Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

necessities of life. Those who labor in the Southern
field will have to stand amid the most
discouraging, hopeless poverty, and they need
encouragement and help. They see the needs of the
work, and from the abundant supply in Battle
Creek means should be furnished them to supply
the people with advantages they can not otherwise
obtain.
Men of ability are willing to work for a meager
sum, two or three dollars a week, to sustain their
families. They have souls as precious as those of
the men who, because of their selfishness and
covetousness, have received thirty dollars a week.
Will those who have an abundance put their hands
into their pockets, and out of their plentiful supply
impart something to furnish their neighbors with
facilities? Will they make provision to help men to
do the work they can do for a few dollars a week?
Most earnest work should have been done many
years ago. There might have been an altogether
different presentation from what we now see.
God's means are not to be abundantly bestowed
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