There are a few in the ranks of Sabbathkeepers who sympathize with the slaveholder. When they embraced the truth, they did not leave behind them all the errors they should have left. They need a more thorough draft from the cleansing fountain of truth. Some have brought along with them their old political prejudices, which are not in harmony with the principles of the truth. They maintain that the slave is the property of the master, and should not be taken from him. They rank these slaves as cattle and say that it is wronging the owner just as much to deprive him of his slaves as to take away his cattle. I was shown that it mattered not how much the master had paid for human flesh and the souls of men; God gives him no title to human souls, and he has no right to hold them as his property. Christ died for the whole human family, whether white or black. God has made man a free moral agent, whether white or black. The institution of slavery does away with this and permits man to exercise over his fellow man a power which God has never granted him, and which belongs alone to God. The slave master has dared assume the responsibility of God over his slave, and accordingly he will be accountable for the sins, ignorance, and vice of the slave. He will be called to an account for the power which he exercises over the slave. The colored race are God’s property. Their Maker alone is their master, and those who have dared chain down the body and the soul of the slave, to keep him in degradation like the brutes, will have their retribution. The wrath of God has slumbered, but it will awake and be poured out without mixture of mercy. {1T 358.1}

(358) Der er nogle få i sabbatsholdernes rækker som sympatiserer med slaveholderne. Selv om de antager sandheden, efterlader de ikke alle de fejl bag dem, som de skulle have forladt. De behøver et mere gennemgribende grundrids af sandhedens rensende kilde. Nogle har bragt deres gamle politiske fordomme med sig, som ikke er i harmoni med sandhedens principper. De fastholder, at slaven er mesterens ejendom og skal ikke tages fra ham. De stiller disse slaver lige med kvæg og siger at det foruretter ejeren lige så meget at fratage ham sine slaver, som at tage hans kvæg væk. Jeg fik vist at det ikke betød noget om hvor meget mesteren havde betalt for menneskelige legemer og menneskelige sjæle og han havde ingen ret til at holde dem, som sin ejendom. Kristus døde for hele menneskeslægten, sort eller hvid. Gud har gjort mennesket til en fri moralforvalter, sort som hvid. Slaveriets institution rydder dette af vejen og lader mennesket udøve en magt over sit medmenneske som Gud aldrig har givet det og som alene tilhører Gud. Slavemesteren har vovet at påtage sig Guds ansvar over sin slave, dermed vil han stå til regnskab for sin slaves synder, ligegyldighed og fejl. Han vil blive draget til regnskab for den magt han udøver over slaven. Den farvede race er Guds ejendom. Deres Skaber alene er deres mester og dem som har vovet at lænke slavens krop og sjæl og lade ham være nedværdiget som dyr, vil få deres straf. Guds vrede har slumret, men vil vækkes og udgydes uden opblanding af nåde.