The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

and think, and that you may plant yourselves upon
the rock Christ Jesus and believe Him. "I have
declared unto them thy name, and will declare it."
That is what He came here for.
"That the love wherewith thou hast loved me
may be in them, and I in them." I am so glad,
brethren, I am so glad that we have the privilege.
But our minds have become separated from God;
and the enemy meant it should be so. He cast his
hellish shadow right between us and our hope, and
our strength, and our comfort, that we should not
see Him; that he might eclipse Jesus, that we
should [not] discern Him and what He was to us,
and what He would do for us, and what He would
be to us--that he should cast this dark and gloomy
shadow between us and our Saviour.
Now, we have been getting just a glimmering
of faith. We have but a little of it. Yet it is so very
hard for the mind that has been looking on the dark
shadows, and that has been hanging memory's hall
all through with disconsolate things and pictures
that are draped in mourning, that it seems as