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well-being of others, but your own eternal destiny depends.—
Christ’s
Object Lessons, 388
.
Christ Enters the Homes With Them—The Lord desires that
the truth shall come close to the people, and this can be accomplished
only by personal labor. Much is comprehended in the command, “Go
out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that
My house may be filled.” There is a work to be done in this line that
has not yet been done. Let God’s workers teach the truth in families,
drawing close to those for whom they labor. If they thus cooperate
with God, He will clothe them with spiritual power. Christ will guide
them in their work, entering the houses of the people with them and
giving them words to speak that will sink deep into the hearts of the
listeners. The Holy Spirit will open hearts and minds to receive the
rays coming from the Source of all light.—
The Review and Herald,
December 29, 1904
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Bring Hope to the People—It is impossible for the man who
believes in Christ to see the work that needs to be done and yet do
nothing. Daily we are to receive from Heaven the healing balm of
God’s grace to impart to the needy and suffering. Christ’s followers are
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to learn of the woes of the poor in their immediate vicinity and seek to
bring them relief. Those who have a dark and disagreeable life are the
very ones whom we should bid to hope because Christ is their Saviour.
Are there not those who can go from house to house, from family
to family, and repeat the A B C of true Christian experience?—
The
Review and Herald, April 11, 1912
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E. G. White’s Experience in Visitation—I remember when the
converting power of God came upon me in my childhood I wanted
everyone else to get the blessing that I had, and I could not rest till I
had told them of it. I began to visit with my young companions and
went to their houses to talk with them and tell them my experience,
how precious the Saviour was to me, and how I wanted to serve Him,
and how I wanted them to serve Him also. So I would talk of the
preciousness of Christ, and I would say, “Won’t you kneel down and
pray with me?” Some would kneel and some would sit in their chairs,
but before we gave up, everyone would be on her knees and we would
pray together for hours, till the last one would say, “I believe that Jesus
has forgiven me my sins.” Sometimes the sun would begin to make its