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

defensive. Your combativeness was large, and you
would battle everything and everybody that crossed
your plans. Even when suggestions were made of a
better course to pursue in your plans and labors,
you would fly in an instant. You thought you were
censured, thought you were blamed, and felt
grieved with those who were your true friends.
Your imagination was diseased. You thought that
everybody was against you and that your lot was
exceedingly hard. It has been hard, but you have
made it so.
Your course toward your stepfather was
unbecoming. He did not deserve to be treated by
you as he was. He had faults and had committed
errors, but while you were awake to see these in an
aggravated light you did not see your own errors.
In the providence of God your wife was prostrated
by disease. She was a proud-spirited woman; but
she repented of her sins, and her repentance was
accepted of God.
Your way has been hedged up, on the right
hand and on the left, to hinder your progress to
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