Rural Workers
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Note.—While full recognition is given to the indispensable aid
of laymen in all evangelistic activity (see pp. 110-115), it is clear that
the inhabitants of the rural areas will hear the warning message only
as regular workers and laymen unite in heralding the gospel. Thus
in this volume devoted solely to counsel to the evangelistic worker,
in presenting the picture of evangelism in the rural areas, statements
appear calling the laymen to the work in the less densely populated
areas.—Compilers.
]
Beginners enter unworked fields—We are nearing the close of
this earth’s history. We have before us a great work,—the closing
work of giving the last warning message to a sinful world. There are
men who will be taken from the plow, from the vineyard, from various
other branches of work, and sent forth by the lord to give this message
to the world.
The world is out of joint. As we look at the picture, the outlook
seems discouraging. But Christ greets with hopeful assurance the
very men and women who cause us discouragement. In them He sees
qualifications that will enable them to take a place in His vineyard.
If they will constantly be learners, through His providence He will
make them men and women fitted to do a work that is not beyond their
capabilities; through the impartation of the Holy Spirit, He will give
them power of utterance.
Many of the barren, unworked fields must be entered by beginners.
The brightness of the Saviour’s view of the world will inspire confi-
dence in many workers, who, if they begin in humility, and put their
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hearts into the work, will be found to be the right men for the time and
place. Christ sees all the misery and despair of the world, the sight of
which would bow down some of our workers of large capabilities with
a weight of discouragement so great that they would not know how
even to begin the work of leading men and women to the first round
of the ladder. Their precise methods are of little value. They would
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