Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

men and women obey the work of God and they
will bring heaven very near to earth.
I feel deeply over the existing state of things. It
is today "as it was in the days of Noah." Then they
ate and drank and planted and builded, with an
enthusiasm from beneath stirring them. This made
them intensely active to follow the evil
imaginations of their own heart, and that
continually. There was violence in the land. What
do we see now in 1896? Men work in the same
manner as in Noah's day, forgetful of God,
educating themselves in habits and practices which
corrupt soul and body. We see terrible calamities
coming upon our world because of iniquity.
Thousands are being killed by floods, by terrible
tornadoes, by earthquakes. Ships that are upon the
great deep perish in the angry billows. Yet in spite
of this men continue to act in opposition to God.
My brother, there is need that economy be
practiced in every line of our work. There is need
of prayer, earnest, heartfelt, sincere prayer. There is
need that temperance in eating, drinking and
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