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

fervent. We fear that amid the perils of these last
days you may make shipwreck. Be not grieved
with me for thus writing. You cannot have a full
sense, as I have, of the wiles and sophistry of
Satan. His deceptions are many; his snares are
carefully and cunningly prepared to entangle the
unwary and unsuspecting. We want you to escape
his wiles; we want you to be fully on the Lord's
side, loving, and waiting and earnestly longing for,
the appearing of our Saviour in the clouds of
heaven.
Since your first efforts to keep the Sabbath,
many things have arisen to discourage you; yet we
hope that these things will not divert your mind
from the important truths for these last days.
Although the advocates of the truth do not all do as
they should, because they are unsanctified by the
truths they profess, the truth is the same; its luster
is undimmed. Although these may stand between
the truth and those who have not fully taken hold
upon it, and their dark shadow may appear for a
time to cloud its bright luster, yet it does not in
reality; the truth of heavenly origin is undimmed.
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