My brother, arouse yourself, I pray you, and let the work of the Spirit of God reach deeper than the external; let it reach down to the deep springs of every action. It is principle that is wanted, firm principle, and vigor of action in spiritual as well as temporal things. Your efforts lack earnestness. Oh, how many are low in the scale of spirituality because they will not deny their appetite! The brain nerve energy is benumbed and almost paralyzed by overeating. When such go to the house of God upon the Sabbath, they cannot hold their eyes open. The most earnest appeals fail to arouse their leaden, insensible intellects. The truth may be presented with deep feeling, but it does not awaken the moral sensibilities or enlighten the understanding. Have such studied to glorify God in all things? {2T 414.1}

Den dyrebare Frelsers øje har været på dig, ellers ville du være efterladt i din ustabile tilstand og i dine synder og blive opgivet i karakterudviklingen og ynkelig over for skæbnen. Da du var i fremmedes land og i sygdommens stund, mærkede du i sørgelig grad din fortvivlede, trøstesløse tilstand. Du har hvileløst og smerteligt gennemgået lange nætter og tunge dage, væk fra din mor og søstre, uden andet end fremmede hænder til venlig tjeneste for dig og intet kristent håb til at støtte dig.