Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

heart work, more real piety and true holiness,
especially in the missionary work everywhere.
There needs to be piety, purity and wise
generalship, and then for greater and much better
work would be done with less expenditure of
means.
There is a broad field to be covered, and a
getting above the simplicity of the work. Now is
the time to work, and to work in the wise counsel
of God. If you connect unconsecrated persons with
the mission fields and with the Sabbath Schools,
our work will take on a formal mold and be
without Christ. The workers must study carefully,
prayerfully in every part of the field, how to work
with the simplicity of Christ, and in an economical
manner, to plan and devise the most successful
manner of reaching hearts.
We are in danger of spreading over more
territory and starting more enterprises when we can
possibly attend to properly. There is danger of our
overdoing some branches of the work, and leaving
some important parts of it to be neglected. To
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