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And now the duty of making known to others

what he believed to be so clearly taught in

the Scriptures, urged itself with new force

upon him. “When I was about my business,”

he said, “it was continually ringing in my

ears, ‘Go and tell the world of their danger.’

This text was constantly occurring to me:

‘When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man,

thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to

warn the wicked from his way, that wicked

man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood

will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if

thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from

it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die

in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy

soul.” Ezekiel 33:8, 9. I felt that if the wicked

could be effectually warned, multitudes of

them would repent; and that if they were not

warned, their blood might be required at my

hand.”—Bliss, page 92.