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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
our brethren and sisters do their part wholeheartedly to place these
schools on vantage ground.
In addition to engaging in this line of school work, our col-
ored brethren may do a good work by establishing mission Sunday
schools and Sabbath schools among their own people—schools in
which the youth may be taught by teachers whose hearts are filled
with love for souls.
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Opportunities are continually presenting themselves in the South-
ern States, and many wise, Christian colored men will be called to
the work. But for several reasons white men must be chosen as
leaders. We are all members of one body and are complete only
in Christ Jesus, who will uplift His people from the low level to
which sin has degraded them and will place them where they shall
be acknowledged in the heavenly courts as laborers together with
God.
There is work to be done in many hard places, and out of these
hard places bright laborers are to come. Let the work be managed
so that colored laborers will be educated to work for their own race.
Among the Negro race there are many who have talent and ability.
Let us search out these men and women, and teach them how to
engage in the work of saving souls. God will co-operate with them
and give them the victory.
“Laborers Together With God”
The ear of the Lord is open to the cries of those who are in His
service. He has promised: “I will guide thee with Mine eye.”
Psalm
32:8
. Walk humbly with God, and ask Him to make your course of
duty plain. When He speaks to His representatives and asks them to
be laborers together with Him, they will do the same kind of work
that Jesus announced as His work when He stood up to read in the
synagogue at Nazareth. He opened the book of the prophet Esaias
and read: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord
hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent
Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”
Isaiah 61:1
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The truth is now overcast in the world by clouds of error that
prevail. He who can influence even the most lowly, and can win