Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

We told our friends that in the matter of
keeping the Sabbath, we studied the example and
teachings of Christ whose Sabbaths were often
spent in earnest effort to heal and to teach; that we
believed that one of our sisters who was nursing a
sick family was keeping the Sabbath as much as
the one who was leading a division in the Sabbath
school; that Christ could not please the Pharisees of
his day, and that we did not expect that our efforts
to serve the Lord would satisfy the Pharisees of our
day.—The Review and Herald, October 18, 1898.
Sacred and Secular Activities.—The priests
in the temple performed greater labor on the
Sabbath than upon other days. The same labor in
secular business would be sinful; but the work of
the priests was in the service of God.—The Desire
of Ages, 285.
Far-reaching Example of a Headquarters
Church.—My mind has been burdened in regard
to the condition of the church in this place.... There
was much need of exalting the standard in this
place in many respects before a correct and saving
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