Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have made. For the iniquity of his
covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid
me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in
the way of his heart."
This is precisely what has been done in the
Office of Publication at Battle Creek. Covetousness
has been woven into nearly all the business
transactions of the institution, and has been
practiced by individuals. This influence has spread
like the leprosy, until it has tarried and corrupted
the whole. As the publishing house has become
corrupted, the General Conference Association has
stepped in, and proposed to take the diseased child
off its hands, and care for it. But it is a snare for the
General Conference Association to take the
publishing work on its shoulders. This puts no
special sanctity upon the work, but upon the
General Conference Association a burden which
will weigh it down, cripple it, and weaken its
efficiency, unless men who have firm principle,
mingled with love, shall conduct the business lines.
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