Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

sending them gifts of money and of books. And I
know something in regard to what these books
have already done and will continue to do.
While in Australia, I kept track of the work
done in the South and of the little encouragement
given the work among the colored people by their
ministering brethren. Encouragement was withheld
by the brethren in the North because they knew that
encouragement would sooner or later mean the
raising of means to support the workers in this new
fields. I called for means for the Southern work
before there was much of a showing in this field. I
knew that unless means were sent, new territory
could not be added.
The work that has been begun in Nashville is
established in the right place. Because some men
complain and criticise, shall the workers there
become discouraged? I answer, No, no!
We had no ordinary experience in Australia. It
was no easy matter to obtain means to work this
new field. The soil had to be broken up, the ground
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