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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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our people to be drawn into the matters that they<br />

can not correctly underst<strong>and</strong>.<br />

God was dishonored by the plans devised for<br />

issuing bonds as a means of obtaining money with<br />

which to complete the Battle Creek Sanitarium<br />

building; for the talent of means in the h<strong>and</strong>s of our<br />

people is thus tied up where it can not be used for<br />

the proclamation of the third angel's message in<br />

fields still unentered. There is a world to be<br />

warned; <strong>and</strong> God's people must be cautioned<br />

against becoming so impoverished financially by<br />

tying up their means in great institutions that they<br />

will have little or nothing left with which to<br />

provide facilities in needy fields <strong>and</strong> with which to<br />

carry forward the Lord's work in all parts of the<br />

earth.<br />

The work of the Creator as seen in nature<br />

reveals his power. But nature is not above God, nor<br />

is God in nature as some represent him to be. God<br />

made the world, but the world is not God; it is but<br />

the work of his h<strong>and</strong>s. Nature reveals the work of a<br />

positive, personal God, showing that God is, <strong>and</strong><br />

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