Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

touched, revealing it persistently and determinedly
in their work? Have they not treated the message of
God with disdain? Have they not handled means
which was not theirs as though they had a right to
do with it as they pleased? And when this means
was used to open new fields, have they not acted as
though it came from their own individual capital,
which they deserved great credit for thus
appropriating? Has not the money offered as an
oblation to God been used to pile up large
buildings in Battle Creek--to give character to the
work, it is said, but really to give opportunity for
men to show the genius and tact they manifest in
managing these large business houses?
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that
ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath
called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light: which in time past were not a people, but are
now the people of God: which had not obtained
mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly
beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the
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