Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

have known the truth from the earliest period of
our work, and have ever sacrificed for the truth's
sake."
Moreover, I was instructed that I must call
attention to the history of our first work among the
people, when these aged pioneers were men of
earnest, enduring action. These men have their
work to do, an important work. Even in their age
their testimony and their endeavors to bear witness
that the wheels of Providence are not constructed
to stand still or to roll backward. In their labor is
their happiness. It is not work that wears men out,
but sadness, anxiety, and worry. If Elder Haskell
and Elder Butler break down, it will be because of
the heavy perplexity that has come upon them in
trying without sufficient means or helpers to
accomplish the urgent work before them in the
Southern field.
The great Medical Missionary, who has
purchased men with the price of his own blood,
knows what it means to work under
discouragement and perplexity. He carried many
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