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

You occupy a position where others are looking
to you. You possess more than ordinary intellect.
You are a man of quick perceptions, and you feel
deeply. Some of your brethren have not moved in
wisdom. They have watched you, and have felt
over your case, and have wished to see you more
liberal with your means. They have made
themselves unhappy over your case. All this is
needless in them. These very ones lack in many
things, and if they are faithful in the humble
service the Master requires of them they will have
all that they can do. They cannot afford to waste
their time in anxiously fearing lest their neighbor,
who has a larger work entrusted to him, shall fail to
do his work well. While they are so interested in
the case of another, their own work is neglected,
and they are really slothful servants. They were
anxious to do their neighbor's work instead of that
committed to themselves to do.
They think that if they only had the five talents
to handle, they could do much better than the one
to whom these talents were entrusted. But the
Master knew better than they. None need mourn
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