Adequate Wages for Women Workers
To be Paid as Verily as Their Husbands—When it is possible,
let the minister and his wife go forth together. The wife can often labor
by the side of her husband, accomplishing a noble work. She can visit
the homes of the people and help the women in these families in a way
that her husband cannot....
Select women who will act an earnest part. The Lord will use
intelligent women in the work of teaching. And let none feel that
these women, who understand the Word, and who have ability to teach,
should not receive remuneration for their labors. They should be paid
as verily as are their husbands. There is a great work for women to
do in the cause of present truth. Through the exercise of womanly
tact and a wise use of their knowledge of Bible truth, they can remove
difficulties that our brethren cannot meet. We need women workers to
labor in connection with their husbands, and should encourage those
who wish to engage in this line of missionary effort.—
Letter 142,
1909
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Sacrificing Not to Be Limited to Faithful Women—A great
work is to be done in our world, and every talent is to be used in
accordance with righteous principles. If a woman is appointed by the
Lord to do a certain work, her work is to be estimated according to its
value. Every laborer is to receive his or her just due.
It may be thought to be a good plan to allow persons to give talent
and earnest labor to the work of God, while they draw nothing from
the treasury. But this is making a difference, and selfishly withholding
from such workers their due. God will not put His sanction on any such
plan. Those who invented this method may have thought that they were
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doing God service by not drawing from the treasury to pay these God-
fearing, soul-loving laborers. But there will be an account to settle by
and by, and then those who now think this exaction, this partiality in
dealing, a wise scheme, will be ashamed of their selfishness. God sees
these things in a light altogether different from the light in which finite
men view them.
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