One by One

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1883

ONE BY ONE.—It will be well for us to learn to speak to individuals, singly. A congregation of one may be large enough to call forth all our powers, in proclaiming the good news of salvation. Often we may save sinners one by one. If you had a bushel of bottles, and wanted to fill them with water, you would not think the quickest way would be to get a fire-engine and hose, and play over the heap—especially if the corks were all in; but you would be likely to take a single bottle by the neck, extract the cork, and then by means of a funnel turn in a little water at a time until it was filled: and then take another, and repeat the process. You would get more bottles filled that way, than with a hose and fire-engine playing upon them. So you may be able to accomplish more by working single-handed, than in crowds. You may preach the word by the wayside and by the fireside; for people need the same gospel in-doors as out.

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