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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 61<br />

The Use of Talents<br />

Petaluma, Cal., June 12, 1902.<br />

My dear Son Edson:--<br />

I wish you <strong>and</strong> Emma to visit us at our home<br />

near St. Helena, Since the General Conference you<br />

<strong>and</strong> Brother Palmer have worked excessively to<br />

establish more firmly the work in Nashville. You<br />

have endeavored to make this work as presentable<br />

as possible, in order to show those who knew<br />

scarcely anything about your work, what has been<br />

accomplished in so short a time, <strong>and</strong> with so small<br />

an outlay of means. You wished all to see that<br />

needless calls for means had not been made, <strong>and</strong><br />

that the money received had not been used in vain.<br />

You desired the work done in Nashville to be a<br />

sample of what could be done in other cities.<br />

But you found that you had expended more<br />

than you intended to expend. In trying to do the<br />

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