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Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

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[Australia], and dated December 20, 1896, which is<br />

just what is needed at this time. I will have it<br />

copied today, and if it is possible get it off in the<br />

evening mail. I had lost all trace of these<br />

manuscripts, but this morning a pile of copies<br />

attracted my attention, which on looking over, I<br />

found to my surprise to be just what I wanted.—<br />

Letter 262, 1907.<br />

Minds Must Be Prepared Spiritually.—I<br />

have tried to not shun to give to our people the<br />

whole counsel of God, but have sometimes<br />

deferred matters with the injunction, “They cannot<br />

bear them now.” Even truth cannot be presented in<br />

its fullness before minds that are in no preparation<br />

spiritually to receive it. I have many things to say,<br />

but persons to whom the messages apply cannot in<br />

their present unconsecrated state bear them.—<br />

Letter 55, 1894.<br />

Why Paul Could Not Tell All.—The great<br />

apostle had many visions. The Lord showed him<br />

many things that it is not lawful for a man to utter.<br />

Why could he not tell the believers what he had<br />

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