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people would have an opportunity of knowing just what the minister
said.—
The Review and Herald, October 14, 1902
.
Short Printed Discourses—Let a synopsis of the discourses be
printed and widely circulated.—
Manuscript 42, 1905
.
Handbills—If a press can be secured to be worked during the
meeting, printing leaflets, notices and papers for distribution, it will
have a telling influence.—
Testimonies For The Church 6:36
(1900).
Some Only Reached by Literature—Very much more can be
accomplished by the living preacher with the circulation of papers and
tracts than by the preaching of the Word alone without the publica-
tions.... Many minds can be reached in no other way. Here is true
missionary work in which labor and means can be invested with the
best results.—Life Sketches, p. 217. (1915).
The Power of the Press—The press is a powerful means to move
the minds and hearts of the people. The men of this world seize
the press, and make the most of every opportunity to get poisonous
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literature before the people. If men, under the influence of the spirit
of the world and of Satan, are earnest to circulate books, tracts, and
papers of a corrupting nature, you should be more earnest to get reading
matter of an elevating and saving character before the people.
God has placed at the command of His people advantages in the
press, which, combined with other agencies, will be successful in
extending the knowledge of the truth. Tracts, papers, and books, as
the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in
the land.—Life Sketches, pp. 216, 217. (1915).
Truth Given Wings—There is great need of men who can use
the press to the best advantage, that the truth may be given wings to
speed it to every nation, and tongue, and people.—
Gospel Workers,
25
(1915).
The Printed Page—Though the minister may faithfully present
the message, the people are not able to retain it all. The printed page
is therefore essential, not only in awakening them to the importance
of the truth for this time, but in rooting and grounding them in the
truth, and establishing them against deceptive error. Papers and books
are the Lord’s means of keeping the message for this time continually
before the people. In enlightening and confirming souls in the truth,
the publications will do a far greater work than can be accomplished by
the ministry of the Word alone. The silent messengers that are placed