If those who had means were close in their deal with her husband, and did not favor him more than worldlings in business transactions, she has felt and talked, and aroused feelings of dissatisfaction where none previously existed. This is a selfish world at best. Many of those who profess the truth are not sanctified by it, and may not have a heart to make even a trifling variation in the prices of produce when dealing with a poor brother, sooner than they would with an able worldling. They do not love their neighbors as themselves. It would be more pleasing to God were there less selfishness and more disinterested benevolence. {2T 51.2}

Hvis dem som havde midler til det, var sparsomme med at hjælpe hendes mand og ikke begunstigede ham mere end verdslige i deres forretningsanliggender, havde hun mærket og givet udtryk for og vækket mishag hvor der ikke var noget tidligere. Dette er i bedste fald en selvisk verden. [Mange af dem, der bekender sig til sandheden, er ikke blevet helligede ved den og er måske ikke mere tilbøjelige til at foretage en endog ubetydelig prisreduktion, mår de handler med en fattig broder, end de ville være over for et velstillet verdensmenneske. De elsker ikke deres næste som sig selv. Det ville have været mere velbehageligt for Gud, om der var mindre egoisme og mere uegennyttig godgørenhed. Vejl f menigh bd. 1 side 83]