Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

may impress all." Idem, Vol. 2, p. 606.
Then if the Testimonies are read in the proper
spirit, the Bible will seem more exalted, the mind
attracted to it as though it were a magnet; and
where the truths expressed in the Bible seem hazy,
the Testimonies bring them out in clear lines.
We often hear people say, "Don't do so and so,
because it is condemned by the Testimonies. Bear
in mind that this is not what makes it wrong; the
particular thing is wrong in itself, and the
Testimonies in love and tenderness only point out
the fact. For instance, if I point out to a stranger
who passes my door that the bridge over the creek
below my house is unsafe for him to cross, my
telling him that is not what makes the bridge
unsafe; I am only pointing out that fact to him.
Thousands of people have been driven away from
the Testimonies, and the Bible too, for that matter,
because those who used them did not recognize
that the things which they condemned were
destructive in their very nature.
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