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The black man’s name is written in the book of life beside the
white man’s. All are one in Christ. Birth, station, nationality, or color
cannot elevate or degrade men. The character makes the man. If a red
man, a Chinaman, or an African gives his heart to God in obedience
and faith, Jesus loves him none the less for his color. He calls him
His well-beloved brother.—
The Southern Work, 8
, written March 20,
1891.
The day is coming when the kings and the lordly men of the earth
would be glad to exchange places with the humblest African who has
laid hold on the hope of the gospel.—
The Southern Work, 8
, written
March 20, 1891.
God cares no less for the souls of the African race that may be
won to serve Him, than He cared for Israel. He requires far more of
His people than they have given Him in missionary work among the
people of the South of all classes, and especially the colored race. Are
we not under even greater obligation to labor for the colored people
than for those who have been more highly favored? Who is it that held
these people in servitude? Who kept them in ignorance?... If the race
is degraded, if they are repulsive in habits and manners, who made
them so? Is there not much due to them from the white people? After
so great a wrong has been done them, should not an earnest effort
be made to lift them up? The truth must be carried to them. They
have souls to save as well as we.—
The Southern Work, 11, 12
, written
March 20, 1891.
Temperance Reform
Of all who claim to be numbered among the friends of temper-
ance, Seventh-day Adventists should stand in the front ranks.—
Gospel
Workers, 384
.
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On the temperance question, take your position without wavering.
Be as firm as a rock.—
Gospel Workers, 394
.
We have a work to do along temperance lines besides that of
speaking in public. We must present our principles in pamphlets and
in our papers. We must use every possible means of arousing our
people to their duty to get into connection with those who know not
the truth. The success we have had in missionary work has been
fully proportionate to the self-denying, self-sacrificing efforts we have