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doing what they can to redeem outcasts and bring them where they will
be under the care of the churches. But the Lord has not called Seventh-
day Adventists to make this work a specialty. He would not have them
in this work engross many workers or exhaust the treasury by erecting
institutions for the care of outcasts, thus hindering the work of foreign
missions. God calls for one hundred missionaries where there is now
one. These are to go forth to foreign countries.—
Manuscript Releases
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Self-supporting missionaries needed—A great work is going
silently on through the distribution of our publications; but what a
great amount of good might be done if some of our brethren and sisters
from America would come to these colonies, as fruit growers, farmers,
or merchants, and in the fear and love of God, would seek to win souls
to the truth. If such families were consecrated to God, He would use
them as His agents. Ministers have their place and their work, but
there are scores that the minister cannot reach, who might be reached
by families who could visit with the people and impress upon them
the truth for these last days. In their domestic or business relations
they could come in contact with a class who are inaccessible to the
minister, and they could open to them the treasures of the truth, and
impart to them a knowledge of salvation. There is altogether too little
done in this line of missionary work; or the field is large, and many
workers could labor with success in this line of effort.—
Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 212
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