I speak to the church at Battle Creek: What testimony are you bearing to the world? As your course was presented before me, I was pointed to the dwellings recently erected by our people in that city. These buildings are so many monuments of your unbelief of the doctrines which you profess to hold. They are preaching sermons more effective than any delivered from the pulpit. I saw worldlings point to them with jesting and ridicule, as a denial of our faith. They proclaimed that which the owners have been saying in their hearts: “My Lord delayeth His coming.” {5T 188.3}

Jeg taler til Battle Creek-menigheden. Hvilket vidnesbyrd frembærer I til verden? Sådan som jeres adfærd blev fremstillet for mig, fik jeg peget på de bygninger der nu er rejst af vore folk i den by. Disse bygninger er så mange mindesmærker på jeres vantro på den lære, I bekender at have. De giver bedre prædikener end dem, der kommer fra talerstolen. Jeg så verdslige pege spøgende og spottende på dem, som en fornægtelse af vor tro. De sagde det som ejerne har sagt i deres hjerter: »Min Herre lader vente på sig.«