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

leaving these points unincumbered with a mass of
words and petty details. He should leave his ideas
before the people as distinct as mileposts. To cover
over the important, vital points with an array of
words, dragging in everything which has some
distant relationship to the subject, destroys the
force of it and obscures the beautiful, connected
chain of truth. You are slow and tedious in your
preaching, as well as in everything else you
undertake. You need, if ever a man did, to be
energized by the Spirit of truth. You need Christ
formed within you the hope of glory. You need
religion, the genuine article.
I was referred to the following words of
inspiration: "Who is a wise man and endued with
knowledge among you? let him show out of a good
conversation his works with meekness of wisdom."
"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of
righteousness is sown in peace of them that make
peace." Men whom God has called to the work of
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