Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

have not seen, and yet have believed." You were
represented to me as uniting with the rebel leader
and his host to annoy, perplex, dishearten,
discourage, and overthrow those who are battling
for the right, who are standing under the
bloodstained banner of Prince Immanuel. Your
influence, I was shown, has turned souls from
keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment.
You have employed your talents and your skill to
manufacture weapons to place in the hands of the
enemies of God, to fight those who are trying to
obey God in keeping His commandments. While
angels have been commissioned to strengthen the
things that remain, to withstand and counteract
your influence, they have looked with the deepest
grief upon your work to dishearten and destroy.
You have caused pure, sinless, holy angels to
weep.
Those who are living amid the perils of the last
days, days which are characterized by the masses
turning from the truth of God to fables, will have
close work to turn from the fables which are
prepared for them on every hand, and have an
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