Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8 - Ellen G. White

more conveniences and more workers. But there
must be a change.
We are encouraged as we see the work that is
being done in Chicago and a few other places.
Years ago the large responsibilities centering in
Battle Creek should have been distributed. You
may look with satisfaction at the widespreading
growth of the sanitarium at Battle Creek, but God
does not look upon it with the same approval that
you do. If institutions had been built up in other
places, if men had been given responsibilities to
bear, there would have been far more strength, far
more efficiency in our work, and we should have
moved more nearly in accordance with the mind
and will of God than we have. As it is, a few men
are carrying heavy responsibilities. A few wield an
influence that has a controlling power in the
management of the work far and near, while there
are many who carry no burdens.
Many of those carrying heavy responsibilities
need to be converted. Christ says to them as He
said to Nicodemus: "Ye must be born again."
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