Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

authorities, as working on Sunday, would cause the
colored people great suffering, and cut off the
possibility of white laborers going among them; for
the workers that intended to do them good would
be charged with raising insurrections.
I do not want anything of this character to
appear, for I know the result. Tell them they need
not provoke their neighbors by doing work on
Sunday; that this will not prevent them from
observing the Sabbath. The Sabbath should not be
introduced until they know the first principles of
the religion of Jesus Christ. The truth as it is in
Jesus it to be made known little by little, line upon
line, and precept upon precept.
Punishment for any offence would be visited
unsparingly and unmercifully upon the colored
people. Here it is a neglected field where medical
missionary work can be one of the greatest
blessings. In this line the truth may be introduced,
but the very first principles of Christianity are to be
taught in the A B C. The schools are to be
established, having not only children, but fathers
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