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Daughters of God
Let us send forth men and women to labor in faith and consecration
for the giving of this last message of mercy to the world. When it is
possible let the minister and his wife go forth together. The wife can
often labor by the side of her husband, accomplishing a noble work.
She can visit the homes of the people and help the women in these
families in a way that her husband cannot....
Elder Haskell and his wife have united their labors in the Califor-
nia Conference. Conditions here demanded the capabilities of both.
Let none question the right of Sister Haskell to receive remuneration
for her work. Dr. Kress and his wife are likewise capable of uniting
in missionary effort. None would question the right of Sister Kress
to receive a salary. Laboring thus, Brother and Sister Kress can ac-
complish more than if they labored separately.—
Manuscript Releases
12:165-167 (1909)
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Injustice Done in Not Paying Women for Faithful Work—The
ministers are paid for their work, and this is well. And if the Lord
gives the wife, as well as the husband, the burden of labor, and if she
devotes her time and her strength to visiting from family to family,
opening the Scriptures to them, although the hands of ordination have
not been laid upon her, she is accomplishing a work that is in the line
of ministry. Should her labors be counted as naught, and her husband’s
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salary be no more than that of the servant of God whose wife does not
give herself to the work, but remains at home to care for her family?
While I was in America, I was given light upon this subject. I was
instructed that there are matters that need to be considered. Injustice
has been done to women who labor just as devotedly as their husbands,
and who are recognized by God as being as necessary to the work of
ministry as their husbands. The method of paying men laborers and
not their wives is a plan not after the Lord’s order. Injustice is thus
done. A mistake is made. The Lord does not favor this plan. This
arrangement, if carried out in our conference, is liable to discourage
our sisters from qualifying themselves for the work they should engage
in.
A mistake is made when the burden of the work is left entirely
upon the ministers. This plan was certainly arranged without the
mind of God. Some women are now teaching young women to work
successfully as visitors and Bible readers. Women who work in the
cause of God should be given wages proportionate to the time they