Chapter 61—Personal Work
The work of Christ was largely composed of personal interviews.
He had a faithful regard for the one-soul audience; and that one soul
has carried to thousands the intelligence received.
The most successful toilers are those who will cheerfully work to
serve God in small things. Every human being is to work with his own
individual thread, weave it into the fabric that composes the web, and
complete the pattern....
Educate the youth to help the youth; and in seeking to do this
work each will gain experience that will qualify him to become a
consecrated worker in a larger sphere. Thousands of hearts can be
reached in the most simple way.
The most intellectual, those who are looked upon and praised as
the world’s great and gifted men and women, are often refreshed by
the most humble, simple words spoken by one who loves God, who
can speak of that love as naturally as worldlings can speak of those
things which their minds contemplate and feed upon. Words, even if
well prepared and studied, have little influence; but the true, honest
work of a son or a daughter of God in words, or in a service of little
things, done in natural simplicity, will unbolt the door, which has long
been locked, to many souls.—
The Review and Herald, May 9, 1899
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