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

they do this, their strength will be weakness, and
they will be overcome by Satan.
Brother B, it is dangerous for you to yield to
doubts. You must not permit yourself to go any
further in the direction in which you have been
going. You are in constant danger. Satan is on your
track, suggesting doubts and causing unbelief. Had
you stood clear in the counsel of God you could
have had an influence for good over those who
love your society now.
Poor Brother C felt the influence of the Spirit
of God, but was deficient in experience. He did not
fully turn from his old habits. He failed to make
God his strength continually, and his feet slipped.
There is no concord between Christ and Belial.
You might have helped him, had you been
connected with Heaven as you should have been.
But your course of inactivity, your manner of
conversation, your influence, have strengthened
him in his backsliding and quieted the voice of
conscience within him. Your course has not been a
reproof to him in his downward track. You could
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