The Later Elmshaven Years: 1905-1915 (vol. 6) - Ellen G. White

She molded her message to meet the special interests of her audience,
saying at one point:
I recall how especially one of your race was recognized by God in the
time of the apostles, the record of which we find in the book of Acts. The
Ethiopian mentioned there was a man of influence, and was doing a great
work when he heard the message of the gospel.
She added:
I am glad that the message of Christ's second advent has reached so
many of the colored people. I want to say to you, the Lord is no respecter of
persons. He makes no difference ... because of the color of your skin. He
understands all your circumstances. We have one Saviour for all mankind.--
Manuscript 17, 1909.
Sunday afternoon she went out to the Madison school and addressed
those attending a teachers' institute in progress there (Letter 74, 1909;
Manuscript 15, 1909). She appealed to the workers not to neglect any field of
missionary endeavor, and spoke of their duty to work for the black people,
recounting to them her experience in the black church and her visit to the
Hillcrest school (Manuscript 15, 1909). She spent a few days at Madison,
staying in their "new sanitarium" (Letter 74, 1909).
The journey to Huntsville, Alabama, to visit the school was exhausting.
The train made frequent stops in the stifling heat, and she suffered pain in
her troublesome left eye (Letter 74, 1909; 37 WCW, p. 959). But she talked
to the students the next morning and visited the campus, the buildings, and
the farm. That night she rode on the train to Asheville, North Carolina, and
on Sabbath morning, May 1, took the service in the Haywood church.
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