Testimonies for the Church Volume 6

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by  Ellen G. White

Testimonies for the
Church Volume Six
Ellen G. White
1901
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Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
The Times of Volume Six. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Section 1—The Outlook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 1—God’s Purpose in the Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 2—The Work for This Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 3—Extension of the Work in Foreign Fields . . . . . . . 25
Section 2—Evangelistic Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4—The Camp Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Reaching the Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
An Object Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Securing Attendance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Attendance of Church Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Preparation of Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Business Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Ministerial Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
All to Be Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Prayer and Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Needs of the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
How to Present the Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Last Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Praise Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Revival Efforts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Personal Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Bible Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
A Word in Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Raising Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Results of Camp Meeting Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 5—After the Camp Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Work of the Evangelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
In the Highways and Hedges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Caring for our Own Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Church Officers and Workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 6—Less Preaching, More Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 7—Ministerial Institutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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Chapter 8—Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Meaning of the Ordinance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Preparation for Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Examination of Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Administration of the Ordinance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
After Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 9—The Building of Meetinghouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 10—Children’s Meetings and Church Schools . . . . . 94
Chapter 11—The Temperance Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chapter 12—Object Lessons in Health Reform. . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 13—Women to Be Gospel Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 14—Teaching Home Religion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 15—Meeting Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 16—Parable of the Straying Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Section 3—Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 17—The Need of Educational Reform . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The Third Angel’s Message in our Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Training of Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Missionary Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Elements of Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 18—Hindrances to Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
To Teachers and Managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Chapter 19—Character and Work of Teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Deficiencies of Teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Teacher’s Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
A Personal Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 20—Words from a Heavenly Instructor . . . . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 21—School Homes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Domestic Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Christian Sociability and Courtesy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Religious Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Chapter 22—Industrial Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Chapter 23—The Avondale School Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
The Work Before Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
The Land to be Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
A Panorama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
God and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
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An Object Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Missionary Labor the Highest Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Chapter 24—Church Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
The Work of Church Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Separation from the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
The Children Neglected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Church Schools Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
The Character of Church Schools and of Their Teachers . 177
Results of Church School Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter 25—School Management and Finance. . . . . . . . . . . 183
Freedom from Debt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Good Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Low Tuitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Assisting Worthy Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Teaching Self-Reliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Duty of our Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Inspection by General Conference Auditor . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
The Church Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Section 4—Medical Missionary Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Chapter 26—God’s Design in Our Sanitariums . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Chapter 27—The Physician’s Work for Souls . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Chapter 28—Unity in our Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Chapter 29—Responsibilities of Medical Workers . . . . . . . . 216
Conformity to the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 30—The World’s Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Chapter 31—The Church’s Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
The Message of Isaiah Fifty-Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Chapter 32—Our Duty to the Household of Faith . . . . . . . . . 238
New Sabbathkeepers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
The Poor, the Sick, and the Aged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Chapter 33—Our Duty to the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Chapter 34—The Care of Orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
A Christlike Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Ministers’ Wives Adopting Orphans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Orphans’ Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
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Chapter 35—The Medical Missionary Work and the Third
Angel’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Medical Missionary Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
“Press Together” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Chapter 36—Neglect by the Church and the Ministry . . . . . 260
Opportunities Slighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Results of Neglect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Need of Repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Neglect by the Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Chapter 37—The Reward of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Section 5—Canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Chapter 38—Importance of the Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Chapter 39—Qualifications of the Canvasser. . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Chapter 40—The Canvasser a Gospel Worker . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Chapter 41—United Effort in Canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Chapter 42—Revival of the Canvassing Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Section 6—Cautions and Counsels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Chapter 43—Showing Hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Chapter 44—The Observance of the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Reform in Sabbath Observance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Preparation for the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
The Sabbath in the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Traveling on the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Sabbath Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Chapter 45—A Revival in Health Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Obedience to Physical Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
The Church and Health Reform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Diet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Extremes in Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
True Temperance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Ministers to Teach Health Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Chapter 46—The Importance of Voice Culture . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Chapter 47—Giving to God His Own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
The First Fruits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Remember the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
All Things Belong to God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Without Excuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Another Opportunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
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The Blessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
The Complainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
“They that Feared the Lord” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Chapter 48—Christ in All the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Chapter 49—Our Attitude Toward the Civil Authorities . . . 349
Love Among Brethren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Present Truth with Gentleness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Chapter 50—God’s Word to be Supreme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Chapter 51—Preparation for the Final Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Section 7—Calls to Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Chapter 52—Young Men in the Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Chapter 53—The Church and the Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Chapter 54—The Home Missionary Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
A Warning from the Church of Ephesus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
The Result of Inaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Winning Souls the Chief Aim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Begin With Those Nearest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
The Example of Philip With Nathanael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
The Family a Missionary Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Instruct the Church in Missionary Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Set the Church Members to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
The Uneducated to be Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Arouse the Idlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
The Youth to be Missionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Let the Churches Awake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Chapter 55—The Increase of Facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Chapter 56—Help for Mission Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Chapter 57—The Publishing House in Norway. . . . . . . . . . . 403
Chapter 58—Our Danish Sanitarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Chapter 59—The Relief of Our Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
An Example of Liberality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
The Lord’s Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
All to Co-operate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Preparation for the Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
The Work in all Lands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Results of the Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Be Not Weary in Well-Doing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Chapter 60—The Claim of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423