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great, and He will show you a way out of them all. He alone can know
how to give the very help you need.
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And when, after a trying season, help comes to you, when the
Spirit of God is manifestly at work for you, what a precious experience
you gain! You are obtaining faith and love, the gold that the True
Witness counsels you to buy of Him. You are learning to go to God in
all your troubles; and as you learn these precious lessons of faith, you
will teach the same to others. Thus you may be continually leading
the people to a higher plane of experience.
The president of a State conference is, by his manner of dealing,
educating the ministers under him, and together they can so educate
the churches that it will not be necessary to call the ministers of the
conference from the field to settle difficulties and dissensions in the
church. If the officers in the conference will, as faithful servants,
perform their Heaven-appointed duties, the work in our conferences
will not be left to become entangled in such perplexities as heretofore.
And in laboring thus, the workers will become solid, responsible men,
who will not fail nor be discouraged in a hard place.
There is One who is mighty to save to the uttermost all who come
unto Him. Is not the promise broad and full, “Come unto Me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”? [
Matthew
11:28
.] Why are we so unwilling to come directly to the Source of our
strength? Have we not departed from the Lord in this? Should not our
ministers and the presidents of our conferences learn whence cometh
their help?...
A Change of Laborers
The question is asked me if it is not a mistake to remove the
president of a State conference to a new field when many of the people
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under his present charge are unwilling to give him up.
The Lord has been pleased to give me light on this question. I
have been shown that ministers should not be retained in the same
district year after year, nor should the same man long preside over a
conference. A change of gifts is for the good of our conferences and
churches.
Ministers have sometimes felt unwilling to change their field of
labor; but if they understood all the reasons for making changes, they