Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

present had gathered up the testimonies of those
who were unfavorably inclined toward the
Nashville publishing house. If actions had been
taken based upon these misrepresentations, great
injustice would have been done to the Southern
work. Decisions would have been made that would
have had a most discouraging effect, and that
would have seemingly upheld as right all that the
Lord has condemned in regard to the Southern
field.
The course that Brethren E. R. Palmer and A.
G. Daniells have desired to outline would work an
injustice, and would result in an incorrect showing.
Acting upon false impressions, the brethren would
bring about something that the Lord could not in
any way endorse. These brethren must remember
that money has not been given freely to establish
the work in Nashville. Had they been connected
with this work, had they carried the anxieties and
burdens that others have carried, had they made the
decisions and one the many, many deeds that called
for self-sacrifice, would they have succeeded any
better under these difficulties than have the men
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