Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

Number Fourteen Testimony forthe ChurchChapter 109 - Publishing Personal TestimoniesIn Testimony No. 13 I gave a brief sketch of our labors and trials from December19, 1866, to October 21, 1867. In these pages I will notice the less painful experienceof the past five months.During this time I have written many personal testimonies. And for many personswhom I have met in our field of labor during the past five months I have testimoniesstill to write as I find time and have strength, but just what my duty is in relation tothese personal testimonies has long been a matter of no small anxiety to me. With afew exceptions I have sent them to the ones to whom they related and have left thesepersons to dispose of them as they chose. The results have been various:1. Some have thankfully received the testimonies and have responded to them ina good spirit and have profited by them. These have been willing that their brethrenshould see the testimonies and have freely and fully confessed their faults.2. Others have acknowledged that the testimonies to them were true, but afterreading them have laid them away to remain in silence, while they have made but littlechange in their lives. These testimonies related more or less to the churches to whichthese persons belonged, who could also have been630