Instruction to Workers
Slowly but surely the wheel of Providence is turning. We know not
how soon our Lord will say: “It is done.” His coming is drawing nigh.
Soon our opportunities for work will be forever past. Only a little
while longer shall we be permitted to labor. My brethren, will you not
strive with earnest effort to establish memorials for God throughout
the Southern States? Churches should be raised up; houses of worship
should be built; small schools and sanitariums should be established;
and the publishing interests should be strengthened.
The lines of work to be established in different places in the South
will need men and women of wisdom and prayer, men and women who
will carry the work forward from stage to stage soundly, intelligently—
toiling, praying, working economically, as laborers of God’s appoint-
ment. The situation calls for personal, untiring, united effort.
One brick upon another, and the highest wall is made;
One flake upon another, and the deepest snow is laid.
Patient continuance in well-doing—this is to be our motto. We are
to put forth persevering effort, advancing step by step until the race is
run, the victory gained.
When the publishing work at Nashville was started, it was the
avowed purpose of the workers to keep out of debt; but in their desper-
ate effort to make brick without straw, our brethren were led to depart
from this purpose, and, as the result, the work has become involved in
difficulty. But God’s workmen at Nashville are not, because of this, to
become discouraged. The work must not cease. Let all now seek most
earnestly to avoid the mistakes of the past. Let them guard themselves
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as with a fence of barbed wire against the inclination to go into debt.
Let them say firmly: “Henceforth we will advance no faster than the
Lord shall indicate and the means in hand shall allow, even though the
good work has to wait for a while. In beginning in new places, we will
labor in narrow quarters, rather than involve the Lord’s cause in debt.”
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