Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

my heart, for serious results in unwise dealings
have followed, more serious then many are willing
to admit to their own conscience or to God. Self is
so large in many, ever striving for the mastery.
There are those who profess to be followers of
Jesus Christ who have never died to self. They
have never fallen on the Rock and been broken,
Until this shall be, they will live unto self, and if
they die as they are, it is forever too late for their
wrongs to be righted. I love their souls. Jesus loves
their souls, and he will do a good work for them, if
they will humble themselves under his mighty
hand, repent and be converted, surrender every day
to God. It must be a constant daily surrender. We
must be minute men and women, ever on guard
over self, and watching to improve every
opportunity to do good and only good for the souls
for whom Christ has given his life to make them
his own. When the human agents deal with these
souls in a hard spirit, they grieve the heart of
Christ, and put him to open shame, for they
misrepresent in their own character the character of
Christ, Said one, "thy gentleness hath made me
great." I pray to our heavenly Father that all
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