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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 18<br />

Exercise Versus Amusement<br />

To the Teachers <strong>and</strong> Students of our College in<br />

Battle Creek, <strong>and</strong> in all our Educational<br />

Institutions: --<br />

Many prayers have been offered for the<br />

outpouring of the Holy Spirit, <strong>and</strong> recently there<br />

have been demonstrations of gladness of heart in<br />

those who have looked intently <strong>and</strong> undividedly to<br />

Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of<br />

the world. There has been in your midst repentance<br />

<strong>and</strong> confession of sin, with true remorse of soul.<br />

There was a sense of the all-sufficient sacrifice,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the realizing of the fulfillment of the promise<br />

in the pardon, in transferring the live coal from the<br />

altar of atonement <strong>and</strong> touching the lips, which was<br />

the pledge of forgiveness. Lips defiled with sin<br />

were expressing the loftiest praise. Hosannah!<br />

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord!<br />

Hosannah in the highest!. ...<br />

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