Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

upon men in positions of trust in His work not to
block the way of advance by selfishly using in a
few favored places, or in one or two lines of work,
all the means that can be secured.
In the early days of the message, very many of
our people possessed the spirit of self-denial and
self-sacrifice. Thus a right beginning was made,
and success attended the efforts put forth. But the
work has not developed as it should have
developed. Too much has been centered in Battle
Creek and in Oakland and in a few other places.
Our brethren should never have built so largely in
any one place as they have in Battle Creek.
The Lord has signified that His work should be
carried forward in the same spirit in which it was
begun. The world is to be warned. Field after field
is to be entered. The command given us is, “Add
new territory.” Shall we not as a people, by our
business arrangements, by our attitude toward a
world unsaved, bear a testimony even more clear
and decisive than that borne by us twenty or thirty
years ago?
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