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the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in
the land. Here is missionary work for all.
“There should be men trained for this branch of the work who will
be missionaries, and will circulate publications. They should be men
of good address, who will not repulse others or be repulsed. This is a
work which would warrant men to give their whole time and energies
as the occasion demands. God has committed to His people great light.
This is not for them to selfishly enjoy alone, but to let its rays shine
forth to others who are in the darkness of error.
“You are not as a people doing one twentieth part of what might be
done in spreading the knowledge of the truth. Very much more can be
accomplished by the living preacher with the circulation of papers and
tracts than by the preaching of the word alone without the publications.
The press is a powerful instrumentality which God has ordained to be
combined with the energies of the living preacher to bring the truth
before all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples. Many minds can be
reached in no other way.
“Here is true missionary work in which labor and means can be
invested with the best results. There has been too great fear of running
risks, and moving out by faith, and sowing beside all waters. Opportu-
nities have been presented which have not been grasped and made the
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most of. There has been too great fear of venturing. True faith is not
presumption, but it ventures much. Precious light and powerful truth
need to be brought out in publications without delay.”
Said he: “Your husband must not be discouraged in his efforts
to encourage men to become workers, and responsible for important
work. Every man whom God will accept, Satan will attack. If they
disconnect from heaven, and imperil the cause, their failures will not
be set to his account or to yours, but to the perversity of the nature of
the murmuring ones, which they would not understand and overcome.
These men whom God has tried to use to do His work, and who have
failed, and brought great burdens upon those who were unselfish and
true, have hindered and discouraged more than all the good they have
done. And yet this should not hinder the purpose of God in having
this growing work, with its burden of cares, divided into different
branches, and laid upon men who should do their part, and lift the
burdens when they ought to be lifted. These men must be willing to
be instructed, and then God can fit them and sanctify them, and impart