Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

trouble such as has not been since the world began.
...
I have not much confidence in doing a large
amount of work for those who already know the
truth. Nothing will stir the South like taking hold of
the work in new places. The cities are to be
entered. But to try to bring those who know the
truth, yet do not do their best, up to where they
ought to be, is, I must say, almost labor lost, and
greatly hinders aggressive work. Let the workers
press into the cities still in ignorance. Let men and
women be trained to conduct schools and
sanitariums for white people. Let colored workers
be educated to labor for their own people. And let
the workers all remember that no raid is to be made
on slavery and cruel task-masters.
God does not expect His workers to attend to
trifling matters. They are to preach the gospel.
They will find that short discourses are the most
effective. In every place in which the work is
begun, the standard is to be raised higher and still
higher. The truth of Christ's soon coming is to be
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