Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

endurance to the utmost limit, laboring almost at
the sacrifice of their lives. They have been
sustained by the power of God. The Saviour of
humanity recognizes the almost superhuman efforts
made to press the work forward, while not a few
were placing blocks before the wheels.
"If those who now view matters with perverted
vision had talked constantly with God, pleading
with him for grace and guidance, they would have
followed a different course. They would have
called to mind their own experience in a new field,
and would have striven to establish more firmly
that which had been established. As they learned
Christ's lessons, they would have become meek
and lowly and humble, and they would have been
partakers of his loving-kindness and his unselfish
regard for others. But without a kind, loving regard
for those who have as deep an interest as
themselves in the cause of God, who have at heart
the needs of suffering humanity, how can men
serve God acceptable? How can they adjust matters
in a way that will glorify him? Those who are
striving to obey the word, 'Be ye therefore perfect,
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