Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

made to degrade the Sabbath, and to lead us to feel
that humanitarian work was so valuable that in
prosecuting it we could disregard the sacred claims
of the Sabbath of Jehovah.
Most strenuous opposition has been brought
against the means which God has selected for the
strengthening and guidance of his church, an
opposition manifest in efforts to unsettle
confidence in the messages which God sends his
people through ministers of the gospel, through
teachers in our schools, and through the chosen
agent whom he has appointed to give his special
message of warning and counsel to the church. And
finally the attack has been upon the Deity. An
effort is being made to put man in the place of
God; and if this be done, the work of apostasy is
well nigh completed.
As you study the Testimonies of warning and
counsel to this church, you will find the burden of
these testimonies follows very closely the line of
the enemy's attack. They have been full of warning
against separation, against building up and
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