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

in on the strength of large sales which were held up
before me. I donated some fifteen hundred dollars
the first year of labor in America after leaving
Europe. All the money to meet these donations I
hired at seven percent interest. I do not regret the
donations because they were really needed. I have
had to work every way to pay my helpers making
books. I am going deeper and deeper in debt, and if
this is the way the matters are to go I shall have to
take my books in my own hands and see that the
people have what God designs they shall have. I
have given away copies of Vol. 4 that amount to
above $100. I cannot go on in this way much
longer. I must stop working in getting out books
unless there is a different principle that moves our
brethren to circulate them.
Vol. 1 is coming out nearly completed, after a
long tedious delay for want of corrections. But I
shall be driven to do something. Now the talk is,
Vol. 1 is out, and Vol. 4 must lie over unhandled
another year. I will not consent to it. If the system
of canvassing is such that both books cannot be
handled, one by one set of canvassers, another by