Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

unmoved by the tempest off criticism prevailing on
every side. He is sustained throughout every trail of
faith by his personal acquaintance with Holy Writ ,
by the transforming influence it is having on his
life, and by the many external evidence of its
genuineness that can not be gainsaid.
This is a sure basis on which to establish faith
in the Testimonies of God's Spirit. There are many
who for years have been powerfully influenced by
the teachings of these writing.
Over the lives of thousands the Testimonies
have been exercising a transforming power that the
writings of no human being could ever have
exercised. Aside from the Bible, nothing in
literature can in any wise be compared with the
Testimonies, with respect to the spirit and power
accompanying them, as well as with respect to their
scope--the depth and the breadth of thought found
in them. Nowhere else can there be found anything
that is similar to the closing chapters of "Great
Controversy", or the opening chapter of "Desire of
Aces", or the chapter in "Patriarchs" on "The
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