Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

of Brother Palmer from the work, the real purpose
of which was to discourage Edson White, and to
weaken his hands, so that he would be compelled
to leave the field.
It was the steadfast purpose of Edson White to
do a work for the Lord in the Southern field. And
from time to time the Lord gave him words of
encouragement, and put into his mind plans and
ways of managing so that he and his fellow
workers would not, for lack of means, be forced to
leave this, the hardest of all fields.
The Lord has looked with sadness upon the
most pitiable of sights - the colored race in slavery.
In our work for them, He desires us to remember
their providential deliverance from slavery, their
common relationship to us by creation and by
redemption, and their right to the privileges of
freedom.
The Lord has accepted all who have put forth
unselfish effort for the uplifting of these, the most
needy of his creatures. God desires men and
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