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

The case of N. Fuller has caused me much grief
and anguish of spirit. That he should yield himself
to the control of Satan to work wickedness as he
has done is terrible. I believe that God designed
that this case of hypocrisy and villainy should be
brought to light in the manner it has been, that it
might prove a warning to others. Here is a man
who was acquainted with the teachings of the
Bible, and who had listened to testimonies borne
by me in his presence against the very sins which
he was practicing. More than once he had heard me
speak decidedly in regard to the prevailing sins of
this generation, that corruption was teeming
everywhere, that base passions controlled men and
women generally, that among the masses crimes of
the darkest dye were continually practiced, and
they were reeking in their own corruption. The
nominal churches are filled with fornication and
adultery, crime and murder, the result of base,
lustful passion; but these things are kept covered.
Ministers in high places are guilty; yet a cloak of
godliness covers their dark deeds, and they pass on
from year to year in their course of hypocrisy. The
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