Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

it possible for the children to be educated in a
school where they can be disciplined and trained
for God's service. His blessing will surely rest upon
every such effort.
When we built our meetinghouse in
Cooranbong, Sister McEnterfer and I went through
the district where the carpenters lived, asking them
how much they would charge to work for us by the
day. Many of them promised to work for much less
than the ordinary wage. A few promised to give
some time; others with families to support, being
too poor to work for nothing, offered to work for
six shillings - a dollar and a half - a day. The
meeting-house was built, and stands today as a
monument for God, a miracle wrought by his
power. Many of the believers had just begun to
keep the Sabbath. Some of them were very poor,
and at first we had to help them. Now they are all
self-supporting. They keep up the church expenses,
and pay a faithful tithe. This is the way we worked
to build our meeting-houses in many places in
Australia.
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