Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Some have entertained the idea that because the
school at Madison is not owned by a conference
organization, those who are in charge of the school
should not be permitted to call upon our people for
the means that is greatly needed to carry on their
work. This idea needs to be corrected. In the
distribution of the money that comes into the
Lord's treasury, you are entitled to a portion just as
verily as are those connected with other needy
enterprises that are carried forward in harmony
with the Lord's instruction.
The Lord Jesus will one day call to account
those who would so tie your hands that it is almost
impossible for you to move in harmony with the
Lord's biddings. "The silver and the gold is mine,
saith the Lord, and the cattle upon a thousand
hills."
You and your associates are not novices in
educational work, and when you are in stress for
means with which to advance the work, you are
just as much entitled to ask for that which you need
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