Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

want of humble trust, and of an entire dependence
upon God, we are sure of nothing. Our great need
today is men who are baptized with the Holy Spirit
of God, men who walk with God as did Enoch,
men who are not so narrow in their outlook that
they will bind about the work in place of enlarging
it, men who will not say "business is business,
religion is religion." We need men who can take in
the situation, men who are far-seeing, men who can
reason from cause to effect. ...
I will here give some extracts from a letter
written November 8, 1880: "The interest of every
part of the cause is as dear to me as my life. Every
branch of the work is important. I was shown that
there was great danger now of making the tract and
missionary work so absorbing that it will become
perplexing and absorb every other interest. It was
brought before me that there was too much
machinery in the tract and missionary and in the
Sabbath School work. There was form and
arrangement, but little of Christ-like simplicity felt
or practiced by the workers. We want less
machinery and mechanical arrangement, and more
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