Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Because of a wrong comprehension of the
duties of your office, the work in your field has
become sadly confused in the past two years. You
have accepted responsibilities that should not have
been placed upon you. Because you were president
of the conference, you considered yourself to be in
a certain sense the manager of the work of the
Loma Linda Sanitarium, and that it was your duty
to see that matters there were conducted according
to your ideas. I am bidden to say to you that you
are not qualified to take the control of the
sanitarium work.
Elder Burden has been given this work, and he
has good helpers and advisers in the workers who
are associated with him The Lord appointed Elder
Burden to the position he occupies, and he is to
bear his responsibilities in that position without
interference. He is fully capable of doing the work
that has been given him to do. The Lord has not
told you to watch and criticize, and interfere with
his work. He bids you, my brother, to stand out of
the way. Elder Burden has proved in the past that
he can do his work acceptably. He is to stand in his
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