Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

know but what Sister White would stand in their
way. When they laid the matter before me this
morning, I told them that I would not hinder them
for one moment. Any one who takes up work in the
South has before him a hard battle. The work there
should be far in advance of what it is now. We
should encourage the men who go there, and hold
them up by our faith, by our prayers, and with our
means.
In the South also, our brethren have had to
work under a spirit of faultfinding and accusing. I
say these things to you now, that you may realize
that you are not called by God to say depressing
things, or to manifest a spirit of coldness and
indifference to those who go to carry burdens in the
South. We hope that you will remember these
words, and that the terrible history of the past may
not be repeated.
For over twenty years, the work of the Southern
field has been held up before you, but you have not
done for the work what should have been done.
There is a large field there, and the burden of
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