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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
Need of Heart Religion—In a dream on another occasion you
were presented before me. Your head was bowed down upon a table.
You were almost unconscious. Words were spoken to you with a firm,
decided emphasis: “Put that out of your hand! You need not take
that; your life is not your own; your medicine is not needed to bring
you peace and rest. What you need is heart religion, a heart purified,
refined, elevated from common things, taking hold upon the divine.
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Be a man. Call your wife to your side, become better acquainted with
the truth, be molded by the Spirit of God, and you will have peace. If
you take the right course, if you are unwavering in the truth, if you
keep your own soul in the love of God, you will be in the hands of
the Lord the means of saving your wife, and in her turn, if she accepts
the truth of heavenly origin, if she is a meek and humble follower of
Christ, she will be the means in the hands of God of being a great
blessing to you....
Now, Dr. Q, stand up in your God-given manhood! Lift the cross of
Christ daily, uplift your thoughts into a higher, purer channel. Respect
your marriage vows, and be God’s own servant for the uplifting of the
human race. If you are an overcomer, you will be among those who
will have possession of all things; the eternal weight of glory will be
yours.
The Result of Undue Familiarity—There is an animal that strikes
the arm with feebleness the moment it touches it. The muscles become
as if paralyzed. In a similar way will it be with you spiritually, if your
thoughts are allowed to run in a certain channel, and you give attention
and preferences to young girls or married women. All this familiarity
is death to spirituality.
Let your affections and your sympathies entwine about God, else
your impulses will become impure, your character will be defective,
your heart estranged from God. Whoever touched or handled that
which pollutes, and yet continued pure? The soul cannot remain pure
breathing the atmosphere of that which taints and corrupts. These
things steal the heart away from God. The soul withers and becomes
deformed, because the tent is pitched too near Sodom to breathe the
pure atmosphere of heaven.
Our Only Safety—The violation of one of God’s precepts does
violence to your moral nature. For Christ’s sake, I implore you to
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reach a higher standard. Give yourself unreservedly to the Lord. You