Ever Changing by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

Ever Changing.

By James White

“Why does Bro. White suggest so many changes?” impatiently inquires some narrow soul who can see but little importance to the work outside his own neighborhood. We confess to suggestions of change, and it would be strange if we did not make some mistakes. May God guide and help.

Were we connected with a cause that had gotten its growth, and had found a fixed position, like that of Lot’s wife, and had no more growth than some of our denominational neighbors, we could go around in the circle of our limited work without seeing the necessity of a change.

But our growth makes changes necessary. The Battle Creek church and congregation changed from a private house to house of worship number one, then in a few years to number two, and soon must move again. In a cause like ours, spreading everywhere, where every man of our available forces is demanded at some post of duty, new missions opening, and new laborers entering the gospel vineyard, new plans and broader plans will ever be necessary, demanding changes until the great work shall be done. J. W.