Now, my brethren, what do you propose to do? I do not want this work dragging along any longer. I want something done, and done now.—Letter 11, 1884 (Written from Healdsburg, California, February 19, 1884.).
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The Work of E. G. White Selecting Matter for the Testimonies.—I must select the most important matters for the Testimony (vol. 6) and then look over everything prepared for it, and be my own critic; for I would not be willing to have some things which are all truth to be published; because I fear that some would take advantage of them to hurt others.
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After the matter for the Testimony is prepared, every article must be read by me. I have to read them myself; for the sound of the voice in reading or singing is almost unendurable to me.
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I try to bring out general principles, and if I see a sentence which I fear would give someone excuse to injure someone else, I feel at perfect liberty to keep back the sentence, even though it is all perfectly true.—Letter 32, 1901.
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Anticipated Use of Letters—I am endeavoring by the help of God to write letters that will be a help not merely to those to whom they are addressed, but to many others who need them.—Letter 79, 1905.
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