Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

good beginning made, that their fault-finding
would be changed to commendation.
For one of the office-rooms, a carpet was
purchased, costing seventy-five cents a yard. Some
office furniture, too, was secured. The purchase of
these things might have been delayed, but should
not be regarded as a sin. Nevertheless, small
transactions of this nature were seized upon by
some of the delegates, and condemned. Their
minds were open to receive wrong impressions,
they were imbued with a spirit of criticism, and
they dishonored the Lord. Blinded by prejudice,
they could not see that the motive was good which
prompted the laborers to make these purchases.
The workers in Nashville had borne the burden of
much extra labor and wearing night work in order
to make it possible for the meeting to be held there.
They hoped that their work would be approved.
They did everything that they could to
accommodate and make comfortable the guests
who came. But what was seen by him who seeth in
secret? A little group of men here, another of
women there, communicating to one another the
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