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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
help in every time of need. In these last days of service we shall ... be
held, and led, and protected, by the power of Christ. May the Lord
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bless and strengthen you, that your last days may be your best days,
fragrant with the softening, subduing influence of His love. The Lord
bless and keep you and give you repose in His love, is my most earnest
desire for you, my brother.—
Letter 70, 1898
.
Remarriage of S. N. Haskell—We received Brother Haskell’s
[
Elder S. N. Haskell’s first wife died in 1894. This letter refers to
his second marriage, which took place in 1897, when he was 64 years
old.
] letter the evening after the Sabbath. We were glad to hear from
you that your interests are united as one. May the Lord bless this
union, that you may be a strength and support to one another at all
times. May the peace of God rest upon you, is my sincere desire and
earnest prayer. “Go, stand and speak ... To the people all the words of
this life” [
Acts 5:20
].
I am pleased, Brother Haskell, that you have a helper [Mrs.
Haskell]. This is that which I have desired for some time. The work in
which we are engaged has made us one in Christ Jesus to diffuse the
knowledge of Jesus Christ. It is your privilege to have happiness in
your new relation to each other, in ministering the gospel to those who
are in darkness and error. We can sympathize and unite in the grand
work that you and I love, and which is the one great object ever before
us, the enlargement of the kingdom of Christ and the celebration of
His glory. In everything which relates to this we are united in bonds of
Christian fellowship, in companionship with heavenly intelligences....
Because of the light given me, I am fully possessed with the convic-
tion that through your united agencies, as sanctified instrumentalities,
light shall be reflected to the salvation of many souls that are now in
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darkness and error. I know you have not lived unto yourselves but unto
Him whom you love and whom you serve and worship.—
Letter 74a,
1897
.
Advice to J. N. Andrews—I advised you to marry before you
returned the last time to Europe for these reasons. First, you needed a
wife to care for you and [you] should not have taken your family to
Europe without a good companion to be a mother to your children, that
these children might not in all things bear the stamp of your mind and
be molded according to your ideas. Your mind is not equally balanced.