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

is quite enterprising, and with right instruction and
kind treatment, I have the fullest confidence that he
would not disappoint our hopes, but would fully
repay all the labor expended on him. Considering
his disadvantages, I think he is a very good boy.
When we entreated you to take him we did it
because we fully believed it was your duty and that
in doing so you would be blessed. We did not
expect that you would do this merely to be
benefited by the help that you would receive from
the boy, but to benefit him, to do a duty to the
orphan—a duty which every true Christian should
be seeking and anxiously watching to perform; a
duty, a sacrificing duty, which we believed it
would do you good to take up, if you did it
cheerfully, with a view to being the instrument in
the hands of God of saving a soul from the snares
of Satan, of saving a son whose father devoted his
precious life to pointing souls to the Lamb of God
who taketh away the sin of the world.
From what was shown me, Sabbathkeeping
Adventists have but a feeble sense of how large a
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