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

you to manifest a spirit of noble benevolence above
any cheap dealing with her who had been true to
you. You have ground the face of the poor; you
have dealt unjustly. "There is that scattereth, and
yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more
than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
It seemed to me, as these things were presented
before me, that Satan had possessed such power to
blind minds through a love of the world, that even
professed Christians forgot, or lost all sense of the
fact that God lives and that His angels are making a
record of all the doings of the children of men; that
every mean act, every small deal, is placed upon
the life record. Every day bears its burden of record
of unfulfilled duties, of neglect, of selfishness, of
deception, of fraud, of overreaching. What an
amount of evil works is accumulating for the final
judgment! When Christ shall come, "His reward is
with Him, and His work before Him," to render to
every man according as his works have been. What
a revelation will then be made! What confusion of
face to some as the acts of their lives are revealed
upon the pages of history!
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