The Evangelistic Site
“Study Your Location”—Enter the large cities, and create an
interest among the high and the low. Make it your work to preach
the gospel to the poor, but do not stop there. Seek to reach the higher
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classes also. Study your location with a view to letting your light
shine forth to others. This work should have been done long since.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 400
(1896).
Work in Halls—Let halls be hired, and let the message be given
with such power that the hearers will be convinced. God will raise up
workers who will occupy peculiar spheres of influence, workers who
will carry the truth to the most unpromising places.—
Manuscript 127,
1901
.
Large Halls in Our Cities—The large halls in our cities should be
secured, that the third angel’s message may be proclaimed by human
lips. Thousands will appreciate the message.—
Letter 35, 1895
.
The Most Popular Halls—It requires money to carry the message
of warning to the cities. It is sometimes necessary to hire at large
expense the most popular halls, in order that we may call the people
out. Then we can give them Bible evidence of the truth.—
Manuscript
114, 1905
.
Begin Cautiously—I have been and still am instructed regarding
the necessities required for the work in the cities. We must quietly
secure buildings, without defining all we intend to do. We must use
great wisdom in what we say, lest our way be hedged up. Lucifer is an
ingenious worker, drawing from our people all possible knowledge,
that he may, if possible, defeat the plans laid to arouse our cities. On
some points silence is eloquence.—
Letter 84, 1910
.
Lease Good Halls—In some places the work must begin in a
small way, and advance slowly. This is all that the laborers can do.
But in many cases a wider and more decided effort might be made
at the outset, with good results. The work in _____ might now be
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much further advanced than it is if our brethren, at the beginning of
the work there, had not tried to work in so cheap a way. If they had
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