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

corruption of their nature, others have not half so
much to battle against. They pass along almost free
from the difficulties which their brethren and
sisters who are not so favorably organized are
laboring under. In very many cases they do not
labor half so hard to overcome and live the life of a
Christian as do some of those unfortunate ones I
have mentioned. The latter appear to disadvantage
almost every time, while the former appear much
better because it is natural for them so to do. They
may not labor half as hard to watch and keep the
body under, yet at the same time they compare
their lives with the lives of others who are
unfortunately organized and badly educated, and
flatter themselves with the contrast. They talk of
the failings, errors, and wrongs of the unfortunate,
but do not feel that they have any burden in the
matter, farther than to dwell upon those wrongs and
shun those who are guilty of them.
The prominent position which you as a family
occupy in the church makes it highly necessary for
you to be burden bearers. Not that you are to take
burdens for those who are able to bear their own
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