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

possess order and refinement in the highest sense.
God requires this of those who accept so
responsible a work, that of receiving the words
from His mouth and speaking them to the people,
warning and reproving, correcting and comforting,
as the case may require. God's representatives upon
earth should be in daily communion with Him.
Their words should be select, their speech sound.
The haphazard words frequently used by ministers
who preach not the gospel in sincerity should be
forever discarded.
I was shown, Brother P, that you were naturally
irritable, easily provoked, and that you had lacked
patience and forbearance. If your course was
questioned, or you were urged to take your position
upon the truth, you felt too much that you would
not be hurried. You would not move a step because
others desired you to do so. You would take your
time. Should your hearers pursue the same course,
you would consider them blameworthy. If all
should do as you have done, God's people would
require a temporal millennium in which to make
the needed preparations for the judgment. God has
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