Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

in the institutions at Nashville. It was stated that if I
would sustain Edson White in his methods of
working, nothing could be done to change the
situation. The brethren put questions to me, and I
spoke words in reply that gave them liberty to do in
Nashville all that they would, under similar
circumstances, do elsewhere. I was cut to the heart.
I thought to myself, "Why should not I give them
this liberty? If wrongs exist, as the brethren
represent, most thorough work should be done to
make these wrongs right."
But after I went to my room I passed through
an experience. For three nights in succession I was
instructed by the Lord that I had spoken
unadvisedly; that matters had not been correctly
represented to me, some of the particulars not
being given; and that I should not consent merely
because Edson White is my son, to allow him to be
condemned, or to allow his God-given work to be
hindered and wronged, as it certainly had been, and
would continue to be, unless the light that the Lord
had given me in regard to the work in the southern
field were used in a way altogether different from
830