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in progress while public meetings are being held. Connected with
this training-school or city mission should be experienced laborers of
deep spiritual understanding, who can give the Bible-workers daily
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instruction, and who can also unite whole-heartedly in the general
public effort. And as men and women are converted to the truth, those
standing at the head of the mission should, with much prayer, show
these new converts how to experience the power of the truth in their
hearts. Such a mission, if conducted by those who know how to man-
age wisely, will be a light shining in a dark place.—
Gospel Workers,
364, 365
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City work should include restaurants and health lectures—
The Lord has a message for our cities, and this message we are to
proclaim in our camp-meetings, and by other public efforts, and also
through our publications. In addition to this, hygienic restaurants are
to be established in the cities, and by them the message of temperance
is to be proclaimed. Arrangements should be made to hold meetings
in connection with our restaurants. Whenever possible, let a room be
provided where the patrons can be invited to lectures on the science of
health and Christian temperance, where they can receive instruction on
the preparation of wholesome food and on other important subjects. In
these meetings there should be prayer and singing and talks, not only
on health and temperance topics, but also on other appropriate Bible
subjects. As the people are taught how to preserve physical health,
many opportunities will be found to sow the seeds of the gospel of the
kingdom.—
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 276, 277
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Prisons
Those within prison walls need comfort and encouragement—
Then what is traced in your diary this year? Does it record an experi-
ence gained by ministering to the suffering, the poor, and the needy?
Those who are suffering for Christ’s sake, who will not yield the truth
for error, who, perhaps, are incarcerated within prison walls, these
need comfort and encouragement. This is the kind of work that is
deciding our destiny. There is a precious reward awaiting those who
are faithful in their ministry. They will have a home in the mansions
that Christ has gone to prepare for them that love him and wait for his
appearing.—
The Youth’s Instructor, August 19, 1897
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