Satan is ever working to have the service of God degenerate into dull form and become powerless to save souls. While the energy, earnestness, and efficiency of the workers become deadened by the efforts to have everything so systematic, the taxing labor that must be done by our ministers to keep this complicated machinery in motion engrosses so much time that the spiritual work is neglected. And with so many things to run, this work requires so large an amount of means that other branches of the work will wither and die for want of due attention. {4T 602.1}

Satan arbejder altid på at degenerere Guds tjeneste til en dunkel form og blive kraftesløs overfor sjælevinding. Når arbejdernes kraft, alvor og effektivitet formindskes af at alt skal være så systematisk, må vore prædikanter gøre et belastende arbejde for at holde dette komplicerede maskineri i gang. Det optager så meget tid, at det åndelige arbejde forsømmes. Og med så mange ting i gang, kræver dette arbejde så mange midler at andre grene i værket vil visne og dø af manglende pasning.