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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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to lay down the responsibilities you are carrying in<br />

connection with the Hildebran School, let others<br />

take charge of this enterprise.<br />

Brother <strong>and</strong> Sister Shireman have yielded to<br />

great temptations that the enemy has brought to<br />

bear upon them. They imagine that advantage has<br />

been taken of them. This has cost them the loss of<br />

peace with God <strong>and</strong> of faith <strong>and</strong> confidence in their<br />

brethren.<br />

Edson, place yourself where Brother Shireman<br />

can have no cause for imagining that you mean to<br />

injure him. Arrange matters so that no suspicion<br />

shall rest upon you that you have been taking<br />

advantage of him. I know that you have been his<br />

true, disinterested, benevolent, tender-hearted<br />

friend <strong>and</strong> brother. Not one advantage would you<br />

knowingly take of him; but he imagines otherwise.<br />

I am sorry, so sorry that his soul <strong>and</strong> the soul of his<br />

wife are afflicted.<br />

Brother <strong>and</strong> Sister Shireman have their<br />

appointed work. While they can do an excellent<br />

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