Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

The Lord wants us to come into harmony with
his spirit. If we will do this, his spirit can rule our
minds. If we have a true understanding of what
constitutes the essential education, and endeavor to
teach its principles, Christ will stand by us to help
us. He promised to his followers that when they
should stand before councils and judges, they were
to take no thought what they should speak. I will
instruct you, He said, I will guide you. Knowing
what it is to be taught of God, when words of
heavenly wisdom are brought to our mind, we will
distinguish them from our own thoughts. We will
understand them as the words of God, and we will
see in them life and power for us.
"I will give you tongue and utterance." Of all
the precious assurances God has given me
regarding my work, none has been more precious
to me than this, that He would give me tongue and
utterance wherever I should go. In places where
there was the greatest opposition, every tongue was
silenced. I have spoken the plain message to our
own people and to the multitude, and my words
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