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Habits and Customs Vary, but Human Nature Is the Same—
You must go to work here just as we did in America; have your tract
societies and other facilities, and although it may seem at times that
the publications in some places do not accomplish much, you must go
right on. We had just such experiences in America. But we kept to the
point in sending out these publications to different classes, and it was
some time before we could make any advancement.
I have been shown that there must be a different mold put upon
the work here in these kingdoms, and there must be a power from the
God of heaven to inspire you to work in a different way; and while
Brethren Matteson and Olsen will help you in the work here, I wish to
throw this out to you now so that you can begin to think in a different
strain. Why, you can do tenfold more than you think you can; but
unbelief stands right here to say you cannot do anything in this line, or
that, but you can, brethren.
Habits and customs are different here from what they are in Amer-
ica, but human nature is the same here as there, and the brethren who
have taken hold of the truth in the heart are willing to work if they are
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only educated up to the point to know how to work. Why, brethren, I
have not slept night after night more than three hours, thinking of the
work in Europe, and it seems to me that I can hardly contain myself in
the body when I realize these things.
I have seen what God is willing to do for you, but it is just according
to your faith what God will do for you. Therefore we want to arouse
your faith, and to get your ideas broadened, and may the Lord roll the
burden of the work upon every one of you who believe the truth.—
Manuscript 6, 1886
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Broad Plans for Copenhagen—If in this rich and beautiful city
[Copenhagen] there is no suitable room where the truth can be pre-
sented to the people, we remember that there was no room in the inn at
Bethlehem for the mother of Jesus, and that the Saviour of the world
was born in a stable....
I am far from being convinced that these small and obscure halls
were the best places that could be secured, or that in this great city of
three hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants, the message should
be given in a basement room that will accommodate but two hundred,
and this but half seated, so that a large part of the congregation have to
stand. When God sends our brethren help, they should make earnest