Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

as a sin-pardoning Saviour. I will open blind eyes."
"Take heed, every soul, take heed to
yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and
the cares of this life, and so that day come on you
unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all those
that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be
accounted worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man. The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in
the night. For when they shall say, 'Peace and
safety', then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall
not escape."
Then the Saviour stretched out his hand,
saying: "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light and of the day. If ye be
obedient to the knowledge ye have received from
my word, then walk according to my word, ye are
the children of the day. Ye are not of the night, nor
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