---
title: 'The Fatal Temptation'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Anna Frances Whiting Raffensperger'
date: 1873-08-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 28'
- 'Luke 15'
- 'Matthew 18'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/raffensperger-1873-the-fatal-temptation
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# The Fatal Temptation

Two 1873 magazine stories: a family awaiting inheritance, and 'The Fatal Temptation'—a pastor's child coerced into theft, overwhelmed by guilt, and her parents' anguished prayers.

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