The New Life

The New Life.
Can you not take a class in the Sabbath school ? Perhaps you
live in the country where there are children that have no hour
of the Sabbath devoted to them. Perhaps there are heathen
children, or even grown-up people of the farms, who do not go
to Church. See whether you cannot gather them together in
the name of Jesus. Make it a matter of prayer and faith.
Although you do this work with trembling, you may be sure
that to begin to work will make you strong.
Or can you do nothing for the circulation of books and tracts?
When you have a book that has been useful to you, order six or
twelve copies of it. Speak of it, and ofifer it for sale : you can
do great service by this means. So also with tracts : if you are
too poor to give them for nothing, have them to sell : you may
procure blessing by this method. It will especially help you to
speak to others, if you begin with telling what is in a book,
2. But the principal thing is personal speaking. Do not hold
back because you feel no freedom. The lyOrd will give 3'ou freedom
in His own time. It is incredible how many are lost
through ignorance. No one has ever personally made it clear
to them how they can be saved. The thought that a change
must first be sought and felt is so deeply rooted that the most
faithful preaching is often of no avail against it. By their
erroneous ideas, people misunderstand everything. Begin then
to speak and to help souls to understand that they are to receive
Jesus just as they are, that they can certainly know that He receives
them, and that this is the power of a new and holy life.
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