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

work which God has left for them to do, they will
not be so much engaged in the business which
concerns their neighbors, with which they have
nothing to do. They will not go from house to
house to engage in fashionable gossip, dwelling
upon the faults, wrongs, and inconsistencies of
their neighbors. They will feel so great a burden of
care for their own children that they can find no
time to take up a reproach against their neighbor.
Gossipers and news carriers are a terrible curse to
neighborhoods and churches. Two thirds of all the
church trials arise from this source.
God requires all to do with faithfulness the
duties of today. This is much neglected by the
larger share of professed Christians. Especially is
present duty lost sight of by the class I have
mentioned, who imagine that they are of a finer
order of beings than their fellow mortals around
them. The fact that their minds turn in this channel
is proof that they are of an inferior order, narrow,
conceited, and selfish. They feel high above the
lowly and humble poor, such as Jesus says He has
called. They are forever trying to secure position,
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