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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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think that you can show all strength in establishing<br />

a school after an advanced order, taking in higher<br />

studies, <strong>and</strong> do not worry about leading teachers or<br />

under teachers before you have sufficient students<br />

to warrant the steps you take. Let not human pride<br />

hurt your record. Do not you suppose the Lord<br />

sees, <strong>and</strong> is acquainted with the favorable <strong>and</strong><br />

unfavorable presentations? Has not the Lord an<br />

oversight over his own work? You may suppose,<br />

my brethren, that you have to do all the devising,<br />

all the strengthening, <strong>and</strong> all the organizing: <strong>and</strong> I<br />

ask you, Is it not best to show that you have<br />

confidence in God? You must not be anxious to<br />

develop too fast. The h<strong>and</strong> of providence is holding<br />

the machinery. When that h<strong>and</strong> starts the wheel,<br />

then all things will begin to move.<br />

How can finite man carry the burdens of<br />

responsibility for this time? His people have been<br />

far behind. Human agencies under the divine<br />

planning may recover something of what is lost<br />

because the people who had great light did not<br />

have corresponding piety, sanctification, <strong>and</strong> zeal<br />

in working out God's specified plans. They have<br />

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