Let these look back a few months to the time when they were sitting on the cases of others who were in a condition similar to that which they now occupy. Let them carefully call to mind the exercise of their minds in regard to those tempted ones. Had anyone told them then that notwithstanding their zeal and labor to set others right, they would at length be found in a similar position of darkness, they would have said, as did Hazael to the prophet: “Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?” {4T 89.3}

Lad disse se nogle få måneder tilbage til den tid, da de behandlede andres sager, det var i en lignende stilling som den, de nu selv befinder sig i. Lad dem omhyggeligt genkalde i erindringen hvordan de følte over for disse fristede. Havde nogen den gang fortalt dem, at de trods deres nidkærhed og deres arbejde for at vise andre til rette, selv (90) omsider ville befinde sig i en lignende tilstand af mørke, ville de have sagt, ligesom Hazael sagde til profeten: »Hvad er din træl, den hund, at han skal kunne gøre slige store ting!"