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in the field and to hunt up and train new workers. Let each strengthen
and build up the work as much as possible without weakening the work
of others. Let all be done in brotherly love and without selfishness.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:327, 328
(1900).
Work to Develop Symmetrically—The health reform is as
closely related to the third angel’s message as the arm to the body; but
the arm cannot take the place of the body. The proclamation of the
third angel’s message, the commandments of God and the testimony
of Jesus, is the burden of our work. The message is to be proclaimed
with a loud cry, and is to go to the whole world. The presentation of
health principles must be united with this message, but must not in any
case be independent of it, or in any way take the place of it.... There
must be a well-balanced, symmetrical development of the work in all
its parts.... I would have the health books occupy their proper place;
but they are only one of many lines in the great work to be done. The
Lord has sent His message to the world in books that contain the truth
for the last days.
Canvassers should not be taught that one book or one class of
books is to occupy the field, to the neglect of all others. Among the
workers are always some who can be swayed in almost any direction.
Those who have charge of the canvassing work should be men of
well-balanced minds, who can discern the relation of each part of the
work to the great whole. Let them give due attention to the circulation
of health books, but not make this line so prominent as to draw men
away from other lines of vital interest.—
Letter 57, 1896
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The sale of health journals and books in no way hinders the sale of
the publications dealing with other phases of the third angel’s message.
All are to prepare the way for the Lord Jesus to come in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.—
Manuscript 113, 1901
.
Not All to Work for One Book—It has been urged as the best
policy that only one book at a time should have a place in the can-
vassing field,—that all the canvassers should work for the same book.
Could this be done, it would not be wise nor expedient. No one book
should be carried exclusively and kept before the public as if it could
supply every demand for this time. If the Lord has light for His people,
brought out in different ways in various books, who shall venture to
put up barriers so that the light shall not be diffused throughout the
world? The Lord desires our brethren to devise plans so that the light