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

I accept an offering at your hand."
It is entirely wrong to buy every errand that is
done for the Lord. The treasury of the Lord has
been drained by those who have been only an
injury to the cause. If ministers give themselves
wholly to the work of God, and devote all their
energies to building up His cause, they will have
no lack. As regards temporal things, they have a
better portion than their Lord and better than His
chosen disciples whom He sent forth to save
perishing man. Our great Exemplar, who was in the
brightness of His Father's glory, was despised and
rejected of men. Reproach and falsehood followed
Him. His chosen disciples were living examples of
the life and spirit of their Master. They were
honored with stripes and imprisonment; and it was
finally their portion to seal their ministry with their
blood.
When ministers are so interested in the work
that they love it as a part of their existence, then
they can say: "Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
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