Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

your capability, tact, and ingenuity? Do not, I beg
of you, act the part of a usurper, or an accuser of
the brethren; for the Lord will not justify any such
course of action. This is not the work you are
appointed by the Conference to do.
What has led you, my brother, to locate in a
place where another man, by patient labor and hard
wrestling, and with great self-denial and selfsacrifice,
has established a good work? The Lord is
not pleased with you for stepping into another
man's field, after he has done all the pioneering, to
criticize and condemn, leaving the impression upon
other minds that the work has not been done right.
It is not the work of a minister of Christ to go to
another man's field of labor and ignore the worker,
showing no appreciation of his work. How much
nobler to go to some unworked part of the vineyard
and show there what can be done to make a
beginning.
From the light the Lord has been pleased to
give me, there are many openings just as promising
as was the place where Brother Shireman began his
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