Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

yourselves wantonly to temptation, expecting God
to force your mind and inclinations that you may
not be corrupted? Will you take the viper to your
bosom, expecting God to put a spell upon it so it
will not poison you with its venomous sting? Will
you drink poison, expecting God to provide an
antidote?
Be God's Men
While, under God, we are to use means in the
saving of our own souls, we are not to depend on
what we can do alone, thinking that will be able to
save us. While we must work with heart and soul
and might, we must do it all in and through Jesus.
But truth as it is in Jesus must be brought into the
heart and into the life, into the home and into the
church. God will use the channels He has provided
for the flowing through of His grace.
Oh, that my brethren would be men according
to God's estimate of men, and take their places in
the great web of humanity, realizing that they are a
part of God's great whole in creation, in
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