Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8 - Ellen G. White

It is high time that we understood what spirit
has for years been controlling matters at the
Review and Herald office. I am horrified to think
that the most subtle phase of spiritualism should be
placed before the workers, and that in a way
calculated to confuse and perplex the mind. Be
assured that Satan will follow up the advantage
thus given him.
The Review and Herald office has been defiled
as the temple was defiled, only the result has been
tenfold more disastrous. Overturning the tables of
the money-changers, Christ drove the sheep and
cattle from the precincts of the temple, saying: "It
is written, My house shall be called the house of
prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
(Matthew 21:13) Worse even than the defilement
of the temple has been the defilement of the
publishing house by the printing of matter which
should never have been placed in the hands of the
workers in God's institution.
God's law has been transgressed, His cause
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