Loss Through Divided Effort—Your mistake has been this: Just as soon as you enter upon an effort, you begin to do much writing. Now if your part of the work is to write, if God has said to you, as He did to John, “Write these things,” then give yourself to that, and do not attempt more. If you are to give discourses, your mind is not vigorous enough, although intensely active, to sustain the strain of speaking and visiting and writing. You should let your mind rest in a great degree when you engage in an effort to present new and startling truths to the people, the reception of which involves a cross. You need to carefully select your subject, make your discourses short, and important points of doctrine very plain.... {Ev 656.1}

Tabt på grund af splittede anstrengelser. – Din fejltagelse var dette: Ligeså snart du går i gang med en opgave, begynder du at skrive meget ned. Hvis din opgave var at skrive, hvis Gud har sagt til dig, ligesom han gjorde til Johannes: ”Skriv disse ting ned”, så giv dig selv til det, og prøv ikke mere. Hvis du skal holde prædikener, så er dine tanker ikke livskraftige nok, selvom de er ganske aktive, til at kunne støtte en tale, vidne og skrive. I en høj grad bør du lade dine tanker hvile, når du engagerer dig, og bringe nye og opjagende sandheder til folk, hvor det kræver et kors at tage imod disse. Du behøver at vælge dit emne omhyggeligt, og gøre dine prædikener korte, og vigtige lærdomspunkter meget tydelige. . . . . .