Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

only. The rest of the world was in darkness, with
only a glimmer of light here and there. Our
Instructor said: “This darkness is the result of
men’s following their own course. They have
cherished hereditary and cultivated tendencies to
evil. They have made questioning and faultfinding
and accusing the chief business of their lives. Their
hearts are not right with God. They have hidden
their light under a bushel.”—Testimonies for the
Church 9:28, 29.
The Study of the Word and Special
Knowledge.—With the light communicated
through the study of his Word, with the special
knowledge given of individual cases among his
people under all circumstances and in every phase
of experience, can I now be in the same ignorance,
the same mental uncertainty and spiritual
blindness, as at the beginning of this experience?
Will my brethren say that Sister White has been so
dull a scholar that her judgment in this direction is
no better than before she entered Christ’s school, to
be trained and disciplined for a special work? Am I
no more intelligent in regard to the duties and
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