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debts and with the prospect of never returning to labor in the cause of
God. This letter is Mrs. White’s reply.
]—My brother, in your letter
you speak of leaving the Review office. I am sorry that you can be
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willing to separate from the work for the reasons you mention. They
reveal that you have a much deeper experience to gain than you now
have. Your faith is very weak. Other families, much larger than yours,
sustain themselves without one word of complaint on half the wages
you have. We have been over the ground, and I know what I am talking
about. It is evident that whether you remain in the Review office or
separate from it you have lessons to learn that will be of the highest
interest to you. I do not feel at liberty to urge you to remain; for unless
you drink deeper of the Fountain of living waters, your service will
not be acceptable to God.
I do not know who would occupy the position that would be left
vacant if you would leave, but if the work that the Lord designs and
longs to do is done for the church in Battle Creek, I am sure He will
help them in any crisis. He wants no forced service. Unless His words
find entrance to the soul, and bring the entire man into subjection to
Christ, the human agent will, when tempted and tried, choose to follow
his own inclination rather than the ways of the Lord.... From the letters
you have written, I know that you are not walking in the light....
Ought the soldiers in Christ’s ranks to act in this way? Should
soldiers in the army of the nation do this, they would be treated as
deserters, and how does the heavenly universe look upon such soldiers
in Christ’s army? No one who engages in the work of God with an
appreciation of its sacredness, could turn from the work to secure any
worldly advantages whatsoever.—
Selected Messages 2:210-214
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