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Temperance
and open the way for us to unite with them in the temperance work.
If we do this, we shall come to see that the temperance question
means more than many of us have supposed.
In some matters, the workers of the W.C.T.U. are far in advance
of our leaders. The Lord has in that organization precious souls, who
can be a great help to us in our efforts to advance the temperance
movement. And the education our people have had in Bible truth
and in a knowledge of the requirements of the law of Jehovah, will
enable our sisters to impart to these noble temperance advocates
that which will be for their spiritual welfare. Thus a union and
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sympathy will be created where in the past there has sometimes
existed prejudice and misunderstanding....
We cannot do a better work than to unite, so far as we can do so
without compromise, with the W.C.T.U. workers.
Concerning this matter I wrote to one of our sisters in 1898:
“The Lord, I fully believe, is leading you that you may keep
the principles of temperance clear and distinct, in all their purity, in
connection with the truth for these last days. They that do His will
shall know of the doctrine.... The Lord does not bid you separate
from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. They need all the
light you can give them. Flash all the light possible into their path-
way. You can agree with them on the ground of the pure, elevating
principles that first brought into existence the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union. The Lord has given you capabilities and talents
to be preserved uncorrupted in their simplicity. Through Jesus Christ
you may do a good work.—
The Review and Herald, October 15,
1914
. (Part used in
Gospel Workers, 384, 385
.)
They to Teach Our Women How to Work
—Much good would
be done if some of the W.T.C.U women were invited to our camp
meetings to take part in the meetings by teaching our sisters how
to work. While at the meeting they would be hearing and receiving
as well as imparting. There is a great work to be done, and instead
of presenting the features of our faith which are objectionable to
unbelievers, let us say to them as Philip said to Nathanael, “Come
and see.”
We Cannot Unite With Them in Exalting Sunday
—I want to
unite with the W.C.T.U. workers, but we cannot unite with them in
a work of exalting a false Sabbath. We cannot work in lines that