Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

follow their own judgment and carry out the ideas
they now hold in regard to the cause in the
Southern field, they would do a work that bears not
the approbation of God. Seeming success would be
short-lived. Brethren, the Lord does not bid you to
encourage your brethren to cultivate a spirit of
accusation and condemnation by listening to their
distorted reports. Listen not to those who are
annoyed because they can not manage everything
in accordance with their own will and way.
My brethren, you are not to thrust blindly in the
dark; for you know not which will prosper, this or
that. Restrain the tendency to judge motives. You
do not know or understand in regard to the
presentation that has been given me. I can not help
being intensely interested in every movement made
in the Southern field. I know much about that
work; for I have kept pace with it and with the
planning and devising of the workers, I have
known of the struggles and makeshifts, the selfdenial
and self-sacrifice, that have been bravely
borne. I have helped the workers as much as I
could, sharing their work and encouraging them by
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