Let everyone be assured that a worldly policy and a worldly spirit are not sanctified by connection with God’s institutions. If Christ were on earth today, He would cleanse His institutions of everything unlike the pure principles of heaven. PCL 240.3
Those who have had these principles kept before them, and yet continue to go contrary to them, should be separated from the institutions. Those who, in their work in the institutions that are to give to the world a representation of God and of heavenly things do not give evidence of purity and elevation of character, should labor elsewhere.—Letter 165, 1901 (November 6) PCL 240.4
Here are the very words that we want to bring into our life practice. The men that have long stood in positions of trust while disregarding the light that God has given, are not to be depended upon. God wants them to be removed.—GCB, April 3, 1901 PCL 241.1