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influence in our churches, working for greater unity and deeper piety.
Men may not see the necessity for the call to families to leave Battle
Creek and settle in places where they can do gospel medical missionary
work. But the Lord has spoken. Shall we question His word?
No Time for Delay
There are among us many young men and women who, if induce-
ments were held out, would naturally be inclined to take several years’
course of study to fit themselves for service. But will it pay? Time
is short. Workers for Christ are needed everywhere. There should
be a hundred earnest, faithful laborers in home and foreign mission
fields where now there is but one. The highways and byways are yet
unworked. Urgent inducements should be held out to those who ought
now to be engaged in work for the Master.
The signs which show that Christ’s coming is near are fast fulfilling.
The Lord calls upon our youth to labor as canvassers and evangelists,
to do house-to-house work in places that have not yet heard the truth.
He speaks to our young men, saying: “Ye are not your own; for ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s.” Those who will go forth to the work under
God’s direction will be wonderfully blessed. Those who in this life do
their best will obtain a fitness for the future, immortal life.
The Lord calls upon those connected with our sanitariums, pub-
lishing houses, and schools to teach the youth to do evangelistic work.
Our time and energy must not be so largely employed in establishing
sanitariums, food stores, and restaurants that other lines of work will
be neglected. Young men and young women who should be engaged
in the ministry, in Bible work, and in the canvassing work should not
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be bound down to mechanical employment.
The youth should be encouraged to attend our training schools
for Christian workers, which should become more and more like the
schools of the prophets. These institutions have been established by
the Lord, and if they are conducted in harmony with His purpose,
the youth sent to them will quickly be prepared to engage in various
lines of missionary work. Some will be trained to enter the field as
missionary nurses, some as canvassers, and some as gospel ministers.
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