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Welfare Ministry
Union.... Get the oil of grace in the conscious and unconscious influ-
ence of words spoken, revealing the fact that you have the light of life
to shine forth to others in a direct, positive testimony upon subjects
where you can all agree, and this will leave a telling influence. My
heart is with your heart in this work of temperance. I speak upon
this subject most decidedly, and it has a decided influence upon other
minds.—
Manuscript 74, 1898
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Doing Missionary Work Without Neglecting Home Duties—
Intelligent Christian women may use their talents to the very highest
account. They can show by their life of self-denial and by their will-
ingness to work to the best of their ability that they believe the truth
and are being sanctified through it. Many need a work of this kind
to develop the powers they possess. Wives and mothers should in no
case neglect their husbands and their children, but they can do much
without neglecting home duties, and all have not these responsibilities.
Who can have so deep a love for the souls of men and women for
whom Christ died as those who are partakers of His grace? Who can
better represent the religion of Christ than Christian women, women
who are earnestly laboring to bring souls to the light of truth? Who
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else is so well adapted to the work of the Sabbath school? The true
mother is the true, teacher of children. If with a heart imbued with the
love of Christ, she teaches the children of her class, praying with them
and for them, she may see souls converted and gathered into the fold of
Christ. I do not recommend that woman should seek to become a voter
or officeholder; but as a missionary, teaching the truth by epistolary
correspondence, distributing reading matter, conversing with families
and praying with the mother and children, she may do much and be a
blessing.—
The Signs of the Times, September 16, 1886
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Women Not Excused Because of Domestic Cares—Some can
do more than others, but all can do something. Women should not feel
that they are excused because of their domestic cares. They should
become intelligent as to how they can work most successfully and
methodically in bringing souls to Christ. If all would realize the
importance of doing to the utmost of their ability in the work of God,
having a deep love for souls, feeling the burden of the work upon them,
hundreds would be engaged as active workers who have hitherto been
dull and uninterested, accomplishing nothing, or at most but very little.