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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
Now, please take your case to the Lord, and if you are in com-
munion with Him, He will hear your prayers, and will guide you in
judgment. My heart pities you. The first time the sin was committed,
it was done without so much time for meditation; the second sins were
committed after time to meditate, after time to consider the matter in
the light of the Word of God, in the face of the seventh commandment.
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That you should voluntarily submit your body to the man who led you
astray, and you engaged in seeking to enlighten other minds in regard
to the commandments, is a most decided exhibition of depravity, and
reveals a character as presented to me untrustworthy, and you were
incapable of discerning why you should not go right on with the work
as you had done.
Public Confession Not Always Best—But I leave the matter
where it is. I could say to you to go to trustworthy persons in the
conference (not men, but women), and talk with them; but I am in-
clined to think that should you do this you would be giving publicity
to those things which would cause all to be removed from you; and
they would not encourage you or accept you to engage in any branch
of the work, when they should understand the matter as it is. I must
now leave this matter between you and your God, and please do not
trouble me anymore with it. I have no disposition to expose you, but
leave you to develop character. I pity you and hope that you will
move in discretion, and become altogether that which God would have
you.—
Letter 95, 1893
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