Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers - Ellen G. White

In Battle Creek you have evidence that men
who have had the most to say are not walking with
God. There is abundant activity, but not many are
working in partnership with Christ; and those who
walk and work apart from Him have been the most
active in planning and inaugurating their methods.
If they had that wisdom that cometh from the
Source of all wisdom, they would move
considerately, and would study more earnestly the
relation of cause to effect. They would discern that
a few minds in Battle Creek are not to be the power
to manage everything in connection with our work.
The state conferences must have men at their
head who love and fear God--capable men, who
will learn in the school of Christ to be laborers with
Him, to wear His yoke and lift His burdens. They
are to be partners with Christ in the sacred service
of soulsaving. All the members of the church are to
labor interestedly, zealously, not striving, as many
have done, to see who shall be the greatest, and
how to secure the highest wages, but striving to
win souls for Christ, which means being a part of
the firm, in partnership with Christ. Let all try to do
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