A Place Called Oakwood

21—Establish Their Work

Date: May 22, 1908
Location: St. Helena, California
Source: Letter 170, 1908
Status: Previously unpublished

Context: Writing to I.H. Evans, then treasurer of the General Conference, Ellen White laments the “hindering policy” some in the church continued to impose.

Dear Brother Evans:

While we were endeavoring to build up the work in Australia, which we did under great difficulties, the hindering policy was a grief to us and a shame to the people who professed to hold this precious, sacred truth regarding the soon coming of the Lord. It has been under similar difficulties that the workers at Madison and Huntsville have labored to establish their work. Had a true spirit of unselfishness rested upon the men at the head of the work, the Madison enterprise would have had the support of the people, and the work there would have gone forward much more rapidly. Many more souls would now be in the field, giving the message in the cities of the Southern field, and long ere this many of the cities of the South would have been faithfully worked. PCO 113.8

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