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

year in the United States amounted to five
thousand dollars; fifteen years ago it was not over
fifty dollars."
Let us thank God, dear brethren and sisters, and
take courage! God is laying bare His arm to do a
mighty work in this mission field within the
borders of our own land. He is now giving His
people unusual opportunities to extend the message
rapidly in the South. Especially should we reveal a
spirit of beneficence at the time the yearly offering
for the support of the colored work is taken up.
God has reposed confidence in us by making us
stewards of means and of His rich grace; and He
now points us to the poor and suffering and
oppressed, to souls bound in chains of superstition
and error, and assures us that if we do good to
these, He will accept the deed as though done to
Himself. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these My brethren," He declares, "ye
have done it unto Me." (Matthew 25:40)
Thousands of colored people in the South may
now be uplifted, and become human agents to help
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