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Consecrate Self, Then Search for Perishing Souls, September 28
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
Isaiah 40:3
, NKJV.
Do you feel the sanctifying power of sacred truth in heart and life and character?
Have you the assurance that God, for the sake of His dear Son, has forgiven your
sins? Are you striving to live with a conscience void of offense toward God and
humanity? Do you often plead with God in behalf of your friends and neighbors?
If you have made your peace with God, and have placed all upon the altar, you may
engage with profit in soul-winning service.
In following any plan that may be set in operation for carrying to others a
knowledge of present truth and of the marvelous providences connected with the
advancing cause, let us first consecrate ourselves fully to Him whose name we wish
to exalt. Let us also pray earnestly in behalf of those whom we expect to visit, by
living faith bringing them, one by one, into the presence of God.
The Lord knows our thoughts and purposes, and how easily can He melt us!
How His Spirit, like a fire, can subdue the flinty heart! How He can fill the soul
with love and tenderness! How He can give us the graces of His Spirit, and fit us to
go in and out, in laboring for souls!
The power of overcoming grace should be felt throughout the church today;
and it may be felt, if we take heed to the counsels of Christ to His followers. As we
learn to adorn the doctrine of Christ our Savior, we shall surely see of the salvation
of God.
To all who are about to take up special missionary work ... I would say: Be
diligent in your efforts; live under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Add daily to your
Christian experience. Let those who have special aptitude work for unbelievers in
the high places as well as in the low places of life. Search diligently for perishing
souls. Oh, think of the yearning desire Christ has to bring to His fold again those
who have gone astray!
Watch for souls as they that must give an account. In your church and neighbor-
hood missionary work, let your light shine forth in such clear, steady rays that no
one can stand up in the judgment and say, “Why did you not tell me about this truth?
Why did you not care for my soul?”—
The Church Officers’ Gazette, September
1914
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