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Impressing Minds Through the Books, May 21
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Isaiah 6:8
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Pray and work. More will be accomplished by the Christlike humble
prayer than by many words without prayer. Work in simplicity, and the Lord
will work with the canvasser. The Holy Spirit will impress minds just as
He impresses the minds of those who listen to the words of God’s delegated
ministers, who preach His Word. The same ministry of holy angels attends
the one who gives himself to canvassing for books for the educating of the
people as to what is truth.
Men and women can work in lines effectually if they feel in their hearts
that they are doing the work of the Lord in ministering to the souls who know
not the truth for this time. They are sounding the note of warning in the
byways and highways to prepare a people for the great day of God which is
about to break upon the world. We have no time to lose. We must encourage
this work. Who will go forth now with our publications? Let them read the
sixth chapter of Isaiah, and take its lesson home to their hearts.
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have
seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me,
having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar: and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of
the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I,
Here am I; send me” (
Isaiah 6:5-8
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This representation will be acted over and over again if the canvassers
are pressing close to the side of Christ, wearing His yoke, and daily learn-
ing of Him how to carry messages of peace and comfort to the sorrowing,
disappointed ones, the sad and brokenhearted. By imbuing them with His
own Spirit, Christ the great teacher is fitting them to do a good and important
work.—
The Bible Echo, September 18, 1899
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