Planning Sectional and Suburban Meetings
Large Cities—Evangelistic Meetings in Different Areas—Now
is the opportune time to work the cities; for we must reach the people
there. As a people we have been in danger of centering too many im-
portant interests in one place. This is not good judgment nor wisdom.
An interest is now to be created in the principal cities. Many small
centers must be established, rather than a few large centers....
Let missionaries be laboring two and two in different parts of all
our large cities. The workers in each city should frequently meet
together for counsel and prayer, that they may have wisdom and grace
to work together effectively and harmoniously. Let all be wide awake
to make the most of every advantage. Our people must gird the armor
on and establish centers in all the large cities.—
Medical Ministry,
300
(1909).
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Reaching the Unwarned Sections of Our Cities—There is to
be an increased force of working agencies in every part of the field.
Let the laborers go out two and two, that they may work together in
the many parts of our cities that have been left unwarned for a long
time.—
Letter 8, 1910
.
Every Part to Be Worked—Let a band of workers go to a city
and work earnestly to proclaim the truth in every part of it. Let them
counsel together as to the best way of carrying on the work in the most
inexpensive manner. They are to do thorough work and are ever to
keep the spiritual phase of their effort uppermost.—
Manuscript 42,
1905
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Tents Repitched to Reach Various Sections of City—Much
wiser generalship should be shown in the location of camp meet-
ings; they should not be held in out-of-the-way places, for in the cities
there are people who need the truth. Camp meetings are to be held in
places from which the people of our large cities can be reached....
Camp meetings must be held in or near the cities, the workers at
one time pitching the tent in one part of the city and the next time in
another part. Right at our doors there are heathen who need to hear the
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