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gives you of laboring with Him in His moral vineyard. Do not neglect
speaking to your neighbors, and doing them all the kindness in your
power, that you “by all means may save some.” We need to seek for
the spirit that constrained the apostle Paul to go from house to house
pleading with tears, and teaching “repentance toward God, and faith
toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”—
The Review and Herald, March 13,
1888
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The Lord has presented before me the work that is to be done
in our cities. The believers in these cities are to work for God in
the neighborhood of their homes. They are to labor quietly and in
humility, carrying with them wherever they go the atmosphere of
heaven.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:128
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The One-Soul Audience
The work of Christ was largely made up of personal interviews.
He had a faithful regard for the one-soul audience. From that one soul
the intelligence received was carried to thousands.—
Testimonies for
the Church 6:115
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He was faint and weary; yet He did not neglect the opportunity
of speaking to one woman, though she was a stranger, an alien from
Israel, and living in open sin.—
The Desire of Ages, 194
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The Saviour did not wait for congregations to assemble. Often
He began His lessons with only a few gathered about Him, but one
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by one the passers-by paused to listen, until a multitude heard with
wonder and awe the words of God through the heaven-sent Teacher.
The worker for Christ should not feel that he cannot speak with the
same earnestness to a few hearers as to a large company. There may be
only one to hear the message; but who can tell how far-reaching will
be its influence? It seemed a small matter, even to His disciples, for the
Saviour to spend His time upon a woman of Samaria. But He reasoned
more earnestly and eloquently with her than with kings, councilors, or
high priests. The lessons He gave to that woman have been repeated
to the earth’s remotest bounds.—
The Desire of Ages, 194
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