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

temporal food, but you could not be deprived of
spiritual food. You earnestly sought for the grace
of God, and you did not seek in vain. Communion
with the people of God was the richest blessing you
could enjoy.
In your Christian experience your soul
abhorred vanity, pride, and extravagant show.
When you have witnessed the expenditure of
means among professed Christians to make a
display and to foster pride, your heart and lips have
said: "Oh, if I only had the means handled by those
who are unfaithful in their stewardship, I would
feel it one of the greatest privileges to help the
needy and to aid in the advancement of the cause
of God!"
You often realized the presence of God while
you sought in your humble way to enlighten others
in regard to the truth for these last days. You had
experienced the truth for yourself. That which you
had seen, and heard, and experienced, and testified
unto, you knew was no fiction. You delighted to
present before others, in private conversation, the
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