Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Brother Washburn, you and your colaborers
should ever bear in mind that you are in a
missionary field where a grand, all-round work is
to be done for God. The heathen are right about
you. Should you follow the course that has been
pursued in the past toward the colored people, you
would not fulfill your duty. The Lord calls for
missionary work to be done. Those who make the
South their field of labor are not to perpetuate the
prejudice that has existed in the past against the
colored people. The teachers of the truth are to
labor for this neglected race, and by their efforts
win the respect, not only of the colored people, but
of the workers in other denominations. May the
Lord bless you in this work, is my earnest prayer.
The words that Christ spoke to his disciples
when he sent them forth the first time, will apply to
the experiences of the worker today. "Behold," he
said, "I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves." You will need to understand how to meet
all classes. "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and
harmless as doves." "He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all (black as well
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