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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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I needed the most. It may be a surprise to you to<br />

learn what means God used to get me back on the<br />

right track.<br />

Ten years ago this fall I was in Washington<br />

attending the first council after the headquarters<br />

were moved from Battle Creek.<br />

The first testimony regarding the "Living<br />

Temple" was received <strong>and</strong> read while we were<br />

there in session. In spite of the "new light" that I<br />

had received regarding the <strong>Testimonies</strong>, I had<br />

enough spiritual sense to appreciate that there was<br />

something in it that would have to be reckoned<br />

with either in time or eternity. A day or two later<br />

one of my intimate friends <strong>and</strong> myself spent a<br />

good share of one night earnestly seeking God for<br />

wisdom <strong>and</strong> for light, <strong>and</strong> it was during this<br />

experience that he was led to say in substance,<br />

"Doctor, this talk of the 'human side' of the<br />

<strong>Testimonies</strong> has been a snare to us. No doubt there<br />

is a human side to the <strong>Testimonies</strong>, but with all that<br />

there is so much more divinity in them there is in<br />

us that God will never permit us feeble mortals to<br />

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