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field for the sale of “Object Lessons”? If with earnestness and faith
they will work out the plan that has been given us for the use of this
book, angels of God will attend their steps, and the blessing of heaven
will be upon their efforts.
It would have been an excellent thing if the teachers of the San
Fernando School had, during the vacation, availed themselves of this
opportunity to push the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” They
would have found a blessing in going out with the students and teaching
them how to meet the people, and how to introduce the book. The
story of the gift of the book and its object would lead some to have a
special interest in the book and in the school for which it is sold.
Why have not the teachers in our schools done more of this work?
If our people would only realize it, there is no more acceptable work
to be done in the home field than to engage in the sale of “Object
Lessons”; for while they are thus helping to carry out the Lord’s plan
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for the relief of our schools, they are also bringing the precious truths
of the word of God to the attention of the people.
The indifference that has been manifested by some toward this
enterprise is displeasing to God. He desires that it shall be recognized
by all our people as His method of relieving our schools from debt.
It is because this plan has been neglected that we now feel so keenly
our lack of means for the advancing work. Had the schools availed
themselves of the provision thus made for them, there would be more
money in the school treasury, and more money in the hands of His
people, to relieve the necessities of other needy departments of the
cause, and, best of all, teachers and students would have received the
very lessons that they needed to learn in the Master’s service.
I send you these lines because I see that there is need of a deeper
intuition, a wider perception, on the part of our medical and educational
workers, if they would get all the benefit that God intends shall come to
them through the use of “Object Lessons” and “Ministry of Healing.”
I ask you, my brethren, to read these words to our people, that they
may learn to show the spirit of wisdom, and of power, and of a sound
mind.—
The Review and Herald, September 3, 1908
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