The religion you profess makes it as much your duty to employ your time during the six working days as to attend church on the Sabbath. You are not diligent in business. You let hours, days, and even weeks pass without accomplishing anything. The very best sermon you could preach to the world would be to show a decided reformation in your life, and provide for your own family. Says the apostle: “If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” {5T 179.1}

Den religion, du bekender dig til, gør det lige så meget til din pligt at benytte din tid i de seks arbejdsdage som til at overvære møde på sabbatten. Du er ikke flittig til at arbejde. Du lader timer og dage og endog uger gå hen, uden at du bestiller noget. Den bedste prædiken, du kunne holde for verden, ville være at vise en afgjort reform i dit liv og drage omsorg for din egen familie. Apostelen siger: »Hvis nogen ikke sørger for sine slægtninge, især da for sine husfæller, har han fornægtet troen, ja, er værre end en vantro."