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

Chapter 55
True Love at Home
Brother M: At Adams Center I was shown that
you greatly lacked an unselfish spirit while at the
Institute; you did not exert the influence that you
should. You might have let your light shine there,
but you did not. You often neglected your duty for
amusements. You failed to take care and to bear
responsibility. You do not enjoy active exercise.
You love your ease; you and hard work are at
variance. This is selfish. You allowed the property
of the Institute to run down and be destroyed, when
it was your business to see that it was kept up, and
that everything was in order, and preserved with
greater interest and care than if it were your own.
You were an unfaithful steward. Every time you
permitted yourself to engage in amusements,
playing croquet or anything of the kind, you were
using time for which you were paid and which did
not belong to you. You would be just as excusable
should you take money which you had not earned
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