Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

inducements offered to bring people to Battle
Creek.
Over and over the word of the Lord has come
to us that plants both of churches and schools
should be made in other localities. Get the people
out of the cities, and establish interests in other
places. So many students need not come to Battle
Creek if there were other schools in different
places. There were too many weighty
responsibilities in one place. This was the
instruction given. But the additional building was
erected just the same. That building should have
been located in some favorable situation outside
the cities, in some place where there was plenty of
land to be cultivated. Thus the standard would have
been lifted in a new place. Had two-thirds of the
students been taken out of Battle Creek, and a
division been made, the money expended on the
extra building would have abundantly provided for
two new plants in other localities, and there would
have been the growing of the tree and the bearing
of the fruit that has not been because men choose
to follow their own wisdom. The gathering
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