Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

my old age! But still I am under the necessity of
going into the battle, and of discharging in the
presence of important assemblies the duty that the
Lord has laid upon me,--the duty of correcting the
wrong course of men who claim to be Christians
but who are doing a work that will have to be
undone at a great loss, both financially and in the
shaking of the confidence of the people.
If I act conscientiously, I must meet the crisis;
for I believe that the precepts which the Lord has
given concerning his work in the past and at the
present time point out the right way. And his plans,
his thought, are as much higher than man's plans,
man's thoughts, as the heavens are higher than the
earth. God's voice is to be heard; his wisdom is to
guide us. We must not be broken up by any human
wisdom of devising. God has outlined his plan in
his Word and in the Testimonies he has sent to his
people.
Oh, how sad it is that men allow themselves to
be so wrought upon by the enemy that they dare
venture to exalt their finite judgment in opposition
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