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large cities with these books. As they go from house to house, they
will find souls who are hungry for the bread of life, to whom they
can speak words in season. Canvassers are needed who feel a burden
for souls. You may say, “I am not a minister. I cannot preach to the
people.” No, you may not be able to preach; but you can minister,
you can ask those you meet if they love the Lord Jesus. You can be
an evangelist. You can be God’s helping hand, working as did the
disciples when Christ sent them forth. Young men, young women, you
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are called by the Master to take up His work. There is a famine in the
land for the pure gospel.—
Manuscript 113, 1901
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Workers Called to Highways and Byways—The things of this
world are soon to perish. This is not discerned by those who have not
been divinely enlightened, who have not kept pace with the work of
God. Consecrated men and women must go forth to sound the warning
in the highways and the byways. I urge my brethren and sisters not to
engage in work that will hinder them from proclaiming the gospel of
Christ. You are God’s spokesmen. You are to speak the truth in love
to perishing souls. “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that My house may be filled,” Christ says. Do not
these words plainly outline the work of the canvasser? With Christ in
his heart he is to go forth into the highways and byways of life, giving
the invitation to the marriage supper. Men of wealth and influence will
come, if they are invited. Some will refuse, but thank God, not all.
O that thousands more of our people had a realization of the time
in which we are living, and of the work to be done in field service, in
house-to-house labor. There are many, many who know not the truth.
They need to hear the call to come to Jesus. The sorrowing are to be
cheered, the weak strengthened, the mourners comforted. The poor
are to have the gospel preached to them.
The Master knows and watches over His workers, in whatever part
of His vineyard they are working. He calls upon His church to arouse
and become acquainted with the situation. He calls upon those in our
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institutions to awake and set in operation influences that will advance
His kingdom. Let them send forth laborers into the field, and then see
that the interest of these laborers does not flag for lack of sympathy
and of opportunities for development.—
The Review and Herald, June
2, 1903
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