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

think, is not their business. With Cain they say:
"Am I my brother's keeper?" They are not willing
to be put to inconvenience or to make any sacrifice
for the orphans, and they indifferently thrust such
ones into the arms of the world, who are sometimes
more willing to receive them than are these
professed Christians. In the day of God, inquiry
will be made for those whom Heaven gave them
the opportunity of saving. But they wished to be
excused, and would not engage in the good work
unless they could make it a matter of profit to
them. I have been shown that those who refuse
these opportunities for doing good will hear from
Jesus: "As ye did it not to one of the least of these,
ye did it not to Me." Please read Isaiah 58:
"Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a
man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head
as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that
I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to
undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed
go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to
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