Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

an investigation of matters - which it was their
right to do - decisive measures would have been
taken to stop the existing evil. But this was not
done. Had they changed the order of things, and
brought in the same principles which were revealed
in the work when the first buildings were erected,
the spirit of self-sacrifice would have been
retained, and the work have moved onward and
upward. God's people would have understood that
the way and work of the Lord can not prosper
when his people are unwilling to sacrifice self.
Heavenly intelligences would have helped them to
climb to higher levels, to understand by
experimental knowledge that they were to be
laborers together with God. God desires that his
people shall be conquerors, moving bravely
through all difficulties. God is faithful. He will
make his people complete in him.
There has been a mistake all round; and it is a
great work to come back from every wrong path
and choose the right. The Lord has honored men by
allowing them to unite with his work; but to
manifest sympathy for the tempted, to encourage
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