Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

the brethren in Nashville to make the first payment
on the church building. But I am instructed that the
Lord would have been pleased had five thousand
dollars been offered them, instead of one thousand.
The workers in Nashville need encouragement that
they have never received. The way in which the
work there has been treated by some has made
wounds that should now be healed. The Lord will
not vindicate one vestige of selfishness. He calls
upon men to act under his supervision.
The work in Washington is important and
essential, and great efforts have been made to call
the attention of our people to that field. But now
the Lord would have us consider the work in the
South.
These matters have been presented to me in
such a way that I see my duty clearly. In the name
of the Lord, I, as his messenger call upon the
leaders of the people in his cause to do the works
of righteousness. The souls of the people in
Nashville are just as precious in the sight of the
Lord as the souls of the people in Washington. The
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