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3602 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 1, 1881, par. 13

… and missionary workings, the more spirit will be in your work, for it will cost less to run it and will take less time. I tell you, these things I have written need …

3603 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 2, 1881, par. 4

… and missionary work as a whole is of God. I also know that it is burdened with extra machinery which is wearing to the life and flesh. I think something might …

3604 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 4

… and missionary work is killing to the spirituality of our people. The prayer meetings and tract and missionary meetings cannot both be carried on, for want …

3605 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 7

… and missionary work and neglect the religious interest of our people. I see the danger. The people are dead. Spiritual life is about extinct. Of course there …

3606 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 8

… and missionary work live and prosper, we would not have it monopolize every other interest. We would not have our people devoting the time in our meetings …

3607 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 9

… and missionary institutes at great expense until, as I say, there is plenty of form, and there are sapless Christians. I am alarmed for our people. I became distressed …

3608 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 16

… and missionary meeting, the same as I had found Sunday morning, and had to beat a retreat. The work of reformation, of seeking God, seemed to be dropped. I attended …

3609 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 5a, 1881, par. 17

… and missionary work with a number, while the people were wandering around until six o’clock, and it was the last day of the meeting. I requested Father to go …

3610 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 6, 1881, par. 9

The good work begun on Sabbath should have been carried forward in Sunday morning meetings, but we were disappointed. Tract and missionary meetings occupied all the time until preaching.

3611 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 6

… and missionary work was in a prospering condition, spirituality and devotion were waning. This I know was the truth. As we have held meetings in different …

3612 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 7

… vigilant missionary labor and the tract and missionary work, I have not sanctioned, to my certain knowledge, all the machinery attached to the work to make …

3613 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 8

… and missionary work as it was, when we aroused the interest of the people in it, and as it is now, are not the same.

3614 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 11

… and missionary work became a power to monopolize, to the extent it has, every other interest.

3615 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 12

… and missionary workers. He was becoming sharp, critical, overbearing to our young ministers, [and] close in dealing with them, and the influence of this management …

3617 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 20

… the missionary work, it will not do to idolize anything in the world, even if it be the Tract and Missionary Society. Whatever we cherish with idolatry, we shall …

3618 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 21

… and missionary work have given up their work in despair. They have home cares, and to be obliged to understand all this fine machinery—the science of bookkeeping …

3619 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 22

Societies, I have no burden of testimony on the matter. The question is asked, Has not the Lord shown the importance of the tract and missionary work? He …

3620 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 3 (1876 - 1882), Lt 8, 1881, par. 25

… and missionary work to its present state was spent in devising plans for the circulation of all our tracts and publications on present truth, more good would …