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How We are to Work, September 16
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to
give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear.
1 Peter 3:15
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In daily doing the works of Christ, it becomes a pleasure to do His will.
Christ came to our world to live out the law of God, to be our pattern in all
things. He placed Himself between the mercy seat, and the vast number
of heartless worshippers who were full of ostentation, pride, and vanity,
and by His lessons of truth, which were “eloquent with simplicity,” He
impressed the people with the necessity of spiritual worship. His lessons
were impressive, beautiful and weighty with importance, and yet so simple
that a child could understand them. The truth He presented was so deep
that the wisest and most accomplished teacher could never exhaust it.
Those who work as seeing the Invisible, will always preserve simplicity,
charging the simplest words with the power of the grandest truths
The youth may be a power for Christ, if they will maintain their sim-
plicity, and not seek to present something startling, something original,
but teach the precepts of their Lord. But to invest the simplest truths
with novelty and singularity, is to rob them of their power to win souls to
Christ.... The use of long words and soaring eloquence is not essential to
success. What you need is a living experience in the things of God, and
simplicity in presenting the love of Christ to the lost.... When the heart
is aglow with the love of Jesus, you will express it to others, and become
witnesses for Christ
We are not to hide the gospel, or cover the cross of Christ with orna-
mental roses and thus make the preaching of it of no effect
The true, honest expression of a son or daughter of God, spoken in
natural simplicity, has power to unbolt the door to hearts that have long
been closed against Christ and His love
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Undated
Manuscript 33
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The Youth’s Instructor, May 4, 1893
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Manuscript 39, 1895
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Christ’s Object Lessons 232
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