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Selected Messages Book 2
The Lord’s eye is upon all His creatures; He loves them all, and
makes no difference between white and black, except that He has a
special, tender pity for those who are called to bear a greater burden
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than others. Those who love God and believe on Christ as their Re-
deemer, while they must meet the trials and the difficulties that lie in
their path, should yet with a cheerful spirit accept their life as it is,
considering that God above regards these things, and for all that the
world neglects to bestow, He will Himself make up to them in the best
of favors....
When the sinner is converted he receives the Holy Spirit, that
makes him a child of God, and fits him for the society of the redeemed
and the angelic host. He is made a joint heir with Christ. Whoever of
the human family give themselves to Christ, whoever hear the truth
and obey it, become children of one family. The ignorant and the wise,
the rich and the poor, the heathen and the slave, white or black—Jesus
paid the purchase money for their souls. If they believe on Him, his
cleansing blood is applied to them. 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 Chinese, 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....
Men may have both hereditary and cultivated prejudices, but when
the love of Jesus fills the heart, and they become one with Christ, they
will have the same spirit that He had. If a colored brother sits by their
side, they will not be offended or despise him. They are journeying
to the same heaven, and will be seated at the same table to eat bread
in the kingdom of God. If Jesus is abiding in our hearts we cannot
despise the colored man who has the same Saviour abiding in his
heart.—
Manuscript 6, 1891
. Published in
The Southern Work, 1966
ed., 9-14
.