Plants Needed in Many Places
Christ embraced the world in His missionary work, and the Lord
has shown me by revelation that it is not His plan for large centers
to be made, for large institutions to be established, and for the funds
of our people in all parts of the world to be exhausted in the support
of a few large institutions, when the necessities of the times call for
something to be done, as Providence opens the way, in many places.
Plants should be established in various places all over the world. First
one, and then another part of the vineyard is to be entered, until all
has been cultivated. Efforts are to be put forth wherever the need is
greatest. But we cannot carry on this aggressive warfare and at the
same time make an extravagant outlay of means in a few places.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium is too large. A great many workers
will be required to care for the patients who come. A tenth of the
number of patients who come to that institution is as many as can
be cared for with the best results in one medical missionary center.
Centers should be made in all the cities that are unacquainted with the
great work that the Lord would have done to warn the world that the
end of all things is at hand. “There is too much,” said the Great Teacher,
“in one place.”—
Testimonies for the Church 8:204, 205
(1903).
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