Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

hundred fold greater. And when we bring that
selfishness in, as though we were going to benefit
the cause, we do not benefit it at all: it makes God
ashamed of you.
We are to be representatives of Jesus Christ; we
are to be representatives of his character. We are so
to do that we are carrying out the living principles
in every line of action everywhere, in every
country, everywhere, and in every place that there
is anything to do with God's service. He will not
accept common fire. He wants you to take sacred
fire that he kindles on the divine altar, and he wants
you to work, and that fire to consume all your
commonness, all your intemperance, all your
selfishness, all your cheap ideas, all your
licentiousness, all this lust. He wants it taken away
from a people that are trying to fashion a people to
stand in the last great conflict, which is just before
us. Self must be hid in God, and when self is hid in
God, then will the Lord God appear, and not self.
He will appear as the great worker, and when you
think to improve upon God's plans by your
narrowness, by your conceited ideas, and by your
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