Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

not thine heritage to reproach." There are a few
who are in earnest. But there are many who have
but little sense of their great need of the divine
blessing.
In visions of the night I was in a company
where our ministers were assembled. A few were
humbling themselves before God and confessing
their sins. They were weeping, and pleading with
God to spare his people and to give not his heritage
to reproach. But with many there was no special
burden to get near to the Lord. I looked for the
burden bearers; but there were few who carried any
genuine burden for souls. The very ones who
needed to seek the Lord most earnestly were not
coming to him with broken hearts and contrite
spirits. While some of the ministers were brokenly
calling upon the Lord, and were weighted down as
a cart beneath sheaves, the hearts of many were
untouched. What kind of account will those have to
give who stand in holy places of trust, and yet have
little or no burden for the souls of the perishing!
There is need of a great reformation in our
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