Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

their ideas about foreign fields of labor.
Let the Lord work with the men who are on the
ground, and let those who are not on the ground
walk humbly with God, lest they get out of their
place, and lose their bearings. The Lord has not
placed the burden of criticizing the work upon
those who have taken this burden, and He does not
give them the sanction of His Holy Spirit. Many
move according to their own human judgment, and
zealously seek to adjust things that God has not
placed in their hands. Just as long as we are in the
world, we shall have to do a special work for the
world; the message of warning is to go to all
countries, tongues, and peoples.
The Lord does not move upon His workers to
make them take a course which will bring on the
time of trouble before the time. Let them not build
up a wall of separation between themselves and the
world, by advancing their own ideas and notions.
There is now altogether too much of this
throughout our borders. The message of warning
has not reached large numbers of the world in the
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