Such families have brought upon this church its heaviest burdens. They come with false ideas. They seem to expect the church to be faultless and that it will take the responsibility of making Christians of those very children whom they, as parents, are unable to control or keep within bounds. They throw themselves upon the church, a terrible and crushing weight. They might be a help if they would yield their selfishness and strive to honor God and to repair the mistakes they made in their lives. But they do no such thing; they hold themselves aloof, ready to criticize the lack of spirituality in the church, whose greatest calamity is that it numbers among its members too many like themselves—dead weights, persons whose hearts and lives are unconsecrated, and whose course is all wrong. The institutions located at ----- have carried along too many diseased and lifeless bodies for their own prosperity and spiritual vitality. {4T 193.2}

Sådanne familier har pådraget denne menighed dens tungeste byrder. De kommer med falske ideer. Det er som om de forventer menigheden er ufejlbarlig og at den påtager ansvar for at gøre disse børn kristne, børn de ikke selv kan styre eller begrænse. De pådrager selv menigheden en frygtelig og knusende vægt. De kunne være til hjælp hvis de ville opgive deres egenkærlighed og bestræbe ære til Gud og gengælde de fejltagelser de har gjort i deres liv. Men sådan gør de ikke; de holder sig selv højt, parat til at kritisere den manglende åndelighed i menigheden, hvis største ulykke er at den gælder for mange medlemmer, der er som de selv - døde, betyngende personer, hvis hjerter og liv ikke er helliget og hvis vej er forkert. Institutionerne i ___ har båret rundt med for mange sygelige og livløse legemer for deres egen velstands og åndeligheds skyld.