Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

to his own plans, a work in which he is benevolent
where he chooses to be benevolent, and selfish
where he chooses to be selfish, a condition of
things will be brought in that will dishonor God
and his truth. Oppression will come in. Human
power will be exercised in accordance with the
terms of the agreements made and signed in the
past, agreements deemed essential to protect the
interest of the health food business and to give the
sanitarium work financial security and support.
I have been instructed that rules and regulations
are being brought in that God does not approve.
The Lord forbids the signing of the agreements that
have been prepared for our sanitariums in America
and in other countries. It is not his will that every
sanitarium and bath-house established by our
people shall be brought under one control.
Those who seek to bind up the work in distant
fields with the work at Battle Creek, by means of
these agreements, are assuming too much
responsibility. They must not take to themselves
power that God has not given them. They must not
1092