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

perdition. The Lord has brought your unruly,
untamable spirit to submit to Him. By a mixture of
judgment and mercy you have been brought to
repentance. Like Jonah, you fled from present duty
to sea. God hedged up your way by the visitations
of His providence. You could not prosper or be
happy, because you could not leave yourself
behind. You took self and sin with you. You
cherished a discontented, restless spirit and would
not do the duties in your path. You wanted a
change, some larger work. You became roving in
disposition.
The eye of the dear Saviour has been upon you,
or you would have been left in your unsettled state,
and in your sins, to become abandoned in character
and miserable in circumstances. While in the land
of strangers and in the hour of sickness, you have
sadly felt your forlorn, desolate condition. You
have passed long nights and weary days of
restlessness and pain, away from your mother and
sisters, with none but stranger hands to do a kindly
office for you, and no Christian hope to sustain
you.
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