Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

they are going to gain a little something, they lose
four-fold, yes, ten-fold in that little transaction,
until the light will soon be moved out of its place.
They don't know when it is for the interests of the
institution, but God knoweth. Every one God
knoweth, and should come right up to the help of
the Lord, and to have a new creation of sentiment.
Now God never will acquit us until that is there,
until this is taught in our institutions, every one of
them and God means what he says, "I want a
change here." Will it be the same thing, going over
and over the same ideas, the same committees--and
here is the little throne: the king is in there, and
these others are all secondary, those minds that are
so much sharper because they have not been
working on this narrow, conceited plane.
I feel intensely in this matter. I do not want to
talk here but I dare not hold my peace. I feel this
condition. I think we should hold for the tenderness
of God and break your hearts before him, and if
you get where you can see these things clearly, you
will see that God hates selfishness, and when we
bring it into his cause, oh, it makes the crime a
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