Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Suppose that our people should practice the
self-denial and love for souls that Jesus manifested
while here on earth. Suppose that they should make
the experiment of bearing much fruit to the glory of
God, instead of studying how to absorb all the
profits of the institutions (which were established
in poverty), in enlarging and enriching themselves.
Suppose that they should regard these institutions
as God's instrumentalities, and provide facilities
whereby destitute places should be provided with
meeting places, and, in a limited degree, with the
advantages that are so abundant in Battle Creek.
Would not such a course be attended by the
blessing of God, whose means they are handling?
Would it not be far safer to experiment in right
doing than in selfishly grasping so much where
there is no real need, which means robbery and
want to other fields.
The colored people have been neglected
because the vexed question of how to build a wall
of distinction between the whites and the blacks
has been agitated. Some have thought it best to
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