Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

of Present Truth, the Spirit of the Lord came upon
me, and I said, "In this house are many idols." If
these things that can do your souls no good were
sold, and the money put in the Lord's treasury,
there would not be the deprivation of any of your
comforts, and the means would help advance the
cause of God." I went from house to house and
pointed out the needless things that the Lord's
money entrusted to his stewards had bought. That
very means could have been a great blessing to
help build our school buildings in the land, also our
meetinghouses, that as churches are raised up we
must hire. There are many campmeetings to be
held in new places, and how to obtain the means is
a problem.
If household ornaments could be disposed of
and money invested in the work and cause of God,
they would be as rivulets to swell into a large
stream to carry forward the work of God. My heart
aches to see the work advance so tardily, the little
done and the great work to be done.
I implore all who have ornaments or trinkets
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