The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

e more respected. M.J. Church and many others
are constantly talking, picking flaws and looking
with contempt upon the management of Elder
Loughborough. There must be help brought to
California at once. At Fresno they need help all the
time. They would accept St. John, but he cannot
stay there. Many they refuse. I hated to leave things
in Fresno just as we did, but what could be done? I
shall not consent to take another laborer from
California. There are men you can have and
welcome, and I think you can find fields where
there can be some one whom they respect, to have
an oversight of them. I think there ought to be
some one who will see and understand the
necessities of these fields, especially in California,
and send good help, the very best kind, men who
are anchored, men who can be depended on. I can
see no wisdom in stripping the field of our home
missionaries and then expect everything to thrive.
I do not expect to be at your General
Conference. I would rather run the other way. I
wish Dr. Waggoner could be teacher in the
ministerial institute, and think that is his place, but