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There is enough to do in this busy world of ours. There are enough
in God’s great family who need sympathy and aid. If our own work
does not demand our time, there are sick to be visited, the poor to be
helped and encouraged.—
The Health Reformer, June, 1873
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A Unique Place for Women in the Work—There is a wide field
in which our sisters may do good service for the Master in the various
branches of the work connected with His cause. Through missionary
labor they can reach a class that our ministers cannot.... There is work
neglected or done imperfectly that could be thoroughly accomplished
by the help that sisters can give. There are so many kinds of work too
laborious for women, which our brethren are called to engage in, that
many branches of missionary work are neglected. Many things con-
nected with different churches are left undone that women, if properly
instructed, could attend to. Our sisters might serve as church clerks,
and the church business would not be so sadly neglected. There are
many other offices connected with the cause of God which our sisters
are better qualified to fill than our brethren, and in which they might
do efficient service.—
The Review and Herald, December 19, 1878
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Missionary Correspondence—Women can do good work in the
missionary field, by writing to friends, and learning their true feelings
in relation to the cause of God. Very valuable items are brought to light
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through this means. The workers should not seek for self-exaltation,
but to present the truth in its simplicity wherever they shall have an
opportunity.—
The Signs of the Times, September 16, 1886
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God’s Claim Upon Our Time and Money—We have no right,
my Christian sisters, to waste our time, and give example to others who
are less able than we to waste their time and energies upon needless
ornaments, upon dress or furniture, or to indulge in superfluities in
food. We have religious duties to perform, and if we neglect these
duties, and give our time to needless things, we will dwarf the intellect
and separate the affections from God. The Author of our existence
has claims upon our time and our money. He has poor and suffering
ones all around us that money may relieve, and cheering, encouraging
words bless. Christ identifies Himself with the wants of suffering
humanity. As you neglected to visit the widow and orphans tried in the
furnace of affliction, suffering want and privation, you did not realize
that Christ would mark the circumstances against you in the book of