Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Spiritual Leader, and to save as many souls as we
can to present them as slaves to Jesus Christ, who
gave Himself a living sacrifice to ransom them, and
make them free servants of Jesus Christ. There is
not to be one word uttered which would stir up the
slumbering enmity and hatred of the slaves against
discipline and order, or to present before them the
injustice which has been done them. Nothing can
be done at first in making the Sabbath question
prominent, and if the colored people are in any way
educated to work on Sunday, there will be
unsparing, merciless oppression brought upon
them. Already there has been too much printed in
regard to the persecution of the Sabbath-keepers in
the Southern States, and those who are bitter
against the law of God, trampling it under their
feet, are all the more earnest to make human laws a
power. Their religious prejudice and bigotry would
lead them to do any acts of violence, verily
thinking they were doing God's service: for they
are in great error. A blind zeal under false religious
theories, is the most violent and merciless. There
are many who are stirred up by the representations
in our papers, to do just as their neighboring states
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