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Manual for Canvassers
who are fitting for the ministry can engage in no other occupation that
will give them so large an experience as will the canvassing work. But
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many are attracted into the canvassing work to sell books and pictures
that do not express our faith, and do not give light to the purchaser.
They are induced to do this because the financial prospects are more
flattering than those that can be offered them as licentiates. These
persons are obtaining no special fitness for the gospel ministry. They
are not gaining that experience which would fit them for the work.
They are not learning to bear the burden of souls and daily obtaining a
knowledge of the most successful way of winning people to the truth.
They are losing time and opportunities.
These men are frequently turned aside from the convictions of the
Spirit of God, and receive a worldly stamp of character, forgetting how
much they owe to the Lord, who gave His life for them. They use
their powers for their own selfish interests, and refuse to labor in the
vineyard of the Lord.
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