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

always been satisfied. Notwithstanding the pay you
received, you have been managing continually to
advantage yourself. The cause of God has paid
you, whether you had much or little to show for
your labor. You have not earned the means you
have received.
Your wife has been petted by her parents and
by her husband until she is of but very little use.
You have both seen others burdened with care and
have not lifted the burdens with them. Your wife
has lain as a helpless weight upon families, greatly
to her own injury and to theirs, when, in point of
health, she was better able to do than some who
were bearing her burdens and yours. Yet she did
not think of this. Neither of you could see the facts
in the case and feel for others. Some from whom
you have received help in care for yourselves and
your child were not able, financially, to do what
they did; but they thought they were ministering to
self-sacrificing servants of Christ; therefore they
denied themselves and endured inconvenience and
trouble, to bear burdens that you were better able to
bear for yourselves than they were to bear them for
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