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the world, what a wonderful work would be done! A thousand times
more work for God might be accomplished if all His children would
fully consecrate themselves to Him, using their talents aright.—
The
Review and Herald, May 24, 1906
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Bible Storybooks and Daniel and Revelation—It is several
years since light was given me in regard to the need of publishing
small books containing Bible stories and others containing some part
of the Bible printed as a whole. It pains me to see so many magazines
in the homes of the people. Those who cultivate an appetite for such
reading do themselves great harm. Can we not provide something
better for them?
The books of Daniel and the Revelation should be bound together
and published. A few explanations of certain portions might be added,
but I am not sure that these would be needed.
This is the suggestion that I made to Elder Haskell, which resulted
in the book that he published. [
The book referred to was Stephen
N. Haskell’s The Story of Daniel the Prophet, Published in 1901. A
few years later The Story of the Seer of Patmos was published.
] The
need is not filled by this book. It was my idea to have the two books
bound together, Revelation following Daniel, as giving fuller light on
the subjects dealt with in Daniel. The object is to bring these books
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together, showing that they both relate to the same subjects.—
Letter 1,
1903
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Books Filled With the Truth of God—We need many more can-
vassers, not to sell books containing fables, but books that are filled
with the truth of God. We cannot as a people afford to increase the
circulation of publications that work counter to the truth we should be
teaching. We cannot afford to spend our time and talents in the employ
of men who are working to make of none effect the truths that have
made us a peculiar people, truths to which we have held for over fifty
years. I am often warned of the importance of faithfulness on the part
of our people in proclaiming to the world the messages that God has
entrusted to them, that a people may be prepared for the great closing
up of this earth’s history. We have an extensive line of literature that
should come before the people of the world.
The time has come when our people should understand that it is
not profitable for them to spend their time and talents in selling the
medical work into which the author is weaving dangerous spiritual