Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

article. "I have observed that whoever partially
rejects the Testimonies discards what he needs
most, and that every person who wholly rejects
them eventually doubts the Scriptures also, and
loses his spiritual life and his hold on God, though
he may still hold on to the church." A friend of
mine who has wholly rejected the Testimonies told
me only recently he did not take any stock in some
of the Bible stories. It is more important to love the
Testimonies then it is merely to believe them. A
man who only believes his wife, but does not love,
will soon cease to believe in her.
As far as I know, everyone off the workers in
the Hinsdale Sanitarium loves the Testimonies and
is studying them in connection with the Bible. I
have promulgated no theory about the Testimonies
to those workers, simply because I know that truth
carries its own credentials and convictions to the
genuine truth-loving heart. I have tried with the
help of God, in season and out of season, to have
these workers yield their hearts to the demands of
spiritual truths, and any men who will receive into
his own heart God's spirit will have no difficulty in
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