WOMAN'S GOSPEL WORK by Luella B. Priddy

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 5, 1901

WOMAN'S GOSPEL WORK.

By Luella B. Priddy

MRS. LUELLA B. PRIDDY, (Lindsay, Ontario.)

“YET hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.” Jer. 9: 20, 21.

God expects faithfulness from every one who professes to name the name of Christ, at all times. But now we have reached a crisis in the world's history. Satan and his hosts are making the last great effort to lead souls to everlasting ruin. Not to come up to the help of the Lord in such a time as this is to mark us as traitors to His cause.

In God's great plan there is a place for every human soul. Each one, according to his ability and the experience God has given him, is to live and act and speak in such a way that the interests of the heavenly kingdom shall be advanced. So the Lord has given woman her part in the work of the gospel. Her particular sphere in life gives her an experience that will enable her to do a work for other women and for children that man is not so well adapted to do.

Woman's gospel work is not some side issue, apart from the Third Angel's Message. The Lord wants the women who have been blessed with the light of truth to step into the ranks and help carry the message, in a womanly way.

In the short but comprehensive epistle to Titus is marked out the duties of the different classes of society; and women are not left out. “The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.” Titus 2: 3–5.

These texts embrace a wide range of topics that women are to teach. There is in the world a crying need of just such teaching as is brought to view in this text. There is no danger of usurping authority over men by women taking up this line of work.

Many people have accepted the Third Angel's Message as an incontrovertible theory, but have failed to assimilate it into their life and character. Women can do much more than they are apt to realize in leading the family to live out the principles of the truth in the every-day home life. A well-disciplined family living out the truth is a most telling argument to the world of the power of the gospel.

Every woman in our ranks should regard herself as a missionary for God, willing to endure the toil and privations incident to a missionary's life. And her reward will be eternal joy in the world to come, and she may enjoy a blessed experience in this life.