Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

leaven of criticism. If they had had the Spirit of
Christ, they would have commended instead of
criticizing.
It gave me much pleasure to see in the building
where I had a room, some of the articles of
furniture that had once been in my own home in
Battle Creek. I saw a sofa and a chair that formerly
belonged to my husband, Also some sets of
furniture and other conveniences that I had given to
be used where most needed. But many of these
who were cared for at the meeting, dishonored God
by their criticisms. They gave but little
encouragement to the men who had worked almost
beyond human endurance in order to make them
comfortable. I was on the ground. I speak the
things I know. The Lord has not pronounced the
judgment, that those so forward to condemn have
pronounced. He was not pleased with the spirit of
accusation, and of imagining evil where no evil
existed.
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