Canvasser a Gospel Worker
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If he himself has not this knowledge, how can he tell others the precious
old, old story? The people need to be taught the very essence of
true faith, the way to accept Christ and to confide in Him as their
personal Saviour. They need to know how they may follow His steps
whithersoever He goes. Let the feet of the worker follow step by step
the footprints of Jesus, and mark out no other way in which to proceed
heavenward.
When the soul has been brought to Christ through this personal
labor, leave the surrendered, humbled heart for God to work with; let
God urge upon him just such service as He sees fit. God has promised
that His grace shall be sufficient for every one who will come unto
Him. Those who surrender to Jesus, who open the door of the heart
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and invite Him in, will be in safe keeping. He says, “I am the Way, the
Truth, and the Life.”
John 14:6
. Possessing Jesus, they will possess
truth. They will be complete in Him.
Many professed Christians have broken away from Christ, the
great center, and they make themselves a center; but if they would be
successful in attracting others to the Saviour, they must themselves
flee back to Him, and realize their utter dependence upon His grace.
Satan has tried to the uttermost to sever the chain that unites men to
God; he desires to bind their souls to his own car, and make them
slaves in his service; but we are to work against him, and draw men to
the Redeemer.
Let canvassers be faithful students, learning how to be most suc-
cessful. And while they are thus employed, let them keep their eyes
and ears and understanding open to receive the wisdom from God,
that they may know how to help those who are perishing for lack of a
knowledge of Christ. Let every worker concentrate his energies and
use his powers for the highest of all service,—to recover men from the
snare of Satan and bind them to God, making the chain of dependence
through Jesus Christ fast to the throne encircled with the rainbow of
promise.
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Men and women are wandering in the mist and fog of error. They
want to know what is truth. Tell them, not in high-flown language, but
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with the simplicity of the children of God.