It has cost self-denial, self-sacrifice, indomitable energy, and much prayer, to bring up the various missionary enterprises where they now stand. There is danger that some of those now coming upon the stage of action will rest content to be inefficient, feeling that there is now no need of so great self-denial and diligence, such hard and disagreeable labor, as the leaders in this message experienced; that times have changed; and that since there is now more means in the cause of God, it is not necessary for them to place themselves in such trying circumstances as many were called to meet in the rise of the message. {6T 419.1}

Apostlen Paulus kunne sige til den første menighed: »Og de priste Gud for mig.« Gal.1,24. Skal vi ikke bestræbe os efter at det samme kan siges om os? Herren vil finde midler og metoder til dem, der søger han af hele hjertet. Han ønsker at vi skal anerkende den guddommelige ledelse, som ses når der beredes nye arbejdsmarker; og når der banes vej, for at disse marker indtages med godt resultat.