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his school for colporteurs and Bible workers; Elder Conradi reported
the success of workers in Germany and Switzerland; Elder Olsen gave
cheering reports from Norway, and Elder Hendrickson from Denmark.
Elder Lane reported good progress on the part of the colporteurs in
England.
The Missionary Council went busily on with its work for several
days after the people from the churches in Norway had returned to
their homes. Plans were laid and resolutions adopted looking to the
education of men for the ministry, and the establishment of a ship
mission in Hamburg. The subject commanding the most enthusias-
tic attention was the development of schools in each conference for
the training of colporteurs. That which called for the most anxious
study was the question of preparing and publishing the most suitable
literature.
Much interest was added to the meetings of the Council by the
presence of Elders C. L. Boyd and D. A. Robinson, who were on
their way from America to the great South African field. They joined
heartily in the study of the difficult questions regarding the work in
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Europe; and they also brought in many of their South African problems
for informal consideration.
Efficiency in Missionary Service
In writing to these brethren concerning the great work before them,
Mrs. White emphasized the importance of their starting in right at
the beginning of their work. She spoke of fields where much more
might have been done if the work had not been bound about by unwise
economies; and she declared that if the work had been begun right,
less means would actually have been drawn from the treasury. She
said:
“We have a great and sacred trust in the elevated truths committed
to us. We are glad that there are men who will enter into our mission
fields who are willing to work with small remuneration. Money does
not weigh with them in the scale against the claims of conscience and
duty, to open the truth to those who are in the darkness of error in
far-off countries for the love of Christ and their fellow men.
“The men who will give themselves to the great work of teaching
the truth are not the men who will be bribed with wealth or frightened