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

you. May God forgive your parents and sisters for
the part they have acted in making you what you
are—just that which God cannot accept, just that
which, if you remain the same, will be stubble for
the fire to consume in the day of God.
When I was shown in regard to the spirit of
selfishness existing in those who were working in
the office, that there were some who were merely
working for wages, as though engaged in any
common enterprise, you were both among the
number. You were both selfish and self-caring.
Your anxiety was to please yourselves and to
obtain higher wages. This spirit has, to quite an
extent, cursed the office, and Heaven frowns upon
it. Many have been too eager to grasp means. All
this is wrong. A worldly spirit has come in, and
Christ has been shut out. May God pity His people.
And I hope you will be converted.
You have possessed a spirit of levity, and have
been vain and trifling in your conversation. Oh,
how seldom has Jesus been mentioned! His
redeeming love has not called forth gratitude and
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