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

he was connected with you and took part in this
close trading. In many respects he became like a
worldling in business transactions. He was close
and was fast becoming selfish. His course in many
things was calculated to destroy his influence and
was not becoming a minister of Christ. Said the
angel in the vision given at Rochester, New York,
in 1866: "My hand shall bring adversity. He may
gather, but I will scatter until he redeems the past
and makes clean work for eternity." Every true
Christian should feel above condescending to the
low, bartering, trading spirit of worldlings.
You are not a miser; you love to be benevolent,
free, open-hearted, and openhanded; but that which
is wrong in you is the spirit mentioned in this letter,
of not loving your neighbor as yourself; it is the
neglect of seeing your wrongs and making them
right when the clear, forcible light of truth has told
you too plainly your duty. You are a lover of
hospitality, and God will not give you over to be
deceived by the great deceiver of mankind, but will
come directly to you and show you where you err
that you may retrace your steps. He now calls upon
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