Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

heart, and when you thought your writings were
slighted at the Review office, your pride was
touched, and you commenced a warfare which has
been like Saul's kicking against the pricks. You
have joined hands with those who turn the truth of
God into a lie. You have strengthened the hands of
sinners and opposed the counsel of God against
your own soul. You have been warring against that
of which you had no knowledge. You have not
known what work you were doing. I saw your wife
wrestling with God in prayer, her faith firmly
grasping you and at the same time fixed upon the
throne, pleading the never-failing promises of God.
Her heart has ached as she has seen you persisting
in your warfare against the truth. I was shown that
you were doing this ignorantly, blinded by Satan.
While engaged in this warfare you were not
increasing in spirituality and devotion to God. You
had not the witness that your ways pleased God.
You had a zeal, but not according to knowledge.
You had no experience in my calling, had scarcely
seen me, and had no knowledge of my work.
Brother V, you possess qualifications which
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