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

those who most needed help. May the example of
Christ put to shame the excuses of that class who
are so attracted to their poor selves that they
consider it beneath their refined taste and their high
calling to help the most helpless. Such have taken a
position higher than their Lord, and in the end will
be astonished to find themselves lower than the
lowest of that class whom their refined, sensitive
natures were shocked to mingle with and work for.
True, it may not always be agreeable to unite with
the Master and become co-workers with Him in
helping the very class who stand most in need of
help; but this is the work which Christ humbled
Himself to do. Is the servant greater than his Lord?
He has given the example, and enjoins upon us to
copy it. It may be disagreeable, yet duty demands
that just such a work be performed.
Faithful and picked men are needed at the head
of the work. Those who have not had an experience
in bearing burdens, and who do not wish to have
that experience, should not, on any account, live
there. Men are wanted who will watch for souls as
they that must give an account. Fathers and
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