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A Wonderful Agency
The press is a wonderful means to move the minds and hearts of
the people. The men of the world seize the press and make the most
of every opportunity to get poisonous literature before the people. If
men under the influence of the spirit of the world and of Satan, are
earnest to circulate books, tracts, and papers of a corrupting nature,
you should be more earnest to get reading-matter of an elevating and
saving character before the people.
God has placed at the command of His people advantages in the
press, which, combined with other agencies, will be successful in
extending the knowledge of the truth. Tracts, papers, and books, as
the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in
the land. Here is missionary work for all to engage in.
There should be men trained for this branch of the work who will
be missionaries and will circulate publications. They should be men
of good address, who will not repulse others, or be repulsed. This
is a work which would warrant men in giving their whole time and
energies as the occasion demands. God has committed to His people
great light. This is not for them to selfishly enjoy alone, but to let its
rays shine forth to others who are in the darkness of error.
Very much more can be accomplished by the living preacher with
the circulation of papers and tracts than by the preaching of the word
alone without the publications. The press is a powerful instrumentality,
which God has ordained to be combined with the energies of the living
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preacher to bring the truth before all nations, kindreds, tongues, and
peoples.
All to Take Part
God expects personal service from every one to whom He has
entrusted a knowledge of the truth for this time. Not all can go as
missionaries to foreign lands, but all can be home missionaries in their
families and neighborhoods. In the closing controversy now waging
between the forces for good and the hosts of evil, He expects all,
laymen as well as ministers, to take part. All who have enlisted as His
soldiers are to render faithful service as minutemen, with a keen sense
of the responsibility resting upon them individually.