Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Lord by his Holy Spirit moves upon him to work in
another place.
The Conference should understand that it has
no right to send a man to take the work out of the
hands of one who has done the hard labor, gaining
his way little by little, by hard strokes, the Lord
working with him, and giving him his hire in souls
for his labor.
Study the action of Christ, as recorded in John
4:1-3. In regard to the property which Brother
Shireman has built up, let no selfish greed force
him to make it over to the Conference. There may
be other places where he should work, and he
should have something with which to operate. If he
were called away suddenly, he could make this
property over to some one he could trust. He
should be allowed to control his own property, the
results of his hard labor, and never feel himself
destitute.
Brother Shireman will always need helpers, but
not men who will seek to set him aside and
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