Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Michigan.
I shall now be prepared to say to our brethren,
Cut loose, cut loose! After taking your position
firmly, wisely, cautiously, make not one
concession on any point concerning which God has
plainly spoken. Be as calm as a summer evening,
but as fixed as the everlasting hills. By conceding,
you would be selling our whole cause away. We
must now take hold of these matters decidedly. I
have many things to say that I have not wanted to
say in the past, but now my mind is clear to speak
and act.
I am sorry to be compelled to take the position
that I am forced to take in behalf of God's people.
In taking this position, I am placed under the
necessity of bearing the heavy burden of showing
the evil of the plans that I know are not born of
heaven. This is the burden that many times in the
past the Lord has laid upon me, in order that his
work might be advanced along right lines. How
much care and anxiety, how much mental anguish
and wearing physical labor, might be saved me in
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