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

were they as ambitious, zealous, and persevering to
gain a knowledge of divine things as they are to
obtain the paltry, perishable things of this life. The
masses professing to be Christians have been
satisfied to be spiritual dwarfs. They have no
disposition to make it their object to seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness; hence
godliness is a hidden mystery to them, they cannot
understand it. They know not Christ by
experimental knowledge.
Let those men and women who are satisfied
with their dwarfed, crippled condition in divine
things be suddenly transported to heaven and for an
instant witness the high, the holy state of perfection
that ever abides there,—every soul filled with love;
every countenance beaming with joy; enchanting
music in melodious strains rising in honor of God
and the Lamb; and ceaseless streams of light
flowing upon the saints from the face of Him who
sitteth upon the throne, and from the Lamb; and let
them realize that there is higher and greater joy yet
to experience, for the more they receive of the
enjoyment of God, the more is their capacity
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