Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

testimonies are my meditation." Psalm 119:99.
Hundreds of young men and women among us
might have their former teachers for their present
pupils, had they appreciated the living rays of light
which have, through this channel, permeated into
the darkest recesses of almost every branch of
human knowledge. It has always been God's
purpose that his people should especially be made
to "lie down in green pastures." This is just as true
in scientific knowledge and in methods of
presenting and making a practical application of
the same, as in the purely spiritual truths. The Bible
is the fountain head of all truth, and any tree of
knowledge whose root does not strike into the
principles, will vanish away; for "every plant that
my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be
rooted up."
It is the work of the Testimonies not to
enunciate new principles of truth, but to point out
and bring to the surface God's eternal truth. Right
here is where so much misunderstanding has arisen
in reference to the Testimonies, as to whether they
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