The Later Elmshaven Years: 1905-1915 (vol. 6) - Ellen G. White

purpose, some would magnify themselves to do a work that should not be
done. Such an arrangement would greatly retard the cause of God. If we are
to carry on the work most successfully the talents to be found among the
English and Americans should be united with the talents of those of every
other nationality. And each nationality should labor earnestly for every other
nationality. There is but one Lord; one faith. Our efforts should be to answer
Christ's prayer for His disciples, that they should be one.
Bringing this phase of counsel to a close, she stated:
I must write plainly regarding the building up of partition walls in the
work of God. Such an action has been revealed to me as a fallacy of human
invention. It is not the Lord's plan for His people to separate themselves into
separate companies, because of differences in nationality and language. Did
they do this, their ideas would become narrow, and their influence would be
greatly lessened. God calls for a harmonious blending of a variety of talents.
She closes her appeal with these words:
Brethren, unify; draw close together, laying aside every human
invention, and following closely in the footsteps of Jesus, your great
example.
At that time the United States mails were relatively uncluttered by a
mass of second and third-class materials; postal schedules could be counted
on with precision. Ellen White and her associates at Loma Linda had their
eyes on the dates set for the meetings in College View and pulled these six or
seven items together--those written earlier and the four written for the
occasion--into a single package and got it off in the mail, addressed to Elder
G. A. Irwin, so that it would reach him in College View just at the opening
of the important meetings.
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