Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 35
School Finance
Dear Brother: Your letters have been received.
Your last in reference to the College came this
morning. I was not aware that our College was in
debt twenty thousand dollars. This must make it a
necessity to call for donations.
The evils to centering so many responsibilities
in Battle Creek have not been small. The dangers
are great. There are unconsecrated elements
waiting only for circumstances to put all their
influences on the side of wrong. I can never feel
exactly safe in regard to Battle Creek or Battle
Creek College. I can not at this time state all my
reasons. That which led me to write as I did was
the great need of business managers, godly devoted
men to take hold of the work and push it in a Godfearing
manner.
Whatever may have been the object of placing
the tuition of students at so low figures, the fact
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