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

You, my brother and sister, can enjoy yourselves in
each other's confidence, you can sympathize with
each other, interest and amuse each other, and tell
your trials and burdens to each other. You have
something to cheer you, while he is alone. He is a
thinking boy, but has no one to confide in or to
give him a cheering word amid his
discouragements and severe trials, which I know he
has as well as those more advanced in years.
If you shut yourselves up to each other, it is
selfish love, unattended with Heaven's blessing. I
have strong hope that you will love the orphan for
Christ's sake, that you will feel that your
possessions are but worthless unless employed in
doing good. Do good; be rich in good works, ready
to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in
store for yourselves a good foundation against the
time to come that you may lay hold on eternal life.
None will reap the reward of everlasting life but
the self-sacrificing. A dying father and mother left
their jewels to the care of the church to be
instructed in the things of God and fitted for
heaven. When these parents shall look about for
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