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confidant. Keep aloof from the society of women as much as you can.
You will be in danger. Remember, we are living amid the perils of the
last days. Almost everything is rotten and corrupt.
Look to God, pray, oh, pray, as you never have before to be kept
by the power of God through faith. In God you can stand untainted,
without a stain or blemish. Fasten your hold upon God. Look to Him
in faith that you may be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped
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the corruption that is in the world through lust. God will bring you
off victorious if you will live a humble life of prayer and dependent
trust.—
Letter 23, 1871
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No Relish for God’s Word—In the last vision given me your case
was presented before me. I have been waiting to see if you had a tender,
sensitive, or a seared, conscience. I have had the following written
out for a long time but have thought I would wait till you made some
move yourself. I was shown that you have not lived up to the light.
You have departed far from the light. The Lord has been following
you with reproofs and counsel to preserve you from ruining your own
soul and bringing a reproach upon His cause. I was shown that you
have been retrograding rather than advancing and growing in grace
and the knowledge of truth....
You have made girls and women the theme of thought, rather than
the Word of God. Your mind has been restless and dissatisfied if it
could not be occupied with girls and women. You could not relish the
study of the Word of God while your thoughts have been upon subjects
which war against the soul. There is no excuse for your life of folly.
A Double-minded Minister—From what has been shown me you
are a transgressor of the seventh commandment. How then can your
mind be in harmony with the precious Word of God, truths which cut
you at every turn? If you had been betrayed into this folly unwittingly,
it would be more excusable, but you have not. You have been warned.
You have been reproved and counseled. You have apparently received
the reproof, but not in heart sufficient to die to the carnal mind. You
have not set to work to eradicate the evil. You have soon lost the
smart of the chastening rod of the Lord, and rushed on in as great
foolishness as ever, like a fool to the correction of stocks. Your love
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for self-indulgence has become a warring lust.
You love the society of girls and women. During a series of
meetings you have allowed your mind to plan and contrive how you