Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

instructed that the arbitrary authority exercised at
one time in Battle Creek to control all our
publishing houses was never again to have sway.
To make such propositions was more like going
back to Egypt than on to Canaan.
From the light given me, I know that such a
charge as was proposed by this speaker would
bring into the publishing work a ruling power
claiming jurisdiction over the entire field. This is
not God's plan. No man's intelligence is to become
such a controlling power that one man will have
kingly authority in Battle Creek or in any other
place. In no line of work is any one man to have
power to turn the wheel. God forbids.
Many more things were said, and I became
more and more heavily burdened, because I knew
that the great changes proposed would take us back
to where we would have to wrestle with the same
difficulties with which we wrestled in past years. I
knew that those who advanced these ideas were
blind as to the results.
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