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do a strong work after the meeting rather than before. If a press can
be secured to be worked during the meeting, printing leaflets, notices,
and papers for distribution, it will have a telling influence.”
At some of our camp meetings strong companies of workers have
been organized to go out into the city and its suburbs to distribute
literature and invite people to the meetings. By this means hundreds
of persons were secured as regular attendants during the last half of
the meeting who otherwise might have thought little about it.
We must take every justifiable means of bringing the light before
the people. Let the press be utilized, and let every advertising agency
be employed that will call attention to the work. This should not be
regarded as nonessential. On every street corner you may see placards
and notices calling attention to various things that are going on, some
of them of the most objectionable character; and shall those who have
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the light of life be satisfied with feeble efforts to call the attention of
the masses to the truth?
Those who become interested have to meet sophistry and misrep-
resentation from popular ministers, and they know not how to answer
these things. The truth presented by the living preacher should be
published in as compact a form as possible, and circulated widely. As
far as practicable, let the important discourses given at our camp meet-
ings be published in the newspapers. Thus the truth which was placed
before a limited number may find access to many minds. And where
the truth has been misrepresented, the people will have an opportunity
of knowing just what the minister said.
Put your light on a candlestick, that it may give light to all who are
in the house. If the truth has been given to us, we are to make it so
plain to others that the honest in heart may recognize it and rejoice in
its bright rays.
Nathanael prayed that he might know whether or not the One
announced by John the Baptist as the Messiah was indeed the Lamb
of God that taketh away the sin of the world. While he was laying his
perplexities before God and asking for light, Philip called him, and
in earnest, joyful tones exclaimed: “We have found Him, of whom
Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the
son of Joseph.”
John 1:45
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But Nathanael was prejudiced against the Nazarene. Through the
influence of false teaching, unbelief arose in his heart, and he asked: