Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

planning and grasping and thinking you are going
to gain something,--and if you have not learned
better than that now, you will have to learn. God
wants that these committees that have been
handling things for so long should be relieved of
their command and have a chance for their life, and
see if they can not get out of this rut that they are
in,--which I have no hope of their getting out of,
because the Spirit of God has been working, and
working, and yet the king is there still.
Now the Lord wants his Spirit to come in. He
wants the Holy Ghost king. He wants everything of
the sharpness, that it shall not be exercised toward
outsiders, it shall not be exercised toward one that
is trying to serve God and trying to exercise all his
power to serve him, that is bringing his tithes here
to sustain the ministry. He has a treasury, and that
treasury is to be sustained by the tithe, and that
tithe is to be a sacred tithe, and it is to be God's
tithe, and that tithe is to be so liberal that it will
sustain the work largely; each one to act in their
capacity in such a way that the confidence of the
whole people will be established in them, and that
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