The Southern StatesI have a message to bear in regard to the Southern field. We have a great work to do in this field. Its condition is a condemnation of our professed Christianity. Look at its destitution of ministers, teachers, and medical missionaries. Consider the ignorance, the poverty, the misery, the distress, of many of the people. And yet this field lies close at our doors. How selfish, how inattentive, we have been to our neighbors! We have heartlessly passed them by, doing little to relieve their sufferings. If the gospel commission had been studied and obeyed by our people, the South would have received its proportionate share of ministry. If those who have received the light had walked in the light, they would have realized that upon them rested the responsibility of cultivating this long-neglected portion of the vineyard. {7T 56.1}

De sydlige stater
Jeg har et budskab at fremføre med hensyn til de sydlige marker. Vi har et stort arbejde at gøre på denne arbejdsmark. Dens tilstand er en fordømmelse af vor kristendomsbekendelse. Se på markens mangel på prædikanter, lærere og sundhedsarbejdere. Se på mange af folkenes uvidenhed, fattigdom, elendighed og nød. Og alligevel ligger denne mark tæt op af vore døre. Hvor selviske, hvor passive har vi ikke været over for vore naboer! Vi har hjerteløst ladet dem gå forbi, gjort så lidt for at hjælpe dem af deres lidelser. Hvis vore folk havde studeret og adlydt missionsbefalingen, ville de sydlige stater have fået en rimelig del af tjenesten. Hvis dem som havde fået lyset havde vandret i lyset, ville de erkende at der lå et ansvar på dem at opdyrke denne længe forsømte del af vingården.