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foreigners in America. God desires His servants to do their full duty
toward the unwarned millions of the cities, and especially toward those
who have come to these cities in our land from the nations of earth.
Many of these foreigners are here in the providence of God, that they
may have opportunity to hear the truth for this time.
Great benefits would come to the cause of God in the regions
beyond if faithful effort were put forth in behalf of the foreigners in the
cities of our homeland. Among these men and women are some who,
upon accepting the truth, could soon be fitted to labor for their own
people in this country and in other countries. Many might return to
the places from which they came, in the hope of winning their friends
to the truth. They could search out their kinsfolk and neighbors, and
communicate to them a knowledge of the third angel’s message.—
The
Review and Herald, October 29, 1914
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A Means of Extending the Work to All Nations—God would be
pleased to see far more accomplished by His people in the presentation
of the truth for this time to the foreigners in America than has been
done in the past.... As I have testified for years, if we were quick
in discerning the opening providences of God, we should be able
to see in the multiplying opportunities to reach many foreigners in
America a divinely appointed means of rapidly extending the third
angel’s message into all the nations of earth. God in His providence
has brought men to our very doors and thrust them, as it were, into our
arms, that they might learn the truth, and be qualified to do a work we
could not do in getting the light before men of other tongues.
There is a great work before us. The world is to be warned. The
truth is to be translated into many languages, that all nations may enjoy
its pure, life-giving influence. This work calls for the exercise of all
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the talents that God has entrusted to our keeping—the pen, the press,
the voice, the purse, and the sanctified affections of the soul. Christ
has made us ambassadors to make known His salvation to the children
of men; and if we are clothed with the righteousness of Christ and are
filled with the joy of His indwelling Spirit, we shall not be able to hold
our peace.—
The Review and Herald, October 29, 1914
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Within the Shadow of Our Doors—The message must be given
to the thousands of foreigners living in these cities in the home field....
Who feels heavily burdened to see the message proclaimed in
Greater New York and in the many other cities as yet unworked? Not