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

with those of others, but you stand all ready to
differ if there is a possible chance for you to do so.
This injures your own soul, retards your spiritual
advancement, and not only grieves and wounds
those who would be your sincere friends, but
sometimes disgusts them, so that your society is
not agreeable and pleasant, but annoying. It is as
natural as your breath for you to consider the views
and opinions of others inferior to yours. You often
greatly err here, for you have not all that wisdom
and knowledge for which you give yourself credit.
You often set your opinions up above men and
women who have had many more years of
experience than yourself, and who are far better
qualified to direct and give words of wise judgment
than yourself. But you have not seen these
disagreeable besetments, and therefore have not
realized the ill and bitter fruit they have produced.
You have long indulged a spirit of contention, of
war. Your peculiar turn of mind leads you to exult
in opposites.
Your education has been deplorable; it has not
been favorable to your now having a correct
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