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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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people of an idolatrous faith. God asks you to<br />

begin your mission work at home. Those who are<br />

seeking to be first, need to humble their hearts<br />

before God. Let each one take up the missionary<br />

work that lies neglected at his very door. The Lord<br />

calls for laborers for our cities. Every true believer<br />

has a message.<br />

In visions of the night I seemed to be in a large<br />

congregation of our people in Nashville. One of<br />

authority stood before us. Reaching out His h<strong>and</strong>,<br />

he turned himself in every direction, saying, There<br />

is missionary work to be done in all the settlements<br />

about Nashville. There are among you those who<br />

should exercise their inventive faculties to devise<br />

plans for reaching the perishing souls whom you<br />

have neglected. When you take up the work that<br />

should be done in needy settlements right within<br />

your borders, the presence of the Lord will be with<br />

you, <strong>and</strong> angels will go before you. Your faculties<br />

will develop <strong>and</strong> your capabilities for work<br />

increase. And from Nashville you will pass to other<br />

cities to do the work that is waiting to be done.<br />

There is dearth of men <strong>and</strong> dearth of means; but<br />

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