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Ellen G. White |
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Advice about the mixing marriage between whites and colored people |
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There is an objection to the marriage of the white race with the black. All should consider that they have no right to entail upon their offspring that which will place them at a disadvantage; they have no right to give them as a birthright a condition which would subject them to a life of humiliation. The children of these mixed marriages have a feeling of bitterness toward the parents who have given them this lifelong inheritance. For this reason, if there were no other, there should be no intermarriage between the white and the colored races. Manuscript 7, 1896.
Selected
Messages, 2:343-344; cf. 481-488. |
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Reply to a question |
Sanatorio,
California, August 7, 1912.
In
reply to inquiries regarding the advisability of intermarriage between
Christian young people of the white and black races, I will say that in my
earlier experience this question was brought before me, and the light
given me of the Lord was that this step should not be taken; for
it is sure to create controversy and confusion. I have
always had the same counsel to give. No encouragement to marriages of this
character should be given among our people. Let the colored brother enter
into marriage with a colored sister who is worthy, on who loves God, and
keeps His commandments. Let the white sister who contemplates uniting in
marriage with the colored brother refuse to take this step, for the Lord
is not leading in this direction. Time
is too precious to be lost in controversy that will arise over this matter.
Let no questions of this kind be permitted to call our ministers from
their work. The taking of such a step will create confusion and hindrance.
It will not be for the advancement of the work or for the glory of God.
Letter 36, 1912. |
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