Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

esults. This they are ready to do, though they have
never exercised their minds in originating any
plans whereby precious souls might be saved for
Christ. They stand ready to find fault with those
who do something. When these indolent souls
awake and show some signs of returning
consciousness, they are disappointed if others do
not at once find them pleasant places in the work. It
is a great shock to them to find out that work
cannot be done without painstaking, self-denying,
self-crucifying efforts. They expect success, and
think that they must have the same order of success
as did the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. This
success they will have when they go through the
experience of humble, self-denying sacrifice as did
the apostles. When they present as earnest
supplications from broken, contrite, believing
hearts as did the apostles, then the same proportion
of success will attend their labors. "For thus saith
the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
place, with him also that is of a contrite and
humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and
to revive the heart of the contrite ones." "To this
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