Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

e imparted to every worker that was connected
with the cause; and every one of these are wholly
dependent upon God, and when we leave God out
of the question, and leave Jesus Christ out of the
question, and allow hereditary and cultivated traits
of character to come, let me tell you, we are on
very slippery grounds. We are making, not straight
paths for our feet, but crooked paths that the lame
shall be turned out of the way - and we can not
afford it. It has cost too much to heaven to give us
Jesus; it has cost too much to heaven for Christ to
lay aside his royal robe, to lay aside his royal
crown, and to step down from his high command,
the Prince of Life and Glory, in order that he might
make himself in humanity, and in order that he
might the better combine the human with the
divine, as the stepping-stone for man to step on. It
was not humanity, but humanity and divinity
combined, and that man could step on that
stepping-stone, and that he would be on vantage
ground with God, because of the perfume - because
of the holy sanctified character of God imbues the
life of every soul that eats of the Bread of Life and
drinks of the water of salvation. And every one that
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