Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

glorified God might have been started and
advanced in many places. But you have turned
from the instruction given Christ.
It is the Saviour's desire that unity and love and
Christian fellowship shall prevail among His
followers. The lesson that He gave his disciples in
the fifth chapter of Matthew is the lesson that his
disciples today are to spend their time in learning.
Condemnation must follow a failure to learn this
lesson. God can not cooperate with those who do
not obey His teaching, who look upon their own
way as better than His. The example of such ones
is directly contrary to the lessons that God has
given to aid His people in the formation of
Christlike characters.
Those who receive Christ as a personal
Saviour, doing His work, and following His way,
become members of the royal family. But there are
many who, with the clearest evidence before them,
are walking directly contrary to His instruction,
following in the way of sinners. They do the very
same work of accusation that open sinners are
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