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improving their minds and qualifying themselves for more extended
usefulness. If young women who have borne but little responsibility
would devote themselves to God, they could qualify themselves for
usefulness by studying and becoming familiar with other languages.
They could devote themselves to the work of translating.
Our publications should be printed in other languages, that foreign
nations may be reached. Much can be done through the medium of the
press, but still more can be accomplished if the influence of the labors
of the living preacher goes with our publications. Missionaries are
needed to go to other nations to preach the truth in a guarded, careful
manner. The cause of present truth can be greatly extended by personal
effort. The contact of individual mind with individual mind will do
more to remove prejudice, if the labor is discreet, than our publications
alone can do. Those who engage in this work should not consult their
ease or inclination; neither should they have love for popularity or
display.
When the churches see young men possessing zeal to qualify
themselves to extend their labors to cities, villages, and towns that
have never been aroused to the truth, and missionaries volunteering
to go to other nations to carry the truth to them, the churches will
be encouraged and strengthened far more than to themselves receive
the labors of inexperienced young men. As they see their ministers’
hearts all aglow with love and zeal for the truth, and with a desire
to save souls, the churches will arouse themselves. These generally
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have the gifts and power within themselves to bless and strengthen
themselves, and to gather the sheep and lambs into the fold. They need
to be thrown upon their own resources, that all the gifts that are lying
dormant may thus be called into active service.
As churches are established, it should be set before them that
it is even from among them that men must be taken to carry the
truth to others and raise new churches; therefore they must all work,
and cultivate to the utmost the talents that God has given them, and
be training their minds to engage in the service of their Master. If
these messengers are pure in heart and life, if their example is what it
should be, their labors will be highly successful; for they have a most
powerful truth, one that is clear and connected, and that has convincing
arguments in its favor. They have God on their side and the angels of
God to work with their efforts.