the Lord; you may find
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rest in Him. But you have so long educated yourself to criticize, to
turn and twist everything in a false light, that it will require earnest
prayer and constant watchfulness to break the habit which has become
second nature. My heart yearns over you and your family. The Lord is
displeased with you; He is grieved every day. You must be a thoroughly