Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Northern people had made the South a real
missionary field, if they had not left the negroes to
ruin through poverty and neglect, thousands of
souls would have been brought to Christ. But it
was an unpromising field, and the Catholics have
been more active in it than any other class.
Will our brethren explain what their course
means? Will the men in charge of the work of God
sense their neglect? Will the people in Battle Creek
show how much zeal, how much true missionary
spirit they have received? With the great privileges
you have had to learn line upon line and precept
upon precept. With precious outpouring of the
Spirit of God, what lessons have you learned? How
much self-denial will our institutions manifest in
binding about their imaginary wants? Will they
continue to spread themselves, and strive to obtain
more and still more conveniences for their
accommodation, while the means to be expended
for the down-trodden colored race is so little and
meager? Here are your neighbors, poor, beaten,
oppressed: thousands of human beings suffering
for want of educational advantages; many, so many
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