Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

eceive. They do no good in Battle Creek, and are
only swelling the number who need conversion.
They have no spirit of sacrifice. They have a great
deal of self and a little bit of Christ, a little faith,
and a few good works, and they think that they
have religion. But it all amounts to nothing.
What do we read in the seventeenth chapter of
John? "I have given unto them the words which
thou gavest me; and they have received them, and
have known surely (by experimental knowledge)
that I came out from thee, and they have believed
that thou didst send me." Please read this chapter;
for it is full of richness. "As thou hast sent me into
the world," Christ continued, "even so have I also
sent them into the world. And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word." Are we voicing the words of
Christ? Are we sanctifying ourselves through
obedience to the truth?
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them
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