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

eproach His cause and His people, whom He has
called "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an
holy nation, a peculiar people," that they should
show forth the praises of Him that hath called them
out of darkness into His marvelous light.
The people who are at war with the law of the
great Jehovah, who consider it a special virtue to
talk, write, and act the most bitter and hateful
things to show their contempt of that law, may
make exalted profession of love to God, and
apparently have much religious zeal, as did the
Jewish chief priests and elders; yet, in the day of
God, "Found wanting" will be said of them by the
Majesty of heaven. "By the law is the knowledge
of sin." The mirror which would discover to them
the defects in their characters, they are infuriated
against, because it points out their sins. Leading
Adventists who have rejected the light are fired
with madness against God's holy law, as the Jewish
nation were against the Son of God. They are in a
terrible deception, deceiving others and being
deceived themselves. They will not come to the
light, lest their deeds should be reproved. Such will
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