Identifier: greatcontrover00whit (find matches)
Title: The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: White, Ellen Gould Harmon, 1827-1915
Subjects: Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher: Oakland, Cal., New York (etc.) Pacific press publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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almsdeeds and self-abnegation, was a gift, withoutmoney, and without price. Once established in the faith of Christ, his whole soulburned with the desire to spread everywhere a knowledge ofthe glorious gospel of Gods free grace. I look upon allthe world as my parish, he said, in whatever part of it Iam, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declareunto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of sal-vation. He continued his strict and self-denying life, not now asthe ground, but the result of faith; not the root, but the fruitof holiness. The grace of God in Christ is the foundationof the Christians hope, and that grace will be manifestedin obedience. Wesleys life was devoted to the preachingof the great truths which he had received,—justificationthrough faith in the atoning blood of Christ, and therenewing power of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, bringingforth fruit in a life conformed to the example of Christ. Whitefield and the Wesleys had been prepared for their
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ijwniiMg™g™gBi WESLEY PREACHING IN THE FIELDS. (See pp. 700, 701.) LA TER ENGLISH REFORMERS. 257 work by long and sharp personal convictions of their ownlost condition; and that they might he able to endure hard-ness as good soldiers of Christ, they had been subjected tothe fiery ordeal of scorn, derision, and persecution, both inthe university and as they were entering the ministry. Theyand a few others who sympathized with them were con-temptuously called Methodists by their ungodly fellow-stu-dents,—a name which is at the present time regarded ashonorable by one of the largest denominations in Englandand America. As members of the Church of England, they were stronglyattached to her forms of worship, but the Lord had presentedbefore them in his Word a higher standard. The HolySpirit urged them to preach Christ and him crucified. Thepower of the Highest attended their labors. Thousandswere convicted and truly converted. It was necessary thatthese sheep be protected from raveni

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