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and at the same time be preaching the Word to sinners—yourself a
sinner?
I know how God regards these sins. A married man, a minister of
the gospel, leading the lambs of the flock into Sodomitish practices.
Now for Christ’s sake do not again practice this wicked work and
destroy your own soul and the souls of others. It is well that you have
not been permitted to continue this awful polluting practice. It is no
light sin. The effect upon the mind of the one who submits herself to
your touch cannot be measured. Human beings are the Lord’s property,
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and to do any action to corrupt them is a terrible insult to Jesus Christ,
who gave His life for these precious souls, that they should not perish
in their sins, but have everlasting life, and such actions may ruin the
souls for whom Christ has died. Will you continue this work to ruin
souls?
Looking unto Jesus who is the Author and Finisher of your faith,
you will be of good courage in the Lord. We cannot but know that
the end of all things is at hand. I come to you as a physician of souls;
I tell you that it is not possible for you to act as a minister. What
are you doing? Leading young women to the tree of knowledge of
evil practices and teaching them to pluck the fruit which is only evil.
This is doing Satan’s work most effectually. It is poisoning minds and
filling them with unholy imaginings.
These are the very sins which corrupted Sodom. Their evil prac-
tices did not come all at once. First one man and woman stupefied
themselves by unholy, polluted habits. Then as inhabitants settled
in Sodom, they did as you are doing, educating others in a line that
is forbidden of God. And so as the inhabitants continued to multi-
ply, these ministers of sin continued in educating them in their own
defiling practices until if any person came into their midst their first
thoughts were to educate them in their evil work, until Sodom became
renowned for its pollutions. Their sins reached unto heaven, and the
Lord would bear with them no longer. He destroyed them and all that
was beautiful, that made it as a second Eden, for the earth was defiled
under the inhabitants thereof.
These bodies that you tamper with are the purchased property of
Jesus Christ. I knew this was your sin, but I knew also that if the truth
was enthroned in your heart it would make this sin appear to you in
its true enormity, for truth brought into the soul temple will expel lust
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