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Daughters of God
There are very many precious souls whom the Lord would have
reached by the light of truth. Labor is to be put forth to help them
to understand the Scriptures. I have felt an intense interest in the
WCTU workers. These heroic women know what it means to have an
individuality of their own. I desire so much that they shall triumph
with the redeemed around the great white throne. My prayers shall be
in your behalf that you may be given special opportunities to attend
their large gatherings, and that your voice may be heard in defense of
the truth.
I dare not give you advice in this important matter. You are on the
ground and Christ is on the ground. Be assured that He will work with
you and through you and by you.
It ought to be a great encouragement to you in your work to think
of the compassion and tender love of God for those who are seeking
and praying for light. We should hold convocations for prayer to ask
the Lord to open the way that the truth may enter the stronghold where
Satan has set up his throne, and dispel the shadow which he has cast
athwart the pathway of those he is seeking to deceive and to destroy.
We have the promise or rather, the assurance, “The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”—
Loma Linda Messages,
234
(from
Letter 231, 1899
; written December 1899).
The work you are doing to help our sisters feel their individual
accountability to God is a good and necessary work. Long has it been
neglected; but when this work has been laid out in clear lines, simple
and definite, we may expect that the essential duties of the home,
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instead of being neglected, will be done much more intelligently. The
Lord would ever have us urge upon those who do not understand, the
worth of the human soul....
Christ our Saviour appreciated the excellency of the soul. Our
sisters have generally a very hard time, with their increasing families
and their unappreciated trials. I have so longed for women who could
be educators to help them to arise from their discouragement, and to
feel that they could do a work for the Lord. And this effort is bringing
rays of sunshine into their lives, and is being reflected upon the hearts
of others. God will bless you, and all who shall unite with you, in this
grand work....
If we can, my sister, we should speak often to our sisters, and lead
them in the place of saying “Go.” Lead them to do as we should do—to