The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Some ministers like Edwin Jones can never
take a position and hold it sensibly. He will regard
matters in an intense light. He will gather up little
points of seeming difference and act as though he
would stake his soul upon their verity and strength.
He cannot discern that he can serve God with
power and purpose too in dwelling on the large
treasures of subjects in God's storehouse and feed
the flock of God. All must stand shoulder to
shoulder and step by step, keeping rank and file in
perfect order. When there is no real variance in
ideas, his naturally extravagant ideas, his fruitful
imagination places things of difference in the
strongest light which he can put them in, and he
leads minds to miscalculate, and carry things in so
strong a manner that he does positive harm. He
confuses minds, he buries the simplest and most
essential truths by his strong expressions, his
extravagant imaginations so that his labors on this
Coast are really a failure. They do more harm than
they can possibly do good. Now what to do with
cases of this character is a question. I believe him
to be perfectly honest, but there is such a strength
of imagination, such wonderfully strong