08.03.2018 Views

Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

work than have the laborers in Nashville.<br />

It is truly amazing to see what gross<br />

misrepresentations can be conjured up, <strong>and</strong> what<br />

the results of these misrepresentations are. To<br />

cherish feelings of bitterness <strong>and</strong> hatred because<br />

certain suggestions <strong>and</strong> plans have not been<br />

adopted, is not in accordance with the principles of<br />

sound reason or Christianity. How foolish it is to<br />

try to hedge about a work that God had bidden us<br />

to carry forward <strong>and</strong> sustain. These false<br />

statements have done their evil work. Those who<br />

have used the talent of speech to tear down a work<br />

that God commends, have revealed that they can<br />

not be trusted to establish missionary centers.<br />

The assailing element is strong, but it can not<br />

prevail. If it were to prevail, the result would be the<br />

worst chapter in the experience of our people.<br />

Notwithst<strong>and</strong>ing this opposition, Nashville is being<br />

made a center. How much this effort has cost the<br />

ones whom God appointed to do this work, I can<br />

not tell. The record is in the books of heaven, <strong>and</strong><br />

words traced by angels can not be perverted into a<br />

847

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!