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

eligion did not consist in righteous acts, true
humility of soul, and sincere devotion to God, but
in impulse, in noise and confusion, spiced with
eccentricities and oddities. They had not felt,
neither could they feel, the necessity of being
clothed with Christ's righteousness. They had a
righteousness of their own, which was as filthy
rags, and which God can in no case accept. These
persons had no love for union and harmony of
action. They delighted in disorder. Confusion,
distraction, and diversity of opinion were their
choice. They were ungovernable, unsubdued,
unregenerated, and unconsecrated, and this element
of confusion suited their undisciplined minds. They
were a curse to the cause of God and brought the
name of Seventh-day Adventists into disrepute.
These persons had not experienced the work of
reformation, or sanctification through the truth.
They were coarse and uncultivated. They had never
tasted of the sweet, pure refinement of the world to
come. They had never experienced, neither had
their hearts been awed by, the mystery of
godliness. They placed divine and eternal things
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