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who are wise managers. It would have been better years ago [
Written
in 1889, this statement harks back to the time, “years ago,” when it
would have been better to employ successful business managers—even
at double the wages of foremen—rather than to involve the publishing
house in serious financial problems. A special situation and emer-
gency may require a special remedy.
] to have employed men who
were thorough managers—men who would have taught thoroughness,
promptness, and economy—even if double the wages that have been
paid to foreman had been necessary. Brother R is deficient here; he
has not a happy way of correcting evils. He undertakes to do this, but
very many things are entirely neglected that ought to be reformed at
one. The office has lacked a care-taking economist, a thorough busi-
nessman. There is three times as much lost as would be required to
pay for the very best talent and experience in this work.—
Testimonies
for the Church 5:414
.
Self-denial Should Characterize Workers—I was shown that
the office of publication should not be conducted on the same principles
as are other publishing houses; for it is to be something after the
order of a training school. Everyone connected with it is to be a true
missionary, and work upon the same principles that brought it into
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existence. Self-denial should characterize all the workers....
Self-denial should characterize the men employed in responsible
positions in the office, and they should be an example to all the workers.
The office was brought into existence through self-denial, and the
same spirit should be manifested and maintained. The great object
must be kept in view. This is missionary work, and those who have no
missionary spirit should not continue in the work.—
Selected Messages
2:196
.
He who is selfish and grasping, eager to take every dollar he can
get from our institutions for his services, is binding about the work
of God; verily he has his reward. He cannot be accounted worthy
to be entrusted with the eternal, heavenly reward in the mansions
Christ has gone to prepare for those who deny self and take up the
cross and follow Him. The fitness of men to enter the blood-bought
inheritance is tested during this probationary life. Those who have the
spirit of self-sacrifice manifested in Christ, when He gave Himself for
the salvation of fallen man, are those who will drink of the cup and