The next morning, as we were about to leave for the house of worship to engage in the arduous labors of the day, a sister for whom I had a testimony that she lacked discretion and caution, and did not fully control her words and actions, came in with her husband and manifested feelings of great unreconciliation and agitation. She commenced to talk and to weep. She murmured a little, and confessed a little, and justified self considerably. She had a wrong idea of many things I had stated to her. Her pride was touched as I brought out her faults in so public a manner. Here was evidently the main difficulty. But why should she feel thus? The brethren and sisters knew these things were so, therefore I was not informing them of anything new. But I doubt not that it was new to the sister herself. She did not know herself, and could not properly judge of her own words and acts. This is in a degree true of nearly all, hence the necessity of faithful reproofs in the church and the cultivation by all its members of love for the plain testimony. {2T 14.3}

Den næste morgen, da vi var ved at forlade gudsdyrkelseshuset for at gå i gang med dagens vanskelige arbejde, kom en søster, for hvem jeg havde et vidnesbyrd om at hun manglede betænksomhed, varsomhed og (15) diskretion og ikke til fulde styrede hendes ord og handlinger, sammen med sin mand og tilkendegav stor uforsonelighed og uro. Hun begyndte at tale og græde. Hun knurrede en smugle og gjorde en smugle bekendelser og retfærdiggjorde selvet betydeligt meget. Hun havde forkerte tanker om mange af de ting jeg havde sagt til hende. Hendes stolthed var rørt idet jeg bragte hendes fejl frem på en så åbenlys måde. Her var øjensynligt den største vanskelighed. Men hvorfor følte hun det sådan? Brødrene og søstrene vidste at det var sådan, derfor fortalte jeg dem ikke noget nyt. Men jeg tvivlede ikke på at det var nyt for denne søster selv. Hun vidste det ikke selv og kunne ikke bedømme sine egne ord og handlinger ordentligt. Dette er i en vis grad rigtigt for næsten alle, derfor er det nødvendigt med nøjagtig og redelig dadel i menigheden og at dets medlemmer opelskes i kærlighed for det klare vidnesbyrd.