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There are some who are especially fitted to work for the higher
classes. These should seek the Lord daily, making it a study how to
reach these persons, not to have merely a casual acquaintance with
them, but to lay hold of them by personal effort and living faith, mani-
festing a deep love for their souls, a real concern that they shall have a
knowledge of the truth as it is in the word of God.
In order to reach these classes, believers themselves must be living
epistles, “known and read of all men.”
2 Corinthians 3:2
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represent as fully as we might the elevating, ennobling character of
the truth. We are in danger of becoming narrow and selfish. With fear
and trembling lest we fail, we should ever remember this.
Let those who work for the higher classes bear themselves with true
dignity, remembering that angels are their companions. Let them keep
the treasure house of mind and heart well filled with “It is written.”
Hang in memory’s hall the precious words of Christ. They are to be
valued far above silver or gold.
We are not to conceal the fact that we are Seventh-day Adventists.
The truth may be ashamed of us because our course of action is not
in harmony with its pure principles, but we need never be ashamed of
the truth. As you have opportunity, confess your faith. When anyone
asks you, give him a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness
and fear.
It is the constant realization of the preciousness of Christ’s atoning
sacrifice in our behalf that qualifies us to point others to the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the world. We must become exponents
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of the efficacy of the blood of Christ, by which our own sins have been
forgiven. Only thus can we reach the higher classes.
In this work many discouragements will be presented, many heart-
sickening revelations will be made. Christ has said that it is easier for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of God. But all things are possible with God. He can and
will work through human agencies upon the minds of rich men whose
lives have been devoted to money getting.
The heavenly universe has long been waiting to co-operate with
human agents in this work which they have shunned and neglected.
Many who have attempted the work have given up in discouragement,
when, had they persevered, they would have been largely successful.
Those who faithfully do this work will be blessed of God. The righ-