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workers in our cities close by Washington. Let faithful house-to-house
work be done. Souls are perishing out of the ark of safety. Let the
standard of truth be lifted up by the church members in their neigh-
borhoods. Let ministers pitch their tent, and preach the truth to the
people with power, and then move to another vicinity and preach the
truth there.—
Letter 94a, 1909
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Proclaiming a Decided Message—I call upon the believers in
Washington to come up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord
against the mighty powers of darkness. Personal labor will be needed
in this city and its suburbs. Clear the King’s highway. Lift up the
standard higher and still higher. There is evangelistic work to be done
in Washington and Baltimore and in the many other large cities of the
South and the East. Let the work of teaching and healing be combined.
Let ministers and medical missionaries put on the whole armor of God
and go forth to proclaim the gospel message. A decided message is
to be proclaimed in Washington. The trumpet is to be given a certain
sound.—
Letter 304, 1908
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Nashville, St. Louis, New Orleans—Every effort possible should
now be made to advance the work of God. Soon circumstances will
arise which will make it more difficult than it is now to present the
truth to many who are at present within our reach. Most earnest efforts
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should be put forth in Washington, in Boston, in Nashville, St. Louis,
New Orleans, and in many other large cities. A comprehensive work
will be accomplished when men and women stand in their places,
faithfully doing their part. There is a call for hundreds of young men
and women to be educated and trained for service.—
Manuscript 21,
1908
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Nashville a Center—Nashville has been presented to me as the
most favorable center from which to do a general work for all classes
in the Southern States. In and near Nashville there are established
institutions of learning which should be respected by our people. Their
influence has helped to make it possible for us to carry forward suc-
cessfully many lines of work from that center.—
Letter 262, 1903
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Memphis and the Southern Cities—The Lord gave me a mes-
sage for Brother _____, instructing him to take up the work in Mem-
phis.... He obeyed the word of the Lord, and he has reported excellent
success in his work in Memphis.