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many workers. And where so many are brought together, it is exceed-
ingly difficult to maintain a high standard of spirituality. In a large
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institution it often happens that responsible places are filled by workers
who are not spiritually minded, who do not exercise wisdom in dealing
with those who, if wisely treated, would be awakened, convicted, and
converted.
Not one quarter of the work has been done in opening the Scriptures
to the sick that might have been done, and that would have been done
in our sanitariums if the workers had themselves received thorough
instruction in religious lines.
Where many workers are gathered together in one place, manage-
ment of a much higher spiritual tone is required than has often been
maintained in our large sanitariums.
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We are on the verge of the eternal world. The judgments of God
have already begun to fall upon the inhabitants of the land. God sends
these judgments to bring men and women to their senses. He has
a purpose in everything that He permits to take place in our world,
and He desires us to be so spiritually minded that we shall be able to
perceive His working in the events so unusual in the past, but now of
almost daily occurrence.
We have before us a great work, the closing work of giving God’s
last warning message to a sinful world. But what have we done to give
this message? Look, I beg of you, at the many, many places that have
never yet been even entered. Look at our workers treading over and
over the same ground, while around them is a neglected world, lying
in wickedness and corruption—a world as yet unwarned. To me this
is an awful picture. What appalling indifference we manifest to the
needs of a perishing world!
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