Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

can do in all safety. When the feelings are stirred,
not one word should be uttered, even in answer to a
provoking question.
There are times when those who claim to be
God's children can be very exasperating: for,
inspired by Satan, they manifest a perverse,
stubborn spirit, making it very hard for others who
desire to do right. But let every tried and tempted
one remember that the Majesty of heaven has been
tempted in all points like as the members of the
human family are tempted, and he knows how to
succor those who are beset by the powers of
darkness.
Paul, in his epistle to the Hebrews, writes:
"Every high priest taken from among men is
ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that
he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who
can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them
that are out of the way; for that he himself also is
compassed with infirmity. And by reason hereof he
ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to
offer for sins. And no man taketh this honor unto
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