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power, which it seems impossible to break.—
The Review and Herald,
January 15, 1914
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Deceptive Benefits—Those who give themselves up to the sorcery
of Satan, may boast of great benefit received, but does this prove their
course to be wise or safe? What if life should be prolonged? What
if temporal gain should be secured? Will it pay in the end to have
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disregarded the will of God? All such apparent gain will prove at
last an irrecoverable loss. We cannot with impunity break down a
single barrier which God has erected to guard His people from Satan’s
power.—
The Review and Herald, January 15, 1914
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Danger in Consulting Cultist Physicians—There is danger in
departing in the least from the Lord’s instruction. When we deviate
from the plain path of duty, a train of circumstances will arise that
seem irresistibly to draw us farther and farther from the right. Needless
intimacies with those who have no respect for God will seduce us,
ere we are aware. Fear to offend worldly friends will deter us from
expressing our gratitude to God or acknowledging our dependence
upon Him....
Angels of God will preserve His people while they walk in the
path of duty; but there is no assurance of such protection for those
who deliberately venture upon Satan’s ground. An agent of the great
deceiver will say and do anything to gain his object. It matters little
whether he calls himself a spiritualist, an “electric physician,” or a
“magnetic healer.” By specious pretenses he wins the confidence of
the unwary. He pretends to read the life-history and to understand all
the difficulties and afflictions of those who resort to him. Disguising
himself as an angel of light, while the blackness of the pit is in his
heart, he manifests great interest in women who seek his counsel. He
tells them that all their troubles are due to an unhappy marriage. This
may be too true, but such a counselor does not better their condition.
He tells them that they need love and sympathy. Pretending great
interest in their welfare, he casts a spell over his unsuspecting victims,
charming them as the serpent charms the trembling bird. Soon they
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are completely in his power, and sin, disgrace, and ruin are the terrible
sequel.—
The Review and Herald, June 27, 1882
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Vilest License, Despair, and Ruin—The demon’s message to
Saul, although it was a denunciation of sin and a prophecy of retribu-
tion, was not meant to reform him, but to goad him to despair and ruin.