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Words of Counsel to Ministers
Sanitarium, California,
November 3, 1901
To a Worker of Long Experience in New York City—
As I have considered the situation in New York, a great burden
has come upon my soul. In the night season matters have been
presented to me in this light: New York will be worked; openings
will be found in parts of the city in which there are no churches,
where the truth will find standing room. There is a vast amount
of work to be done in proclaiming the truth for this time to those
who are dead in trespasses and sins. Most startling messages will
be borne by men of God’s appointment, messages of a character to
warn the people, to arouse them. And while some will be provoked
by the warning and led to resist light and evidence, we are to see
from this that we are giving the testing message for this time.
Messages will be given out of the usual order. The judgments of
God are in the land. While city missions must be established where
colporteurs, Bible workers, and practical medical missionaries may
be trained to reach certain classes, we must also have, in our cities,
consecrated evangelists through whom a message is to be borne so
decidedly as to startle the hearers.
“Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that
have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show
us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they
may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. Ye are My
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witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen: that
ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before
Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me. I, even
I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no savior. I have declared,
and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange God
among you: therefore ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am
God. Yea, before the day was I am He; and there is none that can
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