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              Early Writings
            
            
              the testimony out of the churches, so the others could not hear it.
            
            
              Those who dared not withhold from others the light which God had
            
            
              given them, were shut out of the churches; but Jesus was with them,
            
            
              and they were joyful in the light of His countenance. They were
            
            
              prepared to receive the message of the second angel.