Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

give his life for the world, which is represented as
the one lost sheep that had strayed from the fold,
whose guilt as well as helplessness was charged
against it in the way, hindering its return. Herein is
love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all. Every son and
daughter of God, if they have an abiding Saviour,
will act our Christ. Every soul that has not an
abiding Saviour will reveal in unChristlikeness of
character. Love is not cherished and put into
exercise. "Lift him up, the risen Saviour," in our
words, in our conversation, in our dealing with the
erring.
I know by the burden which is rolled upon me,
that many who are officiating in our schools need
themselves to learn in the school of Christ his
meekness, his tender dealing with the erring, his
compassion and love. Until they are melted over
and the dross separated from the character, they
will work at cross purposes. I am deeply grieved in
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