Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

sanitarium, or some other interest for the
advancement of the work, the decision is made by
their brethren that some other man might do better,
and therefore that he is to take charge of the work
they have been doing. In some cases, the decision
is made without giving due consideration and
credit to those who have born the disagreeable part
of the work, who have labored, and prayed, and
striven, putting into their labor all their strength
and energy, and have not failed nor become
discouraged.
God is not pleased with this way of dealing
with His workers. He calls upon his people to hold
up the hands of those who build up the work in
new, difficult places, speaking to them words of
cheer and encouragement.
In their ardor, their zeal for the advancement of
the cause, these workers may make mistakes. They
may, in their desire to get means for the support of
needy enterprises, enter into projects that are not
for the best good of the work. The Lord, seeing that
these projects would divert them from what He
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