Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

independently in lines that led you beyond your
depth. But even if you have spent more money than
is at your command, you may make this, through
its lessons of caution, a much greater blessing to
you than would be an abundant inflow of means.
My son, you will find that you can not please
all men. You will offend some even when you do
your best. But be very careful and guarded not to
give occasion for your good to be evil spoken of.
You can not know how anxious I am to have you
stand on vantage ground; for there are those who
for years have covered their own neglect to take up
work in the South, by finding fault with the active
labors in that field. Instead of showing their tact
and ability by doing their best to start the work in
new places, they have stood to one side, criticizing
what Edson White and his co-workers have been
doing. Those who have not "put off the old man
with his deeds." are standing as accusers of the
brethren. Before angels and men Satan is zealously
accusing the laborers who take up the work of God
in new places. The men who do not take upon
themselves the burden of God's work will be kept
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