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members in many places have daily met with strangers—tourists, men
and women of means and influence—and yet such opportunities as
these for circulating Christ’s Object Lessons and Ministry of Heal-
ing have been allowed to pass by unimproved. Many honesthearted
persons who could have been reached by diligent, wholehearted ef-
fort have not been given the light of the third angel’s message.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:83, 84
.(See
Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 521-524
.)
Can Provide Aid for Sanitariums and Schools—God desired
that the sale of Christ’s Object Lessons 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 treasuries, and more money in the hands of God’s servants,
with which 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.
In the cities within easy reach of our sanitariums and training
schools a mission field is open to us that we have as yet only touched
with the tips of our fingers. In some of these places, a good beginning
has been made. But 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 might
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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
than we now have to carry the work in the way the Lord designed that
it should be carried.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:80
.
Sale of Christ’s Object Lessons to Assist Schools—The sugges-
tion has come from our canvassers that after the Relief of the Schools
Campaign is finished, Christ’s Object Lessons be made a subscription
book. They are sure that it would have a large sale all over the world.
When Willie [
“Willie” was Ellen White’s third son and for years
after the death of James White (in 1881), her closest helper and coun-
selor.
] told me of this suggestion, the thought at once came into my
mind that the plan suggested might perhaps be best. If it were carried
out, my royalty on the copies sold would help to settle my debts.