Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

means to stand in their lot, and stand in their place,
and every soul that has had a responsibility, that
they should have been workers, that they should
have had these principles, that they should have
had patience, just as it is reported "Add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to
knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; and to
godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity." 2 Peter 1:5. Brethren, we all
need these letters written and hung in the chambers
of the mind, and to him that doeth these things,--if
you live on this principle you will never fail; "For
so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
Now God is in earnest with us, and he says he
calls,--oh, I can not tell how it is. It is contemptible
in the sight of God - contemptible. They pause for
fear they are not going to get all that they ought to
have, and it leaves a man where he can not - if he
considers that as the principles of heaven, why, it
leaves the man where he will never get to heaven.
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