Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

to do so little to change the present condition of
things in the world. God requires that every soul
who believes in Christ shall go forth and bear much
fruit. He requires that they be in earnest in doing
missionary work, faithful in their home life, in their
student life, true to their church duties. Those who
have pledged themselves by baptism to follow
Christ, who have professed to put on the robe of
Christ's righteousness, are to consider the words of
the apostle Paul, "If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ
sitteth on the right hand of God."
Let there be less sermonizing and more
humbling of the soul in prayer for the divine
presence among us. Our meetings should be
seasons of humble seeking after God. O, that we
might sense our need of Christ and by living faith
claim the promise of his presence!
There are some of our ministers who are true
burden bearers, whose hearts go out in prayer to
God, and who weep between the porch and the
altar, crying, "Spare thy people, O Lord, and give
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