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

Satan has temptations laid for every step of
your life. You have not been as economical of
means as you should have been. You hate
stinginess. This is all right; but you go to the
opposite extreme, and your course has been
marked with prodigality. Christ taught His
disciples a lesson in feeding the five thousand. He
wrought a great miracle and fed that vast multitude
with five loaves and two small fishes. After all had
been satisfied, He did not then regard the fragments
indifferently, as if it were beneath His dignity to
notice them. He who had power to work so notable
a miracle, and to give food to so large a company,
said to His disciples: "Gather up the fragments that
remain, that nothing be lost." This is a lesson to us
all, and one which we should not disregard.
You have a great work before you, and you
cannot afford to waste another moment without
taking hold of it. Brother P, I am alarmed for you;
but I know that God loves you still, although your
course has been wayward. If He did not have a
special love for you He would not present your
dangers before me as He has. You have engaged in
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