Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

this long-neglected field with food out of your
abundance.
God will not commend selfishness in your
planning and managing. Do not act as though you
feared some other one of his instrumentalities
would have a few crumbs from God's table. Those
who are struggling with all their might to do a
work for the most depressed and discouraging class
of people, need encouragement. If men or women
have entrusted talents, and use these talents to
advance the work of God, regarding their Lord's
money as a sacred trust, to use to His glory, they
are doing a work that God approves. Those who
are converted in the South will work with their own
families, with their relatives, with their friends, and
so we may hope for increase from the seed sown. If
you should send many laborers to the most
destitute part of this vineyard, and yet tie their
hands by neglecting to furnish them with necessary
means, for any real work of uplifting, do you think
this would please God. Are not the ways of the
Lord equal? Shall Battle Creek be supplied with
every facility, and thousands of dollars be spent in
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