Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

short years, even in worldly business, will try to
convince me that Sister White has been able to live
a successful pretense and still continue for more
than sixty years to have a spiritual message that
cuts one to the very bone.
The real difficulty with the Testimonies is the
same difficulty that the whole Christian world
around us are having with the Bible. Spiritual
things are spiritually discerned. Practically every
up-to-date preacher in the outside churches believe
the higher criticism of the Bible. With us the higher
critic begins with the Testimonies, and one is just
as sincere in his belief as the other, for we are
living in a time when the professing people of God
are to "believe a lie." 2 Thess. till. The same devil
that is destroying faith in the Bible in the outside
churches is as busily engaged in destroying faith in
the Testimonies among us.
You have filled an important place among us,
but don't forget a similar experience did not save
David from a terrible backsliding in his later years.
But when he heeded God's prophet in those days,
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