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

the footsteps of S, and unless your parents awake
and open their eyes to your folly, they will share in
your guilt. Sin is upon them and upon your sisters
for the course they have taken in fostering your
pride and flattering your vanity. If you and your
sisters were in a saved state, you would all feel the
perilous condition of the unsaved. The day will
come, unless a great change is wrought in you,
when you will hear from many lips. "I associated
with these Christians, yet they never told me of my
danger. They never warned me. I thought that if I
was in danger of being lost, they would not rest day
or night without arousing me to see my lost
condition. Now I am lost. If I had been in their
place and had seen one in a similar condition, I
would not have rested until I had made them
sensible of their state and pointed them to the only
One who can save them." You have been good and
pleasing servants of Satan while you have
professed to be servants of Christ.
Sister O, you have been so exalted by the
esteem you have had of yourself that you have had
no just sense of the estimate observers have placed
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