Our duty to act as missionaries for God in the very position where He has placed us has been greatly overlooked by us as a people. Many are eagerly turning from present duties and opportunities to some wider field; many imagine that in some other position they would find it less difficult to obey the truth. Our larger churches are looked upon as enjoying great advantages, and there is among our people a growing tendency to leave their special post of duty and move to Battle Creek or to the vicinity of some other large church. This practice not only threatens the prosperity and even the life of our smaller churches, but it is preventing us from doing the very work which God has given us to do, and is destroying our spirituality and usefulness as a people. {5T 184.4}

Vor pligt at handle som missionærer for Gud i den position han har sat os i, overses stærkt af os, som et folk. Mange vender sig ivrigt fra deres nuværende opgaver og anledninger, for at finde større marker; mange forestiller sig at de i en anden position vil kunne finde det mindre svært at adlyde sandheden. Der ses på vore større menigheder at de nyder store fordele og blandt vore folk er der en voksende tendens til at forlade deres særlige pligtspost og flytte til Battle Creek eller i nærheden af andre store menigheder. Denne skik ikke blot truer velstanden men endog de mindre menigheders liv og det forhindrer os i at gøre det arbejde som Gud har givet os at gøre og ødelægger vor åndelighed og nytte som et folk.