Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

known something of their sacrifices in the past, and have been witnesses of the blessingof God that has attended their plain, searching, faithful testimony. We have long beenconvinced that the teachings of the Holy Spirit in these visions were indispensable tothe welfare of the people who are preparing for translation into the kingdom of God.In no other way can secret sins be rebuked and base men who creep “in unawares”into the flock of God be exposed and baffled in their evil designs. Long experience hastaught us that such a gift is of inestimable value to the people of God. We believe alsothat God has called Brother White to bear a plain testimony in reproving wrongs thusmade manifest, and that in this work he should have the support of those who truly fearGod.We have learned by painful experience, also, that when these testimonies are silent,or their warning lightly regarded, coldness, backsliding, worldly-mindedness, andspiritual darkness take possession of the church. We would not give glory to man,but we should be recreant to our sense of duty not to speak in strong and pointedlanguage our views of the importance of these testimonies. The fearful apostasy ofthose who have slighted and despised them has furnished many sad proofs of thedangerous business of doing despite to the Spirit of grace.We have been witnesses of the great affliction through which Brother and SisterWhite have passed in the severe and dangerous sickness of Brother White. The handof God in his restoration is to us most apparent. Probably no other one upon whom sucha blow has fallen ever recovered. Yet a severe shock of paralysis, seriously affecting thebrain, has, by the good hand of God, been removed from his servant, and new strengthgranted him both in body and mind.We think that the action of Sister White in taking her sick husband on her northerntour, in December last, was dictated by the Spirit of God; and that we, in standingopposed to such610