Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

accumulated. The students of the Fernando school,
and the nurses of the three sanitariums that have
been established, can ill afford to lose the precious
experiences in missionary work that come to those
who handle the relief books. And the conference
can ill afford to lose the results, spiritual as well as
financial, that would accompany a continued effort
of this sort.
But years have passed, and students who
should have been gaining rich experiences in actual
missionary work have not been encouraged to
launch out heartily in the sale of Christ's Object
Lessons . Church members in many places have
daily met with strangers,—tourists, men and
women of means and influence,—and yet such
opportunities as these for circulating Christ's
Object Lessons and Ministry of Healing have been
allowed to pass by unimproved. Many
honesthearted persons who could have been
reached by diligent, wholehearted effort have not
been given the light of the third angel's message.
Had the Lord's plan been followed, His name
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