Chapter 5—Influence of Our Publications
I have been shown that our publications should be printed in differ-
ent languages and sent to every civilized country, at any cost. What is
the value of money at this time, in comparison with the value of souls?
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I have been shown that the press is powerful for good or evil. This
agency can reach and influence the public mind as no other means
can. The press, controlled by men who are sanctified to God, can be a
power indeed for good in bringing men to the knowledge of the truth
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In Other Lands
I have been shown that the publications already have been doing a
work upon some minds in other countries, in breaking down the walls
of prejudice and superstition. I was shown men and women studying
with intense interest papers and a few pages of tracts upon present
truth. They would read the evidences so wonderful and new to them,
and would open their Bibles with a deep and new interest, as subjects
of truth that had been dark to them were made plain, especially the
light in regard to the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. As they
searched the Scriptures to see if these things were so, a new light shone
upon their understanding, for angels were hovering over them, and
impressing their minds with the truths contained in the publications
they had been reading.
Searching with Prayer and Tears
I saw them holding papers and tracts in one hand, and the Bible in
the other, while their cheeks were wet with tears; and bowing before
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God in earnest, humble prayer, to be guided into all truth—the very
thing He was doing for them before they called upon Him. And when
the truth was received in their hearts, and they saw the harmonious
chain of truth, the Bible was to them a new book; they hugged it to
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