Not all the burdens that you have been carrying have been laid upon you by the Lord. The result of your carrying these extra burdens is felt all through the field. If you had kept at your appointed work, laboring for the class of people whom the Lord desired, by means of the sanitarium, to reach with present truth, with the message that God has given His people to give to the world, much more would have been accomplished to bring the chosen people of God before men of high standing. Much more would have been accomplished to show forth the ways and works and power of God. The sanitarium was to be His witness in behalf of truth—elevated, sanctifying truth. The Lord made you, my brother, His honored instrument. He never required from you one task that would crowd out your work in connection with the institution that was to stand for the truth, to do a certain work for God, flashing light upon the pathway of thousands. {8T 189.3}

Ikke alle byrder som du har båret har Herren lagt frem for dig. Resultatet af at du har båret disse ekstrabyrder har hele tiden kunne mærkes i marken. Hvis du havde holdt dig til dit bestemte arbejde, arbejdet for den klasse mennesker Herren ønsker, med sanatoriets midler og nå dem med den nærværende sandhed, med det budskab som Gud har givet sit folk at bringe verden, ville meget være udrettet for at bringe Guds udvalgte folk frem for højtstående mennesker. Meget mere ville være udrettet, (190) for at vise Guds veje og gerninger og magt. Sanatoriet skulle være hans vidnesbyrd for sandhedens skyld - en ophøjet, helligende sandhed. Herren gjorde dig, min bror, til hans ærede redskab. Han har aldrig krævet en opgave af dig, som vil fortrænge dit arbejde på institutionen, som var at stå for sandheden, at gøre et bestemt arbejde for Gud, lyse lys på tusinders stivej.