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Section 18—Extent of the Work
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goods, to use in His service their talents of intellect and of means.
Some will be impressed by the Holy Spirit to invest the Lord’s means
in a way that will advance His work. They will fulfill His purpose by
helping to create centers of influence in our large cities. Our workers
should represent before these men a plain statement of our needs.
Let them know what we need in order to help the poor and needy,
and to establish the work on a firm basis.—
Manuscript 79, 1900
Plants in Foreign Fields
When those in charge of the medical missionary work realize
that plants must be made in many places, God’s work will be carried
forward even in the hardest fields. When men see that it is necessary
to establish the medical missionary work in America, can they not
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see that the same work is needed in new fields, where there is nothing
to give character to the work?
To send missionaries into a foreign field to do missionary work,
unprovided with facilities and means, is like requiring bricks to be
made without straw.
Let God’s servants act like wise men, remembering that the work
in every part of the world is to assist the work in every other part.
“Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”
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Workers in new places where there may not be one believer in
present truth should be furnished with means for helping the needy.
They meet with many who are sick and in need of help. As they
relieve their temporal necessities, the way opens for them to speak
of the Saviour and His precious truth. These workers must be given
facilities for preparing the way of the Lord and making straight in
the desert a highway for our God. Let our publishing houses help by
gifts of books and papers, and let our sanitariums furnish facilities
for the care of the sick....
Those who go into new fields to use the breaking-up plow in
preparing the soil for the sowing of the seed of truth are to be encour-
aged, prayed for, sustained. It is the Lord’s desire that every worker
sent into new fields shall be furnished with means and facilities for
the successful accomplishment of His work. They are to receive
help and encouragement from those in the home field, that they may