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

and feet to perform little errands. They received
you into their family, as they told you and us at the
time, expressly to do these things. Now if you
neglect to do the very things they think will help
them most, and choose to follow your will in an
independent course of your own choosing, you
must lose your place, and they must have one that
will do the very things you consider too small for
you to do. You are now doing larger and heavier
work than your strength will admit. You love to do
the work of a man. You have a set will of your own
which must be given up. You must die to self,
crucify self, gain the victory over self. You cannot
be a true follower of Christ unless you take hold of
this work resolutely.
I saw that you do not naturally possess
reverence and respect for those older than yourself.
You should be faithful in the little errands and
duties you are required to perform, and not go
murmuringly about them as though they were a
drug. You cannot see how unpleasant and unlovely
you make yourself. You cannot thus be happy
yourself, nor make those around you happy. You
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