Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

We are soldiers of Christ. He is the Captain of
our salvation, and we are under His orders and
rules. We are to wear His armor; we are to be
marshaled only under His banner. We are to
subdue not our brother soldiers but our enemies,
that we may build up Christ's kingdom. We are
laborers together with God. We are to keep on the
whole armor of God, and work as in view of the
universe of heaven. Let every man do his duty, as
given him of God.
I was more sorry than I can express to learn
that under your instruction Brethren-----and-----
sought to restrict the work at the-----camp meeting.
You could not have advised them to do a worse
thing, and you should not have put a work into
their hands that they were not fitted to do in a wise
manner. Be careful how you repress advancing
work in any locality. There is little enough being
done in any place, and it certainly is not proper to
seek to curtail operations in missionary lines.
After looking matters over carefully and
prayerfully, I wrote as I did in my notes of travel. I
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