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can get into the society of young girls or women and not betray your
true feelings. You will run into temptation when you have not moral
power to resist temptation. Your mind is constantly impure because
the fountain is never cleansed. You have found no delight in diligent,
careful searching of the Scriptures....
Unchastity of Thought and Action—God has erected the barriers
of testimonies as a wall about you to guard you from falling under the
specious wiles of the enemy, but you break all these down and press
over everything to follow your inclination. Your sorrow for your sins
is like that of those who anciently rent their garments to express their
grief but did not afflict their souls. You have not a correct sense of
what sin is. The aggravating character of unchastity of thought and
actions you have not sensed. Your mind is carnal, and that almost
continually. If you really were sorry for your sins, if you really had
a true sense of your wrongs, you would exercise that repentance that
needeth not to be repented of.
More Harm Than Help to the Cause—I desire now to state facts.
I have been shown that your life and your labors in the cause of God
for some years have been a greater injury to the precious cause of
present truth than a benefit. Had you had no part in this work and been
separated entirely from it, you would have saved much heart sorrow
to those who love the cause of God; and you would have saved them
much hard labor which has been forced upon them to counteract your
wrong influence.
The labor that has been required to get you right and to keep you
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from disgracing the cause, had it been spent on converting souls from
error to truth—and had the laborers had nothing whatever to do in
regard to you—the interest and strength of the cause of present truth
would stand better today in California as well as in the East.
Influence of an Erring Minister—Satan has made you his agent
to carry out his mind. The great stir and great excitement you have
made in discussions from time to time, and the apparent success you
have had, has built you up in your own self-righteousness. Allowing
you to labor as you have been permitted to labor when your heart was
not right with God, has done you great injury. You have not searched
your own heart and afflicted your soul before God. You have felt too
lightly your terrible mistakes in the past. Everything has been done to
save you from utter disgrace and ruin. You have been patiently borne