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to turn your feet in the path of holiness. Save your soul by casting
yourself at the foot of the cross. Then come to Jesus and be happy,
and go to heaven. Preaching is not all you need, but you need sins
rebuked as Nathan rebuked David. “Thou art the man.” You must have
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godliness, a pure heart, a perfect life, or die in your sins and perish
with the ungodly.
May the Lord convince your soul, is my prayer.—
Letter 1e, 1890
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Message to a Mistress—I have a few words to write to you. For
some years your course has been open before me in connection with
the family of Ira K, but these are hidden chapters in the experience
of you both, which may have been surmised by some, that have been
binding you together in unholy companionship. I hear that you and
your brother have been converted; and if this report is true, you will
bring forth fruit meet for repentance. “He that covereth his sins shall
not prosper.”
You have held a strong influence over Ira K. Your connection with
him has been of that character that you well know, unless repented of
and confessed, you will never see the kingdom of heaven. Can you sell
your soul so cheaply? Is it possible that sin has lost its hideousness
to you? I have not the slightest confidence in him whom I have long
called Brother K.
His course has been opened before me in plain, distinct lines. No
one knows that which I know of the wretched past. I never meant
anyone should know of it, but the end of Ira K’s life is not far off,
and shall he go into eternity with his sins unconfessed, unrepented of?
What will you say when you shall stand before the judgment bar of
God?
Does Sin Appear Sinful?—He has so long been following the
impulses of his own corrupt heart that sin does not appear to him
exceedingly sinful. Now, as your thoughts have been awakened to
the serious thoughts of the salvation of your soul, I hope you see the
hatefulness of sin; I hope you will now confess your sins before it shall
be forever too late. If Ira K dies as he is now, fastened in iniquity, what
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will you both have to meet in the judgment? Your course has been a
sad and distressing course in this matter. Did you think that God did
not see these things? ...
God’s eye has been upon you. He has marked your deceptive
course. You have alienated the affections of Ira K from his long-