Your ShelfYour Projects

To Canvassers

25%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 38.

Read the full edition

To Canvassers

By E. J. HARVEY

IN the second and third chapters of Ezekiel are found precious lessons for all who are circulating literature containing the last message of warning and mercy for this wicked world. Not for a moment would we speak a word against the work of the living preacher, whose burden is to speak the words of God orally. This is for him also. Yet when we go from house to house with the printed pages containing precious truth, even present truth, which is meat in due season for this generation, even for the very men, women, and children to whom we speak at their own doors, there are many whom we thus meet who may never have another opportunity to hear or read these glorious truths if we fail to faithfully present to them that which has been committed to us as workers together with God and his holy angels. While, therefore, we live not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, by hiding his word in our hearts that we may not sin against him, let our prayer ascend to God continually that he may speak the right words through us to the precious souls for whom Christ died.
“There is no respect of persons with God.” “In every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” As we present the precious literature, may our blessed Lord by his Holy Spirit impress deeply upon our own hearts this important truth. Every soul is the purchase of the blood of Christ, and each one whom we can point to him as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world, and encourage to lay hold by faith upon the many exceeding great and precious promises of God’s holy Word, shall come to us in the glorious kingdom so soon to be enjoyed by every worker who is steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. When they come to us with hearts filled to overflowing with joy, and their faces beaming with the glory with which the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared, shall we not rejoice together with joy unspeakable and full of glory that God, in his wondrous love and mercy, gave us the privilege of telling and making known through the printed page the eternal truths that contain power to save us and all others who will hear and read, and keep the truth?
E. J. HARVEY.