Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

ascended to heaven, he ascended as our Advocate.
We always have a Friend at court. And from on
high Christ sends his representative to every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people. The Holy
Spirit gives the divine anointing to all who receive
Christ.
This is the great subject that underlies all true,
sanctified education. When this is made the theme
of our conversation, no idle common talk will fall
from our lips. Jesting and joking are heard because
the soul-temple is unsanctified and unholy.
God, the everlasting Father, gave His only
begotten Son to the world, that all who come to
him might have everlasting life. And in this gift he
opened to us a channel of the richest and most
inexhaustible treasures. This sacred theme should
be the food of our minds. With this bread of life we
should satisfy our soul-hunger. If we do this, we
can not hunger for worldly excitement or grandeur.
Our religious experience is of exactly the same
quality as the food we give our minds.
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