Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

were engaged in this work received the cooperation
of all their ministering brethren, the
result of their work would now be altogether
different from what it is. But the great majority of
our ministers did not co-operate, as they should
have done, with the few who were struggling to
carry forward a much-needed work in a difficult
field.
As time advances, and opposition strengthens,
circumstances warn us that discretion is the better
part of valor. If unwise moves have been made in
the work done for the colored people, it is not
because warnings have not been given. From
Australia, across the broad waters of the Pacific,
cautions were sent that every movement must be
guarded, that the workers were to make no political
speeches, and that the mingling of whites and
blacks in social equality was by no means to be
encouraged.
In a council meeting held in 1895 at Armadale,
a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, I spoke of these
matters, in answer to the inquiries of my brethren,
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