Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

that party of judges, lawyers, and ministers, who
claim to be the servants of God and co-workers
with Jesus Christ, united at the festive board.
Through the indulgence of perverted appetites, they
have made themselves a set of driveling fools
bereft of reason. And these are men for whom
Christ died that it might be possible for them to
have a life of usefulness, to wear Christ's yoke, and
to show their loyalty to God.
Satan is the destroyer; and God is the restorer.
He calls upon us to cooperate with Him by doing
our utmost, by precept and example, to restore the
moral image of God in man. It is our duty to
engage in the work of helping our fellow men to
stand in their God-given freedom, men of selfcontrol,
vessels unto honor. We can show ourselves
of much value as colaborers with God by elevating
the standard of temperance, by trying to raise our
brethren from degradation, so that Christ shall not
have died for them in vain. Thus we show our
nobility as sons of God, and joint heirs with Jesus
Christ, and manifest our fitness for the immortal
inheritance, which Christ has gone to prepare for
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