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My burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
. Angels are commissioned to
go forth with those who take up this work in true humility.
We are to pray without ceasing, and we are to live our prayers.
Faith will greatly increase by exercise. Let those who are canvassing
for Christ’s Object Lessons learn the lessons taught in the book for
which they are working. Learn of Christ. Have faith in His power to
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help and save you. Faith is the very lifeblood of the soul. Its presence
gives warmth, health, consistency, and sound judgment. Its vitality
and vigor exert a powerful though unconscious influence. The life of
Christ in the soul is as a well of water springing up unto everlasting
life. It leads to a constant cultivation of the heavenly graces and to a
kindly submission in all things to the Lord.
I speak to the workers, young and old, who are handling our books,
and especially to those who are canvassing for the book that is now
doing its errand of mercy: Exemplify in the life the lessons given
by Christ in His Sermon on the Mount. This will make a deeper
impression and have a more lasting influence upon minds than will
the sermons given from the pulpit. You may not be able to speak
eloquently to those you desire to help; but if you speak modestly,
hiding self in Christ, your words will be dictated by the Holy Spirit;
and Christ, with whom you are co-operating, will impress the heart.
Exercise that faith which works by love and sanctifies the soul. Let
none now make the Lord ashamed of them because of their unbelief.
Sloth and despondency accomplish nothing. Entanglements in secular
business are sometimes permitted by God in order to stir the sluggish
faculties to more earnest action that He may honor faith by the bestowal
of rich blessings. This is a means of advancing His work. Looking
unto Jesus, not only as our Example, but as the Author and Finisher
of our faith, let us go forward, having confidence that He will supply
strength for every duty.
Much painstaking effort will be required of those who have the
burden of this work; for right instruction must be given, that a sense
of the importance of the work may be kept before the workers, and
that all may cherish the spirit of self-denial and sacrifice exemplified
in the life of our Redeemer. Christ made sacrifices at every step,
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sacrifices that none of His followers can ever make. In all the self-
denial required of us in this work; amid all the unpleasant things that
occur, we are to consider that we are yoked up with Christ, partakers