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in a great degree to the influence of the reading matter which has
enlightened the minds of the people and removed prejudice. Thus
many are made susceptible to the influence of the truth when it is
presented before them.—
The Review and Herald, December 19, 1878
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(See
Colporteur Ministry, 8, 9
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Men of Influence to Accept Light—There needs to be a waking
up among God’s people, that His work may be carried forward with
power. We need the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We need to under-
stand that God will add to the ranks of His people men of ability and
influence, who are to act their part in warning the world. Not all in
the world are lawless and sinful. God has many thousands who have
not bowed the knee to Baal. There are God-fearing men in the fallen
churches. If this were not so, we should not be given the message to
bear, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen.... Come out of her, my
people.”
The gospel is to be proclaimed in our cities. Men of learning and
influence are to be hear the message. Not only white men but colored
men of ability are to accept the faith. These are to work for their own
people, and they are to be supported in doing the work the Lord desires
to have done.
Much more prayer, much more Christlikeness, much more confor-
mity to God’s will, is to be brought into God’s work. Outward show,
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an extravagant outlay of means, will not accomplish the work to be
done. Many are gasping for a breath of life from heaven. They will
recognize the gospel when it is brought to them in the way that God
designs it to be brought.—
Evangelism, 558, 559
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Precious Jewels in His Crown—Christ delights to take apparently
hopeless material, those whom Satan has debased and through whom
he has worked, and make them the subjects of His grace. He rejoices to
deliver them from suffering and from the wrath that is to fall upon the
disobedient. He makes His children His agents in the accomplishment
of this work, and in its success, even in this life, they find a precious
reward.
But what is this compared with the joy that will be theirs in the
great day of final revealing? “Now we see through a glass, darkly; but
then face to face;” now we know in part, but then we shall know even
as also we are known.
1 Corinthians 13:12
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