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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil
thing to say of you.”
Where sincere piety is lacking, where daily communion with God
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is neglected, the teacher in the Sabbath school will be dry and tedious
in his manner of teaching. His words will have no power to reach the
hearts of his pupils.
To be laborers together with God means a great deal more than
merely to go to Sabbath school, and attend the services of the church,
and take part in the work of teaching, and in bearing testimony in the
social service.
To be a laborer together with God means that your heart is drawn
out in strong desire for the salvation of the sinful souls for whom Christ
has died. It means that you are filled with solicitude for the work, that
you are ever planning to make your instruction interesting, to devise
ways that you may draw with every entrusted power of your nature
along the lines in which Christ is drawing, that souls may be won to
His service and be bound to Him by the cords of His infinite love.
The Work Marred by Unconsecrated Effort
Laborers together with God do not feel like shrinking from sacred
obligations; but for Christ’s sake they are willing to endure toil, to
suffer privation and reproach. They are willing to meet with repulses,
though this is hard to bear and humiliating to human pride. But the
laborer together with God will remember that Jesus bore shame and
insult, rejection and death, that He might save those who were lost.
Every part of the varied labor in the harvest field means sacrifice and
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self-denial. It means that the time usually spent in matters of minor
importance should be spent in searching the Scriptures, that you may
know how to labor successfully in the work to which you are appointed.
It means that you must become acquainted with the Spirit of God. It
means that you must do much praying, and have much serious thought
as to how you may put to use every capability of your nature, and carry
forward the work of God effectively.
You are God’s employed servants, delegated to build up His king-
dom in the earth, and you are to do your part in saving the souls for
whom Christ has paid the price of His own blood. Is it then a slight
matter to teach in the Sabbath school, without a preparation of heart