Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

to be a laborer together with God.
Christ calls for service altogether different from
that which is given him. Men in positions of
responsibility should, through the power of the
Holy Spirit, reveal the Redeemer much more
clearly to the world than they have revealed him.
The Infinite God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten Son as a sacrifice for us, in order
that, receiving him by faith and practicing his
virtues, we should not perish, but have everlasting
life. My brethren, how do you suppose he regards
the great lack of spiritual enthusiasm manifested
over the record of the great sacrificial offering
made for our individual salvation?
All human ambition, all boasting, is to be laid
in the dust. Self, sinful self, is to be abased, not
exalted. By holiness to God in the daily life here
below, we are to manifest the Christ-life. The
corrupt nature is to become pure and undefiled;
subdued, not exalted. We are to be humble, faithful
men and women. Never are we to sit upon the
judgment-seat. God demands that his
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