view and Herald, August 26, 1902.
The Best Help Ministers Can Give.—The best help that ministers can give the members of our
churches is not sermonizing but planning work for them. Give each one something to do for others....
If set to work, the despondent will soon forget their despondency; the weak will become strong; the
ignorant, intelligent; and all will be prepared to present the truth as it is in Jesus.—Testimonies for the
Church 9:82.
Everyone who is added to the ranks by conversion is to be assigned his post of duty. Everyone
should be willing to be or to do anything in this warfare.—Testimonies for the Church 7:30.
Let All Cooperate.—There has been so much preaching to our churches that they have almost
ceased to appreciate the gospel ministry. The time has come when this order of things should be
changed. Let the minister call out the individual church members to help him by house-to-house
work in carrying the truth into regions beyond. Let all cooperate with the heavenly intelligences in
communicating truth to others.—The Review and Herald, June 11, 1895.
All United to Finish the Work.—Those who have the spiritual oversight of the church should
devise ways and means by which an opportunity may be given to every member of the church to act
some part in God’s work. Too often in the past this has not been done. Plans have not been clearly laid
and fully carried out whereby the talents of all might be employed in active service. There are but few
who realize how much has been lost because of this.
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The leaders in God’s cause, as wise generals, are to lay plans for advance moves all along the
line. In their planning they are to give special study to the work that can be done by the laity for their
friends and neighbors. The work of God in this earth can never be finished until the men and women
comprising our church membership rally to the work and unite their efforts with those of ministers and
church officers.—Testimonies for the Church 9:116, 117.
Christ Can Be Represented in All Lawful Callings.—All should be taught how to work.
Especially should those who are newly come to the faith be educated to become laborers together
with God. If this duty is neglected, the work of the minister is incomplete.
But God does not want His people to hang their weight upon the ministers. As a steward of the
grace of God, every church member should feel an individual responsibility to have life and root in
himself. All who are ordained unto the life of Christ are ordained to work for the salvation of their
fellow men. He who loves God supremely and his neighbor as himself cannot rest content with doing
nothing.
Did the professed believers in the truth live the truth, they would today all be missionaries. Some
would be working in the islands of the sea; some, in the different countries of the world. Some
would be serving Christ as home missionaries. Not all are called upon to go abroad. Some may be
successful in business lines, and in this work they may represent Christ. They may show to the world
that business may be conducted on righteous principles, in strict fidelity to the truth. There may be
Christian lawyers, Christian physicians, Christian merchants. Christ may be represented in all lawful
callings.—Manuscript 19, 1900.
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Example of a Faithful Church.—Sabbath morning, November 10, 1900, we entered the San
Francisco church, and found it crowded to its utmost capacity. As I stood before the people I thought of
the dream and the instruction which had been given me so many years ago, and I was much encouraged.
Looking at the people assembled, I felt that I could indeed say, “The Lord has fulfilled His word.”
During the past few years the “beehive” [Reference is here made to a revelation in 1876 when the
activities of the then relatively new churches in San Francisco and Oakland were represented as two
beehives.] in san francisco has been indeed a busy one. Many lines of Christian effort have been
carried forward by our brethren and sisters there. These included visiting the sick and destitute, finding
homes for orphans and work for the unemployed, nursing the sick, and teaching the truth from house
to house, distributing literature, and conducting classes on healthful living and the care of the sick. A
school for the children has been conducted in the basement of the Laguna Street meetinghouse. For a
time a workingmen’s home and medical mission was maintained. On Market Street, near the city hall,
there were treatment rooms, operated as a branch of the St. Helena Sanitarium. In the same locality
was a health-food store. Nearer the center of the city, not far from the call building, was conducted a
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vegetarian cafe, which was open six days in the week and entirely closed on the Sabbath. Along the
water front ship mission work was carried on. At various times our ministers conducted meetings in
large halls in the city. Thus the wa
