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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
to establish new centers of influence wherever an opening can be
found. Rally workers who possess true missionary zeal, and let them
go forth to diffuse light and knowledge far and near. Let them take
the living principles of health reform into the communities that to a
large degree are ignorant of these principles.
Men in humble walks of life are to be encouraged to take up the
work of God. As they labor they will gain a precious experience.
There is a dearth of laborers, and we have not one to spare. Instead
of discouraging those who are trying to serve the Master, we should
encourage many more laborers to enter the field.
Joyous Service
All who commune with God will find abundance of work to do
for Him. Those who go forth in the spirit of the Master, seeking to
reach souls with the truth, will not find the work of drawing souls
to Christ a dull, uninteresting drudgery. They are charged with a
work as God’s husbandmen, and they will become more and more
vitalized as they give themselves to the service of God. It is a joyous
work to open the Scriptures to others.
Young men and women should be educated to become workers
in their own neighborhoods and in other places. Let all set their
hearts and minds to become intelligent in regard to the work for
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this time, qualifying themselves to do that for which they are best
adapted.
Many young men who have had the right kind of education
at home are to be trained for service and encouraged to lift the
standard of truth in new places by well-planned and faithful work.
By associating with our ministers and experienced workers in city
work, they will gain the best kind of training. Acting under divine
guidance and sustained by the prayers of their more experienced
fellow workers, they may do a good and blessed work. As they unite
their labors with those of the older workers, using their youthful
energies to the very best account, they will have the companionship
of heavenly angels; and as workers together with God, it is their
privilege to sing and pray and believe, and work with courage and
freedom. The confidence and trust that the presence of heavenly