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een drawn from the treasury. She said: p. 302, Para. 1,
[LS15].
"We have a great and sacred trust in the elevated truths
committed to us. We are glad that there are men who will
enter into our mission fields who are willing to work with
small remuneration. Money does not weigh with them in the
scale against the claims of conscience and duty, to open
the truth to those who are in the darkness of error in faroff
countries for the love of Christ and their fellowmen.
p. 302, Para. 2, [LS15].
"The men who will give themselves to the great work of
teaching the truth are not the men who will be bribed with
wealth or frightened by poverty. But God would have His
delegated servants constantly improving. In order for the
work to be carried with efficiency, the Lord sent forth His
disciples forward two and two. . . . No one man's ideas,
one man's plans, are to have a controlling power in
carrying forward the work. . . . One is not to stand apart
from the other, and argue his own ways and plans; for he
may have an education in a certain direction, and possess
certain traits of character, which will be detrimental to
the interests of the work if allowed to become the
controlling power. p. 302, Para. 3, [LS15].
"The workers are not to stand apart from one another, but
work together in everything that interests the cause of
God. And one of the most important things to be considered
is self-culture. There is too little attention given to
this matter. There should be a cultivation of all the
powers to do high and honorable work for God. Wisdom may be
gained in a much larger measure than many suppose who have
been laboring for years in the cause of God. . . . p. 303,
Para. 1, [LS15].
"Keep up the elevated character of the missionary work.
Let the inquiry of both men and women associated in the
missionary work be, What am I? and what ought I to be and
do? Let each worker consider that he cannot give to others
that which he does not possess himself. Therefore he should
not settle down into his own set ways and habits, and make
no change for the better. Paul says, I have not attained,
but I press forward. It is constant advancement and
improvement and reformation that is to be made with
individuals, to perfect a symmetrical, well balanced
character. . . . p. 303, Para. 2, [LS15].