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

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Thursday, December 25. Spoke in a hall to an<br />

intelligent congregation from Luke 10:25.<br />

My mind has been in painful exercise during<br />

the night. I was in a meeting in Battle Creek, and<br />

heard many suggestions made and saw a spirit<br />

manifested not of God. <strong>The</strong>y were having a storm<br />

of words. How my heart ached!<br />

My guide said, "<strong>The</strong>y are not connected with<br />

God and are not walking in His counsel. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />

not contending for the faith once delivered to the<br />

Saints."<br />

Propositions were made, and a world was made<br />

of an atom and an atom of a world. I was<br />

compelled, as at Minneapolis, to stand aside from<br />

them, for I was made to understand clearly that<br />

God had not imbued them with His Spirit, but<br />

another spirit of a worldly character was<br />

controlling their minds. <strong>The</strong>ir judgment was<br />

unsanctified, but without a flaw in their eyes. A<br />

worldly policy was in their reasoning, and

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