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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
active interest in the work of placing these books in the hands of the
multitudes who are in need of the saving truths of the gospel.
The opportunity we have of doing good by striving to carry out
the Lord’s plan for the relief of our schools and sanitariums has
been presented to me over and over again in connection with the
Southern California Conference. The conditions there are unusually
favorable for a long-continued effort to push the sale of
Christ’s
Object Lessons
and
Ministry of Healing
. Our brethren and sisters
in Southern California should never weary of this plan for raising
money to meet the debts that have accumulated. The students of the
Fernando school, and the nurses of the three sanitariums that have
been established, can ill afford to lose the precious experiences in
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missionary work that come to those who handle the relief books.
And the conference can ill afford to lose the results, spiritual as well
as financial, that would accompany a continued effort of this sort.
But years have passed, and students who should have been gain-
ing rich experiences in actual missionary work have not been encour-
aged to launch out heartily in the sale of
Christ’s Object Lessons
.
Church members in many places have daily met with strangers,—
tourists, men and women of means and influence,—and yet such
opportunities as these for circulating
Christ’s Object Lessons
and
Ministry of Healing
have been allowed to pass by unimproved. Many
honesthearted persons who could have been reached by diligent,
wholehearted effort have not been given the light of the third angel’s
message.
Had the Lord’s plan been followed, His name would have been
glorified, and many spiritual victories would have been won. Those
having means would have been more able and willing to come up to
the help of the Lord when He was leading out in an extraordinary
manner in the establishment of strong medical missionary centers in
the vicinity of great thoroughfares of travel. Students would have
received a training that would have greatly increased their efficiency
as practical missionaries at home and abroad. Churches would have
been revived with spiritual blessings. Many would have been won to
the truth, and these would have brought into the cause their influence
and their means.
In such places as Southern California, where thousands of
tourists, many of them in search of health and strength, are con-