Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

give way, they decided to leave Huntsville, and go
to some place where the strain would not be so
heavy. Had they then been furnished with efficient
helpers, and with means to make the need
improvements, the advancement made would have
given courage to Brother Jacobs, to the students,
and to our people everywhere. But the means that
ought to have gone to Huntsville did not go, and
we see the result in the present showing.
Recently the question was asked me, "Would it
not be well to sell the school land at Huntsville,
and buy a smaller place." Instruction was given me
that this farm must not be sold, that the situation
possesses many advantages for the carrying
forward of a colored school. It would take years to
build up in a new place the work that has been
done at Huntsville. The Lord's money was invested
in the Huntsville school farm, to provide a place
for the education of colored students. The General
Conference gave this land to the Southern work,
and the Lord has shown me what this school may
become, and what those may become who go there
for instruction, if His plans are followed.
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