Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

taking positions which will conflict with the judgment and opinion of those whowitnessed the rise of the cause of present truth, and whose lives are interwoven with itsprogress. God will not select men of but little experience to lead out in this work. Hewill not choose those who have had no experience in the sufferings, trials, opposition,and privation endured to bring this work up to the platform on which it now rests. Itis now easy, compared with what it once was, to preach the third angel’s message.Those who now engage in this work, and teach the truth to others, have things madeready at their hand. They cannot experience such privations as laborers in presenttruth have endured before them. The truth is brought out for them. Arguments are allprepared. Such should be careful how they become exalted, lest they be overthrown.They should be very careful how they murmur against those who endured so much inthe very commencement of the work.Those experienced laborers who toiled under the burden when it was heavy andthere were few to help bear it, God regards. Be careful how you reproach them, ormurmur against them; for it will surely stand to your account, and the prospering handof God will not be with you. Some brethren who have the least experience, who havefelt no burden, and have done little or nothing to advance the cause of present truth, andwho have no knowledge of matters at Battle Creek, are the first to find fault with themanagement of the work there. And those who do not observe order in their temporalconcerns, and command their households after them, are the ones who oppose system,which will ensure order in the church of God. They exhibit no nice taste in worldlymatters, and are opposed to anything of the kind in the church. Such persons shouldhave no voice in matters of the church. Their influence should not have the least weightupon others.239