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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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effort Satan is working, <strong>and</strong> we are to labor with<br />

heart <strong>and</strong> mind <strong>and</strong> soul <strong>and</strong> strength to win others<br />

to Christ.<br />

I wish you fully to appreciate the words that<br />

Christ spoke to help the indifferent <strong>and</strong> the<br />

deceived. Do not too readily give up your brethren<br />

<strong>and</strong> friends. "Watch therefore; for ye know not<br />

what hour your Lord doth come. But this know,<br />

that if the good-man of the house had known in<br />

what watch the thief would come, he would have<br />

watched, <strong>and</strong> would not have suffered his house to<br />

be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready; for in<br />

such an hour as ye think not the Son of man<br />

cometh."<br />

I am instructed to seek for the sheep that are<br />

being destroyed by wolves. Let us not be oversensitive<br />

regarding the representations of hatred<br />

made by others. Christ was mocked <strong>and</strong> insulted.<br />

Men for whom he was about to give his life,<br />

buffeted <strong>and</strong> smote him, saying, "Prophesy, who is<br />

it that smote thee?" Let us call to mind the scenes<br />

of Christ's suffering, <strong>and</strong> be prepared to suffer for<br />

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