Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Southern field has been diverse. It would bring in
confusion.
As my brethren read the selections from letters,
I know what to say to them for this matter has been
presented to me again and again in regard to the
Southern field. I have not felt at liberty to write out
the matter until now. I will endeavor to make some
brief statements at this time, hoping soon to have
an opportunity to speak more clearly and at length.
The light that the Lord has given me at
different times has been, that the Southern field,
where the greatest share of the population of the
colored race is, can not be worked after the same
methods as others fields. They are excitable, and
outward actions in bodily exercise is wrought up to
a high strain of fanaticism, and exercises are more
to them than inward piety and compose their
religion. Should the colored people in the Southern
States be educated as they receive the truth, that
they should work on Sunday there would be
excited a most unreasonable and unjust prejudice.
Judges and Jurors, lawyers and citizens, would if
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