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

the principal buildings of these institutions to be
destroyed by fire.
Notwithstanding the plain evidence of the
Lord's providence in these destructive fires, some
among us have not hesitated to make light of the
statement that these buildings were burned because
men had been swaying things in directions which
the Lord could not approve.
Men have been departing from right principles,
for the promulgation of which these institutions
were established. They have failed of doing the
very work that God ordained should be done to
prepare a people to "build the old waste places"
and to stand in the breach, as represented in the
fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. In this scripture the
work we are to do is clearly defined as being
medical missionary work. This work is to be done
in all places. God has a vineyard; and He desires
that this vineyard shall be worked unselfishly. No
parts are to be neglected. The most neglected
portion needs the most wide-awake missionaries to
do the work which, through Isaiah, the Holy Spirit
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