The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

presented before me. I was shown that for a long
time your thoughts and feelings, your spirit and
deportment, have not been of a character to give
you moral solidity, to make you a man of holy
influence. After the death of your wife, the
weakness of your character was evinced in your
attentions to young girls. Your familiarity was an
injury to them, making impressions on their minds
unfavorable to their spiritual advancement. The
difficulty is in your heart. It was not pure. You
have not had Christ abiding in you by faith. You
have not kept the way of the Lord. You have not
abstained from the very appearance of evil. Your
own ways, your own feelings, your appetites and
passions, have held sway until you have placed
yourself where you are now trammeled and are
inclined to please yourself irrespective of the
counsel of God.