Instruction to Workers
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of your individual responsibility. Remember that the Lord alone can
make your efforts successful.
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The workers in the South must reach the highest spiritual attain-
ments, in order that their work in this field may be a success. Private
prayer, family prayer, prayer in public gatherings for the worship of
God—all are essential. And we are to live our prayers. We are to
co-operate with Christ in His work.
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Union with Christ and with one another is our only safety. Let
us not make it possible for Satan to point to our churches, saying:
“Behold how these people, standing under the banner of Christ, hate
one another. We have nothing to fear from them while they spend
more strength in fighting among themselves than in warfare with my
forces.”
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We are to learn from past experience how to avoid failure. We
pray to our heavenly Father, “Lead us not into temptation,” and then,
too often, we fail to guard our feet against leading us into temptation.
We are to keep away from the temptations by which we are easily
overcome. Our success is wrought out by ourselves through the grace
of Christ. We are to roll out of the way the stone of stumbling that has
caused us and others so much sadness.
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In establishing the work in new places, economize in every possible
way. Gather up the fragments; let nothing be lost. The work of soul
saving must be carried on in the way that Christ has marked out. He
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declares: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow Me.”
Matthew 16:24
. Only by obeying
this word can we be His disciples. We are nearing the end of this
earth’s history, and the different lines of God’s work are to be carried
forward with much more self-sacrifice than has yet been manifested.