Chapter 28—Training Literature Evangelists to Win
Souls
Christ Our Recommendation to the People—Much painstaking
effort will be required of those who have the burden of this work;
for right instruction must be given, that a sense of the importance of
the work may be kept before the workers, and that all may cherish
the spirit of self-denial and sacrifice exemplified in the life of our
Redeemer. Christ made sacrifices at every step, sacrifices that none of
His followers can ever make. In all the self-denial required of us in
this work; amid all the unpleasant things that occur, we are to consider
that we are yoked up with Christ, partakers of His spirit of kindness,
forbearance, and self-abnegation. This spirit will open the way before
us, and give us success, because Christ is our recommendation to the
people.—
The Review and Herald, May 6, 1902
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Angels to Attend Canvassers—Canvassers should be secured to
handle the books Great Controversy, Patriarchs and Prophets, Desire
of Ages, Daniel and the Revelation, and other books of like character,
who have a sense of the value of the matter these books contain and a
realization of the work to be done to interest people in the truth. Special
help, which is above all the supposed advantages of illustrations, will
be given to such canvassers. The canvassers who are born again by the
work of the Holy Spirit will be accompanied by angels, who will go
before them to the dwellings of the people, preparing the way....
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Those selected as canvassers should be men and women who feel
the burden of service, who do not work merely for wages, who seek to
do the very work that needs to be done to enlighten the world. All our
service is to be done to the glory of God, to give the light of truth to
those who are in darkness. Canvassers need daily to be converted to
God, that their words and deeds may be a savor of life unto life, that
they may exert a saving influence upon those with whom they come in
contact.—
Manuscript 131, 1899
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Words Dictated by the Holy Spirit—I speak to the workers,
young and old, who are handling our books, and especially to those
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