Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

earnestly for the Master, drawing all men to Christ.
Thy work is but to proclaim; God's work is to
convert the barren hearts of men.
When the work seems to go hard, dip the words
and spirit into the oil of God's love; and then, under
the working of the Holy Spirit, thou canst pray
with all earnestness, and preach with all power.
And God giveth the increase.
Allow not your hearts to grow cool and
unimpressible. Your religious life may be
praiseworthy as is represented by the church at
Ephesus, but deficient in love to God and to your
neighbors. Suffer not a Pharisaical harshness to
come in and hurt your brother. "Unto the angel of
the church at Ephesus write; These things saith he
that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who
walketh in the midst of the seven golden
candlesticks, I know thy works, and thy labor, and
thou hast tried them which say they are apostles,
and are not, and hast found them liars: and hast
borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake
hast labored and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I
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