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ministers. The auditing committee need to understand their business
and have the mind of Christ. There are some men of narrow minds
on this committee, men who have not a true idea of the self-denial
and self-sacrifice required of the minister of God. They have no true
estimate of what it means to leave home, wife, and children, and
become missionaries for God, to labor for souls as they that must give
an account. A true minister of God will turn his whole life into a
sacrifice.
The Warning at Salamanca
While at Salamanca, New York, in November, 1890, there were
presented to me many things. I was shown that there was coming
into the office a spirit that God did not approve. While some accept
large wages, there are others who have labored at their post faithfully
for years, who receive very much less. I have been repeatedly shown
that God’s order is not to be broken down and the missionary spirit
extinguished....
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I know there are those who practice much self-denial to pay their
tithes and make offerings to the cause of God. Those who stand at the
head of the work should take such a course that they can unblushingly
say, “Come, let us act mutually in this work which was commenced in
sacrifice, and is supported by continual self-denial.” The people should
not excel those who stand at the head of our institutions in practicing
economy, and binding about their wants.—
Manuscript 25a, 1891
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A View of Threatening Dangers in 1890
I am alarmed at the outlook both for the sanitarium and the pub-
lishing house at Battle Creek and our institutions generally. A spirit
has been manifesting itself, and strengthening year by year in the
institutions, that is of an entirely different character from that which
the Lord has revealed in His Word should characterize the physicians
and workers connected with our health institutions, and the work of
publishing. The idea is entertained that the physicians at the sanitarium
and men in responsible positions in the publishing house are not under
obligations to be controlled by self-denying, self-sacrificing principles
of Christianity. But this idea has its origin in the councils of Satan.
When physicians make manifest the fact that they think more of the