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

imagination saw it very desirable to carry on the
work of the Lord as their own human judgment
deemed best.
I had a message for them as I had for
Minneapolis, a message from the Lord God of
heaven. I read to them 1 Samuel 8. The Lord has a
controversy with His people, because they have left
their first love. A similar spirit is entertained by
men who have the management and control of
matters in the Office of publication. They are not
led of God and are laying plans which have not
entered into the mind of God; and all this will react
upon themselves.
That Office was established in sacrifice,
through the self-denial and privation of many of
those who loved the truth, and God worked with
the whole-hearted ones to bring it up from poverty
to prosperity. The good hand of the Lord was with
us, and was seen in its healthful rise and
establishment. But I heard words spoken in their
council meetings that were not inspired of God, to
bring in a new order of things. They must be