It is positively displeasing to God for my husband to recount his difficulties and his peculiar grievances of the past. If he had looked upon these things in the light that they were not done to him, but to the Lord, whose instrument he is, then he would have received a great reward. But he has taken the murmurings of his brethren as though done to himself and has felt called upon to make all understand the wrong and wickedness of thus complaining of him when he did not deserve their censure and abuse. {3T 97.3}

Det er til tydelig mishag for Gud at min mand opregner sine vanskeligheder og hans særlige klagepunkter i fortiden. Hvis han så på disse ting i det lys at de ikke har gjorde det mod ham, men mod Herren, hvis redskaber de er, så vil han modtage en stor løn. Men han har taget sine brødres knurren som var det til ham og har følt at alle skal kunne forstå den fejl og ondskab det (98) er at beklage sig til ham skønt han ikke fortjener deres kritik og mishandling.