New York
The Message to Go—While in New York in the winter of 1901,
I received light in regard to the work in that great city. Night after
night the course that our brethren should pursue passed before me. In
Greater New York the message is to go forth as a lamp that burneth.
God will raise up laborers for this work, and His angels will go before
them. Though our large cities are fast reaching a condition similar
to the condition of the world before the Flood, though they are as
Sodom for wickedness, yet there are in them many honest souls, who,
as they listen to the startling 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.—
Testimonies For The
Church 7:54, 55
(1902).
New York—A Symbol of Work in the World—Those who bear
the burden of the work in Greater New York should have the help of
the best workers that can be secured. Here let a center for God’s work
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be made, and let all that is done be a symbol of the work the Lord
desires to see done in the world....
In Greater New York, the Lord has many precious souls who have
not bowed the knee to Baal; and there are those who through ignorance
have walked in the ways of error. On these the light of truth is to shine,
that they may see Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
We are to present the truth in the love of Christ. No extravagance
or display should attend the work. It is to be done after Christ’s order.
It is to be carried forward in humility, in the simplicity of the gospel.
Let not the workers be intimidated by outward appearances, however
forbidding. Teach the Word, and the Lord by His Holy Spirit will send
conviction to the hearers.—
Testimonies For The Church 7:38
(1902).
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