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

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same.<br />

I have loved Brother Smith next to my own<br />

husband and children, because he has had a part in<br />

the work for so many years. I have highly esteemed<br />

Elder Butler. But these men have left me alone--<br />

these men, to whom the Lord has spoken several<br />

times that they should stand united with my<br />

husband and myself in closest union till the close<br />

of time. <strong>The</strong>y have caused me such sadness and<br />

grief of spirit as I cannot describe. I felt my<br />

husband's death, oh, how keenly God alone knows,<br />

but I have felt the cruel course of these men toward<br />

the work of God He has given me to do, more<br />

keenly than the death of my husband.<br />

I have sorrow in my heart continually on their<br />

account because they will not, cannot, be saved in<br />

their present attitude. <strong>The</strong>y persistently hold to the<br />

course of wrong they in their blindness have taken,<br />

and until they shall see and confess their errors<br />

they stand in no better place before God than other<br />

ministers who have resisted the Spirit of God and<br />

done despite to the Spirit of grace. I know their

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