Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

ethren, and give them his confidence, believing
that they will work as Christ works through them,
then he himself could see that others should be
granted the privilege of standing in their God-given
lot and place, and that he should respect all whom
God has called as gospel missionaries to work in
his cause. Working as Christ worked, our brethren
would not be divided at all. But so long as our
brother determines to carry things in his own way,
irrespective of the Lord's workers, as if he were the
only man whom heaven could acknowledge as a
leader, God is displeased. If he were to occupy his
proper place, he would be respected; but never is
he to be regarded as he has regarded himself,-- as
chief of all the medical missionary workers, as one
who has the privilege of consulting only those who
exalt him, and of ignoring as not worthy of acting a
part in the great medical missionary work, all the
gospel ministers who disapprove of some of his
ideas.
God has appointed His workers to stand true to
him at their respective posts of duty. They are not
to work in accordance with the plans of worldly-
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