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made, and success attended the efforts put forth. But the work has not
developed as it should have developed. Too much has been centered in
Battle Creek and in Oakland and in a few other places. Our brethren
should never have built so largely in any one place as they have in
Battle Creek.
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The Lord has signified that His work should be carried forward
in the same spirit in which it was begun. The world is to be warned.
Field after field is to be entered. The command given us is: “Add
new territory; add new territory.” Shall we not as a people, by our
business arrangements, by our attitude toward a world unsaved, bear a
testimony even more clear and decisive than that borne by us twenty
or thirty years ago?
Upon us has shone great light in regard to the last days of this
earth’s history. Let not our lack of wisdom and energy give evidence
of spiritual blindness. God’s messengers must be clothed with power.
They must have for the truth an elevating reverence that they do not
now possess. The Lord’s solemn, sacred message of warning must be
proclaimed in the most difficult fields and in the most sinful cities—in
every place where the light of the third angel’s message has not yet
dawned. To everyone is to be given the last call to the marriage supper
of the Lamb.
In proclaiming the message, God’s servants will be called upon
to wrestle with numerous perplexities and to surmount many obsta-
cles. Sometimes the work will go hard, as it did when the pioneers
were establishing the institutions in Battle Creek, in Oakland, and in
other places. But let all do their best, making the Lord their strength,
avoiding all selfishness, and blessing others by their good works.
New York City
While in New York in the winter of 1901, I received light in regard
to the work in that great city. Night after night the course that our
brethren should pursue passed before me. In Greater New York the
message is to go forth as a lamp that burneth. God will raise up laborers
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for this work, and His angels will go before them. Though our large
cities are fast reaching a condition similar to the condition of the world
before the Flood, though they are as Sodom for wickedness, yet there
are in them many honest souls, who, as they listen to the startling