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feel as we should feel, a strong and abiding perception of the value of
the human soul. We are learners that we may be teachers. This idea
must be imprinted in the mind of every church member.
We believe fully in church organization, but in nothing that is to
prescribe the precise way in which we must work; for all minds are
not reached by the same methods. Nothing is to be allowed to keep the
working servant of God from his fellowman. The individual believer
is to labor for the individual sinner....
Teach this, my sister. You have many ways opened before you.
Address the crowd whenever you can; hold every jot of influence you
can by any association that can be made the means of introducing the
leaven to the meal. Every man and every woman has a work to do
for the Master. Personal consecration and sanctification to God will
accomplish, through the most simple methods, more than the most
imposing display....
Teach our sisters that every day the question is to be, Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do this day? Each vessel consecrated to God
will daily have the holy oil emptied into it, that it may be emptied out
into other vessels. Every day we may be advancing in the Christian
character, waiting and watching for opportunities to do the will and
work of God. Every word uttered, every work performed in Christ’s
lines, will have an enduring pre-eminence. Speak the words that are
given you of God, and the Lord will certainly work with you. Do
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not fail nor be discouraged, although you may see many things which
you do not approve. I hope and pray that you may be clothed with
the righteousness of Christ daily.—
The Review and Herald, May 9,
1899
(written to Mrs. S.M.I. Henry March 25, 1899).
Seeds of Truth Can Be Sown in WCTU
Only Eternity Will Reveal Accomplishments—I would not have
any of our people so narrow that they should say to Sister Henry,
Sever your connection with the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
Sister Henry can sow the seeds of truth in this society. Not that she
needs to give all the knowledge she has obtained on subjects that are
objectionable. She can tell the glad tidings of salvation. Then when
hearts have become warmed by the Holy Spirit’s working, and the
walls of prejudice begin to give way, she can present the truth point by