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

differ, you have been forward to dwell upon
objectionable points, and have manifested a
persistency in expressing your views regardless of
any around you. You have felt that others had no
right to see matters differently from yourself.
These fruits do not grow upon the Christian tree.
In the case of Sister N, you did not view things
in their true light. If she had been healed in answer
to the prayers of yourself and others, it would have
proved the ruin of more than two or three of you. A
wise God had oversight of this matter. He could
read the motives and purposes of the heart.
Your wife has just as much right to her opinion
as you have to yours. Her marriage relation does
not destroy her identity. She has an individual
responsibility. You will not feel clear till you take
things out of her way and manifest toward her a
more charitable, Christlike spirit of forbearance,
and regard others in the light in which you wish to
be regarded. You have yet to learn to "let nothing
be done through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
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