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efited themselves nor benefit others. If there are men who can take
up the work for the most degraded, if God lays upon them a burden
to labor for the masses in various ways, let these go forth and gather
from the world the means required for doing this work. Let them not
depend on the means which God intends shall sustain the work of the
third angel’s message.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:246
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Nations Waiting for the Light—To those who suppose that the
Lord has given them the work of caring for the promiscuous mass of
outcasts, who have ruined themselves, many of whom will continue
to do as they have done in the past, at the same time subsisting on
means given them by Seventh-day Adventists, the Lord says, Who
gave you this work? There are peoples and nations yet to receive the
light of truth for this time. The gospel message is to be exalted and is
to become far reaching.
In every place where the message is proclaimed, missionary work-
ers are to go forth with their Bibles in their hands. Souls are to be
converted and established in the truth. A meetinghouse is to be built.
Light is to shine forth from the believers, who are to be as a city set on
a hill. The church is to be in that place a witness to what the truth can
do.—
Letter 41, 1900
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