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I hear you have said, “I love Walter J.” What business have you to
love Walter J, when he belongs to another? Will you ruin and break an
innocent wife’s heart for the sake of gratifying your guilty love?
Unlawful Relationships in Families—What family is safe if oth-
ers pursue the heaven-daring course you have? They might just as
properly enter into my family, insinuate themselves into my husband’s
affections, and then tear him from me to satisfy their guilty love. Again
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I ask you, Are you so hardened that you have no fear of God, of His
fierce anger, which will soon come upon the sinner, unmixed with
mercy? You are willing to sell your soul cheap, disgrace your brother,
disgrace your children, to satisfy your lustful heart.
After you have gotten Walter J, what then? You have a man who
fears not to break God’s law, who fears not to break the heart of a kind
wife who has borne him many children and laid them in the grave—a
wife who has given him the warmth of her affections in youth—a wife
he has lived with until they are on the decline of life! Think you after
you get this Walter J for yourself entirely, after you steal him from the
wife of his youth, he will ever remain constant and true to you who
have accomplished so much evil to satisfy your guilty love?
The truth found Walter J a hard case. It has done everything for
him. Now he has no fear of God, no fear of transgressing His law. Evil
angels take charge of his mind and yours, and then how constant and
true and even will your love run? You have sowed to yourself misery,
misery. Evermore will a guilty conscience haunt you. Is it possible
now for you to retrace your steps? Is it possible that a merciful God
would pity you yet?
How dare you love Walter J, and add to your sin that of breaking
his wife’s heart? Oh, you have sold heaven very cheap. You have
shown what is your choice. Your life has marked your choice, that of
being outside the city, with dogs, sorcerers, adulterers, whoremongers,
and those who love and make a lie.
Please read
Proverbs 6
, twentieth verse and onward. Read Revela-
tion, chapter 7.—
Letter 12, 1864
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