Chapter 19—The Home-Foreign Field
A Work Equal in Importance to That in Foreign Fields
Wake up, wake up, my brethren and sisters, and enter the fields in
America that have never been worked. After you have given something
for foreign fields, do not think your duty done. There is a work to
be done in foreign fields, but there is a work to be done in America
that is just as important. In the cities of America there are people of
almost every language. These need the light that God has given to His
church.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:36
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While plans are being carried out to warn the inhabitants of various
nations in distant lands, much must be done in behalf of the foreigners
who have come to the shores of our own land. The souls in China
are no more precious than the souls within the shadow of our doors.
God’s people are to labor faithfully in distant lands, as His providence
may open the way; and they are also to fulfil their duty toward the
foreigners of various nationalities in the cities and villages and country
districts close by.—
The Review and Herald, July 25, 1918
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In New York City, in Chicago, and in other great centers of popu-
lation, there is a larger foreign element—multitudes of various nation-
alities, and all practically unwarned. Among Seventh-day Adventists
there is a great zeal—and I am not saying there is any too much—to
work in foreign countries; but it would be pleasing to God if a propor-
tionate zeal were manifested to work the cities close by. His people
need to move sensibly. They need to set about this work in the cities
with serious earnestness. Men of consecration and talent are to be
sent into these cities and set to work. Many classes of laborers are to
unite in conducting these efforts to warn the people.—
The Review and
Herald, July 25, 1918
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A Heaven-sent Opportunity
In our own country there are thousands of all nations, and tongues,
and peoples who are ignorant and superstitious, having no knowledge
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