Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

worship, of establishing schools for the purpose of
educating laborers for the missionary field, of
drilling young men and women so that they may go
forth and labor patiently, intelligently, and with all
perseverance that they may be agents through
whom a people may be prepared to stand in the
great day of God, is diverted from a channel of
usefulness and blessing into a channel of evil and
cursing.
The great day of God is upon us, and hasteth
greatly, and there is a great work to be done, and it
must be done speedily. But we find that amid the
work that is to be done, there are those professing
to believe the present truth who know not how to
expend the means entrusted to them, and because
of a lack of meekness and lowliness of heart they
do not see how great is the work to be done. All
those who learn of Jesus will be laborers together
with God. But those who go forth to proclaim
error, expending time and money in a vain work,
lay upon the true workers in new fields increased
burden; for instead of devoting their time to
advocating truth, they are obliged to counteract the
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