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A World in Need, April 5
We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk
in darkness.
Isaiah 59:9
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There are many who are reading the Scriptures who cannot understand
their true import. All over the world men and women are looking wistfully
to heaven. Prayers and tears and inquiries go up from souls longing for
light, for grace, for the Holy Spirit. Many are on the verge of the kingdom,
waiting only to be gathered in.
Everywhere there are hearts crying out for something which they have
not. They long for a power that will give them mastery over sin, a power
that will deliver them from the bondage of evil, a power that will give health
and life and peace. Many who once knew the power of God’s word have
dwelt where there is no recognition of God, and they long for the divine
presence.
The world needs today what it needed nineteen hundred years ago—a
revelation of Christ. A great work of reform is demanded, and it is only
through the grace of Christ that the work of restoration, physical, mental,
and spiritual, can be accomplished.
Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The
Saviour mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His
sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence.
Then He bade them, “Follow me.”
There is need of coming close to the people by personal effort.... We
are to weep with those that weep, and rejoice with those that rejoice. Ac-
companied by the power of persuasion, the power of prayer, the power of
the love of God, this work will not, cannot, be without fruit.
Heavenly intelligences are waiting to cooperate with human instrumen-
talities, that they may reveal to the world what human beings may become,
and what, through union with the Divine, may be accomplished for the
saving of souls that are ready to perish. There is no limit to the usefulness
of one who, putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy
Spirit upon his heart and lives a life wholly consecrated to God.
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