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Testimonies for the Church Volume 7
Nashville is within easy access of Graysville and Huntsville. By
the work in Nashville, the work at Graysville and Huntsville is to be
confirmed and settled. Graysville and Huntsville are near enough to
Nashville to strengthen the work there and to be strengthened by it.
It was in accordance with God’s purpose that the publishing work
was started at Nashville. In the Southern field there is need of a printing
office for the publication of the truth for this time, and especially for
printing reading matter suitable for the different classes of people in
this field. And there is no city in the South better suited than Nashville
for the carrying forward of publishing work. The establishing of
such an institution is an advance movement. If rightly managed, this
institution will give character to the work in the South and to many
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souls will be the means of imparting a knowledge of the truth. The
Nashville publishing house will still need to be assisted for a time by
gifts and offerings.
Sanitarium work also has been begun in Nashville. This must
be wisely managed and given support. Medical missionary work is
indeed the helping hand of the gospel ministry. It opens the way for
the entrance of truth.
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I am instructed to caution my brethren in the Southern field not
to move hastily in establishing large enterprises and new centers just
now, in a way that will divide their workers and their means, thus
weakening their forces at this critical time in their work. Let them
wait until some of the interests that have been started approach more
nearly to perfection. Let them not rush into new enterprises before the
institutions at Graysville and Huntsville are more firmly established
and the interests centering in Nashville are strengthened.
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As yet there are comparatively few places in the South that have
been worked. There are many, many cities in which nothing has
been done. Centers of influence may be established in many places
by the opening up of health food stores, hygienic restaurants, and
treatment rooms. Not all that needs to be done can be specified before