Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

truth, the revelation of God, is explained in the
light of human conjectures. God's Word, they
assert, is modified, remodeled to suit the changing
times, to suit their own mind and ideas. They have
been educated from wrong books, and have left a
plain "Thus saith the Lord" which involves eternal
interests, to adjust itself. Spiritual things can only
be discerned by the Holy Spirit's power.
The Lord has signified that a reform must be
made by those who have placed man's human
wisdom in the place of the living oracles. Human
wisdom is foolishness; for it misses the whole of
God's providence, which looks into eternity. "After
that in the Wisdom of God the world by wisdom
knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe." The Word
must be searched, yea, eaten, in order to purify and
prepare men to become members of the royal
family, children of the heavenly King. From the
first, the schools that are conducted by Seventh-day
Adventists should take the Word of God as their
lesson book, and in doing this, the teachers and
students will find the higher education. In opening
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