Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

learners shall consecrate soul, body, and spirit to
God, purify their thought by obedience to the laws
of God, they will continually receive a new
endowment of physical and mental power. Then
will there be heart yearnings after God, and earnest
prayer for clear perceptions to discern. The office
and work of the Holy Spirit is not for them to use
it, as many suppose, but for the Holy Spirit to use
them, molding fashioning, and sanctifying every
power. The giving of the faculties to lustful
practices disorders the brain and nerve power, and
though professing religion they are not and never
will be agents whom God can use; for He despises
the practices of impurity in lessening physical
vigor and mental capabilities, so that everything
like mental taxation will after a short time become
irksome. Memory is fitful, and oh, what a
loathsome offering is thus presented to God.
Then when I look upon the scenes presented
before me, when I consider the schools established
in different places, and see them falling so far
below anything like the schools of the prophets, I
am distressed beyond measure. The physical
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