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claimed during the 1844 movement. To us, as God’s servants, has
been entrusted the third angel’s message, the binding-off message,
that is to prepare a people for the coming of the King. We are to
make every effort to give a knowledge of the truth to all who will
hear, and there are many who will listen. All through the large cities
God has honest souls who are interested in what is truth.
Time is short; the Lord desires that everything connected with
His cause shall be brought into order. He desires that the solemn
message of warning and of invitation shall be proclaimed as widely
as His messengers can carry it. Nothing that would hinder the
advance of the message is to be allowed to come into our plans.
“Repeat the message, repeat the message,” were the words spoken
to me over and over again. “Tell My people to repeat the message
in the places where it was first preached, and where church after
church took their position for the truth, the power of God witnessing
to the message in a remarkable manner.”
For years the pioneers of our work struggled against poverty and
manifold hardships in order to place the cause of present truth on
vantage ground. With meager facilities, they labored untiringly, and
the Lord blessed their humble efforts. The message went with power
in the East and extended westward until centers of influence had been
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established in many places. The laborers of today may not have to
endure all the hardships of those early days. The changed conditions,
however, should not lead to any slackening of effort. Now, when
the Lord bids us proclaim the message once more with power in
the East, when He bids us enter the cities of the East and of the
South and of the West and of the North, shall we not respond as one
man and do His bidding? Shall we not plan to send our messengers
all through these fields and support them liberally? Shall not the
ministers of God go into these crowded centers and there lift up their
voices in warning the multitudes? What are our conferences for, if
not for the carrying forward of this very work?
A beginning has been made in proclaiming the third angel’s
message in the city of Washington and in other cities of the South
and the East; but in order to meet the mind of the Lord, we shall have
to plan for the carrying forward of a far-reaching and systematic
work. We must enter into this work with a perseverance that will