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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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the Sanitarium, We must not st<strong>and</strong> by any unfair<br />

propositions or allow advantages to be taken of the<br />

ones whose money is received in our institutions.<br />

Better by far would it be to suffer disappointment<br />

in our plans, than to have means to use as we<br />

please, <strong>and</strong> lose the crown of the overcomer. Better<br />

far the cross <strong>and</strong> shattered hopes than to sit with<br />

princes <strong>and</strong> forfeit heaven. "What shall it profit a<br />

man if he gain the whole world, <strong>and</strong> lose his own<br />

soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his<br />

soul?"<br />

We seemed to be assembled in a meeting. Our<br />

Instructor looked upon the doctors present, <strong>and</strong><br />

said, You are not all faithful stewards, else there<br />

would have been brought into the medical<br />

missionary work only that which will build up its<br />

reputation, only that which is in harmony with its<br />

high title. Those who have the living truth in their<br />

hearts, will not accept some of the documents<br />

which you have approved. Long documents, filled<br />

with blind specifications <strong>and</strong> technical conditions,<br />

may serve to place men where, if they wish to take<br />

unfair advantage, they can do a work that God can<br />

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