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

way to life. Ministers should give all diligence to
add to their "faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; and to
godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity." Some of our ministers graduate
when they have scarcely learned the first principles
of the doctrine of Christ. Those who are
ambassadors for Christ, who stand in His stead,
beseeching souls to be reconciled to God, should
be qualified to present our faith intelligently and be
able to give the reasons of their hope with
meekness and fear. Said Christ: "Search the
Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:
and they are they which testify of Me."
Ministers who teach unpopular truth will be
beset by men who are urged on by Satan and who,
like their master, can quote Scripture readily; and
shall the servants of God be unequal to the servants
of Satan in handling the words of Inspiration? They
should, like Christ, meet scripture with scripture.
Oh, that those who minister in holy things would
awake, and, like the noble Bereans, search the
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