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

You have been placed in unfavorable
circumstances for the development of a good
Christian character; but you are now placed where
you may build up a reputation, or blast it. The latter
we do not believe you will do. But you are not
secure from temptation. In one single hour you
may take a course which will afterward cost you
bitter tears of repentance. By yielding to
temptation, you may estrange hearts from you, lose
the respect and esteem you have been acquiring
from those around you, and also stain your
Christian character. You have the lesson of
submission to learn. You consider it beneath you to
do duties about the house—chores and little
errands. You have a positive dislike for these little
requirements; but you should cultivate a love for
these very things to which you are so averse. Until
you do this, you will not be acceptable help
anywhere. When engaged in these necessary small
things, you are doing more real service than when
engaged in large business and in laborious work.
I have a case now in mind of one who was
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