Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

meeting of confession and unity that had been held
in Battle Creek, I was writing in my diary, and was
about to record the thankfulness I felt because a
change had come, when my hand was arrested, and
there came to me the words: "Write it not. No
change for the better has taken place. The Doctor is
ensnared in a net of specious deception. He is
presenting as of great worth things that are turning
souls from the truth into by-and-forbidden paths,--
things that lead human agents to act in harmony
with their own inclinations, and to work out their
unsanctified purposes; things that result in
destroying the dignity and power of God's people,
obscuring the light that would otherwise come to
them from God through his appointed agencies.
The leaders in our medical work at Battle
Creek have endeavored to bind our medical
institutions fast, in accordance with their plans,
notwithstanding the many warnings given that this
should not be done. Who has authorized them to
lay these plans, and to try in many ways to bring
about their purposes? Our sanitariums do not
belong to them; and yet they desire to tie up these
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