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truths of the advent message, will feel the conviction of the Spirit.
New York is ready to be worked. In that great city the message of truth
will be given with the power of God. The Lord calls for workmen. He
calls upon those who have gained an experience in the cause to take
up and carry forward in His fear the work to be done in New York and
in other large cities of America. He calls also for means to be used in
this work.
It was presented to me that we should not rest satisfied because
we have a vegetarian restaurant in Brooklyn, but that others should be
established in other sections of the city. The people living in one part
of Greater New York do not know what is going on in other parts of
that great city. Men and women who eat at the restaurants established
in different places will become conscious of an improvement in health.
Their confidence once gained, they will be more ready to accept God’s
special message of truth.
Wherever medical missionary work is carried on in our large cities,
cooking schools should be held; and wherever a strong educational
missionary work is in progress, a hygienic restaurant of some sort
should be established, which shall give a practical illustration of the
proper selection and the healthful preparation of foods.
When in Los Angeles I was instructed that not only in various
sections of that city, but in San Diego and in other tourist resorts of
Southern California, health restaurants and treatment rooms should be
established. Our efforts in these lines should include the great seaside
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resorts. As the voice of John the Baptist was heard in the wilderness,
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord,” so must the voice of the Lord’s
messengers be heard in the great tourist and seaside resorts.
The Southern States
I 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