Let not those dear brethren who labor in Sabbath-schools and otherwise for the salvation of those about you be weary in well doing, but may others join them till no neighborhood is left. Moreover, let me exhort you, as the Lord's peculiar people, to be zealous in finding out and employing those means by which the world is to be converted. Fear not, brethren, to lead in doing right. There must be a mighty overturning before He whose right it is shall rule overall nations, and the servants of God will have to turn much upside down, as Paul did, before all will be right. There must also be many inventions of moral as well as physical machinery before Satan's throne will be demolished.
Nothing is more impolitic as well as wicked than to substitute expediency for duty.
This is now a prevalent sin of the church, which nullifies her power. It is so prevalent in all the churches that I fear some of you, beloved, if not all, will yield to its paralyzing influence. My fears are excited by your recent expressions of unwillingness to have youth of color educated in our Institute. Those expressions were a grief to me, such as I have rarely suffered. Although I knew that with some of you the doctrine of expediency was against the immediate abolition of slavery, because slaves are not qualified for freedom, I supposed you thought it expedient and duty to elevate and educate them as fast as possible, that therefore you would concur in receiving those of promising talent and piety into our institution.