Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

doing. In the place of being laborers together with
God, washing their robes of character and making
them white in the blood of the Lamb, that they may
be representatives of the Saviour, setting in word
and deed a Christlike example, they employ their
faculties and powers in a way that the followers of
Satan employ their faculties and powers. They
think and speak evil. They spend time and money
gathering together jot and titles of evil, and the
mouth that ought to be employed in offering
thanksgiving to God, is employed in reporting this
evil. Many are engaged in Satan's work --
worrying, finding fault, and accusing those who are
trying to do the very work that they themselves
ought to be doing. The talent of speech is used to
destroy the confidence of believers in their
brethren. And many Seventh-day Adventists stand
before the world as fractious and fault-finding,
instead of bound together by oneness with Christ.
Unity Among Believers
"A new commandment I give unto you", Christ
said, "That ye love one another; as I have loved
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