Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

My brethren and sisters in the South, move
forward in earnest with the work of selling
"Christ's Object Lessons", that means may be
furnished for the establishment of schools. No line
of work will be of such telling advantage to the
Southern field as the establishment of schools. Let
our people in the South wake up to the importance
of this matter. There has been too much hovering
over the churches, and too little aggressive work
done.
A school should be established near Nashville.
If every way of advance for the work in Nashville
is closed up, will God be glorified? Has not enough
of this been done in the past? Shall we have a
second edition of what has been? Let the work of
selling "Christ's Object Lessons" be taken up in
this city. Endeavor to interest the merchants in
what you are trying to do. Tell them that the
proceeds from the sale of the book you are selling
are used for missionary purposes. Go to the large
schools in and near Nashville, and tell the teachers
about the work you are trying to do. Tell them that
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