There is a terrible amount of guilt for which the church is responsible. Why are not those who have the light putting forth earnest efforts to give that light to others? They see that the end is near. They see multitudes daily transgressing God’s law; and they know that these souls cannot be saved in transgression. Yet they have more interest in their trades, their farms, their houses, their merchandise, their dress, their tables, than in the souls of men and women whom they must meet face to face in the judgment. The people who claim to obey the truth are asleep. They could not be at ease as they are if they were awake. The love of the truth is dying out of their hearts. Their example is not such as to convince the world that they have truth in advance of every other people upon the earth. At the very time when they should be strong in God, having a daily, living experience, they are feeble, hesitating, relying upon the preachers for support, when they should be ministering to others with mind and soul and voice and pen and time and money. {5T 457.1}

Det er en frygtelig skyld, menigheden er ansvarlig for. Hvorfor gør ikke de, der har lyset, alvorlig anstrengelse for at bringe dette lys ud til andre? De ser, at enden er nær. De ser skarer af mennesker, som daglig overtræder Guds lov; og de ved, at disse sjæle ikke kan blive frelst i overtrædelse. Alligevel interesserer de sig mere for deres håndværk, deres landejendomme, deres huse, deres forretninger, deres klæder og deres borde end for menneskesjæle, som de må stå ansigt til ansigt med i dommen. Folk, der udgiver sig for at lyde sandheden, sover. De kunne ikke, således som nu, tage det med ro, dersom de var vågne. Deres kærlighed til sandheden er ved al uddø i deres hjerter. Deres eksempel er ikke sådant, at det vil overbevise verden om, at de har sandheden frem for ethvert andet folk på jorden. Netop i den tid, da de skulle være stærke i Gud og have en daglig, levende erfaring, er de svage og tøvende og stoler på hjælp af prædikanterne, når de burde tjene andre med sind og sjæl, i tale og skrift og med tid og penge.