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Testimonies to Southern Africa
It requires great wisdom to reach ministers and noblemen. Why
should these be neglected or passed by, as they certainly have been by
our people? These classes are responsible to God just in proportion
to the capital of talents entrusted to them. Should there not be greater
study and much more humble prayer for wisdom to reach these classes?
Where much is given, much will be required. Then should there not be
wisdom and tact used to gain these souls to Jesus Christ, who will be,
if converted, polished instruments in the hands of the Lord to reach
others? The Lord’s help we must have to know how to undertake His
work in a skillful manner. Self must not be prominent.
God has a work to be done that the workers have not yet fully
comprehended. Their message is to go to ministers and to worldly-
wise men, for these are to be tested with the light of truth. It is to be set
forth before the learned ones of this world judiciously and in its native
dignity. There must be most earnest seeking of God, most thorough
study; for the mental powers will be taxed to the uttermost to lay plans
according to the Lord’s order that shall place His work on the higher
and more elevated platform where it should ever have stood. Men’s
little ideas and narrow plans have bound about the work....
May the Lord set these things home to your soul. After the most
earnest efforts have been made to bring the truth before those whom
God has entrusted with large responsibilities, be not discouraged if
they reject it. They did the same in the days of Christ. Be sure to
keep up the dignity of the work by well-ordered plans and a godly
conversation. Do not think that you have elevated the standard too
high. Let families who engage in this missionary work come close
to hearts. Let the Spirit of Jesus pervade the soul of the workers. Let
there be no self-delusion in this part of the work, for it is the pleasant,
sympathetic words spoken in love to each other, the manifestations of
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disinterested love for their souls, that will break down the barriers of
pride and selfishness, and make manifest to unbelievers that we have
the love of Christ, and then the truth will find its way to their hearts.
This is, at any rate, our work and the fulfilling of God’s plans. But the
workers must divest themselves of selfishness and criticism.
My brother, you need to be carefully guarded that those of in-
experience who connect with you do not become moulded to your
ways, thinking they must do the work just as you do it. All coarseness
and roughness must be put aside and separated from our labour, and