At the 1909 General Conference
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the present truth might be proclaimed in every city! This great need is
kept before me night and day....
“Men and women are going forth more and more to carry the gospel
message. We thank God for this, but we need a greater awakening.... It
is our privilege to see the work of God advancing in the cities. Christ
is waiting, waiting for places to be entered. Who are preparing for this
work? We will not say that we are destitute of laborers. We are glad
that there are some; but there is a greater, a far greater work to be done
in our cities.”
The General Conference Bulletin, May 17, 1909
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Special Efforts in New England
“The work we have to do is a wonderfully great work,” she said
in another of her discourses during the Conference. “There is a world
to be saved.” In this connection she referred especially to the blessing
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that would come to the cause of God through a strong and united effort
to proclaim the message in the cities of New England, where the first
and second angels’ messages had been given with mighty power. “We
must bring to these same cities the glory of the third angel’s message,”
she said. “Who among us is trying to scatter the rays of light where
the truth was so favorably received in the early days of the message?”
The General Conference Bulletin, May 31, 1909
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In one of her appeals regarding the work to be done in the cities of
New England and the Atlantic States, she said:
“What is being done in the Eastern cities where the advent message
was first proclaimed? The cities of the West have had advantages, but
who in the East have been burdened to take up the work of going over
the ground that in the early days of the message was baptized with
the truth of the Lord’s soon coming? The light has been given that
the truth should go again to the Eastern States, where we first began
our work, and where we had our first experiences. We must make
every effort to spread a knowledge of the truth to all who will hear,
and there are many who will listen. All through our large cities God
has honest souls who are interested in what is truth. There is earnest
work to be done in the Eastern States. ‘Repeat the message, repeat the
message,’ were the words spoken to me over and over again. ‘Tell My
people to repeat the message in the places where it was first preached,
and where church after church took their position for the truth, the