- The Times of Volume Seven
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- Chapter 1—The Work of Soulsaving
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- Chapter 4—Workers from the Ranks
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- Chapter 6—The Work in the Cities
- Chapter 7—The Work in Greater New York
- Chapter 8—Delay No Longer
- Chapter 9—Family Worship
- Chapter 10—Responsibilities of Married Life
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- Chapter 12—The Knowledge of Health Principles
- Chapter 13—The High Calling of Our Sanitarium Workers
- Chapter 14—A Message to Our Physicians
- Chapter 15—The Value of Outdoor Life
- Chapter 16—Out of the Cities
- Chapter 17—In the Country
- Chapter 18—Not Among the Wealthy
- Chapter 19—Consideration in Buildings
- Chapter 20—Not for Pleasure Seekers
- Chapter 21—Centralization
- Chapter 22—The Sign of our Order
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- Chapter 31—Publishing Houses in Mission Fields
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- Chapter 33—The Canvasser
- Chapter 34—The Author
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- Chapter 36—Sacredness of God's Instrumentalities
- Chapter 37—Dependence on God
- Chapter 38—Co-operation
- Chapter 39—Self-Control and Fidelity
- Chapter 40—Danger from Improper Reading
- Chapter 41—Avoid Debt
- Chapter 42—Faith and Courage
- Chapter 43—Self-Sacrifice
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- Chapter 49—Take Time to Talk with God
- Chapter 50—The Work of the Ministry
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- Chapter 52—Church Discipline
- Chapter 53—“Consider One Another”
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- Chapter 56—A Wise Distribution of Means
- Chapter 57—Our Aged Pioneer Workers
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The Southern States
I have a message to bear in regard to the Southern field. We have a great work to do in this field. Its condition is a condemnation of our professed Christianity. Look at its destitution of ministers, teachers, and medical missionaries. Consider the ignorance, the poverty, the misery, the distress, of many of the people. And yet this field lies close at our doors. How selfish, how inattentive, we have been to our neighbors! We have heartlessly passed them by, doing little to relieve their sufferings. If the gospel commission had been studied and obeyed by our people, the South would have received its proportionate share of ministry. If those who have received the light had walked in the light, they would have realized that upon them rested the responsibility of cultivating this long-neglected portion of the vineyard.7T 56.1
God is calling upon His people to give Him of the means that He has entrusted to them, in order that institutions may be established in the destitute fields that are ripe for the harvest. He calls upon those who have money in the banks to put it into circulation. By giving of our substance to sustain God's work, we show in a practical manner that we love Him supremely and our neighbor as ourselves.7T 56.2
Let schools and sanitariums now be established in many places in the Southern States. Let centers of influence be made in many of the Southern cities by the opening of food stores and vegetarian restaurants. Let there also be facilities for the manufacture of simple, inexpensive health foods. But let not selfish, worldly policy be brought into the work, for God forbids this. Let unselfish men take hold of this work in the fear of God and with love for their fellow men.7T 56.3
The light given me is that in the Southern field, as elsewhere, the manufacture of health foods should be conducted, not as a speculation for personal gain, but as a business that God has devised whereby a door of hope may be opened for the people. In the South special consideration should be shown to the poor, who have been terribly neglected. Men of ability and economy are to be chosen to take up the food work; for, in order to make it a success, the greatest wisdom and economy must be exercised. God desires His people to do acceptable service in the preparation of healthful food, not only for their own families, which are their first responsibility, but for the help of the poor everywhere. They are to show Christlike liberality, realizing that they are representing God, and that all they have is His endowment.7T 57.1
Brethren, take hold of this work. Give no place to discouragement. Do not criticize those who are trying to do something in right lines, but go to work yourselves.7T 57.2
In connection with the health food business, various industries may be established that will be a help to the cause in the Southern field. All that men as missionaries for God can do for this field should now be done; for if ever a field needed medical missionary work, it is the South. During the time that has passed into eternity, many should have been in the South laboring together with God by doing personal work, and by giving of their means to sustain themselves and other workers in that field.7T 57.3
Small sanitariums should be established in many places. This will open doors for the entrance of Bible truth and will remove much of the prejudice that exists against those who look upon the colored people as having souls to be saved as well as the white people.7T 58.1
Had such lines of work been established for the colored people immediately after the proclamation of freedom, how different would be their condition today!7T 58.2