General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

THE WORK IN ENGLAND

W. W. Prescott and Mrs. E. G. White, April 19, 9 A. M.

W. W. PRESCOTT: The field is the world, and it is not my purpose in speaking of this particular portion of the field this morning to have it take the place of any other field or any other work: but it certainly seems proper, in order that we may have a general view of the work before us, that those who have worked in the different fields should present some of the special needs of their different fields, and speak of the special circumstances which distinguish one part of the field from another. I shall therefore speak of some points regarding the work in England which may call for our attention and help. GCB April 22, 1901, page 393.9

The first point is the large number of people in a limited area, which makes the work almost wholly city work. A city which has not five hundred thousand people is hardly noticed as one of the cities of England. Remember that there are in London at the present time nearly six million people. I remember that in the meetings here one brother spoke of the needs of his Conference and said there it numbered three million seven hundred thousand souls. This would be about two thirds of the number of people in London alone. Then think of how very short a distance one must travel in England in order to reach large centers of population. Travel north from London, and you have only to go one hundred and thirteen miles to reach Birmingham, with a population of five hundred thousand. Go ninety miles northwest, and you come to Liverpool, with the same population, and just across the river is Birkenhead, with a population of seven hundred thousand. And just fifteen miles away is Manchester, with another five hundred thousand people I remember once travelling south to London. Part of my journey was made in the dark, and it seemed as though most of the way was through a dense city. In passing through the manufacturing towns, it almost seemed as though we were going through a forest, so thick were the chimneys of the factories against the sky. We hardly passed out of one town before we entered the suburbs of another. This made a very deep impression on my mind of the vastness of the population in that limited area, and of the work before us to reach the people. GCB April 22, 1901, page 393.10

England does not differ essentially from China and India as regards population, except in this respect. The population is of a different class. It is not saying anything new, of course, to say that England is the center of the world, and that the influences that go forth from there are felt more widely than the influences from any other part of the world. It makes no difference of what country this is said. To be able to say it of a country shows that that country is a very important center for our work and that in it influences ought to be set in operation that will work in behalf of the message. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.1

I have not time to go into details, but will simply mention facts. I find that it is almost impossible for us to realize what these facts and figures mean. It is perfectly natural for us to think of our own country as the center of the world. Our own affairs have become so magnified in our minds that it is second nature for us to think that the most influential place in the world is our own country; but before this message finishes its work. I am sure it will be apparent to all that there must be a center in England, a center in which a work shall be done that will make its influence felt in every part of the English-speaking world. There is no place on this earth which is so much the center for missionary operations among other denominations. I expect to see the time when London will be the center of the missionary operations of this message, a place from which the truth will go forth to all parts of the world, especially to the dark parts of the world. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.2

What has been done thus far? In the United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, there are forty million people, and out of this number eight hundred and ninety-two are Sabbath-keepers, so that I do not know that we could say that even a beginning has been made. Forty million people, with eight hundred and ninety-two Sabbath-keepers, and a tithe that last year amounted to two thousand and thirty-four pounds or ten thousand dollars, with donations of various kinds and offerings for special funds, and the help that has come from outside. And I may say that during the past year the help that has come from outside is this. The Foreign Mission Board has sent us six hundred dollars, and the Ohio Conference has paid the salary of one worker. If I remember correctly, that is the only help we have had, aside from what the field has raised within its own territory. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.3

With these as resources, and with no wealth among the people—those who have embraced the truth are good, earnest, faithful Christian people, but people who have not been blessed with much money—think of the problem before us, and then think of the impossibility of expecting that field to be self-supporting and carry on its work without help. Take a Conference in America, and that not a strong Conference, with less than a thousand members and ten thousand dollars tithe each year, with no wealth among its members, and set it the task of carrying this message to half the people in America, and you have a problem somewhat similar to the problem confronting the workers in England. In does not need time to show that by such a plan as this the work is held back and the coming of the Lord delayed. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.4

But we do not need to dwell upon this side of the question. We have seen that this policy can not succeed in our work, and the question is now, What shall be done, and what are the best ways of doing what is to be done. I thought I would call your attention to what has been attempted and what is being planned. And we earnestly hope that help will come to enable us to carry out these plans on a larger scale than it is possible for us to do unaided. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.5

There is no country in the world which I have visited where more interest is taken in a certain way in what is generally spoken of as food reform. And in fact in almost any reform it seems to me as though people have set apart special times to study, that they may form some society to reform. Ye can hardly think of any evil that exists, but somebody has started a society to reform it. It comes to be almost a fad to do it. With reference to the reform in eating, in general care of the health, and food reform many vegetarian societies exist thus far that they discard flesh foods, and some of them will go further and discard with that the use of eggs and milk, but that is not so generally, so far as I have found it. Scattered through England are vegetarian societies with which are connected men of wealth and influence, and the question of proper diet is studied from the light that they have. But the very thing that is lacking is the light that this message is able to supply. Wherever we have been among these societies to present the true principles of reform, and to show the basis upon which it rests, to present it as a part of the general gospel work, to present it upon a scientific basis and to show its relation, not simply to the one thing of discarding flesh food, but upon what basis flesh food should be discarded, and therefore upon what basis other harmful foods and harmful combination of foods should be discarded, we have been met with remarks like this, “Somehow you have a way of presenting these matters that takes hold of the people.” I could occupy a long time just in telling you interesting experiences in regard to this matter of food. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.6

Now it does not need so much what we would call in a general way institutions to help those who need help, because there is no country in the world where so much money is given for this purpose. There are hospitals almost without number. I remember visiting one not very long ago, and as I looked down the main corridor from which there were wings on each side, wings that in themselves would be good-sized buildings, they told me that that main corridor was nearly half a mile in length. That is only one of the hundreds in London, and then every city and every town has hospital after hospital, and special institutions of every kind. So that if one meets with an accident of any sort whatever, if he has lost an eye or lost a limb, or if he is afflicted with almost any possible disease known in the whole calendar of human infirmities, he can find a place especially devoted to healing just such a case. And if he has not one penny of money he can go in and be cared for as though he had plenty of money. He gets all the appliances, for instance, a new limb adjusted. There are institutions that will provide it if he needs a new eye put in. There is no need of our thinking that we shall try to compete with all this work. GCB April 22, 1901, page 394.7

You can hardly realize the amount of money that is given freely in these ways. I will just speak of one instance. At the time of the Queen’s Jubilee in 1897, it was proposed by the then Princess of Wales,-new Queen Alexandra, -that a dinner should be given in the city of London to the poorest of the poor merely, not to the ordinary poor people, but to the poorest of the poor in the city of London. A public fund was opened for that purpose. The fund did not seem to grow very rapidly until one morning the papers came out with the statement that one man had subscribed to that fund 25,000 pounds, or $125,000. That was one donation from one man for the purpose of supplying a dinner on one day to the poorest of the poor in one city, and that will suggest something as to how these things are handled there. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.1

It is of no use for us to try to compete with a work carried on in such a scale as this. God has his agencies in the world to do this work, but he has given us a work that will fit in, in a way that will put a new meaning upon the rest of this work, and what our people can contribute to the molding of these movements means more than all the money in England. This message,- what it has in it and what it can do for those who have money,-is worth more than money. What we need to give our attention to is just this simple thing,-to bring the message in its simplicity before the world, and God will bring the money to carry it forward. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.2

But we have not even started to make a proper representation, as it were, and something must be done to give this movement strength to attract attention, so that the way will be opened for it to go forward. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.3

With reference to the sanitarium work. If there is any place in the world where there ought to be an institution that would in itself rightly represent and properly advertise to the people the principles for which this message stands, that place is certainly England. I am not saying that such institutions are not needed in other places; but everything that can be said to emphasize the need of them in other places, can be applied with fourfold emphasis to England. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.4

We made a very slight start two years ago, and even this slight start-merely to rent a good sized house about twenty miles from London, where six or eight patients could be accommodated-even this slight start attracted attention. It was commented upon by the reform organs, the papers representing the different societies in England, and attracted the attention of the secretaries of different movements. The place was never advertised, and we never found a printed announcement, as far as I know, regarding it. We simply said that Dr. Kress was willing to receive a few friends at his home, and if any one wished to confer with him about this, they could do so. Neither Dr. Kress nor his wife had a legal right to practice. Our work had to be carried forward in the very quietest way; and yet men of influence and standing, connected with the different societies, were attracted by it, and recognized the fact that there was something connected with our apparently insignificant movement which was ahead of anything in their large and wealthy organizations. That pleased me; for it showed that there is a power in the simple truth, that the truth does not need to be bolstered up by means or outward appearance. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.5

We laid before them the simple truth for which that movement stood, and made it clear to them how much was involved in it, and it created an interest. Now you will know that both Dr. Kress and Mrs. Kress were obliged to leave England on account of his failure of health. He could not stand the climate there and has gone to Australia. So even that little home was closed, and we have not anything of the kind so far as institutional work is concerned. So far as general health work is concerned, we have been trying to push that right along as the right arm of the message, but there is a great need, and there is a wonderful opportunity for an institution on a gospel basis to stand forth in a way that will command the attention of the people, and teach them the real principles for which this message stands. Now I can not hope to go further than that. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.6

I will speak of another thing. That is the school work. From the first time I went to London my thought was upon opening up a training school, for it seemed as though from the very nature of the case that England would be a good place in which to establish a training school from which laborers could go forth to the colonies in all parts of the world. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.7

But I hardly need to take time to tell you why we have not been able to do this. We went as far as we could without the possibility of getting help from any source. I will not take the time to tell you the efforts that I have made personally to get money, money from any source, money from Conferences, money from individuals by private appeal, money of my own tied up where I could not get hold of it, any possible way to get something to make a beginning, and how we have been disappointed month after month, but it has been utterly impossible to start the work under such conditions as that. All that we could do was just what we have tried to do, that is, let every man do all he could, but so far as having power to establish institutions, to push the work as the situation demanded, it was utterly impossible. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.8

One year ago last winter we rented a home and started a training school for three months. This last winter we repeated it on a smaller scale, because we supposed that the Conference being held we would not be able to have it all. Just as soon as it was determined to postpone the Conference we found we had six or eight months longer than we anticipated, we started another and continued it as long as we could. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.9

At our annual Conference last August the matter was presented to our people, and they voted with great unanimity that they were in favor of establishing such a school and would donate toward it. We began to receive funds, and I want to tell you of the first pledge that was made for that training school. While I was presenting the matter before the Conference, there was a good sister whose husband is not a Sabbath keeper, and not at all in sympathy with her acceptance of the truth, a sister who hardly knows from week to week from day to day where the means are coming from to keep the home going, she rose in the audience and asked me how much a penny a day would amount to in a year. I told her it would amount to about 30 shillings ($7.25). She says, “I will save and set aside a penny a day for that school.” When I left England, I had laid aside, kept entirely distinct from Conference funds as sacred money, about 250 pounds or about $1,200 set aside toward this school work. Even when our Conference was so hard pressed for money that we did not know from week to week whether we should be able to keep the laborers going and we could not raise money from any source whatever, then I told them that the money for that school fund should not be touched. [Mrs. E. G. White: That is right.] Because I have seen many times when you would come up to establish your school and go to the books you have a good large sum, but you go to the treasury and find it all spent. So this is in a separate bank account on interest waiting the time for us to start work, collected by a penny a day and a penny a week in small collection boxes which are sent in through the treasurer every month and turned into this fund. GCB April 22, 1901, page 395.10

Now how long do you think it will take at that rate, even doing the best we could to provide a sufficient amount of funds to establish such a school as ought to be established in England? Without regard to any question as to whether we have any further help or not, at our recent Conference it was unanimously voted that we should take immediate steps to start something toward a school just as soon as we got back from this Conference and could arrange the plans. Is it not apparent to all that money must come? We can provide helpers for such work as ten to one where we can provide money, but it requires means to do it. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.1

I will not take time to set forth peculiar difficulties that will beset the work there as compared with other fields. Every field has its special difficulties. They are to be met and overcome in the field. It is no use to spread them out over here in America, that the work may be done. It is simply this awful question of delay, delay, delay. We must “delay no longer,” and I hope that will apply to some of these movements. It must apply to them else the Scripture itself will not be fulfilled. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.2

One thing further, and that is the question of building places of worship. I have been in England four years, and during that time we have not attempted to build a place of worship until within the last year. During the last year, we rented a piece of ground in London,- for those who know, know what it means to buy a piece of ground in London,-and erected upon it a very modest yet near little iron chapel, a chapel that would seat about 300 or 350 persons. This is the first house of worship that has been erected in England since I have been in the field. Since that was done we have leased some land for a long period, and made all arrangements for the erection of a permanent brick chapel in the city of Birmingham. It was in the city of Birmingham that we held our general meeting last summer. A church has been raised up and organized there. We have decided to erect a permanent brick chapel seating about 300 persons. Since being here I have received a photograph of the plan. Before leaving, the last document had been signed, and all the agreements had been entered into. It was simply a matter of having the specifications duly completed. But I want to tell you further that although we have agreed to have that chapel erected by next September we have not money with which to do it. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.3

Now I will not take more time only to further emphasize these three things. We ought to start at once an institution that should represent the gospel health principles in a way that would prove a blessing to the work and the people in England. We ought at once to start this very season a training school with the hope and expectation that it will grow into a training school that will assist in preparing workers to go to all parts of the world, especially the English speaking world. And third, the erection of meeting houses, an expensive matter. It costs us much more to do everything, to get land. It is utterly impossible to buy land in some places. It is very expensive in every way as compared with the conditions in America. It is very expensive to erect a building of any kind. The requirements are so exacting. Those who are familiar with the condition of things in foreign countries know that a perfect army of inspectors are maintained whose office it is to make people spend money. In one way it is a good thing. It avoids evils which ought to be avoided in America, but it adds to the expense. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.4

The English field needs money to carry on these three things,-for the health work, for the school work, and for the erection of meeting houses. I have spoken of the institutional side of the work. I have not spoken of the field work, but you know that without my telling you. The very facts appeal to you, I think. The simple statements of 40 millions of people, with 9 ordained ministers, and one of them the editor of Present Truth so he can not spend his time in the field, only 892 Sabbath-keepers to provide means for the carrying forward of the work,-just the simple statement ought to make an appeal that would not need any emphasizing. I have emphasized these three lines because of our experience and our present situation. I hope the simple statement of these facts will make an appeal to this Conference and to this people and to this committee that has been appointed here for the work, that will result in a very great and rapid advancement of the work in England. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.5

Mrs. E. G. White: It seems to me that the necessity of the work in England is a very important question to us in this country. We talk about China and other countries. Let us not forget the English-speaking countries, where, if the truth were presented, many would receive and practice it. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.6

Why is it that more work has not been done in England? What has been the matter? The workers could not get means. Does not this speak to us of the necessity of economy in every line? Does it not speak to us of the necessity of guarding against wasting the money the Lord has placed in our hands to help forward his cause? GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.7

London has been presented to me again and again as a place in which a great work is to be done, and I have tried to present this before our people. I spent two years in Europe, going over the field three times. And each time I went, I saw improvement in the work, and the last time a decided improvement was manifest. And oh, what a burning desire filled my heart to see this great field, London especially, worked as it should be. Why have not workers been sent there, men and women who could have planned for the advancement of the work? I have wondered why our people, those who are not ordained ministers, but who have a connection with God, who understand the Scriptures, do not open the word to others. If they would engage in this work, great blessing would come to their own souls. God wants his people to work. To every man-and that means every woman, also-he has given his work, and this work each one is to perform according to his several ability GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.8

Let no one suppose that the work in London can be carried forward by one or two. This is not the right plan. While there must be those who can oversee the work, there is to be an army of workers striving to reach the different classes of people. GCB April 22, 1901, page 396.9

House-to-house work must be done. This work we have done in Australia, and we have seen the salvation of God as this work has been carried forward. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.1

Those who have means are to help the work with the money the Lord has intrusted to them. And God wants men and women who are willing to give themselves entirely to him, even as Elisha did, when as he was plowing, Elijah came to him, and bade him follow him. Elisha obeyed, and we read that his first service was to pour water on the hands of the prophet. He willingly took up the work of ministering to him, and thus he became acquainted with the work in which he was afterward to have a leading part. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.2

Elisha’s work was not the same as Elijah’s, yet they were both working for the Lord. Let no one, when asking for help for a place, say what help they want and what help they do not want. God knows what they need. No human being can know just what help is needed for any field, but God knows. It is not God’s plan for us to establish ourselves in a certain place, and then specify just what kind of help we are willing to accept. This is not the right way. Say, Lord, we need help. Send us those who will best help to advance the work. Let not those who are managing the work in the different parts of the field, say, “I can not accept this man. I am afraid something will come in that will throw the work into perplexity.” God knows what is best for his people, and he will help them when they fall into difficulty. We wish we had heaven here below, but we have not. The church militant is not the church triumphant. The church militant must wrestle and toil. She must strive against temptations and fight severe battles, because Satan is not dead. His agencies are much more active in his work than are the agencies of God in the work of their Leader. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.3

God calls upon his people to awake. There is much work to do, and no one is to say, “We do not want this one. He will stand in our way. He will hinder us.” Can not God take care of that? Are there not those in this congregation who will settle in London to work for the Master? Are there not those who will go to that great city as self-supporting missionaries? But while missionaries are to do all they can to be self-supporting, let those who remain here, who Sabbath after Sabbath come to the Tabernacle to hear the word of God, who have every convenience and advantage, let them beware how they say to those they send to foreign fields, destitute of every facility and advantage, “You must be self-supporting.” GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.4

Those who go to foreign fields will always find themselves placed in awkward places at first. They will find that they have many things to correct in their manner of work. But if they persevere, they will gain the ability to take up the work and carry it forward successfully. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.5

God wants his workers to stand together in perfect unity. One worker is not to measure another worker, trying to find out how high or how broad he is spiritually. If you think your fellow-worker is not all he ought to be, try to show him where he is lacking. Those who are new in a field can not be expected to possess the experience of those who have been in the field for years. They are to be trained and educated, learning, lesson and after lesson, how to do the work. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.6

To those in America who all their lives have indulged themselves God says, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up the cross and follow me.” The one we are told to follow is the Majesty of heaven, the King of glory, who, in his great love for the human race, laid aside his royal robe and kingly crown, and came to this earth to show men how to live Christian lives. He tells us that self-denial is the evidence of discipleship. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.7

Could the curtain be rolled back, you would to-day see that the angels of heaven are looking with sadness upon our terrible neglect. All heaven is waiting to give God’s sufficiency to those who will consecrate themselves unreservedly to the Master’s service. Let us remember the words, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.8

God wants his people to come into working order. He calls upon them to stand in such a position that he can work through them. What is the work of the right hand? It is to open doors for the entrance of the body. This work the medical missionary work is to do for the message. God wants every one of us to be his helping hand. The medical missionary work is to be carried forward in every field. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.9

The Lord wants his people to die to self and live in him. Are we willing to do this? Are we willing to say, I will give myself to the work, not to require the highest wages, but to do the best I can for God? GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.10

We need now to open the door to the work in London. This door has long been closed, but it must now be opened. Brother Prescott is fully capable of organizing schools in that field, but means must be provided for this work. Think of the little help England has had. How do we stand before God as regards the work there? Job declared that the things he knew not he searched out. God wants you to search out the things you do not know. He wants you to set the work in England in operation in such a way that he can co-operate with you for its advancement. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.11

The European field must receive the attention it must have. And we are not to forget the needy fields close at hand. Look at New York! What representation for the truth is there in that city. How much help has been sent there? Our education and health work must be established there, and this work must be given financial aid till it is self-supporting. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.12

In Europe there are outsiders who have money. Let men who have tact go to these people, and tell them what is being done to help the people of all denominations. Tell them that you are desirous of establishing a sanitarium, where all classes of people can be helped; that you want to establish a school where the Bible will be used as the basis of all the work, where the youth can be educated in Bible lines. There are those who, if approached in the right way, GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.13

will give of their means to help in this work. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.14

The Lord wants every one who goes to London to stand where he can say, We are brethren. I am willing to learn every day, that I may be so educated that it may at last be said of me, “Ye are complete in Christ.” God wants those at the heart of the work to practice self-denial and self-sacrifice. Do not look over to London and say, “Be ye warmed and be ye clothed and be ye fed,” while neglecting to do those things which will relieve their necessities. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.15

God does not want you to measure men, to cherish your peculiar impressions of what men should be in order to be accepted by God. GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.16

There is a work to be done in London. I have been given light that this work can be done, and that help will come from outside. Those who have money will give of their means. You need not be delicate about asking them for money. Whose money is it?—The Lord’s. All is mine. Why then can not you ask men to give the Lord a little of their means, and thus lay up for themselves a treasure in the heavens? Can not you do it? When I was collecting money to establish the work in San Francisco, I was appealing to men whom I knew had means; but when I asked for pledges, they did not stir. A man arose and said, “Do you milk the goats over the fence? Because here is some money I wish to give, though I am not a Seventh-day Adventist.” GCB April 22, 1901, page 397.17

God wants the work to go forward in New York. There ought to be thousands of Sabbath-keepers in that place, and there would be if the work were carried on as it should be. But prejudices spring up. Men want the work to go in their lines, and they refuse to accept broader plans from others. Thus opportunities are lost. In New York there should be several small companies established, and workers should be sent out. It does not follow that because a man is not ordained as a preacher, he can not work for God. Let such ones as these be taught how to work, then let them go out to labor. On returning, let them tell what they have done. Let them praise the Lord for his blessing, and then go out again, and encourage them. A few words of encouragement will be an inspiration to them. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.1

If you see things to find fault with, remember that Christ said to his disciples, “Come ye apart and rest a while.” And in this place of retirement they told him all about their labor, and Christ instructed them how to work. They said, “Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.” And Jesus said unto them, “Forbid him not; for he that is not against us is for us.” GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.2

We need to come in closer touch with humanity. We need to put away our wrong preconceived opinions. Among those who are standing at the head of the work there is too much prejudice. The feeling is too prevalent, “I am perfect. I do not need any simmering down at all.” If Christ should come, as represented in Malachi, the fuller’s soap might make us a good deal less than we are. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.3

What we need is to hear the Lord’s call to work. Instruct men in every line. You have a whole corps of workers in this place. It is time that you stopped taking the measurement of every man who comes in here. It is God who is to measure the men, and place them where they can be learning from those who have had experience. He does not send them forth without educating them, without his training them to do his work. But you must take inexperienced men and work with them. When you see them working and speaking, and they do not say just what you would say, do not groan, as though they were spoiling the whole work. Sit still; be quiet; and tell them afterward how they can improve in their manner of work. Never discourage them. God desires us to come into working order, and to stand in that position where we will heed counsel. Every one of the young men are to heed counsel. They are not to set up their own opinions, as though there were no way but theirs. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.4

The field in New York is ripe unto the harvest, and if Elder Haskell and his wife feel that it is their duty to go there and work for the people, I believe that God will greatly bless them, enabling them to bring from the Lord’s treasure-house things new and old. And he will bless Brother Prescott and Brother Waggoner, as they take up the work in England in which they have labored so hard. The Lord desires that men and women strong in the faith be sent there to work by their side. Men are needed there who can take financial management of the work. Help is needed in every line, and as workers go forth to labor in this field, God will strengthen them. Angels from heaven will stand beside them, as they strive to teach others the truths for this time. Let this work be taken hold of in earnest. Let plans be made for its advancement, and a different report will be brought in as the next General Conference, if time lasts long enough for us to hold one. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.5

Let those who have money help the work in England with their means. The work there has had very little help in this line. God forgive and pardon us for not making plants all over Europe and in the great city of London and its suburbs. God grant that men and women will go there who are willing to sacrifice for him, who in their homes will exert an influence that will tell in favor of the truth, who will hold Bible readings with their neighbors, bringing the third angel’s message to their personal attention. We can not hide ourselves away from the multitude and expect them to hunt us up. God wants us to make ourselves known. The third angel’s message is to go with a loud cry. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.6

Brother Conradi has carried a very heavy burden of work in Europe. Brother Conradi, God wants you to have laborers to stand with you, and he wants you to give them all the encouragement you can. He wants the work you are doing to go with strength and with power. You have been doing the work of several men. God has greatly blessed your labors. The angels of God have done this work, not Brother Conradi. He has opened doors for the angels, and they have entered. And if you will all open doors for the angels and give God an opportunity to work, let me tell you that he will set in operation that which will carry forward the work with a strength you do not dream of. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” God wants us to work by faith. Put away all criticism, all unbelief, all desire to measure your fellow-worker, who perhaps has not had one hundredth part of the opportunity you have had. The Lord desires you to work and pray in all simplicity. He told Nicodemus that unless he were born again, he could not see the kingdom of heaven. We must be born again. We must leave behind us all our inherited and cultivated tendencies to wrong. We must talk and walk and work with Jesus, taking him with us everywhere we go. What we need is heart-religion. We need to sit low at the feet of Jesus Christ, where we can learn the precious lessons he is waiting to teach us. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.7

The power of God means everything to us. God will make the impression on hearts if self is taken out of the way. Let the angel of God place his stamp on the message you bear. God help us to work in Christ’s lines as we seek to give to the world the last message of warning. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.8

Let the name of the Lord be magnified. We want the truth to triumph, and it is going to triumph in every respect. Let every one pray in faith. Let every one talk in faith. Let every one inspire the next one. Do not begin to pull each other down, or speak disparagingly of one another. Let all fix their eyes upon Christ, not upon man. Let us educate men who are under the influence of the Spirit of God, and we shall see that one can chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight. The powers of darkness can not withstand God or the angels who do his will. Let us work intelligently, in solid lines, and we shall see the salvation of God. GCB April 22, 1901, page 398.9