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Chapter 2—The Temperance Worker
Personal Labor Called For
—Missionary work does not consist
merely of preaching. It includes personal labor for those who have
abused their health and have placed themselves where they have not
moral power to control their appetites and passions. These souls are
to be labored for as those more favorably situated. Our world is full
of suffering ones.—
Evangelism, 265
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The Example of Self-Control
—Those who control themselves
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are fitted to labor for the weak and erring. They will deal with them
tenderly and patiently. By their own example, they will show what
is right, and then they will seek to place the erring where they will
be under good influences.
“Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from Mine
ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will
return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall
we return?”
If any of you find others who are in uncertainty as to what they
should do, you are to show them. Everyone should be engaged in the
work of soulsaving. Everyone should be prepared to give instruction
in regard to the science of salvation.—
Manuscript 38 1/2, 1905
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Be Compassionate and Sympathetic
—Let us seek to under-
stand how to reach the people. There is no better way to do this than
to be compassionate and sympathetic. If you know of those who
are sick and in need of assistance, help them, try to relieve them in
their distress. As you do this work, the power of the Lord will speak
through it to the soul.—
The General Conference Bulletin, April 23,
1901
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Win by Sympathy and Love
—Persons are attracted by sympa-
thy and love; and many may thus be won to the ranks of Christ and
reform; but they cannot be forced or driven. Christian forbearance,
candor, consideration, and courtesy toward all who do not see the
truth as we do, will exert a powerful influence for good. We must
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