Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

The debt for the additional building has been
hanging over the school as a discouragement, and
thus it will ever be until there shall be a deeper
consecration and self-sacrifice all through our
churches. Every true character, and no other, will
be qualified to cope with difficulties in following a
"Thus said the Lord." Men are not prepared to
understand their obligation to God until they have
learned in Christ's school to wear his yoke of
restraint and obedience. Sacrifice was the very
beginning of our work in advancing the truth and in
establishing institutions. Sacrifice must become
habitual in all our building in this life, if we would
have a building of God not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
There are lessons to learn daily in regard to
offering praise and thanksgiving to God. To praise
God and glorify him in the fulness and sincerity of
heart is as much the duty of those who love God as
is prayer. We are to show to all the heavenly
intelligences that we appreciate their ministrations,
and that we are expecting and waiting for the
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