Chapter 26—Recruiting and Training Volunteers
Where there is now one at work there should be more than
1,000—Christ is saying to us, “O ye of little faith.” Our hearts must be
worked by the Holy Spirit. We must believe that the Lord wants us to
come to Him just as we are, without any delay, and in faith call upon
Him to work for us. The Lord desires to manifest His power among
His people. Where there is now one at work there should be more than
a thousand, not ordained ministers, but men and women of faith and
prayer, who can work for God.—
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God requires personal service of everyone to whom He en-
trusts His truth—God will require personal service at the hands of
every one to whom He entrusts His truth. Not one is excused. Some
may feel that if they give of their substance they are excused from
personal efforts. But God forbid that they should deceive themselves in
this. Gifts of means do not meet the requirement of God, for the duty
is but half done. He will accept nothing short of yourselves. You must
work to save souls. All will not be called to go to foreign missions, but
you may be missionaries at home, in your own families and in your
neighborhoods.—
The Signs of the Times, September 4, 1879
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Genuine Christians are known by their usefulness—Now I
wish to state to you that the Lord is opening before me that great
weakness has come upon our people by the various ways that lead
men to so thoroughly look to and depend upon his fellow men, that the
Lord is left out of the question. As the glory of the good tree testifies
of its value by the fruit it bears, so also the genuine Christian is known
by his usefulness. He does not merely blossom out with a pretentious
show in professing godliness, but he bears fruit, with all his might and
main. There is not a dying twig or a barren bough on the whole tree
which grows by the rivers of waters of the grace of Christ. The fruit
is yielded in varieties. They may be in foreign mission fields or in
home missions; the fruit appears ripening under the sunshine of the
righteousness of Christ. “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear
much fruit.”—SpT-A11, 28.
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