Learning the Art of Personal Work
All Who Can to Do Bible Work—All who can, should do per-
sonal labor. As they go from house to house, explaining the Scriptures
to the people in a clear, simple manner, God makes the truth powerful
to save. The Saviour blesses those who do this work.—
Letter 108,
1901
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Teaching Doctrine Not Initial Object of Personal Work—
There are many souls yearning unutterably for light, for assurance
and strength beyond what they have been able to grasp. They need
to be sought out and labored for patiently, perseveringly. Beseech the
Lord in fervent prayer for help. Present Jesus because you know Him
as your personal Saviour. Let His melting love, His rich grace, flow
forth from human lips. You need not present doctrinal points unless
questioned. But take the Word, and with tender, yearning love for
souls, show them the precious righteousness of Christ, to whom you
and they must come to be saved.—
Manuscript 27, 1895
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Learning to Gather the Crop—There is need of education—the
training of everyone who shall enter the gospel field, not only to use
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the scythe and mow the crop, but to rake it, to gather it, to care for
it properly. This mowing has been done everywhere, and amounted
to very little because there has been so little earnest work done by
personal effort to gather the wheat from the chaff and bind it in bundles
for the garner.—
Letter 16e, 1892
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Learn the Art of Handling the Gospel Net—The mind must be
active to invent the best ways and means of reaching the people next
us. We should not be far-reaching, incurring great expense. There are
individuals and families near us for whom we should make personal
efforts. We often let opportunities within our reach slip away, in order
to do a work at a distance from us which is less hopeful, and thus our
time and means may be lost in both places. The study of the workers
now should be to learn the trade of gathering souls into the gospel
net.—
The Review and Herald, December 8, 1885
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