Training Literature Evangelists to Win Souls
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ter terms to canvassers.—
Manuscript 131, 1899
. (See chapter entitled
“Book Sales and Illustrations.”)
A Ministry of Health and Healing—In his work the canvasser
will be brought in contact with those who are in feeble health, who need
the light on health reform, and with those who are dissatisfied with
their religious experience, who are longing for something which they
have not. To these he is to open the word of truth, rightly interpreting
its meaning. “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God:
but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
Christ” (
2 Corinthians 2:17
)....
By his work, the converted, consecrated canvasser is sowing the
seeds of truth. This work must be done without delay, for we have
but a short time in which to work. Everything that can be done to
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reach the people must be done. Speak to them in a way that will win
their confidence. Pray for the sick. Ask the Lord to restore and heal
suffering humanity. He has declared, “These signs shall follow them
that believe” (
Mark 16:17
).—
Manuscript 10, 1900
.
A Savor of Life Unto Life—It is the canvasser’s duty to cultivate
the talents God has given him, to maintain his connection with God,
to help always where he can. He has positive and constant need of the
angelic ministration, for he has an important work to do, a work that
he cannot do in his own strength. “Thanks be unto God, which always
causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his
knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour
of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one
we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of
life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?” (
2 Corinthians
2:14-16
).—
Manuscript 10, 1900
.
Jewels in All the Churches—The Lord God of heaven would
have the entire church devising ways and means whereby high and
low, rich and poor, may hear the message of truth. The Lord Jesus, the
mighty Saviour, has died for these souls. He can arouse them from
their indifference, He can awaken their sympathies, He can soften their
hearts, He can reveal to their souls the beauty and power of the truth.
The Master-worker is God, and not finite man; and yet He calls
upon men to be the agents through whom He can impart light to those
in darkness. God has jewels in all the churches, and it is not for us to
make sweeping denunciation of the professed religious world, but in