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

obtain a healthful experience.
The fires of the day of God will consume the
stubble and chaff, and there will be nothing left of
any who continue in the ungodly course which they
have so long loved. This class have a disrelish for
the society of those whom God is truly with. Their
religious experience is of so low an order that they
have no part nor lot in a rational, intelligent
religious experience; therefore they have despised
the society of those whom God leads and is
teaching. Sarcasm and irony is the stronghold of
some peculiar minds of this class. They are bold
and insolent, and do not regard good manners.
They have no care to discriminate and render honor
to whom honor is due. They manifest a proud,
rebellious, defiant spirit against those who differ
from their opinions. Their boisterous manners and
wrong course lead the true servant of God to feel
that they have resisted the efforts made for them,
and he becomes disheartened in reference to
laboring any further in their behalf. They engage in
a contemptible triumph of exactly the same nature
as that which Satan and evil angels engage in over
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