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

condition. Your sensibilities have been blunted to
spiritual things; you have a violated conscience.
Your influence is not to gather, but to scatter. You
have no special interest in religious exercises. You
are not a happy man. Your wife would unite her
interest with the people of God if you would get
out of her way. She needs your help. Will you take
hold of this work together?
Last June I saw that your only hope of breaking
the chain of your bondage was a removal from
your associates. You had yielded to Satan's
temptations until you were a weak man. You were
a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God, and
were fast traveling the downward path. I have been
disappointed that you have continued in the same
indifferent state in which you have been for years.
You have known and experienced the love of God;
and it has been your delight to do His will. You
have delighted in the study of the word of God.
You have been punctual at the prayer meetings.
Your testimony has been from a heart which felt
the quickening influences of the love of Christ. But
you have lost your first love.
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