- A Word of Explanation
- MR No. 1420—Health Reform Principles
- MR No. 1421—Soul Winning In Maitland; The Privilege Of Prayer
- MR No. 1422—Christ Our Example; Endure Trials Courageously
- MR No. 1423—The Law Of God
- MR No. 1424—Wrong Use of Writings Protested
- MR No. 1425—Errors and Dangers of Prescott and Daniells; The Cities to Be Worked
- MR No. 1426—Ellen White Acknowledges Her Imperfection
- MR No. 1427—Reflections While Crossing the Pacific
- MR No. 1428—Early Days at the Sydney Hospital; Cautions on Drug Medication
- MR No. 1429—Medical Missionary Work at Cooranbong
- MR No. 1430—The Persisting Dark Influence of Spiritualism
- MR No. 1431—Knowledge, Spurious and Genuine
- MR No. 1432—Reflections After First Tour of Scandinavia
- MR No. 1433—Inadequate Royalties on Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4
- MR No. 1434—The Evil Heritage Received From a Drunken Father
- MR No. 1435—Unwise Remarriage Would Destroy Children's Respect
- MR No. 1436—The High Honor of Being a Child of God
- MR No. 1437—Preach The Word
- MR No. 1438—Choose Associates of Good Character; Jesus Our Example in All Things
- MR No. 1439—Material appearing in Barry Oliver's dissertation, “Principles for Reorganization of the Seventh-day Adventist Administrative Structure, 1888-1903: Implications for an International Church.” Andrews University, January, 1989
- MR No. 1440—Look Constantly to Jesus; Follow His Example; Reflect His Character; Work in His Lines
- MR No. 1441—The Effects of Intemperance; Advancing the Cause of Temperance
- MR No. 1442—Some Leaders Show Unsympathetic Attitude Toward Workers in the South; Humility and the Holy Spirit Needed
- MR No. 1443—Reflect Christ, the True Light; Lay Up Treasure in Heaven
- MR No. 1444—Rebuke for Self-seeking and Self-exaltation; Warning Against Criticizing Church Leaders
- MR No. 1445—The Work and Workers at Madison Commended; Soliciting Finances Not to Be Restricted
- MR No. 1446—Seek God's Will; Distrust Self; Adopt Health Principles; Follow Christ in Self-denial and Sacrifice
- MR No. 1447—St. Helena Rural Health Retreat Not To Be Closed; Divine Counsel To Be Sought and Followed
- MR No. 1448—A Call to Service
- MR No. 1449—Intelligent Labor
- MR No. 1450—Help of C. C. Crisler Needed; Ellen White Exhausted and Heavily Burdened; Counsel Regarding “Irregular Lines”
- MR No. 1451—A Visit to Monterey; Advice on Family Matters
- MR No. 1452—Judas, the Self-centered, Unconverted Disciple
- MR No. 1453—Be Steadfast Unto the End
- MR No. 1454—Spiritual Knowledge to Be Obtained Through Christ and Nature; Many Jewish People to Receive Christ
- MR No. 1455—Education of Youth and Women Needed; Moving Discreetly
- MR No. 1456—Importance of Observing Nature's Laws; Meeting With N. D. Faulkhead
- MR No. 1457—N. D. Faulkhead's Break With the Masons; Need for a House of Worship in Melbourne
- MR No. 1458—N. D. Faulkhead's Conversion and Business Ability
- MR No. 1459—Raising the Standard of Piety Higher
- MR No. 1460—How the Leaven of Evil Works
- MR No. 1461—The Necessity of Studying the Word
- MR No. 1462—Material used by Milton Hook in a history concerning the South Pacific Division. Available in pamphlet form from the South Pacific Division
- MR No. 1463—The Need for Christ's Spirit in Our College; Teachers to Reflect Christ
- MR No. 1464—The Work in Mount Vincent and Hamilton; Joshua, the High Priest, Represents the Church
- MR No. 1465—True “Higher Education” Is Obtainable Only From the Master Teacher
- MR No. 1466—Activities During James White's Convalescence
- MR No. 1467—Camping and Traveling in the Colorado Mountains
- MR No. 1468—A Report on the Australian School; Building W.C. White's Home; Trusting and Praising God
- MR No. 1469—Older Workers to Be Honored and Conserve Their Strength; God's Law on Tables of Stone in Ark of the Testament
- MR No. 1470—Doctrines to Be Investigated; Unity to Be Sought
- MR No. 1471—The Fallacy of Thinking Human Ideas and Positions Are Infallible and Unchangeable
- MR No. 1472—Construction Progress at Avondale; Counsel to Edson: The Work of Elder Haskell; The Burden of False Brethren
- MR No. 1473—Trust in God and Follow His Counsel
- MR No. 1474—Christ's Manner of Teaching
- MR No. 1475—Guidelines for Adventist Sanitariums; Physicians to Set Example as True Christians, and Point Patients to Christ
- MR No. 1476—Providential Events in Acquiring and Opening New Sanitariums; Purpose of These Institutions; How Physicians in Private Practice Should Relate to Them
- MR No. 1477—The Medical Missionary Work
- MR No. 1478—The Need for Simplicity and Consecration in School Work
- MR No. 1479—Diary Entries, 1902; Comments on Prayer and Trust in God
- MR No. 1480—The Importance of Parents’ Work
- MR No. 1481—Practical Counsel on Home Treatments
- MR No. 1482—Appeal for Complete Consecration, Including Breaking With Secret Societies
- MR No. 1483—Observations on People and Scenery While Traveling
- MR No. 1484—The Bible as the Only Foundation of Our Faith
- MR No. 1485—School to Start Small; Have Faith; Do Not Overwork
- MR No. 1486—The Danger of Rejecting Light
- MR No. 1487—Privileges and Responsibilities of Christians; Depend on Holy Spirit, Not Self
- MR No. 1488—The Importance of Medical Missionary Work; Health Reform to Be Practiced
- MR No. 1489—Speaking at Camp Meeting; Counsel for Achieving Happiness in Marriage
- MR No. 1490—Minds to Be Spiritual, Not Carnal: The Cross to Be Central in Preaching; Fanaticism and Trivial Ideas to Be Avoided
- MR No. 1491—Guidelines for Success as a Minister or Physician
- MR No. 1492—Danger of False Science; Dr. Kellogg in Spiritual Peril; Warning Not to Follow His Example
- MR No. 1493—A. T. Jones in Need of Conversion; Health Reform to Be Taught and Practiced at Camp Meeting
- MR No. 1494—Ministering in Washington and Oregon; Deep Movings of the Holy Spirit
- MR No. 1495—Answering Christ's Prayer for Our Sanctification
- MR No. 1496—Reviewing Conditions at the St. Helena Health Retreat; Avoid Independent Judgment and Action; Be Faithful in Tithes and Offerings
- MR No. 1497—Conditions at St. Helena Health Retreat; Tension Between Doctors; Use of Drugs; Indiscreet Actions of Superintendent
- MR No. 1498—State of the Work in Ohio; General Conference to Establish and Control Medical Institutions; Physicians to Be Models of Morality
- MR No. 1499—Support Urged for St. Helena Health Retreat; Drug Use Condemned
- MR No. 1500—The Needs of the Southern Field
MR No. 1445—The Work and Workers at Madison Commended; Soliciting Finances Not to Be Restricted
(Written January 6, 1908, from “Elmshaven,” Sanitarium, California, to “Those Bearing Responsibilities in Washington and Other Centers.”)
God has given me a message for those men who are carrying responsibilities in Washington and other centers of the work.20MR 99.1
This is a time when the work of God should be conducted with the strictest integrity by every conference, a time when there should be the closest observance of the law of God on the part of every worker.20MR 99.2
When the Lord favors any of His servants with worldly advantages, it is that they may use those advantages for the benefit of the work. And it is the privilege of accredited workers appointed to this responsibility to accept gifts or loans to help in doing the work that needs to be done. Forbiddings are not to be exercised by the conference, or by others who feel that they have authority to do so, that will deny the workers the privilege of accepting such loans and gifts of men and women [who] are willing to make them. They should be allowed to go to the people to solicit help. Properly conducted, this is a line of work that the Lord commends.20MR 99.3
This matter has been presented to me again and again. I now bear my testimony in the name of the Lord to those whom it concerns: Wherever you are, withhold your forbiddings. The work of God is not to be thus trammeled.20MR 99.4
The Lord has directed Brethren Sutherland and Magan, men of sound principles, to establish the work at Madison. They have devised and planned and sacrificed in order to carry the work there after God's order; but the work has been long in coming to completion. It is the privilege of these brethren to receive gifts from any of our people whom the Spirit of the Lord impresses to help. They should have means—God's means—with which to do the Lord's work.20MR 99.5
The Madison enterprise has been crippled in the past, but this has not been God's desire. If this work had been regarded in the light that God regarded it, and had been given the medical help, we should long ere this have had a flourishing plant at Madison. The people are to be, not forbidden, but encouraged, to give of their means to this work, which is preparing students in a sensible and creditable way to go forth to proclaim the soon coming of Christ and to close up the work on the earth.20MR 99.6
There is business to be done for God. Help is to be sought from every possible source. There are those who have the faculty of securing means for the cause of God, and no hand of restraint is to be laid upon those who are doing this work successfully. They are surely laborers together with God, who gave His life for the salvation of souls.20MR 100.1
The Lord selected the farm at Madison, and He signified that it should be worked on right lines, that others, learning from the workers in Madison, might take up a similar work and conduct it in a like manner. Brethren Sutherland and Magan are chosen of God and faithful, and the Lord of heaven says of them, I have a work for these men to do in Madison, a special work in educating and training young men and women for missionary fields. The Spirit of the Lord is with His workers. He has not restricted the labors of these self-denying, self-sacrificing men.20MR 100.2
The school at Madison not only educates in a knowledge of the Scriptures, but it gives a practical training that fits the student to go forth as a self-supporting missionary to the field to which he is called. In his student days he is taught how to build, simply and substantially, how to cultivate the land and care for the stock. All these lines are of great educational value. To this is added the knowledge of how to treat the sick and care for the injured. This training for medical missionary work is one of the grandest objects for which any school can be established. There are many suffering from disease and injuries who, when relieved of pain, will be prepared to listen to the truth. Our Saviour was a mighty healer. In His name there may be many miracles wrought in the South and in other conferences, through the instrumentality of the trained medical missionary. Therefore, centers for training must be formed.20MR 100.3
The class of education given at the Madison school is such as will be accounted a treasure of great value by those who take up missionary work in foreign fields. My brethren, let no hindrance be placed in the way of men and women who are seeking to gain such an education as those at the Madison school are receiving. They are working after the Lord's directions. If many more in other schools were receiving a similar training, we as a people would become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. The message should quickly be carried to every country, and souls now in darkness would be brought to the light. These men under the special light the Lord has given are not to be hindered in any way, for the Lord is leading them.20MR 100.4
It would have been pleasing to God if, while the Madison school has been doing its work, similar schools had been established in different parts of the Southern field. No soul should be left in darkness if by any possible means he can be enlightened.20MR 100.5
There is plenty of land lying waste in the South that might have been improved as the land about the Madison school has been improved. The time is soon coming when God's people, because of persecution, will be scattered in many countries. Those who have received an all-round education will have the advantage wherever they are. The Lord reveals divine wisdom in thus leading His people to the training of all their faculties and capabilities for the work of disseminating truth.20MR 101.1
Every possible means should be devised to establish schools of the Madison order in various parts of the South; and those who lend their means and their influence to help this work, are aiding the cause of God.20MR 101.2
I am instructed to say to those who have means to loan or to give: Help the work at Madison. You have no time to lose. Satan will soon rise up to create hindrances; plenty of them. I am instructed to say to these men: Follow the instruction of the Lord. Let the work go forward while it may. This is no time for weakness to be woven into our experience. Do not spend money for story magazines and cheap literature, now so often found in your homes; but take your means—that which you have invested in houses and lands and bank stock—and say, I will use this in employing men and women to give the last message of warning to the world. The workers at Madison are capable of giving right instruction, and they should be encouraged. This is a work that the Lord will approve.20MR 101.3
When the Holy Spirit is allowed to mold our hearts and lives, there will be much more confidence expressed in the workers who are now struggling with difficulties in hard places. Each worker needs to take his own individual case before the Lord, and examine himself, instead of examining the fancied shortcomings of his brother. We each need to realize our own weakness and be constantly on guard. Satan is watching to take us unawares, and many are ignorant of their own defects of character.20MR 101.4
We need to read and understand the message of Ezekiel 2: [Verse 1-8, quoted].20MR 101.5
Again the prophet writes: [Ezekiel 3:16-21, quoted].20MR 101.6
The Lord is calling for men and women to guard their own houses and families. Instead of watching their fellow workers, trying to block their way and regarding with jealousy their outgoings and incomings, they should turn their attention to self. The Lord has a report to make of every soul who would restrict the liberty of another. There is a Watcher who is taking the measure of character, and will judge accordingly.20MR 101.7
The Lord's message of mercy is to be borne to a people long neglected. Ministers and people, God speaks to you, saying, I have sent these men, and they are not to be hindered.20MR 102.1
The jealousy revealed by some who claim to be in the truth, plainly reveals that unless their hearts are changed, they will never be overcomers. Unless they respond to the subduing, sanctifying influences of the grace of God, they will never wear the crown of life. Some are very zealous in carrying out a work of hindrance, when the Lord has given them no such work to do.20MR 102.2
The representation given in Ezekiel 47:1-12 is an illustration of the way in which the truth for this time is to go. A large work is to be done by many who have begun in a small way. Many souls will be reached, not through display, not through any devising on the part of man, but through the working of the Holy Spirit on the hearts of human agencies. The Saviour worked in this way. When His methods become the methods of His followers, His blessings will attend their labors.20MR 102.3
In the work being done at Madison we have an illustration of the way in which the message should be carried in many places. I would say to the workers there, Continue to learn of Christ. Do not be daunted. Be free in the Lord; be free. Thus far an acceptable work has been done in Madison. The Lord says to you, Go forward.20MR 102.4
My brethren in responsible places, mourn not over the work that is being done in the highways and hedges in the South. God has specified that this work should be done. Those who have tried to block the way have not been led by the Spirit of God. Cease your criticisms of God's servants, and humble your own hearts before the Lord, that He may show you the right way. Let this company alone to continue their work, and go thou and encourage others to do a similar work. Then the light of truth will be carried in a simple but effective way, and a great work will be accomplished for the Master.20MR 102.5
Do not worry lest some means shall go to those who are trying to do missionary work in a quiet way. All the means is not to be handled by one organization or one party. The Lord works through various agencies. If there are those who desire to step into new fields and take up new lines of labor, forbid them not, but encourage them to do so.20MR 102.6
Seventh-day Adventists are doing a good work; let no brother's hand be raised to hinder it. Those who have had experience in the work of God should be encouraged to follow the guiding and counsel of the Lord. God is being faithfully served by these whom you are watching and criticizing. You should discern that they fear and honor the Lord; they are laborers together with him.20MR 102.7
God forbids you to put yokes on the necks of His servants. Brethren Sutherland and Magan have a right to solicit means for the support of the Madison school. This wonderful burden to restrict their work, which some suppose God has bestowed upon them with their official position, has never been laid upon them. If they were standing free on the high platform of truth, they would never accept the responsibility of framing rules and regulations that will hinder and cramp the laborers in their work for this time. When they learn the lesson that “All ye are brethren,” and realize that their fellow workers sometimes know just as well as they do how to use in the wisest way the talents and capabilities entrusted to them, they will remove the yokes that they are now binding upon them, and will give them credit for love for souls and a desire to labor unselfishly to promote the interests of the cause.20MR 103.1
Those who desire to wear Christ's yoke will heed the invitation, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”20MR 103.2
To all who would mark out a certain definite course for their brother to pursue, the Lord says, Stand out of the way. Satan and his emissaries are doing enough of this kind of work. We are altogether too near the close of this earth's history to seek to block the wheels of the chariot of truth. God's workers are to come into line, to pray together, to counsel together. And whenever it is impossible for them to gather for counsel, God will instruct through His Spirit those who sincerely desire to serve him.—Letter 32a, 1908.20MR 103.3