Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

of God and joint heirs with Christ, we must obey
the commands that God has given. Any group of
men, whatever their standing or position, however
high their profession of godliness, who follow
practices that God disallows, can not be approved
of heaven. The Lord can not accept the service of
those who are grasping and selfish in their
dealings, like men of the world, who have no
acquaintance with the things of God.
The Lord's people are not to follow the customs
of worldly men, taking advantage of circumstances
to gain advantage for themselves or for the work
which they represent. Neither are they to follow an
unfair course of action. Christ said: "Woe unto you
also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens
grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not
the burdens with one of your fingers.... "Woe unto
you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of
knowledge; ye entered not in yourselves, and them
that were entering in ye hindered."
God says to every minister of the gospel, to
every medical missionary worker, to every other
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