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Co-operating With the W.C.T.U.
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would mean the transgression of the law of God, but we say to them,
Come on to the right platform.—
Manuscript 93, 1908
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Never Refuse Invitations to Speak
—The question has been
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asked me, When asked by the W.C.T.U. to speak in their meetings,
shall we accept the invitation?
In answer, I reply, When asked to speak in such meetings, never
refuse. This is the rule that I have always followed. When asked to
speak on temperance, I have never hesitated. Among those who are
working for the spread of temperance, the Lord has souls to whom
the truth for this time is to be presented. We are to bear a message
to the W.C.T.U.
Christ’s one purpose when upon this earth was to reflect the light
of His righteousness to those in darkness. The W.C.T.U. workers
have not the whole truth on all points, but they are doing a good
work.—
Manuscript 31, 1911
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Free to Act in Concert With Them
—I am deeply interested in
the W.C.T.U. It is the Lord’s pleasure that you should feel free to
act in concert with them.... I am not afraid that you will lose your
interest, or backslide from the truth because you interest yourself in
this people who have taken such a noble stand for the temperance
question, and I shall urge our people, and those not of our faith, to
help us in carrying forward the work of Christian temperance
In our labors together, my husband and I always felt that it was
our duty to demonstrate in every place where we held meetings
that we were fully in harmony with the workers in the temperance
cause. We always laid this question before the people in plain lines.
Invitations would come to us to speak in different places on the
temperance question, and I always accepted these invitations if it
was possible. This has been my experience not only in this country,
but in Europe and Australia, and other places where I have labored.
Lose Not One Opportunity to Unite With Temperance
Work
—I am sorry that there has not been a more lively interest
among our people of late years to magnify this branch of the Lord’s
work. We cannot afford to lose one opportunity to unite with the
temperance work in any place. Although the cause of temperance in
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foreign countries does not always advance as rapidly as we could
wish, yet in some places decided success has attended the efforts
of those who engaged in it. In Europe we found the people sound