Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

heavy debts and having to pay interest.
The publishing houses have been made places
of deposit by our people and have thus been
enabled to furnish means to support branches of the
work in different fields and have aided in carrying
other enterprises. This is well. None too much has
been done in these lines. The Lord sees it all. But,
from the light He has given me, every effort should
be made to stand free from debt.
The publishing work was founded in self-denial
and should be conducted upon strictly economical
principles. The question of finance can be
managed, if, when there is a pressure for means,
the workers will consent to a reduction in wages.
This was the principle the Lord revealed to me to
be brought into our institutions. When money is
scarce, we should be willing to restrict our wants.
Let the proper estimate be placed upon the
publications, and then let all in our publishing
houses study to economize in every possible way,
even though considerable inconvenience is thus
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