Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

altogether false light; and from the present,
showing, the same course will be followed in the
future.
The Lord will accept no excuse for the past
neglect of the Southern field. Restitution has not
yet been made in full to this field. The reproach is
not yet wiped out. Christ has been wronged in the
person of his saints. God has been robbed of the
revenue with which he desired to open the work in
the South. And this miserable selfish work will be
repeated, as surely as it has been done in the past,
unless it is seen in a true light.
Edson White and others have been crowded in
most disagreeable positions. They have been forced
to the wall. God has seen this unjust dealing.
Wherein did those who took part in this
unrighteousness love God supremely and their
neighbor as themselves? "If therefore ye have not
been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, if ye
have not shown wisdom in using what was
another's, who shall give you that which is your
own?" This strikes to the very root of the matter.
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