Testimony Treasures, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

coming down to the common mind. God wants men of talent and good
minds, who can weigh arguments, men who will dig for the truth as for hid
treasures. These men will be able to reach, not only the common, but the
better classes. Such men will ever be students of the Bible, fully alive to the
sacredness of the responsibilities resting upon them. They will give full proof
of their ministry.
The Dearth of Trained Workers
We have too little working talent in the different branches of the cause.
New enterprises must be set on foot. We need ability to devise plans
whereby souls who are in the darkness of error can be reached. We need the
intelligence of varied minds, but we should not find fault with them because
their ideas do not just fit our own. We should have broader plans for the
education of workers to give the message. Those who believe and love the
truth have done nobly in giving of their means to sustain its various
enterprises, but there is great lack of capable workers.
It is not wise to be constantly expending means to open untried fields
while so little is done to prepare workers to occupy them. God's work must
not be hindered for want of agents to execute it. He calls for cultivated men,
who are Bible students, who love the truth that they open to others, and who
bring it into their own lives and characters. We want men who love Jesus and
cling to Him, and who appreciate the infinite sacrifice made in behalf of
fallen humanity. We want lips touched with holy fire, hearts pure from the
defilement of sin. Those whose piety is shallow, and who have great
ambition to be considered first and best, are not the men for this time. Those
who think more of their own way than of the work are not wanted.
Our churches are not receiving the kind of training that will lead them to
walk in all humility of mind, to put away all pride of external display, and to
labor for the inward adorning. The efficiency of the church is precisely what
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