Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

would be invited to speak to the colored people in
many places, and could thus impart to them
precious truths that they do not understand. An
excellent work has been done by these schools, and
in drawing apart from them, we are not following
the Lord's plan. An earnest sympathy should exist
between our teachers and other teachers of colored
schools in the South.
When the question of our establishing a
printing plant in the Southern states was being
considered, I was shown that the very existence of
the large educational institutions for colored people
in Nashville made it a favorable place for the
opening of our work; for in these schools lay
opportunities for building up the cause of present
truth. In failing to manifest an interest in the work
of the colored schools, and to become acquainted
with the work they were doing, an advantage was
lost that might have been used to remove much
prejudice. A judicious effort to open up to the
teachers in these large institutions the principles
and plans of our educational work, would have
been productive of much good. Young men of firm
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