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How Missionary Service May Be Restricted—In sending mis-
sionaries to distant countries, those men should be selected who know
how to economize, who have not large families, and who, realizing
the shortness of time and the great work to be accomplished, will not
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fill their hands and houses with children, but will keep themselves as
free as possible from everything that will divert their minds from their
one great work. The wife, if devoted and left free to do so, can, by
standing by the side of her husband, accomplish as much as he. God
has blessed woman with talents to be used to His glory in bringing
many sons and daughters to God; but many who might be efficient
laborers are kept at home to care for their little ones.
We want missionaries who are missionaries in the fullest sense of
the word; who will put aside selfish considerations and let the cause
of God come first; and who, working with an eye single to His glory,
will keep themselves as minute men to go where He shall bid and to
work in any capacity to spread the knowledge of the truth. Men who
have wives that love and fear God and that can help them in the work
are needed in the missionary field. Many who have families go out
to labor, but they do not give themselves entirely to the work. Their
minds are divided. Wife and children draw them from their labor and
often keep them out of fields that they might enter were it not that they
think they must be near their home
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