Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

the same way, until every day the workers may, to
their own injury, appropriate many littles that they
have no right to touch. Many littles make much in
the end. But the greatest loss is sustained by the
ones who digress, for they are violating the
principles of right and learning to look upon
transgression in small matters as no transgression
at all. They forget the words of Christ. “He that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust
also in much.” Luke 16:10.
When an effort is made to correct these
practices, it is generally received as an evidence of
stinginess on the part of the managers; and some
will make no change, but go on hardening the
conscience, until it becomes seared as with a hot
iron. They rise up against any restriction and act
and talk defiantly, as though their rights had been
invaded. But God looks upon all these things as
theft, and so the record is carried up to heaven.
All fraud and deceit is forbidden in the word of
God. Direct theft and outright falsehood are not
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