Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

missionary work to advance. He wants God's work
to be carried on.
Really, when I came here I did not know what
to do. Courteously Dr. Kellogg had asked me to
come to his house and let them give me treatment a
week or two before the conference, that I should be
able to attend the conference. Then came up the
question, Here, what about this? They will say that
Dr. Kellogg has manipulated you. Let them say it if
they want to; they have said it enough when there
was not a particle of ground for it. But I was going
to take all the difficulty out of the way: so I sent
word, "Find me a place." Dr. Kellogg has kindly
opened his place to me, but to remove all occasion
for talk I decided that I would not go there. Now
find me a place. On Friday night I was knelt in
prayer, saying, "O Lord, tell me where to go and
what to do." There I had been sick, and was still
sick - and, why, I didn't choose to come to Battle
Creek to the conference was, that I knew it would
be a terrible trial for me. This is the third winter I
am passing through. I passed through one in
Australia, one in California, and I am passing the
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