Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

the way in which the brethren planned to use it. I
was instructed that the understanding of these men
had been perverted by the words of those who,
prompted by a perverse spirit, understood not what
they were saying. If these men had passed through
the same experience that the brethren in Nashville
have, not one of them would have accomplished as
much as the workers there have. They would have
given up, discouraged.
In connection with the Southern work,
transactions have taken place that never should
have been permitted. Money that was called for to
use in breaking up the ground in places that have
never been worked, was appropriated to places
where work has been carried forward for some
time. It was wrong not to allow the means given for
opening new fields, to be used where the people
supposed it would be. Every facility, every
advantage, should be given to the men whom the
Lord has appointed and fitted to enter new
territory. Men who by past experience know how
to plan and devise methods for doing a work
similar to the work that has already been done in
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