Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Students are to be taught to understand that
Book which should ever be represented as the book
to study. The assertion that there are dark,
mysterious, and incomprehensible things in the
Word, things hard to understand, perplexing and
uncertain, is a false one. Please read the first,
second, and third chapters of Ephesians. ...
God will (not?) hold men responsible for that
which they can not understand. The Scriptures
were given to all men for the purpose of making
them wise unto salvation. There is nothing left in
obscurity, or hard to be understood. The lessons we
are to learn involve the happiness, the holiness, the
unselfishness of man, that he may be complete in
Jesus Christ. The mystery referred to by the great
apostle as hard to be understood is the existence of
God. "Who by searching can find out God?"
Much of that which is revealed is dark to
human minds, because the jewels of truth are not
searched for as for hidden treasure. The truth lies
hidden beneath the rubbish of human systems,
human wisdom and philosophy. Infinite, eternal
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