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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
at Battle Creek. It is a fact that the truth of heaven has come to the
notice of thousands through the influence of the sanitarium, yet there
is a work to be done that has been neglected. We are encouraged as
we see the work that is being done in Chicago, and in a few other
places. But years ago the large responsibility that is centered in
Battle Creek should have been distributed.
The people are encouraged to center in Battle Creek, and they
pay their tithe and give their influence to the building up of a modern
Jerusalem that is not after God’s order. In this work other places are
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cut off from facilities which they should have. Enlarge ye, spread,
yes; but not in one place. Go out and establish centers of influence
in places where nothing, or next to nothing, has been done. Break
up your consolidated mass; diffuse the saving beams of light and
shed light into the darkened corners of the earth. A work needs to
be done something like that which is described as an eagle stirring
up her nest. “Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath
settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in
him, and his scent is not changed.” This is true of many Christians
who are coming into Battle Creek. Many have a spasmodic zeal, but
it is like a meteor that flashes across the heavens and goes out.
Let God’s own workmen who have His cause at heart do some-
thing for the Southern field. Let not God’s stewards be content with
just touching it with their fingers’ ends. Let those at the heart of the
work plan for the field in earnest. You have talked about it; but what
are you doing as the stewards of God’s means?
Has God given us a work to do? Has God bidden us to go amid
opposing influences and convert men from error to truth? Why have
not the men and women who have so frequently gathered to the large
assemblies in Battle Creek put into practice the truth which they
have heard? If they had imparted the light which they had received,
what a transformation of character we would have seen! For every
grace imparted God would have given grace. The work that has
been done for them has not been prized as it should have been, or
they would have gone forth into the darkened places of the earth
and shed abroad the light which God has shed upon them. They
would have given to the world the message of the righteousness of
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Christ through faith, and their own light would have become clearer