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Your familiarities with the mother and daughters were opened
before me. Your attentions and your gifts speak louder than even your
flattering words. You are displeasing God, and Heaven looks upon
you with reproof.... Had you a new heart, your motives, actions, and
course of conduct would be such that both believers and unbelievers
might have an example of a Christlike character. I have seen your case
as God sees it, and I now present it to you. Better, far better, would it
have been had you disconnected from the Health Retreat some months
ago.
This freedom and gallantry toward young ladies is not the out-
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growth of a tender, Christlike sympathy.... If you look upon these
matters as unworthy of mention, you will repeat them. Investigate
your past life, and let moral taste be created by a purification of the
soul temple. Put away your excuses, for you have none. Your ideas
need a moral renovation, and then you will see things in a different
light. God calls for men to do this work who are pure in heart and
undefiled in thought, having an eye single to His glory....
Religion Not a Mere Cloak—God sees the heart, the deeds, and
the purposes of the mind. It should be written on the conscience as
with a pen of iron upon a rock that the man who expects true success
in violating the eternal principles of right as written in the books of
heaven, is not only foolish but wicked. Can men forget, “Thou God
seest me”? Will you, my brother, turn away from idols? Your moral
sense is clouded. Pray to God to bring all things to your remembrance
that you may see things in their true bearing. Wear not the religion of
Christ as a cloak, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tests of a True Christian—The conversation of the man who
claims to believe the truth for this time should be in heaven, not
common, earthly, cheap, sensual. Holy maxims must be adopted or
that man will walk contrary to Christ, deceiving the world, betraying
the truth. Why, oh, why do professed Christians keep so low a level
when they have so pure and perfect a gospel?
Watch your religion with a jealous care, and let the word of God
dwell in you richly. Let the question be asked, Am I a Christian? Do
I love my neighbor as myself? Do I observe the golden rule, to do
unto others as I would that they do unto me? Can I be a Christian,
and taint and pollute my soul with sinful, corrupting imaginings? It
was sin that crucified the Redeemer of the world. Seemingly upright
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