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the work forward successfully. It was God’s purpose that by the sale
of “Ministry of Healing” and “Christ’s Object Lessons” much means
should be raised for the work of our sanitariums and schools, and that
our people would thereby be left more free to donate of their means
for the opening of the work in new missionary fields. If our people
will now engage in the sale of these books as they ought, we shall have
much more means to carry the work in the way the Lord designed.
Wherever the work of selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” has been
taken hold of in earnest, the book has done good. And the lessons that
have been learned by those who have engaged in this work, have well
repaid their efforts. And now our people should all be encouraged to
take part in this special missionary effort. Light has been given me
that in every possible way instruction should be given to our people as
to the best methods of presenting these books to the people.
I have been instructed that at our large gatherings, workers should
be present who will teach our people how to sow the seeds of truth.
This means more than instructing them how to sell the Signs of the
Times and other periodicals. It includes thorough instruction in how
to handle such books as “Christ’s Object Lessons” and “Ministry of
Healing.” These are books which contain precious truths, and from
which the reader can draw lessons of highest value.
Why was not some one appointed at your camp-meeting [in 1907]
to present the interests of this line of work to our people? In your failure
to do this, you lost a precious opportunity to place large blessings
within the reach of the people, and you also lost an opportunity of
raising means for the relief of our institutions. My brethren, let us
encourage our people to take up this work without further delay.
There are some who have had experience in the sale of health foods
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who should now interest themselves in the sale of our precious books;
for in them is food unto eternal life. Los Angeles has been presented
to me as a very fruitful field for the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons”
and “Ministry of Healing.” The thousands of transient residents and
visitors would be benefited by the lessons they contain, and those who
bear responsibilities in our sanitariums should act wisely in this matter,
encouraging all, nurses, helpers, and students, to gather by this means
as much as possible of the money required to meet the expenses of the
different institutions.