Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

from the temple courts, saying, "Take these things
hence: it is written, My Father's house shall be a
house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of
thieves. He overturned the tables of the money
changers, and priests and people fled before that
one man as though an army of soldiers with drawn
sword were pursuing them.
This work has been carried on at Battle Creek.
The publishing office was turned from the original
design; men made terms with authors; councils
were formed; schemes were entered into. While
one author was engaged in the services of a
meeting at a distance, the expenses of one man
were paid to go and see this brother and induce him
to put the lowest figures on his books. They urged
that they wished to get this important matter before
as many people as possible, and that the book
would have a very much larger sale if it were sold
at cheap price.
The royalty was placed at the lowest figure.
Then this confederacy held this example up as a
rule for others. Warnings were given me that all
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