Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

are doing. All these things give them the
appearance of defying the law. In Christ's day,
when persecuted in one city, they fled to another. It
may be the duty of those persecuted to avail
themselves of finding refuge in another city or
another country. (Matt. 10:22, 23) "And ye shall be
hated of all men for my name's sake; but he that
endureth to the end, shall be saved. But when they
persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for
verily I say unto you, ye shall not have gone over
the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man be come."
"The disciples is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord."
At present, persecution is not general, but let
the Southern element have word come to them of a
nature to raise their excitable disposition, and the
whole cause of truth would suffer, and the great
missionary field be closed. Let all be warned. Let
the instruction be given to this much oppressed
class that the keeping of the Sabbath does not
necessitate their working on Sunday: for, if they
should do this, they would have instigated against
them all the powers of the white population, who
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