To Those of Little Experience
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influence is not good. If God has delivered us from such darkness and
error, we should stand fast in the liberty wherewith he has set us free,
and rejoice in the truth. God is displeased with those who go to listen
to error, when they are not obliged to; for unless he sends us to these
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meetings, where error is forced home to the people by the power of
the will, he will not keep us. The angels cease their watchful care
over us, and we are left to the buffetings of the enemy, to be darkened
and weakened by him, and the power of his evil angels; and the light
around us becomes contaminated with the darkness.
I saw that we had no time to throw away in listening to fables. Our
minds should not be thus diverted; but should be occupied with the
present truth, and seeking wisdom that we may obtain a more thorough
knowledge of our position; that with meekness we may give a reason
of our hope from the Scriptures. While the mind is occupied in hearing
false doctrines, and dangerous error, pressed upon the hearers, it cannot
be dwelling upon the truth which is to fit and prepare the house of
Israel to stand in the day of the Lord.
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