Chapter 17—Women Called to the Work
The Dorcas Movement Today—There certainly should be a
larger number of women engaged in the work of ministering to suf-
fering humanity, uplifting, educating them how to believe—simply to
believe, in Jesus Christ our Saviour. And as souls give themselves to
the Lord Jesus, making an entire surrender, they will understand the
doctrine....
I am pained because our sisters in America are not more of them
doing the work they might do for the Lord Jesus. Abiding in Christ,
they would receive courage and strength and faith for the work. Many
women love to talk. Why Can’t they talk the words of Christ to
perishing souls? The more closely we are related to Christ, the heart
learns the wretchedness of souls that do not know God, and who do
not feel the dishonor they are doing to Christ who has bought them
with a price.
When the believing women shall feel the burden of souls, and
burden of sins not their own, they will be working as Christ worked.
They will consider no sacrifice too great to make to win souls to Christ.
And everyone who has this love for souls, is born of God; they are
ready to follow in His footsteps, and their words and voice would be
talents employed in the Master’s service; the very nourishment coming
from the parent stock to their own souls would flow out in distinct
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channels of love to souls who are withered and dried up.
In this work is a constant education. The desire to be a blessing
discovers the weakness and inefficiency of the worker. This drives the
soul to God in prayer, and the Lord Jesus gives light and His Holy
Spirit, and they understand that it is Christ who does the melting and
breaking of the hard hearts.—
Letter 133, 1898
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The Value of Organization—The work you [
Addressed to a
woman of broad public experience who had joined the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
] are doing to help our sisters feel their individual
accountability to God is a good and necessary work. Long has it been
neglected. But when this work is laid out in clear, simple, definite
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