Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

first.
The cause of God does not lie near your soul,
and the example you have given the people of God
is not worthy of imitation. In Minnesota they need
laborers, not merely ministers who go from place
to place when it is convenient. God's cause must
have minutemen who will not be hindered from the
work of God or the call of duty by any selfish or
worldly interest. Minnesota is a large field, and
many there are susceptible to the influence of the
truth. Could the churches be brought into working
order, thoroughly disciplined, a light would shine
forth from them that would tell all through the
state. You might have done tenfold more in
Minnesota than you have done. But the world has
come in between you and the work of God, and
divided your interest. Selfish interest has come into
your heart, and the power of the truth has been
going out. There is need of a great change in you,
that you may be brought into working order. You
have accomplished but little real, earnest labor. Yet
you have been in earnest to obtain all the means
you could as your right. You have overreached;
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