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Gospel Workers 1915
To all who are working with Christ I would say, Wherever you can
gain access to the people by the fireside, improve your opportunity.
Take your Bible, and open before them its great truths. Your success
will not depend so much upon your knowledge and accomplishments,
as upon your ability to find your way to the heart. By being social and
coming close to the people, you may turn the current of their thoughts
more readily than by the most able discourse. The presentation of
Christ in the family, by the fireside, and in small gatherings in private
houses, is often more successful in winning souls to Jesus than are
sermons delivered in the open air, to the moving throng, or even in
halls or churches.
All who engage in this personal labor should be just as careful not
to become mechanical in their manner of working as should the minis-
ter who preaches the word. They should be constantly learning. They
should have a conscientious zeal to obtain the highest qualifications,
to become men able in the Scriptures. They should cultivate habits
of mental activity, especially giving themselves to prayer and to the
diligent study of the Scriptures.
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