The Cities of Northern Europe
Come Up to the Help of the Lord—In my last vision I was
shown the importance of the work in Northern Europe. The people are
awakening to the truth. The Lord has given Elder Matteson a testimony
to reach hearts. But the work is just entered upon. With judicious,
self-sacrificing labor, many souls will be brought to the knowledge of
the truth. There should be several unselfish, God-fearing workers in
this missionary field, who will labor for souls as they that must give
account in the day of judgment.
I have been shown that not all is being done by our Swedish,
Norwegian, and Danish brethren that they might and should do for
their own countrymen. As soon as they embrace the truth, they ought
to feel the fire of missionary zeal kindled in their hearts for their
brethren in the darkness of error. Many are looking for help from
their American brethren while they do not do their duty and feel the
burden God requires them to feel for those of their own nation. They
may do very much more than they are now doing if they will. These
brethren must overcome selfishness and arouse to a sense of their
responsibilities to God and their fellow countrymen, or they will lose
the precious reward they might secure by putting their talents of means
into the treasury of God, and by wisely directed personal effort, thus
being instrumental in the salvation of many souls.
Young men should be educated to become missionaries to their
own nation, to teach the truth to those in darkness. Publications should
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be printed in Europe. But at the present time [
Note: Written in 1879.
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there is altogether too much ease and too little zeal among the Danes,
Swedes, and Norwegians who believe the truth in this country to
sustain such a continual drain upon their funds. And for this reason
I urge upon them the necessity of coming up into working order,
feeling even a greater interest for their own people than their American
brethren have shown. God requires that these brethren should come up
to the help of the Lord without delay.—The Advent Review Supplement,
February 6, 1879.
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