Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

our minds by entering into a critical investigation
of every seeming difficulty. Our opportunities for
doing a thorough work may be all that could be
desired. However, the result of such investigation
may fail to afford relief. Sometimes, by no amount
of reasoning and conjecture as to the probably
explanation of the things we do not understand, can
we remove every apparent difficulty.
In every instance we can come into the light
regarding these matters, but often not until we
begin to study from a point of view altogether
different from that of a critical investigator. It is
when we apply to the acceptance and
understanding of the Testimonies the same
principles that we apply to the acceptance and
understanding of the Bible, that faith and
confidence take the place of quibbling and
questioning.
To illustrate: The surest and most satisfactory
test by which one may establish his faith in the
Word of rod, as revealed in the Bible, is the effect
that this Word has upon life and character,--the
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