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Testimonies on Sabbath-School Work
as to how you may put to use every capability of your nature, and carry
forward the work of God effectively.
You are God’s employed servants, delegated to build up His king-
dom in the earth, and you are to do your part in saving the souls for
whom Christ has paid the price of His own blood. Is it then a slight
matter to teach in the Sabbath-school, without a preparation of heart
for this momentous work? Many who undertake teaching a class feel
little interest in it, and they mar the sacred work by their unconsecrated
efforts.
The Experience Needed
Teachers and workers in every department of the Sabbath-school
work, I address you in the fear of God, and tell you that unless you
have a living connection with God, and are often before Him in earnest
prayer, you will not be able to do your work with heavenly wisdom,
and win souls for Christ. The worker for God must be clothed with
humility as with a garment. The Lord will recognize and bless the
humble worker who has a teachable spirit, a reverential love for truth
and righteousness, wherever such a worker may be. If you are thus, you
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will show a care for your scholars by making special efforts for their
salvation. You will come close to them in loving sympathy, visiting
them at their homes, learning their true condition by conversing with
them concerning their experience in the things of God, and you will
bear them in the arms of your faith to the throne of the Father.
It will do no good to reprimand, and accuse, and fret at your
scholars when they manifest a spirit of unrest and mischievousness.
Remember you are to be a patient laborer together with God, and that
all heaven is interested in the work you are doing, and any part in the
work of God means toil and travail of soul. “Quit you like men, be
strong.” Ask of your Master, who submitted to humiliation, and who
endured the death of the cross, what He would have you to do. Take
all your intrusted talents with you into the work, and put them out
to the exchangers. Through the grace of Christ you will be able to
do a precious work for the Master. The wealth of divine resource is
at your command, and through prayer and faith you may lay hold on
the promises of God, and appropriate them to your need. Consecrate
yourself and your all to the service of Him who hath loved you, and