The Work Of Helpers

Any one looking at the list of books shown in the picture on page 34, can see that no one person could ever have done all the gathering and arranging and copying and recopying of material necessary in preparing all those books for the press. It would be physically impossible—the more so for one like Mrs. White, with demands upon her time and service wherever she went. As Baruch was a valued scribe and copyist for Jeremiah the prophet, so helpers were essential for the large task involved in Mrs. White’s work. She herself wrote of the valued service of these associates. Of one who was helping on bookwork at the time, she once wrote:SPIAM 54.1

“She takes my articles which are published in the papers, and pastes them in blank books. She also has a copy of all the letters I write. In preparing a chapter for a book, M------remembers that I have written something on that special point, which may make the matter more forcible. She begins to search for this, and if when she finds it she sees that it will make the chapter more clear, she adds it. The books are not M------’s productions, but my own, gathered from all my writings. M------has a large field from which to draw, and her ability to arrange the matter is of great value to me. It saves my poring over a mass of matter, which I have no time to do.”—From a neostyle document, prepared by Trustees, “Elmshaven.”SPIAM 54.2