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5761 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Ms 5, 1880, par. 7
… moments of precious time spent in useless reading, fictitious tales, should be put away, and all reading which destroys your appetite for the Word of God. You …
5762 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Ms 8, 1880, par. 24
… one of us should thirst for more and more of its illuminating power, because the earth is growing darker and darker every day. Many have not experienced the …
5763 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Ms 9, 1880, par. 57
… any time, but how much more so now, when standing upon the very borders of the eternal world! I speak to my people. If you draw close to Jesus and seek to adorn your …
5764 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Ms 10, 1880, par. 13
… are of little consequence, that ought to be used everyday in useful employments that will fit us more easily to approach the high standard.
5765 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Ms 10, 1880, par. 14
… of Christ have generally more ability than they have training, but they do not put their faculties to use, making the most of their time and opportunities …
5766 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 1a, 1881, par. 3
… hard time. Father has been in such a state of mind I feared he would lose his reason. But he is concluding to lay off the burdens of office matters and go to writing …
5767 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 3a, 1881, par. 3
… power of habit upon you. You commence to make things as you want them, convenient and pleasant, but all the time it is borrowed capital you are using; for every …
5768 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 3b, 1881, par. 7
… perilous time. There was never such a state of things as now in Battle Creek. But we may be brought still lower before God will reach down His arm to lift us up …
5769 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 3b, 1881, par. 10
… same time, if thought best, some one or two or more of my scrapbooks that contain pieces especially treating on the mother’s duty and influence in her family …
5770 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5, 1881, par. 2
… short of an insane man much of the time he was in Europe, and he, instead of helping Brother Andrews, hindered and discouraged him. With his strong will, will he …
5771 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 19
… Spirit of God. We are living in an important time, and I feel to the depths of my soul that perils are all around us. It becomes us to labor for harmony. Let there …
5772 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 20
… give us both treatments at the same time, and the help she could give me in her company would be of that value to me that, while so feeble, I would give her four dollars …
5773 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 6, 1881, par. 2
… some of this means to the cause of God. We may not be able to do more now than to gain their confidence, and at some future time solicit means from them. On the subject …
5774 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 6, 1881, par. 10
… precarious time of it. Leroy Nicola was holding a rope about the center pole on one side and Father on the other side, while I lay on the bed covered up, with the …
5775 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 9, 1881, par. 14
… last time. How noble! How peaceful and good he looked in his last quiet sleep. There was nothing in that countenance to remind us of death. But there was the coffin …
5776 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 10, 1881, par. 3
… favor of the truth. You have been several times upon the very point of deciding to do this, but the enemy of all righteousness has said, “Do not act hastily. You …
5777 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 14, 1881, par. 2
… free of all expense. I wish your wife could go with you and would urge this if I thought it of any use, but I know she would not wish to leave her children. But I am …
5778 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 15, 1881, par. 2
… the time was out last October. What has been done since? The place is of too great value to have no attention paid to it. Will you and Elder Haskell interest yourselves …
5779 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 17, 1881, par. 9
… , regardless of the laws of life and health. The Lord did not require us to carry so heavy burdens and many of our brethren so few. We ought to have gone to the Pacific …
5780 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 18, 1881, par. 8
… of water charged for my house, it hurt my heart. Now it was not the money part of it, but the principle of the thing that cut me to the very heart. From that time to …