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

your life by concealing your wrongs, you are losing
it. If you now humble yourself before God, confess
your wrongs, and return to Him with full purpose
of heart, yours can yet be a happy family. If you
will not do this, but choose your own way, your
happiness is at an end.
You have a great work to do. You have been
too slack in your deportment. Your words have not
been elevated, chaste, and pure. You have been
separating from the divine, and cultivating the
baser passions. The intellectual and noble powers
of your mind have been brought into subjection to
the animal passions. You have not pursued a right
course for some time. You have not abstained from
every appearance of evil. It is not safe for you to
pursue this course any longer.
You have not loved your wife as you should.
She is a good woman. She has seen, in a small
measure, your danger. But you have closed your
ears to her cautions. You have thought her jealous,
but this is not her nature. She loves you, and will
bear with you, and forgive and love you,
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