Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 65
Unwise Changes
Many changes are made that might better never
be made. Often, when workers become
discontented, instead of being encouraged to stay
where they are, and make a success of their work,
they are sent to another place. But they take with
them the same traits of character that have marred
their work in the past. They will manifest the same
unchristlike spirit; for they have not learned the
lesson of patient, humble service. Thus our
working force has often been weakened.
I plead for a different order of things. Changes
must be made in the groups of workers in our
conferences and institutions. Men of efficiency and
consecration must be sought for diligently and
encouraged to connect with the burden-bearers as
helpers and colaborers. Let there be a harmonious
union of the new and the old, in the spirit of
brotherly love. But let not changes of management
be made abruptly, in such a way as to bring
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