Chapter 24—Teaching Literature Evangelism
The Ability to Teach Literature Evangelism—The Lord has
given you a special and important gift in your experience as a can-
vasser and your ability to teach others how to engage successfully in
this work. You are not to become discouraged when you find that
many do not see in all points as you do and that there is a diversity of
plans. The Lord has not given you the responsibility of governing the
work, but He has given you wisdom as a teacher, and He will help you
to help others to learn how to carry the canvassing work forward to
success....
He will help you to make a success of the canvassing work. That
which the Lord has fitted you to do in the education of canvassers is a
much-needed work....
Place yourself, if possible, where you will have little cause to
worry over the work of others. As a teacher of canvassers you have
talents that will make you very useful in the cause of God. But you
are not to stand as a dictator.—
Letter 92, 1903
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Individual Attention Essential to Success—In all true teaching
the personal element is essential. Christ in His teaching dealt with men
individually. It was by personal contact and association that He trained
the Twelve. It was in private, often to but one listener, that He gave His
most precious instruction. To the honored rabbi at the night conference
on the Mount of Olives, to the despised woman at the well of Sychar,
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He opened His richest treasures; for in these hearers He discerned the
impressible heart, the open mind, the receptive spirit. Even the crowd
that so often thronged His steps was not to Christ an indiscriminate
mass of human beings. He spoke directly to every mind and appealed
to every heart. He watched the faces of His hearers, marked the
lighting up of the countenance, the quick, responsive glance, which
told that truth had reached the soul; and there vibrated in His heart the
answering chord of sympathetic joy.
Christ discerned the possibilities in every human being. He was
not turned aside by an unpromising exterior or by unfavorable sur-
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