Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

look at them, influence the character of the
Testimonies and secure the bringing out of
something in harmony with their minds?--No,
indeed. If any believes this, let them be assured it is
not so.
You know that in the '90's there was a work
going on to build up the work at Battle Creek
disproportionately. This was let by strong
financiers, men who had a large influence with the
president of the General Conference. In the face of
the counsels given immediately after the
Minneapolis Conference, and during the years that
followed, there had been too much centralization of
responsibility at Battle Creek; and in the face of the
effort to distribute responsibility by dividing the
field, and appointing district superintendents, there
were men who labored untiringly to continue the
work of centralization.
The work was one of binding things together,
bringing the management of everything possible
under the control of a few men at Battle Creek, and
unduly enlarging the institutions in that place.
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