Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

and insinuations made that they are not advanced
as rapidly as they should be, they ought to be in
more responsible positions.
The very gravest difficulty that the physicians
and managers of our institutions have to meet is
that men and women who have been led up step by
step, educated and trained to fill positions of trust,
have become self-inflated, self-sufficient, and
placed altogether too high an estimate upon their
own capabilities. If they have been entrusted with
two talents, they feel perfectly capable of handling
five. If they had wisely and judiciously used the
two talents, coming up with faithfulness in the little
things entrusted to them, thorough in everything
they undertook, then they would be qualified to
handle larger responsibilities. If they could climb
every step of the ladder, round after round,
showing faithfulness in that which is least, it would
be an evidence that they were fitted to bear heavier
burdens, and would be faithful in much. But many
care only to skim the surface. They do not think
deep, and become master of their duties. They feel
ready to grasp the highest round of the ladder
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