Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

those who are now in positions of trust work
contrary to his purpose. Let them take up their
work, and help where help is needed. Decide what
should be done, and then do it. Let the good work
begin at the late Conference, where the Lord was
present, teaching line upon line and precept upon
precept, be carried forward to a glorious
completion.
I am instructed to keep the Southern field
before you, that for your own good you may make
ample restitution to this field. False representations
have been made regarding the work done in the
South. Men have not had sufficient interest in the
work to go to the field and make a disinterested
examination. Think of the prevarication which has
been shown, the schemes which have been entered
upon, to get control of that which the Lord created
to help the Southern field. The past course has been
crooked. Wrong methods have been followed. But
the errors of the past are unconfessed and
unrepented of. Men have in their own minds
justified the course that was then taken. They have
viewed things, from beginning to end, in an
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