SUCCESSFUL SOUL-WINNING

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 21.

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SUCCESSFUL SOUL-WINNING.

A LARGE part of our work of winning souls is personal, that is, it is a work between man and man. God has ordained that, usually, when an unsaved person is to be led to the Saviour, it shall be done through some human agent. As Andrew found Peter, as Philip found Nathanael, as Jesus found the woman at Jacob's well, so are we to seek after souls, and patiently, lovingly win them to their Redeemer.
In point of fact nearly every regenerate person can trace his religious life to the agency of some individual. Sometimes it is a mother's prayers, sometimes a father's counsel, sometimes the holy living of one of God's children. But even more frequently our religious experience can be traced to a word directly spoken by some one in whose Christian character we had confidence. An unsaved person may sit under the most faithful preaching for years and remain unmoved, while the simple question directly spoken, "Are you a Christian?" may do more to awaken his conscience than any number of sermons.—The Joyful News.