REACHING THE MASSES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

REACHING THE MASSES.

Of Christ it is written that the common people heard him gladly. His enemies, the priests, said, "Ye see how that the whole world has gone after him." Even when he retired to the desert for a little rest, the people flocked after him by the thousands. Yet he did not ask for any law to compel the people to rest, so that he might have a chance to preach to them. He did not make use of any of the schemes that are used in these days to "draw" the crowds. The "gracious words that he spake" were all-sufficient to draw the people. Even the officers who were sent to apprehend him, forgot their errand in the charm of his wonderful words of life. Those same words are handed down to us in the Bible. They are living words, and therefore have all the power and charm that they had when they fell from his lips. And so we cannot help thinking that when those words are spoken to the people, in the Spirit of Christ, by one in whom Christ dwells, so that they will in reality come from him, they will have as much drawing power as when they were first spoken.

"I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." John 12: 32. There are many now, as of old, who are saying, or feeling, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Let Christ be lifted up before the people, and there need be no worry about the hearers.—Present Truth.